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October 23 - 26, 2009
New Orleans, Louisiana
Vampire Fest returns to the New Orleans—Scheduled during the Halloween weekend at the time of annual Anne Rice Vampire Ball in New Orleans and a week after the Voodoo Music Festival.
People throughout the country flock to New Orleans to celebrate All Hallows Eve and even after its most famous resident, Anne Rice, left New Orleans, the vampire soirees continued.
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The visit will mark the first time Obama has visited the area since taking office earlier this year.In February of 2008, candidate Obama addessed an overflow crowd at Tulane University. Some have questioned why he has not returned in the first eight months of his administration.
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A new study indicates that per capita income in New Orleans has grown at a faster pace than in any other U.S. metropolitan area. Figures for all of 2008 put the average income in the city now at $44,136.
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The deadline for registering for the New Orleans Jazz half marathon is Oct. 15. This is the inaugural "Jazz Half" and it will start and finish at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center downtown and run through the Garden District and Uptown. It begins at 7 a.m. on Oct. 31.
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At last week’s meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative in New York, U.S. Green Building Council CEO Rick Fedrizzi declared that the Make It Right New Orleans project is “the largest and greenest community of single-family homes in the world.” The project, launched by Brad Pitt, has 13 LEED Platinum certified single-family homes and plans to build 150 more LEED Platinum properties.
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Brian Bordainick, who became Carver High School's athletic director at the age of 22, is trying to help rebuild New Orleans' 9th Ward through the school's "Field of Dreams" football-stadium project. (Submitted photo)
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Lawyers for homeowners and homebuilders who used drywall suspected of causing corrosion and possible health risks say they expect Chinese manufacturers to ignore hundreds of lawsuits filed against them.
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Bourbon Street where Dixieland jazz competes with karaoke bars, rock 'n' roll cover bands and strip club jukeboxes is also one of the first places in America where opera was heard.(Getty Images)
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With all the attention on Drew Brees and his prolific start, turns out the Saints defense is pretty effective, too.Will Smith had an interception and a sack to help New Orleans shut down the Buffalo Bills for a 27-7 win Sunday.
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August and September are the slowest months of the year in terms of visitors, and businesses are banking on events coming to town in the next few weeks.
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Curriculum pushes civic engagement Tulane University has rolled out a new program focused on social entrepreneurship, or the notion that creative types can put their entrepreneurial ideas to work addressing seemingly intractable social ills.
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JOIN the Ogden Museum of Southern Art's for "O What a Night" Gala, considered the benefit party to attend in New Orleans. Its combination of fine cuisine, music, and silent and live auctions featuring renowned Southern artists (many of whom attend the gala), has made this party sell out every year. FOOD and DRINK! Cuisine courtesy of award-winning Chefs Robert Carter of Peninsula Grill (South Carolina) and Warren Stevens of Calcasieu/Butcher (New Orleans) plus a specialty cocktail "O What a Cocktail" by Cure (New Orleans). MUSIC! Hellen Gillet, UNO Jazz Masters Students, Full Gospel Chior, Irvin Mayfield and a number of very special guests.
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If you go to France, you are going to go to Paris. ... If you come to Louisiana and you've never been here before, you are going to New Orleans. To be recognized within Louisiana is no easy task.
A Shreveport tourism sign that reads “Welcome to Louisiana’s Other Side” is located on Texas Street downtown.
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The grand opening of the National World War II Museum's World War II Victory Theatre, Stage Door Canteen and American Sector – a 70,000-square-foot, $60 million project – is the most significant addition to the city's cultural scene since its battering by Hurricane Katrina.
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Hurricane Katrina destroyed Tanya Jones family's home. She relocated to Dallas with no possessions except a few items of clothing.
Just four years later, the New Orleans native has risen through the ranks to become a principal again – in the Irving school district.
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Ochsner admits some embryos frozen for later use were mislabeled - or are missing - in its in vitro fertilization center.
In New Orleans, Ochsner Hospital's admitted mishandling of frozen embryos could be costly to more than its reputation. Lawyers are circling, for as many as 100 affected patients, reports CBS News correspondent Mark Strassmann.
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New Orleans is a major metropolitan city that masquerades as a small town of colorful neighborhoods and characters. There are tons of stories each day that don’t always find their way into the paper. Hopefully this will give you a fresh perspective on one of the most talked-about issues in the city.
