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Michael Cowan, head of the New Orleans Crime Coalition, said the group recognizes the daunting challenge in selling the idea to residents with a deeply ingrained mistrust of cops.
“Community policing both needs trust and it builds trust,” he said.
Along with the training, the plan is to give NOPD ongoing guidance, data and assessments as the cops pilot their new problem-solving skills, said Loyola University criminologist George Capowich, who will run the training in five sessions early next year.
Mapping crime hot spots is nothing new at NOPD, although the focus had been on plotting clusters of violent crimes and flooding a wide geographic area with aggressive policing. The department recently launched a new generation of crime-mapping software to let cops focus on public safety issues on a block-by-block basis, including quality-of-life crimes such as loitering, drug offenses and prostitution.

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… There were several very impressive conventional comic plays. My Aim Is True was sort of a spaghetti Western (without out-of-sync dubbing) featuring a grizzled gunslinger whose horse died in the desert, leaving him to crawl for three days to the town where he intends to kill everyone. He works his way through a series of hilariously overwrought Western characters — annoyingly talkative saloonkeeper, drunk barber, gold-toothed brothel madam, card-playing doctor, onstage narrator who talks to both the gunslinger and the audience — as the purpose of his mission finally emerges. The large cast of Brooklynites relied almost exclusively on costumes to set the piece and delivered a great show.
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  Among the cabaret offerings was Faux Real and ‘33. In the former, San Francisco-based female drag queen Fauxnique’s one-woman show combined singing, lip-syncing, dance and gymnastics and themes about art, gender, performance and illusion. More inspired moments included envisioning Madonna as a butch drag queen, bringing out the determined and forceful side of her personality. …

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… We piled out of the van, convinced we’d finally crossed into a Louisiana you couldn’t read about back in Portland.”
Leave it to a comic book to introduce itself with a Slidell joke.
  The comic book — rather, a graphic novel — takes only a few frames to mention “sexy sirens from Slidell,” as advertised on a Grand Isle strip club’s marquee. Those first few pages of Oil and Water jump headfirst into the intimate details of the Gulf South.
  In a blog post written by Steve Duin, a columnist for the Portland, Ore.-based newspaper The Oregonian, he recounts that night at Daddy’s Money and its struggling, jaundiced-eyed proprietor Jack Jambon, slouching at the end of his bar and counting the dollars from BP cleanup crews who are there for the show: “Then he mounts that stool at the corner of the bar and watches the money roll in from the guys who drink to forget the women are from Slidell.”

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… There is a lot of interpretation of what it actually means to be part of a vampire community,” Lore said. “For some people it’s a religion; (for others) its about being part of a group; still others see it as a philosophy; and, of course, there are others who just like the fashion aspect of it. There is no one definition. The biggest connecting theme is just the love of the mythology. That’s a jumping-off point for everything else.”
For Lore, the philosophy and strength of the vampire figure are what attracts him.
Lore said before Hurricane Katrina, he knew of hundreds of vampire enthusiasts who formed a helpful community within the city. Since then the number has dropped drastically to maybe a dozen, he said.
“Now, there aren’t as many clients living in New Orleans; it’s mostly tourists or strippers,” Lore said. “The clientele I do have is a small group that saves its money to get fangs. These are luxury items.”

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Jake Scott, son of Ridley and nephew of Tony (co-producers of this film), made larky British costume adventure yarn movie Plunkett & Macleane in the late 1990s. He now returns after a decade of commercials and music videos to the feature film with this modestly likable “Strictly Come Sundancing” independent American film. James Gandolfini plays Doug Riley, a middle-aged midwestern plumbing equipment wholesaler still grieving over the death of his teenage daughter six years earlier. On a visit to a convention in New Orleans he meets a foul-mouthed teenage prostitute (Kristen Stewart vamping away from twilight to dawn) who reminds him of his daughter. They form a chaste, caring and highly unlikely relationship, and he decides to move in with her to change her life. Doug’s wife Lois (Melissa Leo), who hasn’t left the house since their daughter’s death, miraculously manages to get out and drive to New Orleans, where she too is transformed by a new access of motherhood. It’s a preposterous story, yet for part of its duration at least, Gandolfini as the slouching, baggily dressed Doug and Leo as the reawakened wife manage to make it rather touching.

