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ARTICLE FROM GAMBIT WEEKLY-- Banks Street comes to a halt in Mid-City at a dead end hedged with highway barriers and cemetery tomb vaults. Even before the flood washed out most of the neighbors here, there was little reason for through-traffic. Today, the stretch of Banks Street between Jesuit High School and the interstate is a pocket of activity in its storm-tossed neighborhood. Chalk that up to the pluck of a restaurant owner and a barkeep whose businesses have been reborn in the altered post-Katrina reality where practically anything seems worth a shot. "You really have to have a reason to come out here," says Maria Guth, owner of the Banks Street Bar, which has been supplying one such reason since reopening in September.Electricity was still months away for much of Mid-City when Guth returned live music to Banks Street Bar in the form of acoustic performances by candlelight. The liquor was initially set up on a destroyed pool table to take advantage of moonlight coming in through the blown-out windows. The storm-forced renovation removed a drop ceiling and revealed much better sound quality between the bar's old beaded board walls. Though the neighborhood seemed completely empty in the inky darkness of those early blacked-out nights, customers nonetheless turned up to validate Guth's chutzpah, and musicians have made it a regular gig.-Gambit Weekly