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When the Sazerac Bar reopened its doors in July for the first time since Hurricane Katrina, it reset the clock. The bar and the hotel it’s part of (the Roosevelt, once the Fairmont) had undergone extensive restoration. The curvilinear bar of African walnut was polished, the four Art Deco murals by Paul Ninas had been touched up, a tile floor had been added and an old television removed.
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State loses 2,500 positions; down 32,100 from year ago
Two engines of the economy — manufacturing and the trade-transportation-utilities sectors — accounted for most of the annual job losses in Louisiana, showing the broad impact of the national recession that began in late 2007.
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Everything you need to plan a wedding in the New Orleans.
Planning & Prep ► Wedding Fashion ► The Ceremony ► Reception.
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Enjoy Cajun music, food and crafts and check out a nutria fashion show this Saturday at the free annual festival La Fête d’Ecologie.10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
It is nearly three months since 7 News reported on the body of a newborn baby found in Allen Parish. Authorities believe the baby was delivered by zydeco performer Rosie Ledet. While the baby's body was found in Allen Parish, it was believed to have been born in Acadia Parish.
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Lucky DogsThere’s not much actual street food in New Orleans. It’s not a city overrun with carts, stands, and tweeting trucks. Maybe it’s just too hot to eat in the street. Or it could be the slow pace of life—why eat on the go when you can kick back and linger over a meal? My personal bet is that it’s due to the difficulty of eating an overstuffed po’boy with a cocktail in your hand—even if legally you can drink in the street. Nevertheless, these eight picks reflect the best quick snacks you can eat standing up or on the go in the Crescent City.
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Nine museums in New Orleans, including the National World War II Museum, will offer free admission on Saturday as part of the Smithsonian magazine's fifth annual Museum Day celebration.
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At the Fifth Annual Clinton Global Initiative meeting on Thursday in New York City, Brad Pitt gave an update on his organization that is currently building houses in hurricane-damaged New Orleans.
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The music and culture of New Orleans took center stage at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh today ahead of the G-20 summit. In a gala event organized by the U.S. Climate Action Network (USCAN) and hosted by Teresa Heinz and Senator John Kerry, ten of New Orleans' finest jazz musicians will perform for a crowd of dignitaries from around the world to celebrate a new chapter in America's leadership on climate change. Among those performing are Allen Toussaint, Tab Benoit, Michael Doucet, Donald Harrison, Jr.
, Trombone Shorty
, Dr. Michael White
, Philip Frazier
, Ann Savoy, Terence Higgins
, and Wilson Savoy.
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In cooperation with the Louisiana and South Carolina Departments of Insurance, the Competitive Enterprise Institute with the Independent Institute has gathered a distinguished group of speakers and attendees to address the multitude of issues we face in making reform work. Over two days of panels, seminars, and workshops, the conference will focus on the successes and challenges that hurricane-prone states have faced in ambitious property insurance reform efforts.
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The Hiro Ballroom in Chelsea is a dark wooden hall, high ceilings lit by Japanese paper globes dangling from the rafters. Yet with Harry Connick Jr. on the wide low stage, it could have been a Tuesday night at Tipitina's in New Orleans.
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Ireland's most famous export is exactly 250 years old on Thursday (September 24) - and drinkers in New Orleans' most authentic Irish bar will be joining in the celebrations.
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The Marigny has a longer run of renaissance, and some folks in the Marigny look down upon the Johnny come lately Bywater. That’s just real estate snobbery as far as I am concerned because both have a great deal in common and share the same appeal.
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After 170 years fishing and crabbing in the swamps of south Louisiana, the Isle de de Jean Charles Band of Boloxi-Chitimacha-Choctow has decided to move away from its ancestral island home and start a new life as a community behind levees.
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Louisiana, scene of one of the biggest environmental reconstruction projects in U.S. history, could become a major player in emerging cap-and-trade markets by selling "carbon credits" tied to the restoration of its Mississippi River delta.
At least that's the hope of Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal.
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Vote for Momo in the "Cutest Dog Competition" and other dogs in New Orleans could benefit.
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Tru Vodka in partnership with Rouses and Green Goddess set to host benefit for Lake Pontchartrain lighthouse.Sailors might prefer rum, but in New Orleans a vodka is looking out for seafarers' safety.
Courtesy of Tru Organic Vodka
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Every day in New Orleans drivers shell out cash before heading across the Crescent City Connection bridge toward the East Bank. While the dollars keep flowing in, some state leaders say the math doesn't add up.