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There were several very impressive conventional comic plays. My Aim Is True was sort of a spaghetti Western (without out-of-sync dubbing) featuring a grizzled gunslinger whose horse died in the desert, leaving him to crawl for three days to the town where he intends to kill everyone. He works his way through a litany of hilariously overwrought Western characters — annoyingly talkative saloonkeeper, drunk barber, gold-toothed brothel madam, card-playing doctor, onstage narrator who talks to both the gunslinger and the audience — as the purpose of his mission finally emerges. The large cast of Brooklynites relied almost exclusively on costumes to set the piece and delivered a great show.
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Among the cabaret offerings was Faux Real and ’33. San Francisco-based female drag queen Fauxnique’s one-woman show combined singing, lip-syncing, dance and gymnastics and themes about art, gender, performance and illusion. More inspired moments included envisioning Madonna as a butch drag queen, bringing out the determined and forceful side of her personality. The Black Swan from Swan L …

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The maps are generated by the latest generation in policing software — think of it as Comstat 2.0. Called “Data Driven Approaches to Crime and Traffic Safety,” the NOPD’s new tool is designed to let cops home in on public safety issues on a block-by-block basis.
“It gives the officers a more narrow focus,” Norton said.
Mapping crime hot spots is nothing new at the NOPD. The department has long plotted violent crimes and looked at clusters of dots on its maps. Commanders would draw a large box around such areas, tell cops to flood the zone and get aggressive. A number of the officers involved, culled from the pro-active task force units, viewed the shift as futile, and “policing the box” earned several unsavory nicknames.
The new software allows for a more nuanced approach. All crimes and quality-of-life issues, from loitering and drug offenses to prostitution offenses and automobile accidents, are plotted. Clusters become small blotches.

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With Ohio State playing Miami in the Fiesta Bowl for the national championship and the Orange Bowl snatching Iowa as an at-large pick, Rose Bowl purists were in a snit because there was no Big Ten team in the game.
But Oklahoma proved to be more than a worthy replacement. Quentin Griffin ran for 144 yards and a touchdown, Nate Hybl threw for 240 yards and two scores and the Sooners’ defense did the rest, holding the Cougars scoreless until the final six minutes.
It was the final game for Washington State Coach Mike Price, who had taken the Alabama job a few weeks earlier, only to lose it before he ever coached a game with the Crimson Tide because of an unfortunate date with “Destiny” in a Pensacola, Fla., strip club.

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Release Date (UK) – N/A Runtime – 90 minutes Director – Dan Pritzker Country – USA Certificate (UK) – N/A Starring – Anthony Coleman, Shanti Lowry, Jackie Earle Haley, Michael Rooker
Silent movie fans across the country are eagerly awaiting the release of The Artist – a brand new, acclaimed silent film – in January. But there’s another new silent which has been made recently, Dan Pritzker’s Louis (2010). It received its European premiere at the London Jazz Festival on Sunday 13th November.
Set in New Orleans in 1907, the film tells the fictional story of local prostitute, and mother, Grace (Shanti Lowry) and her struggle with corrupt politician Judge Perry (Jackie Earle Haley). Along the way she’s helped by the six year-old Louis Armstrong played by Anthony Coleman.
Louis – as you might expect – is a labour of love. This is professional musician Dan Pritzker’s first film – a film he funded himself using his considerable family fortune. The inspiration came when Pritzker saw Charlie Chap …

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With the latest Twilight installment being unleashed upon the world this weekend and Snow White and the Huntsman in production, Kristen Stewart’s every move is in the spotlight. One exception to this is a little known film in which Stewart teamed up with former Sopranos star James Gandolfini and Academy Award-winner Melissa Leo. Welcome to the Rileys finds Ms. Stewart playing an underage stripper named Mallory ,who works in a New Orleans nightclub. One night she is visited by Douglas (Gandolfini), a lonely man on a business trip who is truly looking for nothing but someone to whom he can talk. In an attempt to hide from some of his colleagues at the club, Douglas spends a little time in a private room with Mallory. Soon enough, the lives of these two are inextricably linked.

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