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January 20, 2010

New Orleans all the jazz and rump-shakin' funk you can handle | Concierge.com

Whether you're in the mood for an isolated neighborhood beer joint, a glitzy hotel cocktail bar, or a Bourbon Street cover bar where supercharged slushies flow, let the imbiber beware.

Pat O'Brien's says economy caused closure in Destin | Northwest Florida Daily News

Pat O’Brien’s departure from HarborWalk Village had more to do with the downturn in the economy than a desire to make the center a more family-friendly location, according to representatives from the restaurant.

New Orleans watering holes have ghostly tales to tell | Haunted New Orleans - - Halloween in New Orleans - NOLA.com

Haunted sites in New Orleans are a popular business. And many New Orleanians have their own ghostly stories -- about spirits who may not always make the cut for the tour routes, but let people know they're there just the same.

Unique. Like New Orleans: 'What Is Southern Comfort?' Campaign Rolls Out | MediaPost Publications | Marketing Daily

Southern Comfort is rolling out its first wave of new creative since its July announcement that it is moving to an all-digital media buy strategy in the U.S.
Four 30- second commercials, which will appear on television outside the U.S. and online only here, use New Orleans -- the brand's birthplace -- as a backdrop. The spots' core message is that only the unique, versatile and inclusionary city of New Orleans could have originated the liquor that shares these same qualities.

Rib Room and Old New Orleans Rum host dinner | New Orleans Drinks | NOLA.com

On Thursday, October 29, at 7 p.m., the Rib Room restaurant at the Omni Royal Orleans hotel (621 St. Louis St.) teams with the Frenchmen Street distiller for a four-course dinner where each dish incorporates a shot of rum.

New Orleans' Best Bars | BusinessWeek

The city that care forgot can't be forgotten. Or remembered, if you play your bar cards right

You may have heard: New Orleans got trashed. Five years ago, Hurricane Katrina demolished wide swaths of the city. And still today, the perception of most of America is of a shattered demi-monde, with zombie locals wandering through debris-littered streets, wondering when the next storm is coming.

Bourbon-inspired twist on a New Orleans classic

The old New Orleans drink calls for straight rye whiskey, sweet vermouth, Benedictine, absinthe and Peychaud's bitters. That makes it, to steal the words of Paul Clarke, one of my colleagues here at The Chronicle, a kissing cousin to the Sazerac...

John Lermayer talks global drink trends | New Orleans Drinks | NOLA.com

Globe-trotting mixologist John Lermayer is coming to update New Orleans on what’s shaking in shakers from Miami to London. The talk on Monday, October 5, at 6:30 p.m. is part of the Museum of the American Cocktail’s monthly lecture series.

Bourbon Street may lose its bark | AP Texas News | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle

Businesses and residents say the barkers are straying from the informally tolerated confines of Bourbon Street to other parts of the Quarter and they want it stopped.
The Bourbon Street tradition springs from the days when doors at strip clubs were closed. A barker would call people over and open the door for a quick peak at a dancer on stage, tempting them to go inside.

BoÎte - Hot and Cool in the Big Easy | NYTimes.com

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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