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The former airport director at Louis Armstrong International Airport in New Orleans faces criminal charges in an alleged case of Katrina fraud.
The federal government says it will start work Monday to remove the temporary cap keeping oil from gushing out of BP's blown-out Gulf well so that it can raise a key piece of equipment from the seabed.
Single-truck operation on Canal Street. The green streetcars on the left are Ford, Bacon & Davis cars operated by the New Orleans & Carrollton Railroad Company. The red-yellow streetcar near the center of the photo is a Brill single-truck, operated by the New Orleans City RR. The red-yellow car to the right is a mule-drawn "bobtail" car operated by NOCRR...
Five years after Hurricane Katrina, there are signs of new life in Gentilly, where new homes are going up as part of the Pontchartrain Park Community Development Project. The project is spearheaded by award-winning actor Wendell Pierce, a New Orleans native and star of the HBO show "Treme."
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According to the third annual State of the New Orleans Music Community Report, there are 50% fewer gigs in the Crescent City than there were before the storm, and it has been that way for the last two years.
. Two weeks after Katrina, the band kept their tour dates.
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Following a review of the parking meter policy, the city has decided to retain the meters on Saturday in the following areas: Magazine Street, Oak Street, Riverbend, the French Quarter, the Warehouse District and the Central Business District riverside of Loyola Avenue...
Costumes from HBO's "Treme" are a part of the the fifth annual Outstanding Art of Television Costume Design Exhibition at the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising (FIDM) Museum. 
" Mardi Gras Indians costumes made here to stand tall in a special exhibit of TV costumes mirrored the return trip Albert Lambreaux's Indian suit made into flood-ravaged New Orleans in the premiere episode of the series. The hard way, all the way. By U-Haul...Louisiana is renowned for its breakfasts, which run the gamut from sumptuous Creole dishes served in New Orleans restaurants to a simple but satisfying morning snack of beignets and café au lait or a link of hot boudin. For reasons of time and our waistlines, most of us don’t indulge in elaborate breakfasts on a regular basis, but for special occasions or a leisurely weekend morning, it’s nice to sample some of the specialties from our Louisiana repertoire...
Mayor Mitch Landrieu said Wednesday that he's hoping to build a "new" New Orleans. He said the 100 projects deliver on a promise to rebuild a better, stronger New Orleans...
Home of the legendary roast beef po-boy and ground zero for New Orleans' St. Patrick's Day revelry, Parasol’s Restaurant and Bar will close at the end of August and re-open at some point under new ownership. Parasol's is moving one block north to the space currently occupied by the Irish Garden bar and restaurant at 2604 Magazine Street. They’ll reopen with a new name — Tracey’s — but the same, familiar faces...
Five Year Jive is a site where you can celebrate New Orleans on the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina with people who love The Big Easy just like you. Their goal is to raise $10,000 for Desire Street Ministries in support of their continued rebuilding efforts in the Crescent City...
With her brown eyes and straight humor, Grace Blakeman’s dry wit often catches recipients off guard. Yet beyond natural talent, Blakeman, 24, daughter of Andrea and Frank Blakeman of Houma, is becoming an influential force in New Orleans’ burgeoning comedy scene...
New Orleans-based franchisor Naked Pizza announced last week that it has signed multiunit area contracts in four more U.S. cities, is opening two test stores in Dubai by the end of the year, and plans to expand into Abu Dhabi by 2011...
Part of Phase I was the demolition of the Gate C bridge that led from New Orleans Centre to the Superdome. In its place, a massive staircase has been added, serving as an entryway into the stadium from the new 60,000 square foot Champions Square presented by Verizon, a sports and entertainment area on LaSalle Street...
Once known as Tropical Depression Five will be known as tropical Storm or even Category One Hurricane Danielle by Sunday, peaking sometime later on Monday into Tuesday over New Orleans. visit nola411.com for New Orleans and Gulf Coast news clippings.
A new type of school bus is riding through the streets in New Orleans - one that includes dental chairs and a staff of certified dental care specialists...Read more via musicremedy.comThere’s a point in the first season of HBO’s Tremé where Steve Zahn’s character remarks “America needs it some Kermit.”
This fall, America will get it some Kermit Ruffins with the release of his latest album, Happy Talk on October 26 via Basin Street Records... In the mean time you can download a free MP3 of I Got a Treme Woman.
BP's runaway well has been sealed, but US officials said Friday they are moving ahead with plans to make sure it's truly "killed" by pumping cement in through a relief well under the Gulf of Mexico.
With partners HKV Lijn in Water and Fugro, Royal Haskoning has won a new contract for water control structures in New Orleans. The project will develop a module that allows the local flood protection authority to monitor the opening and closing of gates on all flood defences. It is expected that the module contributes to a improved planning and coordination. The new system has to be operational for the peak of the hurricane season in September 2010.
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President Obama will travel to New Orleans on Aug. 29 to commemorate the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, spokesman Robert Gibbs said today.
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Officials could know by early Friday if BP's broken oil well in the Gulf of Mexico has been sealed for good.
An analysis of tests on the well done Thursday was scheduled to be completed within 24 hours, letting the federal government and BP PLC know if work last month that was meant to be temporary had the unexpected effect of permanently plugging the gusher.
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Country music superstar and Mississippi native Faith Hill will perform a free concert Aug. 24 at the Mahalia Jackson Theater for the Performing Arts to commemorate the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. The Dirty Dozen Brass Band is slated to open the show.
Faith Hill headlines the Mahalia Jackson Theater in New Orleans on Aug. 24, 2010.
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A preview concert for the “Treme” soundtrack CD has been scheduled for August 28 at the New Orleans House of Blues.