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The first trial involving the allegedly toxic trailers the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) distributed to Gulf Coast hurricane victims in 2005 got underway last week in New Orleans. According to the Associated Press, trailer maker Gulf Stream Coach Inc. and government contractor Fluor Enterprises Inc. are defendants in the case.
The men's Final Four in 2011 will be played at Reliant Stadium in Houston, the NCAA said Monday.
The 2012 Final Four will be played at the Superdome in New Orleans and in the following year -- the 75th anniversary of the event -- it will be played at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta.
If the notion of New York bar food keeps changing, it’s because New York bars do, too. Take, for instance, Fort Defiance, the newly opened (and multihyphenated) café–bar–soda fountain–home away from home in Red Hook, currently firing on all cylinders except maybe their gas-line connection, a stumbling block that occasioned their temporary closing last week... ... the very best thing on the menu is the great New Orleans sandwich, the muffuletta—and there’s a story behind it. As first reported by our own Grub Street editor Daniel Maurer, Frizell, his taste refined by eight years spent living and eating in the Big Easy, was so obsessed with getting the iconic sandwich right, he had a few FedExed to Red Hook from the city’s legendary Central Grocery...
Planners and developers expect the 417,000 square-foot New Orleans’ Federal City to be occupied by the Sept. 15, 2011, federally mandated move-in date for the command’s 1,900 Marines and civilian personnel.
Posted by Book Trailer Admin in Non-Fiction on 09 18th, 2009...in My New Orleans, Chef John Besh tells the enduring story of preserving the region’s rituals and livelihood through raising food well, cooking it with joy, and being mindful of the fragility that swirl around the city many Americans love most...
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People who lived through Hurricane Ivan can't forget the haunting images left by one of the strongest storms ever recorded: condo towers collapsed in roiling surf, splintered homes or flat slabs, fragments of highways lost in a sea of sand. They wish others remembered, too.
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The stained glass depicting St. Margaret Mary was blown out of the wall and onto the floor during Hurricane Katrina. 'It was smashed to bits, ' says Cindy Courage, who helped restore it.
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A New Orleans board drafted a lease termination agreement for Six Flags that will be presented to the bankruptcy court in Delaware on Oct. 8 for approval.
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The 2009 Gospel Fest sponsored by the Office of Black Catholic Ministries will take place Sunday, September 20, 2009 from 3:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at Congo Square (Louis Armstrong Park). The Gospel Fest will feature over fifteen choirs, vendors selling beverages, food, goodies and specialty items of all sorts. Parish organizations can become vendors as a fundraiser for their organization or ministry.
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The direction and concrete plans of this campaign remain undecided because of the economic recession. Past fundraising has provided financial support for scholarships, research, scholarly travel, internships, athletics, libraries and community research...
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The Iguanas, which headlines the main stage of the Cooper-Young Festival on Saturday evening, has stuck it out since forming in 1989, and built a dedicated following and reputation for their seamless syntheses of regional Louisiana, American and Latin roots music.
The group released a critically acclaimed Katrina-themed album If You Should Ever Fall on Hard Times in 2008 and have been playing regular dates in support of the disc .
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Too few psychiatrists and mental health professionals and too little sustainable funding continue to present barriers to care for children four years after Hurricane Katrina washed over New Orleans, even as Louisiana health officials close down the city's only remaining public inpatient psychiatric hospital in a budget-cutting move.
Collectively, the events reflect the still-unsettled state of New Orleans' mental health services.
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the New Orleans Times-Picayune reports that LSU has paid Tulane $700,000 to void the final six years of their home-and-home series...
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New Orleans has never had a reputation as an art-film town, which is one of the reasons the New Orleans Film Festival was started: to give local audiences in pre-Netflix days a chance to see films that otherwise might not play here... .... The seven-day festival starts Oct. 9, with the opening-night film "Me and Orson Welles," starring Zac Efron and Claire Danes in a drama about a teen who is cast in Orson Welles' 1937 Mercury Theatre production of "Julius Caesar." Director Richard Linklater ("The School of Rock," "Dazed and Confused") will attend and participate in a discussion...
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Home Depot laid off an unspecified number of employees at some New Orleans area stores this week, saying it needs fewer workers as post-hurricane rebuilding efforts taper. Which metro area stores were affected or how many individuals lost their jobs were not specified.
