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… He’s not nearly as vulnerable for actual defeat as it was presumed he was within months after his public admission,” Shreveport, La., political consultant Elliott Stonecipher said. But there could be hurdles, Stonecipher and others said.
Moderate Democratic Rep. Charlie Melancon is sending signals that he will enter the race, giving Democrats perhaps as credible a candidate as they could hope for in the deeply conservative state. And Vitter could yet face a challenge from within his party. Throw in the possible candidacy of porn star Stormy Daniels, who insists she is seriously considering the race, and Vitter’s personal life could play a prominent role in the campaign.
Vitter’s critics appear eager to exploit the matter in part because Vitter has yet to acknowledge whether laws were broken or fully account for what happened when his phone number turned up among records of a Washington area escort service authorities said was a front for prostitution.

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… We know that midterm elections are a referendum on the party in power,” Ulm said. “When you have an economic environment like this … if it doesn’t have to do with people’s economic worries and hardships, it’s just immaterial.”
Other independent analysts agreed that Obama’s unpopularity in the state — he got less than 40 percent of the vote in November — could make things difficult for any Democrat.
Stonecipher said Obama’s numbers “will be toxic in Louisiana” by the time of the election, while University of New Orleans political scientist Edward Chervenak said Vitter is simply “a better ideological fit with the state than any Democrat right now.”
Louisiana has a reputation for tolerating misbehavior. Witness former Gov. Earl Long’s cavorting with stripper Blaze Starr in the 1950s, former Gov. Edwin Edwards’ frequent one-liners about his reputation as a womanizer and former Congressman William Jefferson’s re-election to a ninth term after FBI agents said they found $90,000 in bribes he’d taken stashed in his freezer.

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The acts that made Bourbon a magnet for entertainment seekers are long gone. The burlesque houses of the 1950s and ’60s, featuring exotic dancers with names like Blaze Starr, Lilly Christine the Cat Girl and Alouette Leblanc the Tassel Twirler are no more. Elaborate shows with gaudy props and old-school entertainment have given way to rowdy bars and strip joints advertising “barely legal” girls and “live sex acts.”
“Nobody knows how old she is,” said David Otillio, 50, a longtime fan attending a show. “I’ve heard everything from 65 to 84, but whatever it is, she’s amazing.”
To watch Owens on stage is to forget she is not a 20-something showgirl.
She dances, shimmies and throws in a few bumps and grinds. A seasoned entertainer, she is quick to point out her show is exotic, but she’s not an exotic dancer.
“I was never a stripper, but I guess people thought if you’re on Bourbon Street dancing, you must be,” Owens said.

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… We know that midterm elections are a referendum on the party in power,” Ulm said. “When you have an economic environment like this … if it doesn’t have to do with people’s economic worries and hardships, it’s just immaterial.”
Other independent analysts agreed that Obama’s unpopularity in the state — he got less than 40 percent of the vote in November — could make things difficult for any Democrat.
Stonecipher said Obama’s numbers “will be toxic in Louisiana” by the time of the election, while University of New Orleans political scientist Edward Chervenak said Vitter is simply “a better ideological fit with the state than any Democrat right now.”
Louisiana has a reputation for tolerating misbehavior. Witness former Gov. Earl Long’s cavorting with stripper Blaze Starr in the 1950s, former Gov. Edwin Edwards’ frequent one-liners about his reputation as a womanizer and former Congressman William Jefferson’s re-election to a ninth term after FBI agents said they found $90,000 in bribes he’d taken stashed in his freezer.

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… He’s not nearly as vulnerable for actual defeat as it was presumed he was within months after his public admission,” Shreveport, La., political consultant Elliott Stonecipher said. But there could be hurdles, Stonecipher and others said.
Moderate Democratic Rep. Charlie Melancon is sending signals that he will enter the race, giving Democrats perhaps as credible a candidate as they could hope for in the deeply conservative state. And Vitter could yet face a challenge from within his party. Throw in the possible candidacy of porn star Stormy Daniels, who insists she is seriously considering the race, and Vitter’s personal life could play a prominent role in the campaign.
Vitter’s critics appear eager to exploit the matter in part because Vitter has yet to acknowledge whether laws were broken or fully account for what happened when his phone number turned up among records of a Washington area escort service authorities said was a front for prostitution.

