News and information clippings from New Orleans, Louisiana and the Gulf Coast. New Orleans is most associated with the world-renowned French Quarter when tourists think of the city. Also popular are the Saints NFL Football Team, Mardi Gras and Jazz Fest. The nola411 website is here to roll up information from around the web that locals ad visitors will hopefully find as a useful tool and check back frequently for the latest news.
Air Canada offers the only non-stop, daily service between Toronto and New Orleans. Flight AC7971 will depart Toronto Lester B. Pearson International Airport at 10:00 and arrive at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport at 12:10.
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Canada,
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If you’re not from here, you probably haven’t heard of us. If you are, you already know that Mat & Naddie’s offers its own brand of fine dining combined with a comfortable and welcoming atmosphere that has attracted a local following since opening nine years ago. Fine, yet accessible, local cuisine is the watchword here...
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food,
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business,
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The singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist AM was raised in Mandeville and graduated from Loyola University in New Orleans. AM himself is usually careful to mention his Crescent City soul influences, but Future Sons and Daughters
, his third full-length release, bears a much deeper imprint from the other LA...
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Jean Lafitte,
national park
Kermit Ruffins, "Happy Talk"
(Basin Street Records) - Go ahead, just try and listen to New Orleans trumpeter Kermit Ruffins' latest release without moving — no foot tapping, finger snapping or head nodding. A plate of red beans and rice says you can't do it. Listeners looking to be transported directly to Bourbon Street without paying any baggage fees need look no further than the album's first song...Read more via nola.com
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convention
Bob Schieffer reports on How a City Facing Horrendous Problems Attacked Them Head-On. The city shared the recession with the rest of us, but for New Orleans that was just the half of it. Katrina left 80 percent of the city underwater, and six months ago that was bookended by the worst oil spill ever, which sent its economy for another loop...
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economy,
redevelopment
Read more via usatoday.com
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BP plc,
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Chances are, whenever you think about Louisiana these days, you probably remember the New Orleans Saints winning the Super Bowl in February, 2010. For Saints fans, the New Orleans Saints embody the living, breathing spirit of all that is Louisiana. Like our state, they’ve weathered the good, the bad, and the really bad times. And, just like Louisiana’s citizens, no matter how bad things got, they never, ever gave up—even when fans wore paper bags over their heads.
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employment,
nopd
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Mitch Landrieu,
redevelopment
Read more via sunherald.com
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crime,
mississippi,
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prison
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Singer, songwriter and pianist Mac "Dr. John" Rebennack has been at the heart of New Orleans funk and R&B since the 1950s, so when he paid a visit to the KPLU/Jazz24 studio for a solo performance, we were sure we'd get a good dose of the Crescent City...
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musicians,
public radio
Read more via fox8live.com
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school
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Baton Rouge,
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fashion
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BP plc,
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Read more via wwltv.com
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City Hall,
Mitch Landrieu,
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army corps,
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City Hall,
Mitch Landrieu
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audubon,
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bar,
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music
Baton Rouge is ranked second in the country for its per capita income growth rate in the past 25 years, according to a new report by Portfolio.com. New Orleans ranks fifth...
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halloween
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halloween
Read more via wwltv.com
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gulf of mexico,
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entergy
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nopd
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convention
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BP plc,
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seafood
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bayou st. john,
festival,
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City Hall,
Mitch Landrieu
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food,
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A clinic focusing on the needs of children will open today in Plaquemines Parish, an area that was already lacking in such medical care before the BP disaster stretched the area's resources even further...
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children,
medical,
Plaquemines Parish
," a head-long dive into the music and culture of New Orleans and its environs, Dave Thompson rightly stops to comment on "I Walk on Gilded Splinters." He calls it "the definitive sound of bayou country." The music is as "intense as it is hypnotic . . . all jerking ropes and clouds of smoke, charnal chants and crazy-eye staring."
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artist,
business,
photography
The father and son behind a New Orleans institution that builds Mardi Gras floats has settled a family dispute.
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mardi gras
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Baton Rouge,
transportation
Today's 32 photos were taken February 11-21, 2010 in and around New Orleans, Louisiana during Mardi Gras...
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mardi gras
John McCusker, The Times-Picayune
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Armstrong Park,
Ray Nagin,
redevelopment
To certain constituencies—among them the Rockefeller Foundation—Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans are much more than convenient reference points for calamity, and they represent something far more profound: the integrated, evolving, and critically important challenges we will confront in the 21st century, from the incipient dangers of climate change, to the dramatic urbanization underway in America and around the world, to the need for our institutions to deal more deftly with increasingly complex problems...
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katrina,
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medical
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BP plc,
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The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has issued guidance to homeowners who have had problems with Chinese drywall on how they can claim a tax deduction to help cover the costs of repairs to their home.
Efforts to develop Louisiana’s biotech industry are giving New Orleans scientists— and the local economy—a much needed boost.
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economy,
environment,
science