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FHLB Dallas awarded a $150,000 grant, which was issued through Whitney National Bank, to the Neighborhood Housing Services of New Orleans (NHS). NHS New Orleans distributes the funds in the form of grants to help eligible elderly homeowners with repairs and rehabilitation of their homes.
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Jack Mackenroth, from the hit reality television series "Project Runway," is visiting New Orleans for the 20th annual NO/AIDS Walk and is bringing Living Positive By Design, his national HIV and AIDS education initiative, to the city. On Sunday, September 20th, Jack will participate in the Walk which helps to support the NO/AIDS Task Force as well as several other AIDS Service Organizations in Louisiana each year.
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Bring em to the Dome" by Shamarr Allen & Dee-1
Michael DeMocker / Times-Picayune ArchiveMembers of the St. Augustine Marching 100 perform at the 2008 Instruments Have Come event at Tipitina's.
In 2002, the non-profit, Tipitina's Foundation, affiliated with the famed nightclub launched Instruments A Comin', a program to equip area marching bands with trumpets, trombones, sousaphones, clarinets, drums and other tools of the trade.
Since 2002, Instruments A Comin' has distributed nearly $2 million worth of gear to more than 50 area schools. Tonight Tipitina's hosts its "Instruments Have Come!" presentation ceremony and concert to allocate and celebrate the 2009 allotment of gear.
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The destruction of lush wetlands accelerated four years ago last month, when Hurricane Katrina struck. The third-deadliest storm in U.S. history claimed more than 1,800 lives, displaced 1 million residents and damaged more than half of New Orleans’ housing stock. Katrina also wiped out 80 square miles of marsh within hours, four times the amount lost by the entire state in a year.
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The FAA said it accepted a preliminary application to lease Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY), Louisiana's largest commercial airport, to a private operator.
The FAA's action clears the way for the New Orleans Aviation Board to set up a bidding process to select a private airport manager.
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A state appeals court has overruled the New Orleans Police Department's decision to terminate an officer involved in a high-profile, videotaped altercation weeks after Hurricane Katrina in which he and another officer allegedly beat a 64-year-old retired teacher on Bourbon Street.
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The Woodstock veteran and folk music legend Richie Havens will perform Friday, Oct. 16, in a benefit concert for the Heritage School of Music at the Howlin' Wolf.
Richie Havens, the folk music legend and veteran of the original Woodstock festival, will perform in a special concert to benefit the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation's signature education program, the Don Jamison Heritage School of Music .
The concert will take place Friday, Oct. 16, at the Howlin' Wolf (907 S. Peters Street) starting at 9 p.m.. Tickets are $20.
Also performing will be the duo of singer-songwriter Paul Sanchez and jazz trumpeter/Heritage School alumnus Shamarr Allen. The students and faculty of the Heritage School will perform, too.
The concert kicks off a full weekend of Jazz & Heritage Foundation activities. The fourth annual Crescent City Blues & BBQ Festival - a free event - takes place Oct. 17 and 18 at Lafayette Square Park. Performers include Buddy Guy, Bobby Rush, Irma Thomas, Sonny Landreth, T-Model Ford and many others. For details, see the official event web site at crescentcitybluesfest.com.
On Monday, Oct. 19, the Jazz & Heritage Foundation will present the latest in its Tom Dent Congo Square Lecture Series in conjunction with the Blues & BBQ Festival. Charles Keil, an ethnomusicologist who is author of the landmark 1966 book "Urban Blues," will present on the derivation and meanings of the term "blues" throughout the ages. The event, which is free and open to the public, will take place at 7 p.m. at the Jazz & Heritage Center (1225 N. Rampart Street).
The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation, Inc., is the nonprofit organization that owns the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival presented by Shell . The Foundation uses the proceeds from that world-famous festival, and other resources, for year-round programs in the areas of education, economic development and cultural events. Find out more about the Foundation at jazzandheritage.org. Want to help? You can support our efforts by becoming a volunteer or joining Fans of the Fest.
For more information, visit us at jazzandheritage.org,
Three months after Hurricane Katrina, the Biloxi Sun Herald described in a front-page editorial "Mississippi's Invisible Coast." It spoke of the fact that the further removed in time we were from Katrina, the less attention outside news reports paid to the plight of our region and its people, and the more it seemed history was being rewritten in a way that would render South Mississippi no more than a postscript to the greatest natural disaster to befall the nation.
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At Beacon Prep the curriculum will be geared towards each child. The individualized attention will allow them to learn at their own level...
