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The Saints in the Super Bowl is big business for local stores, and at least one of them is in the national spotlight this week because of the team's success…
Popular bourbon liqueur Southern Comfort has launched a new cinema advertising campaign entitled ‘What is Southern Comfort?’. The campaign, which will provide insight into the sprit-based liqueur’s heritage, will be screened in Moonlight Cinemas nationally.
While New Orleans is frequently recognized for its contributions to music past, present, and future, the city is often overlooked in terms of recording and producing albums, usually eclipsed by the efforts of Nashville, New York, and Los Angeles. But as in other realms of artistic expression, New Orleans has several notable additions to the world of recorded music, some of which keep with local traditions of genre and format and others which concentrate on exploring the possibilities of recorded music in the digital age.
Galatoire’s, the century-old Bourbon Street restaurant that has attained iconic status as a standard bearer for New Orleans French-Creole cuisine, is changing hands in a sale involving restaurant family members and a LaPlace businessman.
Today there are 63 locations of PJ’s Coffee of New Orleans with 12 more scheduled to open over the next six months. The new stores are a combination of franchisee- and corporate-owned operations.
Saints owner Tom Benson and state leaders are moving the ball down the field on the new sports and entertainment complex across the street from the Superdome.
A planning firm is now mapping out phase one of the project.
That includes tearing down the old mall and building a new street-level plaza for tailgating and pre and post game partying.
The new sports and entertainment district would be similar to LA-Live, outside the Staple center in Los Angeles.
Phase two would connect the new plaza with the Dome and Arena.
Phase three would be the opening of new restaurants, clubs and retail.
A jury found Dell had to pay $12.8 million in damages for conspiracy and unfair competition after it was sued for a New Orleans CCTV system that still doesn't work.
Dell was sued by Southern Electronics Supply and Active Solutions who claimed that New Orleans CTO Greg Meffert and other unknown people had plotted to steal the surveillance system.
Despite some recent rumblings, grocer Trader Joe’s is not headed into the New Orleans market, according to a company representative, at least not anytime soon.
For now, New Orleanians with a hankering for offbeat brands will have to travel more than 400 miles to the nearest Trader Joe’s in Atlanta.
The owners of the Hyatt Regency New Orleans have sold only 10 percent of the special bonds needed to help finance the hotel's post-Hurricane Katrina overhaul, but that's enough to keep a redevelopment plan alive through 2010.
Winn-Dixie Stores Inc. has partnered with prepaid reloadable debit card provider NetSpend Corp. to offer a New Orleans Saints-branded prepaid Visa debit card to customers in the Greater New Orleans area.
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