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Spike Lee is revisiting Hurricane Katrina’s impact on New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, making another documentary for HBO, a follow up to “When the Levees Break: A Requiem in Four Acts.”
Lee and his crews have been seen around town and involved in all things New Orleans, filming a second line for Saints...
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The House voted unanimously Thursday to impeach U.S. District Judge G. Thomas Porteous Jr. from Louisiana, who lawmakers said avoided likely criminal charges related to alleged payoffs in part because the statute of limitations expired.
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A former New Orleans police detective has pled guilty to helping cover up the fatal shootings of two people by police after Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005…
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The St. Louis-area institution at 601 East Lockwood Avenue, Webster Groves, is quickly moving forward with plans to open a new store in New Orleans.
Euclid Records NOLA will continue with Euclid Records’ tradition of carrying hard-to-find rarities and collectibles in vinyl and CD form. But the store will also obviously have a New Orleans slant in what’s stocked.
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Oil tanker operator Tidewater Inc. said Wednesday that Jeffrey M. Platt, its executive vice president, has been promoted to chief operations officer...
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Google is looking for a test city for its new fiber optic network and several tech experts want New Orleans to be in that number.Now, the push is on to sell the Crescent City to the Google family.
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A five-day discovery tour of culinary New Orleans. Three hands-on cooking classes and insider’s visits to restaurants, cafés, bars, food markets, and historic music and arts neighborhoods makes this total immersion in Who Dat culture.
Roll up your sleeves and cook with New Orleans chefs using recipes, ingredients and techniques passed down over the generations. Meet restaurateurs up close and personal, visit offbeat spots on and off the tourist maps, and discover the New Orleans eateries the locals love.
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The rail line that runs between New Orleans and Orlando, Fla., hasn’t been in service in five years. However, the New Orleans City Council is looking to change that. No problem getting to places as far west as Los Angeles or to Chicago, but traveling by train to nearby Gulfport, Miss. is not an option…
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As part of the Urban Pathways to Livable Communities conference in New Orleans, a walk of the Lafitte Corridor introduced attendees to the Crescent City's own urban pathway project. The first stop on the walk was hosted by Bart Everson of Friends of Lafitte Corridor and Daniel Samuels of the Lafitte Greenway Steering Advisory Committee. In this audio slideshow, they provide some background on the history of the corridor itself and the effort to convert it to a multi-use greenway.
Read more via community.railstotrails.org
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Green Lantern scheduled to be released in theaters in June 2011Warner Brothers' highly anticipated "Green Lantern" movie — starring Ryan Reynolds as Hal Jordan — is set to begin filming later this month. However, a news story out of New Orleans indicates that the film's production may be starting sooner than anticipated.
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