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• Couhigtown

  —Your Right Hand Thief

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  Mayoral candidate Rob "inconceivable" Couhig wants to play "Let's Remind New Orleans":
  
  Asked what qualities they would look for in a new police chief, all [seven mayoral hopefuls] said the New Orleans Police Department needs a new leader identified through a national search.
  ...
  Attorney Rob Couhig reminded' [...]

  Posted: November 22, 2009, 9:57am EST
  by oyster

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• Green building, green money.

  —New Orleans Can Thrive

  I recently presented at the Sierra Club's New Orleans Green Rebuilding Conference at the Doubletree. Big fan of the organization. I think they are keeping the conversation going and real issues on the table. Not a diatribe against our leading enviros.
  But was troubled by the lack of interest among [...]

  Posted: November 22, 2009, 8:43am EST
  by darnola

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• Rolling on the river into New Orleans

  —New Orleans Daily Photo

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  One of my favorite things to do in New Orleans is to take the ferry ride across to the West Bank of the Mississippi River and then come right back -- you can do it in a car or as a pedestrian. For a buck you get [...]

  Posted: November 22, 2009, 12:24am EST
  by Steve Buser

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• HP: Hey NPR, try a little research

  —Voices of New Orleans

  I'm never one to pass over a good dig on National Public Radio. Here's a nice one from Harry Shearer:

  Robert Siegel last night said "I know the people in New Orleans don't regard the damage inflicted by Katrina as an act of God so much as an act of Government" [...]

  Posted: November 21, 2009, 5:24pm EST
  

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• Dominion tonight at the Rubyfruit!

  —New Orleans

  Tonight, upstairs at the Rubyfruit Jungle! Corrosion presents the crown jewel of the New Orleans Gothic Empire...
  
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  Featuring two floors of Goth, industrial, and ethereal music in an upscale, cocktail lounge atmosphere
  We even have a dance floor now!
  Doors at 10 p.m.
  Upstairs [...]

  Posted: November 21, 2009, 3:06pm EST
  

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• 24-hour grocery stores

  —New Orleans

  Are there any grocery stores in the New Orleans metro area open 24 hours? I'm trying to prepare for the inevitable last-minute forgotten-Thanksgiving-ingredients-dash to the store.
  
  Thanks, everyone!' [...]

  Posted: November 21, 2009, 6:28am EST
  

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• What if the Mayor really did "get involved in education"

  —Library Chronicles

  Tonight on Informed Sources, Erroll Laborde kind of wished out loud that the Mayor had more direct responsibility for the public school system in New Orleans. One of the candidates currently running has been "involved" as an OPPSB member and also as an advocate for "school choice"
  
  Here, [...]

  Posted: November 20, 2009, 8:43pm EST
  by jeffrey

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• STOP

  —Our New Orleans Saints

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  STOP
  STOP!
  STOP IT!
  Refrain from saying anything that starts with z or UN- to refer to Our New Orleans Saints.
  We are a NINE win team.
  PERIOD.
  Do not say 9 and anything.
  Coach needs to fine any player who says the word UN-D9999TED.
  $50 each instance.
  Stop!
  [...]

  Posted: November 20, 2009, 8:22pm EST
  by dillyberto

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• Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

  —Iced Coffee and a Bagel

  On top of being set in and shot mostly on location in New Orleans, the chief reason why you should see this movie, according to the description of Nicolas Cage's performance by the New York Times Film Review: 
  "Sometimes his loose-limbed shuffle and sibilant drawl suggest Jimmy Stewart as a crackhead."
  
  [...]

  Posted: November 20, 2009, 4:24pm EST
  by Aaron

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• Mayor, criminals must work harder to keep N.O. brand out there

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  Jeffrey finds an article showing significant "trendbucking" in the greater New Orleans area. Trendbucking is a rather dubious economic phenomenon that the local business media seems to treat as an article of faith. Jeffrey has diligently documented the ballyhoo around trendbucking for quite some time, but this recent [...]

