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Storyville was established July 6, 1897, in an attempt by the New Orleans City Council to control rampant prostitution in the city by limiting it to a 38-block area on the edge of the French Quarter. Mansions, saloons and low-cost “cribs” lined the streets of Storyville, which New Orleanians nicknamed after the alderman who introduced the measure, Sidney Story.
Storyville, bounded by Customhouse (Iberville), North Basin (North Saratoga), St. Louis and North Robertson streets, operated until Nov. 12, 1917. U.S. military officials convinced the city that Storyville was a bad influence for WWI troops stationed near New

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Storyville was established July 6, 1897, in an attempt by the New Orleans City Council to control rampant prostitution in the city by limiting it to a 38-block area on the edge of the French Quarter. Mansions, saloons and low-cost “cribs” lined the streets of Storyville, which New Orleanians nicknamed after the alderman who introduced the measure, Sidney Story.
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E.J. Bellocq documented Storyville’s prostitutes through a series of portraits, discovered after his death in 1949. The photographs, taken in the early 1900s, showcase the lives and work of women who often existed on society’s fringes.
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Lulu White was one of the most famous madames in Storyville. Her brothel, the four-story Mahogany Hall, employed 40 prostitutes and contained 15 bedrooms and five parlors. White was often in trouble with the law. Though most of her charges were related to serving liquor without a license and running an “immoral house,” she was also known to grow violent when patrons threatened her business or her employees.

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8:14 AM  Marisa Egerstrom, a phD candidate in American religious history at Harvard, outlines the parallels between #OWS and Christianity for CNN:
…At its heart, the Occupy movement is about creating a democratic society in which everyone matters, there is dignity in working together across differences, and there is enough for everyone. Is this vision tantamount to socialism? No. Once upon a time, we called this “American.”It also sounds pretty Christian to me. What the early Apostles called “The Way” was a vision for peaceful living that built on Christ’s teaching, life, death and resurrection. The Way repudiates the pursuit of individual wealth in favor of building communities that care for the marginalized, the desperate and the powerless. Jesus demonstrated this by healing lepers and dining with prostitutes and tax collectors.

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… Video promos.  How good is the WWE’s video department?  Damn good, perhaps some of the best anywhere.  The Henry/Orton video was a beautiful recap and added some to the story, and they even somehow added some emotion to Randy “Mr. Data” Orton.  
I also admit, I giggled at the Henry parody of Samuel L. Jackson’s signature lines from “Pulp Fiction” for the Vengeance ad.  The hype video for the main event was also done well.
+ Orton/Henry.  Great shot of Orton’s hand grasping the cage while being dominated by Henry, which pretty much summed up the match.  Great story to the match, though they could have used the cage a bit more.  
The sell from SmackDown’s pimping of the RKO as a devastating move was a nice bit of carryover after Henry kicked out.  Props to Orton for taking a pin two times in such a short span to put Henry over.  There is still some juice to the feud, so it will continue to Vengeance.

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In 1987, televangelist Jimmy Swaggart was caught leaving the Travel Inn with a prostitute. A decade later, Airline Highway had become so infamous that then-state Rep. David Vitter, R-Metairie, persuaded the Legislature to rename the Jefferson Parish section Airline Drive.
The Travel Inn was razed in 1997, as was the Town and Country Motel where Mafia boss Carlos Marcello kept his office. Along with a third demolished motel, the Sleepy Hollow, these sites became a gated subdivision, Metairie Club Estates.
Other seedy spots remained, however, and in recent years the Sheriff’s Office has focused attention on ones where owners and employees are in league with criminals. The increased scrutiny led to the shutdown of La Village and Trade Winds in 2010 after undercover deputies discovered employees were knowingly renting rooms to prostitutes and pimps. Investigators also found that owners Anil and Mayaben Patel kept two sets of books to avoid paying almost $535,000 in taxes.

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September 27, 2011
OKLAHOMA CITY — The Louis Malle film “Pretty Baby” was set in Storyville, the red light district that existed in New Orleans, La., in the early years of the last century. It told the story of several of the people who lived in that area at that time, and its title was taken from a song written by an African American jazz musician who performed in one of the Storyville establishments.
Jazz, which is arguably the only uniquely American art form, was born of a fusion of African and European  musical traditions in New Orleans, and the jazz musicians who played in Storyville were among its earliest practitioners.
In 1917, after several sailors from the Naval base located in the Algiers neighborhood in New Orleans were killed in a brawl in Storyville, U.S. Navy Secretary Josephus Daniels demanded that Storyville be closed, and the then mayor of New Orleans, Martin Behrman, reluctantly agreed. As referenced in the film, many of the musicians who had worked in Storyville had to leave New Orleans to find work  as a result, and went on to introduce jazz to a wider audience by performing throughout the nation.

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Back when I worked for The Times-Picayune, I once commented in an article that New Orleans is a city of neighborhoods.“Well, of course it’s a city of neighborhoods,” an obviously underwhelmed reader called to say bitingly. “Every city has neighborhoods.”
neighborland.orgNeighborland invites friendly discussion about neighborhood improvement — online.
Yes, they do. But I didn’t mean that we have neighborhoods, so much as we are defined by our neighborhoods. Or perhaps they define us.
Whether you hail from the Black Pearl or the Lower Garden District, Gert Town or Bywater or Lake Vista, you know that your little piece of the New Orleans pie has a certain personality, look, feel, flavor, even accent.
Here in New Orleans, we’re porch sitters and street walkers. We talk to strangers. We hug strangers. We’re neighborly.

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8:14 AM  Marisa Egerstrom, a phD candidate in American religious history at Harvard, outlines the parallels between #OWS and Christianity for CNN:
…At its heart, the Occupy movement is about creating a democratic society in which everyone matters, there is dignity in working together across differences, and there is enough for everyone. Is this vision tantamount to socialism? No. Once upon a time, we called this “American.”It also sounds pretty Christian to me. What the early Apostles called “The Way” was a vision for peaceful living that built on Christ’s teaching, life, death and resurrection. The Way repudiates the pursuit of individual wealth in favor of building communities that care for the marginalized, the desperate and the powerless. Jesus demonstrated this by healing lepers and dining with prostitutes and tax collectors.

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The G-Spot: Prostitution laws are meant to protect both prostitutes and their clients.
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I doubt anyone decided to strive to make a respectable income soliciting sex, hoping to meet a rich man who buys her clothes and falls in love like Julia Roberts may have us think. It is not glamorous or humorous that these individuals live a life of shame to survive. Instead of judging them and branding them, we should be trying to help those who can hardly help themselves.
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Like any other crime, remorse over the event is not enough to merit forgetting the crime altogether. While it’s unfortunate that a young person may commit a crime he or she will later regret, prostitution is still illegal in Louisiana, and so they are in fact sex offenders. Communities and the families within them have a right to know who lives across the street.
And if nothing else, maybe the heavy charge will scare young men and women out of a risky, touch-and-go life in prostitution.

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Airline Highway in Metairie was once a gateway to New Orleans , a corridor dotted with newly built motels catering to those making their way into the Crescent City. As the once-bright paint on many of those rest stops has faded, however, so has their reputation. Travelers and families have been replaced at some of the lodging spots by prostitutes and drug dealers, and once-enticing buildings have become dirty and dangerous.
But the recent closure, and possible redevelopment, of four motel properties could point the way to a brighter future.
Outside the Rainbow Motel and

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