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Galatoire’s restaurant, founded in 1905, is one of them. Its brightly lit dining room is an oasis of old-fashioned New Orleans sophistication amidst the strip clubs and T-shirt shops of Bourbon Street, but it was hit hard by the disappearance of local seafood from its menu in the summer of 2010, according to Bill Kearney, its owner. He has not agreed a compensation payment from the GCCF, but he still sees dealing with the fund as a better route than fighting in court. “The system has been overwhelmed; there wasn’t any standing organisation to handle so many claims ,” he says. “But BP has done a great job of facing up to its responsibilities and trying to make good the damage, and I am sure it will finally work out favourably for us.” He has even appeared in a widely shown TV commercial, paid for by BP, extending “a cordial invitation to visit the gulf” to US holiday makers.

See the full article from “Financial Times”

Galatoire’s restaurant, founded in 1905, is one of them. Its brightly lit dining room is an oasis of old-fashioned New Orleans sophistication amidst the strip clubs and T-shirt shops of Bourbon Street, but it was hit hard by the disappearance of local seafood from its menu in the summer of 2010, according to Bill Kearney, its owner. He has not agreed a compensation payment from the GCCF, but he still sees dealing with the fund as a better route than fighting in court. “The system has been overwhelmed; there wasn’t any standing organisation to handle so many claims ,” he says. “But BP has done a great job of facing up to its responsibilities and trying to make good the damage, and I am sure it will finally work out favourably for us.” He has even appeared in a widely shown TV commercial, paid for by BP, extending “a cordial invitation to visit the gulf” to US holiday makers.

See the full article from “Financial Times”

Which city would you want to be doing “House Hunters” in? Portland, Oregon. Or maybe Athens, Georgia. Or maybe New Orleans. I’m a man with varied interests, and intense knowledge … about everything. So I would enjoy Portland for the scenery, the lively youth culture, and the doughnut shop. I like Athens because of its collegiate atmosphere, and it’s a sort of small town with a very sort of fun and clubby — not in a dance clubby way — but it’s a fun little college town. Now New Orleans you would come to for the culture and the architecture.
What would be your requirements for a property if you were on “House Hunters”?
I’ve got two kids, so I’d say three bedrooms, two baths, stripper pole … I think that’s it. I think those are my non-negotiables.
Those are pretty easy — except for the stripper pole. Well, I’m not installing my own, it’s got to have the stripper pole. Because you don’t want to just install one of these nouveau riche stripper poles. You want it to have had some history, you know, you want it to have grime.

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The brains behind the heist allegedly envisioned high-tech safe-cracking, strippers acting as decoys and an inside man acting as a lookout. The monthlong investigation relied on a confidential informant who wore a wire. Meanwhile, police said the architects of the plot were a man with tenuous links to the shuttered Occupy NOLA encampment and Edwards, who tended a Lucky Dog cart in the French Quarter.
The mission was to empty the safe inside a store on Canal Street, according to court documents.
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During this chat, Edwards allegedly said he and his supposed accomplice, “Walt,” had had a falling out. Edwards surmised that he could break into the safe with tools and use another store employee as a lookout, the affidavit states. Edwards allegedly went so far as suggesting “diversionary tactics,” such as a stripper, could be used to aid in the heist.

See the full article from “NOLA.com”

Which city would you want to be doing “House Hunters” in? Portland, Oregon. Or maybe Athens, Georgia. Or maybe New Orleans. I’m a man with varied interests, and intense knowledge … about everything. So I would enjoy Portland for the scenery, the lively youth culture, and the doughnut shop. I like Athens because of its collegiate atmosphere, and it’s a sort of small town with a very sort of fun and clubby — not in a dance clubby way — but it’s a fun little college town. Now New Orleans you would come to for the culture and the architecture.
A couple tours one of their options.
What would be your requirements for a property if you were on “House Hunters”?
I’ve got two kids, so I’d say three bedrooms, two baths, stripper pole … I think that’s it. I think those are my non-negotiables.
Those are pretty easy — except for the stripper pole. Well, I’m not installing my own, it’s got to have the stripper pole. Because you don’t want to just install one of these nouveau riche stripper poles. You want it to have had some history, you know, you want it to have grime.

