New Orleans Yoga Jeanie Riess navigates | Gambit Magazine

Yoga offerings are vast now. While vinyasa, or flow yoga, might suit one person, the more strenuous ashtanga discipline may be better for someone else. Like the food, service and ambience of restaurants, yoga varies studio to studio and form to form. After Hurricane Katrina, a flurry of yoga studios came into the local market, further varying the yoga scene here and encouraging the country's most widely circulated yoga magazine, Yoga Journal, to proclaim New Orleans among the top 10 cities for yoga in America.

There are now more than 20 yoga studios in the New Orleans area, each offering differing styles of the ancient Indian discipline — so how does a hopeful yogi make the right choice?

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New Orleans police arrest man in shooting death of 13-month-old girl The Republic

New Orleans police have arrested a 24-year-old man in connection with the shooting death of a toddler.

Police said in a news release Wednesday night that Keelen Armstrong has been booked with first-degree murder in the slaying of 13-month-old Londyn Samuels. He was also booked with attempted first-degree murder in the wounding of the child's caretaker...

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New Orleans culinary tours | USA TODAY

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New Orleans and eating go together like feathers and Mardi Gras. It's impossible to experience one without the other. In a town with more than 1,300 restaurants, most independent and locally owned, the moveable feast never ends.

Locals are passionate about iconic dishes that reflect this port city's historic gumbo of cultures, from African, French and Spanish to Italian, Irish and Southeast Asian. Typical Creole fare is on the rich side -- simmered seafood bisques, local trout swabbed in buttery Meunière sauce and garlicky étouffée larded with crawfish and sausage.

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New Orleans Rolling in Cash Sees Rebirth: Real Estate | Bloomberg

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Sean Cummings has developed 18 New Orleans projects, including condominiums, hotels and luxury lofts with floor-to-ceiling windows at a former rice-processing plant in a gentrifying neighborhood. Up next: a residential complex planned for a weed-choked lot currently home to an abandoned school bus. This year through May, commercial real estate transactions in the Big Easy totaled $424.7 million, up 41 percent from the $301.1 million in all of 2012, according to New York-based Real Capital Analytics Inc. New Orleans was the only U.S. market among 55 tracked by the research firm in which sales have surpassed last year’s total.

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New restaurant bars in New Orleans deliver hybrid pleasures for diners | NOLA.com

New Orleans restaurant bars used to feel like holding tanks for patrons awaiting tables. Fun sometimes happened, but clock-watching and growling stomachs were often part of the experience, too.

Not anymore. And, especially not in New Orleans, where bars have become central to the dining experience at long-established flagships such as Galatoire’s, at culinary destinations such as Donald Link’s Peche, and at a host of new places across the city...

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Drilling rig on fire, begins to collapse; relief well to be drilled | WWL

Walter Oil & Gas is hiring a jack-up rig to start drilling a relief well at the site. The jack-up rig will be towed in next to the Hercules drilling rig, where it will start drilling a relief well into the Gulf of Mexico to intercept Hercules' well...

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Fight Over New Orleans Jail Reform Funds to Resume | ABC News

The legal tussle over the costs of reforming the notoriously dangerous New Orleans jail is about to resume in a federal courtroom, where lawyers are expected to press the case that the sheriff doesn't need more money from the city to implement court-ordered improvements aimed at ending violence, poor security and inadequate health care.

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Hangover helpers: What's your cure for too many cocktails? | NOLA.com #totc

"The downside to drinking is, of course, the hangover, an unpleasant topic that has come up numerous times during Tales of the Cocktail's 11 years of seminars and parties," writes Judy Walker. "This year, there was the decidedly more pleasant Hangover Hospital Cocktail Brunch at Café Adelaide and the Swizzle Stick Bar on Saturday."

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