  Posted: November 20, 2009, 2:45pm EST
  by oyster

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• Un-bucking-canny, this is

  —Library Chronicles

  Could we really be bucking yet another trend? The number of vacant properties in New Orleans has plummeted in the past year -- from nearly 70,000 abandoned lots to about 61,000 -- while blight in several other major American cities has seen a steady uptick, according to a new report [...]

  Posted: November 20, 2009, 1:45pm EST
  by jeffrey

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• Corps' MR-GO claims should be settled, ...

  —New Orleans News Ladder

  Corps' MR-GO claims should be settled, and fast, attorneys say
  ~Mark Schleifstein
  ~Winning Attorney Pierce O'Donnell said the Obama administration has two choices in responding to Duval's Wednesday ruling.
  "The Justice Department could continue the scorched earth policies of the prior administration and stonewall the people of New Orleans'" [...]

  Posted: November 20, 2009, 11:50am EST
  

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• Choice, Choice, Choice and Choice: 1

  —The G Bitch Spot

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  Schools Chart updated Sept. 2009, Cowen Institute

  It’s not a surprise that there are stumbles along the new road of School Choice to our difficult and deceptively “improved” status quo.

  While the New Orleans community has successfully created an unprecedented number of school choices, [...]

  Posted: November 20, 2009, 9:34am EST
  by G Bitch

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• New Orleans Po-Boy Fest

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  This weekend that uniquely New Orleans samwich the po-boy will have its turn to be the star. On Sunday, vendors of this noble tube of good will line the new and improved Oak Street, sharing space alongside brass bands and cold beer. Da Fest takes place Sunday, from 11-6. [...]

  Posted: November 19, 2009, 9:11am EST
  by Rene

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• Judge: Feds liable in Federal Flooding of Greater New Orleans

  —New Orleans

  "It has been proven in a court of law that the drowning of New Orleans
  was not a natural disaster, but a preventable man-made travesty," the
  attorneys said in a statement. "The government has always had a moral
  obligation to rebuild New Orleans. This decision makes that obligation a matter" [...]

  Posted: November 19, 2009, 12:29am EST
  

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• This should be the regular uniform

  —Library Chronicles

  Okay the design is a bit garish but the color scheme is far more genuinely New Orleans than the insulting "Creole blue" [...]

  Posted: November 19, 2009, 11:29pm EST
  by jeffrey

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• V: Disney does New Orleans

  —Voices of New Orleans

  And Randy Newman does (most of) the music:

  Dr. John sings the opening number, "Down in New Orleans," which Newman hesitates to describe except to agree that "it sounds of the place and of the period. Bessie Smith could have done something like it.

  "I thought they'd ask me to do it,"'" [...]

  Posted: November 18, 2009, 3:46pm EST
  

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• Leslie Jacobs, good opening Ad --except ...

  —New Orleans News Ladder

  Leslie Jacobs, good opening Ad --except for a mispilled gut check on the Teeensy Fact that Katrina did not cause New Orleans to flood on August 29th, 2005
  ~Editilla bites the tongue that feeds it~
  It is but a tiny little bone in my heart, the difference between a [...]

  Posted: November 18, 2009, 2:47pm EST
  

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• Tonight! Corrosion at the Rubyfruit Jungle!

  —New Orleans

  Generously x-posted by your grace and charity
  
  New Orleans's premiere Goth-industrial weekly returns for another round!
  
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  Tonight and every Wednesday!
  Doors at 10:00 p.m.
  Rubyfruit Jungle @ 1135 Decatur
  No cover
  Presented by
  Sighco Graphics
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 11:56am EST
  

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• Wordless Wednesday: Audubon Park

  —casa de Charlotte della luna

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  See more great images at Wordless Wednesday. Posted in Audubon Park, Photography, Wordless Wednesday Tagged: Audubon Park, Cypress Tree, Fountains, New Orleans, Parks, Photography, Water, Wordless Wednesday [...]

