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Despite scandals, Vitter the La. primary favorite
By KEVIN McGILL (AP) – 8 hours ago
NEW ORLEANS — Republican Sen. David Vitter of Louisiana has largely shrugged off his 2007 prostitution scandal and fresher questions about his employment of an aide accused in a knife attack on a woman.
Vitter has been more focused on attacking his likely November challenger, Democratic U.S. Rep. Charlie Melancon, who has countered with attack ads of his own.
Each man is favored to win his party’s nomination in Saturday’s Louisiana primaries.
Vitter’s opponents include a former state Supreme Court Justice, Chet Traylor.
Traylor has had to fend off an accusation that he stole away another man’s wife 13 years ago. He’s also been criticized for a more recent romantic relationship with the estranged wife of the man’s son.

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Despite scandals, Vitter the La. primary favorite
By KEVIN McGILL
The Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS — Republican Sen. David Vitter of Louisiana has largely shrugged off his 2007 prostitution scandal and fresher questions about his employment of an aide accused in a knife attack on a woman.
Vitter has been more focused on attacking his likely November challenger, Democratic U.S. Rep. Charlie Melancon, who has countered with attack ads of his own.
Each man is favored to win his party’s nomination in Saturday’s Louisiana primaries.
Vitter’s opponents include a former state Supreme Court Justice, Chet Traylor.
Traylor has had to fend off an accusation that he stole away another man’s wife 13 years ago. He’s also been criticized for a more recent romantic relationship with the estranged wife of the man’s son.

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Pritzker started this film after he had already embarked on developing a traditional biographical picture — a talkie — about cornetist Buddy Bolden, the legendary father of jazz. While wrestling with the challenge of writing dialogue, he took his mother to a screening of Charlie Chaplin’s “City Lights.” On the phone from New York last week, he said, “It was so great to see that silent film with the Chicago Symphony playing its score. I started to seek out other silent films screened with live ensembles. It was a fantastic kind of entertainment that I had never experienced before. I started thinking, what if I do it with jazz?”
His idea was always to craft an operatic fable, not a historical dioarama, from Armstrong’s childhood. In “Louis,” six-year-old Armstrong (Anthony Coleman) lives with a baby sister and a single mother who prostitutes herself to pay the bills. He works for the Karnofskys, a couple of kindly junk-haulers, while serving as knight gallant to Grace (Shanti Lowry), a Storyville bor …

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In the third case on Monday, Crain sentenced Skyler Jenkins, 20, of Kokomo, Miss., to 20 years in prison for sexual battery and contributing to delinquency of a juvenile for an incident that occurred along the Mandeville lakefront in June 2009. Jenkins met the 12-year-old Franklinton girl through a Covington woman who is accused of acting as a pimp of sorts, arranging meetings between the girl and older men throughout the north shore.
Jenkins was arrested Nov. 5, 2009, by the Mandeville Police Department after the girl reported the sexual abuse during an interview at the Children’s Advocacy Center in Covington. The victim was there telling her story of alleged abuse by another man, Josh Smith, 33 of Bogalusa, when she explained that Jenkins had also sexually abused her in June 2009.
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Tiffany Patten, 26, the alleged pimp, is also facing charges in Washington Parish as a co-defendant in Smith’s case. Having allegedly introduced Smith and the victim, she is charged with contributing to the delinquency of a juvenile.

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August 4th, 2010 08:23pm
TUSCALOOSA | Today is the birthday of Louis Daniel Armstrong, the great New Orleans trumpet player, who was born 109 years ago in a rough neighborhood near Story ville the red light district of the Big Easy, and died on July 6, 1971, in Queens, New York, where he lived for many years.
Armstrong usually went by Satchmo, derived from “satchel,” which is what they said his mouth and cheeks looked like when he was playing, or simply Pops, which just seemed to fit.
Although there was a period in the 1960s and 1970s when his music was out of vogue among jazz musicians and his performances bordered on caricature, and he never found a place among the post-war beboppers, his reputation as one of the truly greats has grown to epic proportions in recent years as people go back and study his work, which began with recordings in the 1920s. To me, he was one of the artists who ushered in modernism and laid the groundwork for things to come, an artist every bit the equal of contemporaries James Joyce and Pablo Picasso.

