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In Werner Herzogs new film BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS, Nicolas Cage plays a rogue detective who is as devoted to his job as he is at scoring drugs — while playing fast and loose with the law. He wields his badge as often as he wields his gun in order to get his way. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina he becomes a high-functioning addict who is a deeply intuitive, fearless detective reigning over the beautiful ruins of New Orleans with authority and abandon. Complicating his tumultuous life is the prostitute he loves (played by Eva Mendes). Together they descend into their own world marked by desire, compulsion, and conscience. The result is a singular masterpiece of filmmaking: equally sad and manically humorous.

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In an accompanying letter, Rey certifies that the relic on display has been in the continuous care of his predecessors, and has been venerated in France as part of the remains of Mary Magdalen “without interruption” since the late 13th century.
Although there is some confusion around the identities of several Marys in the New Testament, Mary Magdalen was clearly a companion of Jesus who, according to evangelists Mark and Luke, was healed of seven demons. She stood nearby during the crucifixion, and according to the New Testament, was the first to see and proclaim the risen Jesus.
Christianity rejects the notion, popularized in novelist Dan Brown’s “The DaVinci Code,” that Mary Magdalen bore a child by Jesus.
Although Scripture is not explicit, many Christians see Mary as a prostitute forgiven by Jesus — and many, like Drndak, who said she is recovering from addictions in her past, see reflections of their own lives in her.

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Over the last two seasons with the Warriors, Jackson has had his best scoring seasons. In 2007-2008, he averaged 20.1 points while in 2008, he had his best season yet, averaging 20.7 points, 5.1 rebounds, 6.5 assists and 1.5 steals while shooting 41 percent from the field, 34 percent from three-point range and 83 percent from the free throw line in Don Nelson’s helter-skelter offense. He averaged 39.6 minutes per game, second in the league to Atlanta’s Joe Johnson.
Jackson has had several incidents in the league. Most recently, he was suspended for two games last weekend for “conduct detrimental to the team” by Nelson. Jackson subsequently said that he didn’t want to be a team captain anymore.
Jackson endured a 30-game suspension for his role in the infamous brawl in which he entered the stands and brawled with Detroit Pistons fans on November 19, 2004 while with the Pacers.
In 2006, he was charged with a felony count of criminal recklessness after firing several gunshots from a nine-millimeter pistol during an altercation at an Indianapolis strip club and served a seven-game suspension at the beginning of the 2007-2008 season for the Warriors.

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The Times-Picayune ArchiveOne can almost imagine a ghost feeling at home at One Eyed Jacks, which reportedly is haunted by a broken-hearted woman.When Ponderosa Stomp booker Ira Padnos put Shreveport guitar slinger James Burton up at the St. Vincent Guesthouse in 2000, he said, the musician reported sleeping poorly because of children running and playing in the halls all night.
“When they asked at the front desk, ” Padnos said, “it turned out no children were staying there.” During a 19th-century epidemic, however, the building, then an orphanage, had seen many young charges die of yellow fever. It seems the ephemeral kids had kept many guests up over the years.
A block away from the guesthouse, The Saint bar is home to a tale that has given bartenders and customers an extra shot of chills for more than two decades. Former proprietor Chris Lee (he sold the bar in 2008, ) after hearing rumors, finally sat the building’s owner down to ask. In the early ’80’s, the story went, a prostitute was renting a cheap room by the week above the bar, which was then called the St. Mary.

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More potentially tantalizing testimony went up in smoke when the plaintiffs decided against calling Nagin to the stand, saying they didn’t need him to prove their larger case.
On the flip side, Meffert surprised everyone when he decided to take the stand. After having indicated he’d plead the Fifth to any and every question, Meffert offered a defiant and vigorous defense over seven hours. That gave the public — and maybe prosecutors, too — an interesting preview of his potential criminal defense. It also exposed a few new details, such as:
Meffert believes he did nothing wrong when he accepted the credit card from St. Pierre’s NetMethods and used it for personal expenses, taking Nagin and his family to Hawaii and Jamaica with it and buying everything from cruises to nights at strip clubs to home furnishings for himself.

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In his closing, Smith has derided the argument by plaintiffs Southern Electronics and Active Solutions. Both companies argued that they were local do-gooders trying to help their hometown, while big business stalwart Dell Inc. joined forces with Meffert and his corporate benefactor, Mark St. Pierre, to filch their technology and get rich off their work.
John McCucker / The Times-PicayuneA civil jury began deliberations today in a case alleging that former New Orleans technology director Greg Meffert and others conspired to filch their technology.Smith said the plaintiffs simply haven’t presented the evidence to prove their case and, what’s more, that they were the greedy ones, holding the city’s credit hostage during much of 2006,  when New Orleans was fighting a post-Katrina crime wave.
But Smith also had to confront the plaintiffs’ repeated attacks on Meffert’s use of a credit card provided by St. Pierre’s company NetMethods. That was the card that Meffert used to finance a variety of personal purchases, such as visits to strip clubs and home furnishings, and, most notably, family vacations for him and his boss, Mayor Ray Nagin.

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A blend of jazz joints, strip clubs, bars and restaurants, Bourbon Street has everything from four-star dining to sex shows. And visitors 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 peek at a dancer on stage, tempting them to go inside.
Nowadays, the doors are 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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NEW ORLEANS | Bourbon Street — where Dixieland jazz competes with karaoke bars, rock ’n’ roll cover bands and strip club jukeboxes — was 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.”

The lounge is at The Inn on Bourbon, a hotel that was built on the site of the French Opera House. The opera house near the intersection of Toulouse Street opened in the mid-1800s and was one of the grandest theaters in New Orleans. It burned down in 1919.

“We’re bringing opera back to Bourbon Street,” said Beth Ables, the 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, the hotel …

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The DSCC statement appears to refer to the sex scandal in which Vitter has been embroiled for the past two years. In 2007, Vitter was outed as a client of the “DC Madam,” Deborah Jeane Palfrey, who was convicted in 2008 on charges relating to her prostitution business.
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… You may not be pleased with everything he’s saying and doing, but you have to understand that he’s been voted in to take care of the affairs of a nation, and not yours and mine particularly,” Farrakhan said. “He’s the American president, not the black president.”
Given those broad responsibilities, African-Americans need to “accept responsibility to build our own communities,” Farrakhan said.
Sunday’s speech was billed as a plan to focus on reducing crime. Farrakhan didn’t lay out details in his 2 ½-hour address, but said members of the Nation of Islam have shown a blueprint for helping people repair their lives. The organization has long focused efforts on recruiting in prisons by encouraging inmates to study the movement’s teachings.
“They’re going to prisons and they make a man and a woman whole, the prostitute gets cleaned up, the drug addict gets changed,” he said. “You see a model in Muslims in the Nation of Islam when our people come into the mosque toxic and then are made useful.”

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