  Posted: November 18, 2009, 10:15am EST
  by Charlotte

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• Leslie Jacobs to ...

  —New Orleans News Ladder

  Leslie Jacobs to launch ad blitz in New Orleans mayoral race
  ~Frank Donze [...]

  Posted: November 17, 2009, 7:42pm EST
  

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• Finding an NBA Team…

  —Words are not enough

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  I don’t know why, but it seems like I should have a “favorite” NBA team. By default my team should be the New Orleans Hornets. I’ve seen them play twice, and they are the closest game around. They have a superstar in Chris Paul. Everything points to me choosing the [...]

  Posted: November 17, 2009, 8:00am EST
  by Joe Kennedy

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• Mountain Climbing

  —Our New Orleans Saints

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  We have a friend who once came to visit New Orleans. He is a professional outdoorsman. I have watched this climbing instructor deal with first timers. It takes a good deal of coaxing to get people to climb a rockface. Once you get started, it's pretty fun. Once they look [...]

  Posted: November 17, 2009, 4:11am EST
  by dillyberto

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• WWL: Saints fever

  —Voices of New Orleans

  When it comes to sports, it seems to me that New Orleans really only cares about two: Saints football and horse racing. The Saints are undefeated, and if the team can beat the lowly Tampa Bay Buccaneers next Sunday, that would set up a Monday night showdown between the Saints [...]

  Posted: November 17, 2009, 11:03pm EST
  

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• Contaminated Soil in New Orleans: New ...

  —New Orleans News Ladder

  Contaminated Soil in New Orleans: New Research Finds Arsenic is from Federal Flood
  ~Gina Solomon
  
  Corps looks to strengthen flood walls~Jennifer Van Vrancken
  
  Nation's largest gay newspaper publisher closes~Dorie Turner
  ~H/T~ BBuzz
  
  $7,500 grants available to strengthen homes against storms ~WWL[...]

  Posted: November 16, 2009, 4:07pm EST
  

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• NDN: Cage loses two NOLA homes

  —Voices of New Orleans

  Not a good year for Nicolas Cage. But perhaps all this bad news -- including the sale at a foreclosure auction of his two New Orleans homes last Thursday -- is what fueled his performance in Bad Lieutenant. If I were Samuel Levin, Cage's former business manager, I don't think' [...]

  Posted: November 16, 2009, 12:59pm EST
  

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• In Charlotte’s Garden

  —casa de Charlotte della luna

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  Posted in Nature, Photography Tagged: ferns, gardens, Nature, New Orleans, Photography [...]

  Posted: November 15, 2009, 10:18am EST
  by Charlotte

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• Tri-colored Heron -- patience practice

  —New Orleans Daily Photo

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  A tri-colored heron, doing the patience thing at Lafrenniere Park in Jefferson Parish, which lies next to New Orleans.  This park was made from an old race-track, Jefferson Downs.  I went to a few Scout events there as a youngster.   I like the park a lot better. [...]

  Posted: November 14, 2009, 4:00pm EST
  by Steve Buser

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• Odd request.

  —New Orleans

  Hi all!
  I have a somewhat unusual request for anyone in the New Orleans area.
  
  As a late Spring/Fall retail item, Starbucks offered City Mugs for major metropolitan areas. I actually work at a Starbucks near Washington, DC. I'm hoping there's somebody in the area who is a [...]

  Posted: November 13, 2009, 9:31pm EST
  

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• Armistice Day

  —Kiss My Gumbo

  

  Pictures from the day’s events in New Orleans. Pictures from the presentation of the Liberty Bell from France to the National WWII Museum.

  In the video below, Sir JJ explains Armistice Day.
  

  Armistice Day from Greta Perry on Vimeo.

  [...]

  Posted: November 13, 2009, 9:26pm EST
  by Greta

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