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February 25, 2010

Experience New Orleans cuisine in Bayside | Queens Business Today

If you crave Cajun-American cuisine in the party atmosphere of New Orleans, the only place on your mind should be Bourbon Street Café in Bayside. Bayside? In Queens, New York? Seriously...

The Rise of No-Town: New Orleans & Motown | CBS News

Although now based in New York City, singer-songwriter Josh Charles, an artist with a panache for fusing diverse musical styles from piano jazz to soul, has his heart set in New Orleans, a city where he gained firsthand experience from his main mentor there, prolific blues rock artist Dr. John.
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Musician Josh Charles Tells CBSNews.com About Hybrid Sound on his New Album And Performing at South By Southwest

Bust in eerie dead-tykes ID swindle | NYPOST.com

A New Orleans man is sitting in a city jail after being busted at JFK Airport with credit cards he allegedly phonied up using the stolen IDs of dead children.

From New Orleans to New York : 'America's ship' a testament to rebuilding | wwltv.com

Docked on the banks of the Hudson River, in the shadow of a city skyline forever changed, the USS New York pays tribute to the nearly 3,000 people who died on that fateful September day, eight years ago.

Corey Webster's New Orleans homecoming made sweeter by status as star cornerback for New York Giants | NJ.com

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Corey Webster
It began in Vacherie for Corey Webster — nearly an hour west of New Orleans, tucked among the 18th-century plantations and modern-day sugarcane fields, behind the row of one-story ranchers, past the Piggly Wiggly, under the arch of bowing oak trees and up the asphalt road covered in painted yellow paw prints...

Harry Connick Jr makes New York N'awlins on the Hudson | NY Post

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.

A Mighty Muffuletta, Fort Defiance and Late Night at Momofuku Ssäm Bar | New York Magazine

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...

New York Times assigns New Orleans full-time reporter | NOLA.com

Making good on a promise to keep a national focus on New Orleans' halting recovery, the New York Times has named a full-time correspondent, Campbell Robertson, who will be stationed in the city, staffing a post that had been vacant since April.
The announcement by the nation's most prestigious newspaper seems to signal that the narrative of New Orleans' laborious effort to rebuild itself from the ruin wrought by Katrina remains a story of national interest four years after the storm.

New Orleans Meets New York as Dr. John and Ponderosa Stomp Honor Wardell Quezergue | Rolling Stone : Rock and Roll Daily

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The third night of the inaugural Lincoln Center edition of the Ponderosa Stomp — the annual spring resurrection of forgotten roots-rock and R&B heroes and heroines, founded and held in New Orleans — was an oddly formal affair, compared to the outdoor soul and rockabilly shows presented earlier in the week...

Culture Festival at Lincoln Center, New York NY | WSJ.com

Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?

Trumpeter/composer Terence Blanchard, singer Tammy Lynn, and Ira "Dr. Ike" Padnos, founder of the Ponderosa Stomp join jazz writer Larry Blumenfeld to discuss the fight to preserve art and culture in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

New Orleans Survival Spirit 7/16/2009
WATCH In this excerpt from the latest Summer Scoops Live performance series, Terence Blanchard and Tammy Lynn talk about the unique spirit of community that persists in New Orleans.

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