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A blend of jazz joints, strip clubs, bars and restaurants, visitors can find everything from live sex to four-star dining on Bourbon Street. They also can count on being snared by barkers determined to lure them into one place or another, or another or another.
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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.
Nowadays, the doors are often open and photos of strippers posted outside leave nothing to the imagination. Still, barkers try to steer customers inside, often working in pairs and moving well out into the street to snare passers-by. The practice also can be found at music clubs and other attractions.

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Bourbon Street may lose its bark
Associated Press – September 30, 2009 3:34 PM ET
NEW ORLEANS (AP) – New Orleans’ most famous street is a nightly swirl of neon and happy tourists strolling with a beverage in hand.
A blend of jazz joints, strip clubs, bars and restaurants, visitors can find everything from live sex to four-star dining on Bourbon Street. They also can count on being snared by barkers determined to lure them into one place or another, or another or another.
An 25-year-old ordinance was designed to outlaw barkers, but has been thinly enforced.
Now, 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 city’s Alcohol Beverage Outlet Control Board and New Orleans Police Department have stepped in and are threatening the hustlers.

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But at trial, Wilson testified that he had only had sex with her and that he didn’t shoot her.
Assistant District Attorney Margaret Parker presented DNA evidence – Wilson’s semen found on the victim’s dead body – and the defendant’s own incriminating statements to police.
Police found a blood-stained piece of a mattress cover in a garbage can outside Wilson’s trailer. At trial, he said he had cut it off because he was cold and needed a blanket. In 2007, Wilson told police he had thrown it away because it was dirty.
Parker argued that the victim’s bruises and a prior phone call she had made to a friend in Nebraska were proof that Wilson had raped her. Reese had told her best friend about an “ugly” man named Trave who was trying to pressure her into prostitution, the judge heard.

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Watchdog Group Seeks Vitter Investigation
Probe Sought Over Allegations Senator Solicited Prostitutes
POSTED: 12:46 pm CDT September 29, 2009UPDATED: 12:54 pm CDT September 29, 2009
NEW ORLEANS — A Washington-based public watchdog group said it has asked Louisiana’s Office of Disciplinary Counsel to investigate Sen. David Vitter, an attorney, for allegedly soliciting prostitutes.
The bar complaint by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington arises from Vitter’s admission of a “serious sin” in 2007 after his phone number appeared in records of a Washington prostitution ring. Vitter has refused to discuss details or answer questions about the matter. He has denied subsequent allegations of involvement with prostitutes in New Orleans.
The Baton Rouge-based Office of Disciplinary Counsel, which reviews lawyer conduct, did not immediately return a call for comment Tuesday.

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NEW ORLEANS A Washington-based public watchdog group said Tuesday it has asked a Louisiana state agency that reviews lawyer conduct to investigate allegations that U.S. Sen. David Vitter solicited prostitutes.
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CREW, a nonprofit group with a history of complaints against both parties, notes in its news release that Vitter is among a host of Republicans calling for criminal investigations of ACORN and an end to government funding for its programs. Republican criticisms of the group were energized after employees at some ACORN offices were recorded recently apparently giving advice to a woman posing as a prostitute and to a man posing as her pimp about cheating on taxes and operating a brothel.
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(2 of 2)The group’s most recent list currently includes seven Republicans and eight Democrats. In an e-mailed statement to The Associated Press, Vitter spokesman Joel DiGrado accused the group of trying to “shift the light” from the Democratic Party’s long ties to ACORN, and noting that CREW is “run by a former Democratic Senate …

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NEW ORLEANS (AP) A Washington-based public watchdog group says it has asked Louisiana’s Office of Disciplinary Counsel to investigate Sen. David Vitter, an attorney, for allegedly soliciting prostitutes.
The bar complaint by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington arises from Vitter’s admission of a “serious sin” in 2007 after his phone number appeared in records of a Washington prostitution ring. Vitter has refused to discuss details or answer questions about the matter. He has denied subsequent allegations of involvement with prostitutes in New Orleans.
The Baton Rouge-based Office of Disciplinary Counsel, which reviews lawyer conduct, did not immediately return a call for comment Tuesday. Vitter’s office was expected to issue a statment later Tuesday.

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Prostitution complaint filed against Senator David Vitter
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (WAFB) -  A non-partisan group out of Washington D.C. says it wants to strip Louisiana Senator David Vitter of his law license, for allegedly taking part in a prostitution ring.
The director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) says it is time for Vitter to step up to the plate and answer for accusations stemming from the “D.C. Madam Scandal.” In 2007, Vitter’s name appeared on the client list of D.C. Madam Deborah Jeane Palfrey.
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Sloan filed the complaint with the Louisiana Office of Disciplinary Counsel, a part of the Louisiana State Supreme Court. She says CREW filed the complaint because of Vitter’s stance against the group ACORN. The grassroots group came under fire earlier this month after an employee was caught on camera offering advice to a woman posing as a prostitute.

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NEW ORLEANS Bourbon Street— where Dixieland jazz competes with karaoke bars, rock ‘n’ roll cover bands and strip club jukeboxes — is also one of the first places in America where opera was heard.
Now, it’s being heard there again, with a New Orleans-style twist.
Performances take place in a hotel lounge called the Puccini Bar, named for the composer of Madama Butterfly. And spectators sip cocktails while listening to the free, informal shows, which include arias from La Boheme and Carmen.
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“We’re bringing opera back to Bourbon Street,” said Beth Ables, general manager of the Inn, which offers a typical study in French Quarter contrasts: As elegant as any of the nearby art galleries or antique shops, it sits near a row of strip clubs and across the street from a huge sign advertising “3-for-1″ drink specials.

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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Bourbon
Street — where Dixieland jazz competes with karaoke bars, rock ‘n’ roll cover bands and strip club jukeboxes — is also one of the first places in America where opera was heard.

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Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington alleges that Vitter, an attorney, solicited for prostitution, violating the rules of professional conduct for lawyers and says  Vitter should be investigated and disciplined for misconduct.
The Office of Disciplinary Counsel said filings are confidential.
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Vitter’s phone number had appeared in 2007 on a client list of a prostitution ring run by a woman called the “D.C. Madam.”
“Sen. Vitter’s zeal to see ACORN criminally investigated for offering advice in setting up a prostitution ring reminded me he has yet to be held accountable for his own role in a prostitution ring,” CREW executive director Melanie Sloan said in a prepared statement. “While ACORN’s conduct is indefensible, so is Sen. Vitter’s and what is good for the goose is good for the gander.”

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