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Gould Evans Associates landed a joint-venture contract this summer for the $26.4 million design-build project.The libraries are expected to open next spring, only 10 months after groundbreaking.
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The New Orleans Film Society today (Sept. 16) will announce the lineup for October's 20th-anniversary New Orleans Film Festival, a varied program that will boast films featuring such bold-face names as director Francis Ford Coppola, actors Zac Efron and Emily Blunt, U2 guitarist The Edge and -- Orson Welles?
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An interim inspector general has been named for the absence of Inspector General Edouard Quatrevaux, who was appointed earlier this point as inspector general, according to a spokesperson with the office.
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With more than 11,000 Transportation Security Administration members in 34 Locals nationwide, the American Federation of Government Employees will mark its role as the only real union for TSA workers with a celebration of Transportation Security Officers in New Orleans on Sept. 16. The union recently chartered Local 1047 in New Orleans.
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Tom Benson, who owns the New Orleans Saints, now owns several of the buildings that surround the Superdome, a gigantic emblem of New Orleans, and has plans to turn part of his latest purchase into a sports entertainment district and office space...
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The 3rd annual New Orleans Seafood Festival announces its 2009 schedule of events. Top local acts such as Amanda Shaw and Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk will perform throughout the weekend. The festival also features cooking demonstrations by some of the city’s most prominent chefs, including John Besh and Susan Spicer.
Entertainment Schedule:
Friday, September 25, 2009
5:30pm-6:45pm Wiseguys
7:15pm-9:00pm Rockin' Dopsie Jr Saturday, September 26, 2009
11:30am-12:45pm Country Fried
1:00pm-2:15pm Revivalists
2:30pm-3:45pm Boogie Men
4:00pm-5:15pm Los Po-Boy-Citos
5:30pm-6:45pm Christian Serpas
7:00pm-8:15pm Vivaz
8:30pm-9:45pm Soul RebelsSunday, September 27, 2009
11:30am-12:45pm Amanda Shaw
1:00pm-2:15pm Wolfman Washington
2:30pm-3:45pm Big Sam
4:00pm-5:15pm Dumpstaphunk
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Ochsner Health System of New Orleans went live on the DocuSys Anesthesia Information Management and Anesthesia Drug Management system in 41 anesthetizing locations at Ochsner Medical Center and the Ochsner-Merrill Hines Surgery Center. Ochsner is one of the largest non-university based physician training centers in the nation that has received the Consumer Choice for Healthcare in New Orleans for 13 consecutive years, and has been ranked a "Best" Hospital by U.S. News and World Report.
Photo by Voyou Desoeuvre, courtesy FlickrCity plans for a renovated Armstrong Park include adding a number of bronze statues like this one of Louis Armstrong.
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Randy Crochet and Jeff Leach are the owners of "Naked Pizza."Sunday's New York Times Magazine contained a story that seemed to confirm what Jeff Leach has been threatening for three years: Naked Pizza is going to be huge.
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It's 9:00 on a sultry Saturday morning, and Fred’s Lounge in tiny Mamou, Louisiana, is as crowded and smoky as a big-city bar at midnight. You’d never know that outside this low-slung brick and cinder-block barroom things are all quiet and peaceful (after all, a fair amount of Mamou’s population of just four thousand are inside, and the rest of them are sleeping)...
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Mid-City Volleyball Group is a collection of volleyball players dedicated to the ideal of creating a beach volleyball venue in the Mid-City area of New Orleans. We are an eclectic group of people with professional backgrounds ranging from business to engineering, but we are united in our passion to play and promote outdoor volleyball. Mid-City Volleyball Group proposes that the city of New Orleans include an outdoor volleyball recreational area along the Lafitte Corridor Greenway preferably at the corridor’s midpoint near Bayou St. John.
Oysters are a natural for the grill. Find the freshest oysters you can and dress them with fresh cheese. - MCT FILE PHOTOI'll admit it; I'm an oyster freak. I wait all summer for the flavor of oysters to get richer, and the flesh plumper.
Don't get me wrong, I eat oysters year-round, but fall and winter oysters are a real treat. Loving oysters must be a genetic thing. My dad adored oysters, and I always remember him eating them raw. My sister and my daughter both can't seem to get enough. I have learned not to get between the two of them and a platter of cold, slurping-size oysters.
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Two people were killed and nine others were shot in New Orleans overnight Saturday.The crimes happened in seven locations, all within hours of each other.
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