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The museum also exemplifies Preble’s very personal twist on all-American business ethics. “The UCM Museum was created with no government grants,” Preble declares in a mission statement. “It is not a non-profit organization nor a tax-exempt business. This museum is a declaration of family enterprise actualized by hard work, independence, persistence and dreams.”  Ron Paul Meets RuPaul.
A 61 year old native of New Orleans, Preble had been in and out of several art schools during the 1960s. With a small group of fellow artists he moved to Abita Springs in 1972. “I was the first hippie to come in,” he says, but he was by no means the first eccentric in town. Preble had just arrived when “two guys rode up in halter tops” to greet him. A vacation spot only an hour from the Big Easy, Abita Springs was a haven for all sorts of people — “ex-prostitutes, circus performers…,” Preble says. He and his wife Ann O’Brien decided to raise their family here. O’Brien died of pancreatic cancer in 2006. Two sons are now grown and off on their own.

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Jack’s efforts to drive the demon spirit out of the child prove only partially successful, however. Part of the spirit jumps into Typhus, though the child kept the darker half himself. And, taken up by the Holy Spirit, the guard stabbed Morningstar, killing him. The rest of the book follows Morningstar’s offspring, as well as the others at the botched exorcism, over the following decades, as they struggle to make their way in the city.
The semi-possessed child rechristens himself as Jim Jam Jump, the Astounding Ratboy of Orleans Parish and Surrounding Territories, and teams with another Morningstar child, Dropsy, to run scams on tavern patrons. When Diphtheria turns 15, she turns to the lucrative but dangerous employ of prostitution, while brother Typhus, on behalf of Doctor Jack, carries aborted fetuses down to the river and sets them into the water in a mysterious act he calls “rebirthing.” Bolden plays the local bars, aligning his discordant musical blowing to the secret knock that was used to get into that gin joint, the coupling of which gives birth to jazz.

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Owens’ show offers the kind of music and audience interaction that was once featured in big show rooms along the Vegas strip. It’s still able to attract new audiences. On a recent Friday night, the place was packed with tourists, regulars and young people out for a night on Bourbon Street.
“This was great,” said New Orleans resident Marjorie Gehl, attending her first Owens show. “It’s different from all the other clubs where you can see a band or a stripper.”
To watch Owens on stage is to forget she is not a 20-something showgirl.
She dances, shimmies and throws in a few bumps and grinds. A seasoned entertainer, she is quick to point out her show is exotic, but she’s not an exotic dancer.
“I was never a stripper, but I guess people thought if you’re on Bourbon Street dancing, you must be,” Owens said.

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Owens’ show offers the kind of music and audience interaction that was once featured in big show rooms along the Vegas strip. It’s still able to attract new audiences. On a recent Friday night, the place was packed with tourists, regulars and young people out for a night on Bourbon Street.
“This was great,” said New Orleans resident Marjorie Gehl, attending her first Owens show. “It’s different from all the other clubs where you can see a band or a stripper.”
To watch Owens on stage is to forget she is not a 20-something showgirl.
She dances, shimmies and throws in a few bumps and grinds. A seasoned entertainer, she is quick to point out her show is exotic, but she’s not an exotic dancer.
“I was never a stripper, but I guess people thought if you’re on Bourbon Street dancing, you must be,” Owens said.

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NEW ORLEANS — Work has begun on a $50-million housing complex in New Orleans’ Central City, a neighborhood that’s the latest focus of efforts by local redevelopment officials to clean up blight, attract new businesses and try to spark a post-Hurricane Katrina revival.
The Muses, a mix of affordable and market-rate apartments and condominiums, is seen as a cornerstone in efforts to bring back the Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard corridor nearly four years after the storm. The 11-block area, in the days of segregation, was teeming with businesses, many Jewish-owned, that catered to blacks who weren’t openly welcomed in many businesses, including along Canal Street, which essentially remains New Orleans’ Main Street.
The district later fell into disrepair — became what the head of the neighborhood business association calls “a haven for drugs and prostitution” — and today stands dotted with derelict buildings, not far from New Orleans’ downtown, its sports district and street car-lined St. Charles Avenue.

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