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… The bars have gotten a bad rap because of the apartments,” Barattini said. “I’ve had a (security) detail for 18 years to keep that out of my bar.”
Lee-Sheng said it’s not appropriate in a zoning ordinance to address problem housing or related poverty issues. The code merely states where housing can be located and outlines standards for buildings.
But improving the apartments will be part of the long-term strategy in the district, she said. She said she has begun discussing approaches with the Apartment Association of Greater New Orleans.
As for the bars, she also cites specific examples of problems to support the need for changes in Fat City, such as Illusions, the strip club on 18th Street where employees were arrested on drug and prostitution charges in July.

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The interview is set to be filmed in New Orleans, where Bullock owns a home, and is scheduled to air on the NBC morning show on August 31.
Preoccupied: Sandra Bullock looked like she had a lot on her mind as she left an antiques store in Austin Texas yesterday
According to the network, Lauer and Bullock will talk about her support for Warren Easton Charter High School in New Orleans, and he will join her for the opening of the school’s on-campus health clinic that the actress helped fund. 
Bullock has mainly maintained a dignified silence since the scandal broke back in March.
In Touch Weekly was first to report that James had engaged in an illicit eleven month long affair with heavily tattooed fetish model and part time stripper, Michelle ‘Bombshell’ McGee.

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… Nobody understands why it had the universal appeal, except for its overblownness and the family friction,” said Rhoda Faust, who worked with Thelma Toole to get “Dunces” published.
But, Faust said, its success wasn’t surprising: “Humor translates,” she said. “The people within ‘A Confederacy of Dunces’ are going through the same things other people and their families are going through.”
Besides, Faust said, “This captures New Orleans better than anything else on the face of the earth ever has.”
Faust, who owned Maple Street Book Shop then, said she sold “a zillion” copies.
The book unleashed a horde of memorable characters upon the world, including Irene Reilly, Ignatius’ long-suffering mother; Santa Battaglia, one of her friends; Burma Jones, the janitor at the Night of Joy strip club; and the aged, embittered Miss Trixie, who wants nothing more than to be allowed to retire from her job at Levy Pants.

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Once in the Quarter, Bourbon Street draws the tourist like a sinful siren with its strip clubs, its raucous bars selling Huge Ass Beer, Tabasco-laced Bloody Marys, sazeracs – rye whisky and bitters – and with its gaudy shops stacked high with T-shirts and voodoo dolls. There are “bouncing booty” contests where young women abandon all shame – dangerous drink, that sazerac – by flashing their breasts at crowds on the balconies in return for strings of Mardi Gras beads, which are thrown down as a reward for their exhibitionism.
Harry Connick Jr once told me he despaired at the way the strip clubs were driving out the jazz. But there are are still a handful of clubs in Bourbon Street that present good, traditional music, such as Fritzel’s folksy European Jazz Club, the Maison Bourbon, and the Jazz Playhouse at the Royal Sonesta Hotel, where one of the city’s new stars, trumpeter Irvin Mayfield, performs.

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A New Orleans law firm has sent letters to radio stations on behalf of Louisiana Sen. David Vitter, demanding they not air an attack ad by his political rival critical of his alleged past conduct toward women. WBRZ-TV reports the letter threatens legal action against the stations if the ad runs, calling it “false, misleading and defamatory.” Vitter’s Republican primary rival, former Louisiana Supreme Court Justice Chet Traylor, released the ad in question that highlighted a 1993 altercation between Vitter and a woman at a town hall meeting. Following a subsequent lawsuit, Vitter was fined $50 for “committing a battery” in the case. An aide to Vitter is also under fire for an alleged assault case he was involved in. The ad also highlights Vitter’s “notorious scandal with a D.C. madame,” when his name surfaced as an alleged client in a 2007 Washington, D.C. prostitution sting. Radio stations in question received a cease-and-desist letter, stating “We demand that you immediately remove and/or discontinue airing the advertisement … If you fail to …

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