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BP said Sunday that the cement plug sealing its broken oil well in the Gulf of Mexico had hardened, according to published media reports and said pressure tests on the plug show that it's solidly in place, the Associated Press reported...
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Businessman Dave Dixon, who fought to bring an NFL team to New Orleans and was the catalyst behind construction of the Louisiana Superdome, died on Sunday. He was 87...
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It will be five years since Katrina on August 29. The impact of Katrina is quite painful for regular people in the area. This article looks at what has happened since Katrina not from the perspective of the higher ups looking down from their offices but from the street level view of the people a view which looks at the impact on the elderly, the renter, people of color, the disabled, the working and non-working poor...
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429 Records released Tribal,
the extraordinary new album by Dr. John and the follow up to his Grammy winning 429 Records album, "The City That Care Forgot" (2008). AKA the Night Tripper, the iconic American musician has returned with another spectacular slice of mercurial sounds. Steeped in his trademark melange of rock, funk, jazz, voodoo-inflected r&b and Creole flavor, "Tribal" is a statement that builds upon his already formidable musical legacy. Dr. John (aka Mac Rebennac) is joined by his band, the Lower 911 and they perform alongside several guest artists including 2009 Grammy winner Derek Trucks, New Orleans legend Allen Touissant, Donald Harrison and the late Bobby Charles, for whom the album is dedicated. "Tribal" is available now on 429 Records. Dr. John and the Lower 911 are currently on an extensive North American tour.
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One Book One New Orleans picks Louis Armstrong's 1954 memoir of the city as the 2010 title that everyone here should read, Satchmo. My Life in New Orleans.
"ONE book. ONE New Orleans. What a ONEderful world" is the theme of the sixth annual One Book One New Orleans community-wide reading project, whose 2010 title will be announced today at the Satchmo Summerfest at the Old U.S. Mint.
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Friday, 25 new officers joined the ranks of the NOPD, at a time when multiple investigations hang over the department.
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Commissioner of Food and Drugs at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Margaret Hamburg released three statements on Monday announcing the reopening of fishing waters off the coasts of Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi. the FDA has opened state waters that span from the Mississippi River Delta to the Mississippi state line including in the Mississippi Sound, from the mainland to the barrier islands, to commercial fishing...
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Louisiana's fall shrimp season will open Aug. 16, the state Department of Wildlife and Fisheries announced Thursday. The opening applies to much of the state's waters, including some areas only recently cleared for fishing because of the BP oil spill...
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BP PLC might someday drill again in the same undersea oil reservoir that gushed millions of gallons of crude into the Gulf of Mexico in one ...
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Kermit Ruffins will lead the annual "Satchmo tribute" on Sunday, and also will speak about his trip to Armstrong's home in New York...
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Aliera Peterson blogs about New Orleans (ACME, Café du Monde, the Streetcars, pralines, hurricanes, and more)...
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Rapper Twelve A'Klok the cousin of late rapper Soulja Slim was found shot to death on a street in New Orleans on Monday, August 2nd. Twelve A'Klok, born Argell White, was a founding member of the record label Cut Throat Committee group/record label, along with his relative Soulja Slim and rappers Re-Nitty, Doubla Crossa and Logga Black...
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BP planned to start pumping cement into its blown-out oil well in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday, following up on a key development in the effort to kill the well when mud that was shoved in successfully held back the flow of crude.
After a series of unsuccessful attempts to stem the flow of oil a mile underwater, the tide appeared to be turning in the months-long battle to stop the massive oil spill...
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On a nameless Louisiana barrier island, oil oozes from a foot or two underground. The discovery, made over the weekend by a dive team, raises questions about how much oil might be present on the island, but hidden below the surface...
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Retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen gives an update on efforts to stop the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico during a briefing at BP headquarters Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010 in Houston. Crews hoped to begin pumping mud and perhaps cement down the throat of the blown-out oil well on Tuesday in what BP officials said could be a final step toward snuffing the spill for good.
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The grassroots group Levees.org is nominating two places where levees broke after Hurricane Katrina to the National Register of Historic Places, and says it plans to nominate at least four more.
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The Saints reported to training camp Wednesday night, with weigh-ins and conditioning tests scheduled for today -- and the first set of two-a-day practices kicking off Friday at their practice facility in Metairie...
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Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser and St. Bernard Parish President Craig Taffaro spoke with WWL 105.3FM on Friday, July 30th expounding on a frustrating meeting with United Command leadership. The video recording is taken from a BP boat from the Point-aux-Chenes base on Thursday, July 29th.
Why are parish presidents and affected community members able to spot slick and sheen while the US Coast Guard and BP are reporting no oil? What is the process for cleaning up the millions of gallons of subsurface oil that now seems to be out-of-sight and out-of-mind?Watch more via StopGulfOilDisaster's YouTube page
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As BP inched closer to permanently sealing the blown-out oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, congressional investigators railed against the company and Coast Guard for liberal use of toxic chemicals that helped disperse the oil, but at unknown expense to sea life...
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Street musician Jacob Fishesr sings the blues on a street corner in New Orleans, Louisiana, on July 21, 2010. Fisher has a song about government corruption as he and other musicians have written songs about the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. (Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times/MCT)Music is everywhere on the streets of New Orleans, but these days many of the tunes in the city's vibrant jazz scene focus on the oil spill. Everyone from solo street performers to famous vocalists seems to be writing new songs about the spill or repurposing old standards to thrash out their feelings about the disaster.
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A ceremony was held last week for graduates of the New Orleans Day Reporting Center, run by the Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office in partnership with the Louisiana Department of Public Safety as an alternative to jail time. All of the graduates found employment by the time they received their diplomas...
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