See the full article from “Yahoo! News Blogs (blog)”

… Will it happen here in New Orleans? Opera fans will just have to wait till either March 2 or 4 to find out. Tickets are now on sale for SALOME from the New Orleans Opera Association or directly from the box office of the Mahalia Jackson Theater for the Performing Arts. Show times are 8 p.m. Friday, March 2 and 2:30 p.m. Sunday, March 4. The opera will be sung in German, with English supertitles (translations) projected above the stage.
In all likelihood, Russian-born soprano Mlada Khudoley will conclude the sensuous, eight-minute dance in a sheer stocking suit like nearly all others who sang the Salome role since its 1905 premiere in Dresden. Nonetheless, no harm in fantasizing, is there? After all, there IS a precedent in New Orleans. Carol Neblett’s “take it all off” Kodak moment in Massenet’s THAIS in 1973 made international headlines (not to mention riling up the strippers on Bourbon Street who protested the unfair competition).

See the full article from “Bayoubuzz”

Hustler Club interstate ad causes controversy
wwltv.com
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 2:57 PM
Updated
yesterday at 11:06 PM
Melanie Hebert
Email: mhebert@wwltv.com | Twitter: @MelanieHebert
NEW ORLEANS – A New Jersey company that placed a controversial strip club advertisement along a busy stretch of interstate said it will take down the sign.
Several people have complained about the billboard, which is owned by Interstate Outdoor Advertising. 
The advertisement for Larry Flynt’s Hustler Club shows one woman touching another in a way some said is inappropriate for that location The billboard faces the Pontchartrain Expressway eastbound near the Broad Street overpass as commuters head towards downtown from western parts of the metro area. Jeff Gerber, chief operating officer for Interstate Outdoor Advertising, said the ad could come down as early as Friday and be replaced with a different one for the Hustler Club. WWL-TV had received complaints from drivers about the billboard, and just hours after a picture of the ad was put on WWL-TV’s Facebook page, h …

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The calendar may say that Mardi Gras arrives Tuesday, but in New Orleans, celebrations related to the holiday have been consuming the city for weeks. In the rest of the country, mentioning Mardi Gras often brings a shrug or a smirk: Isn’t that just a spring break beerfest for college kids? Let’s undress Mardi Gras and explain why it’s a much richer holiday than commonly mischaracterized. Yes, New Orleans Carnival is a time of excess. But it is an excess of generosity, creativity and culture — as well as pleasure.
1. Mardi Gras is all about beads, booze and breasts.
The popular depictions of Mardi Gras evoke a city-wide fraternity party where drunken young women flash their breasts in exchange for trinkets. This transaction does indeed occur near the Bourbon Street strip clubs. But for locals, and visitors who look below the surface and venture deeper into the real New Orleans, the Carnival experience is entirely different — and far removed from the stereotypes that have shaped outsiders’ perception of this holiday.

See the full article from “Toward Freedom”

The calendar may say that Mardi Gras arrives Tuesday, but in New Orleans, celebrations related to the holiday have been consuming the city for weeks. In the rest of the country, mentioning Mardi Gras often brings a shrug or a smirk: Isn’t that just a spring break beerfest for college kids? Let’s undress Mardi Gras and explain why it’s a much richer holiday than commonly mischaracterized. Yes, New Orleans Carnival is a time of excess. But it is an excess of generosity, creativity and culture — as well as pleasure.
1. Mardi Gras is all about beads, booze and breasts.
The popular depictions of Mardi Gras evoke a city-wide fraternity party where drunken young women flash their breasts in exchange for trinkets. This transaction does indeed occur near the Bourbon Street strip clubs. But for locals, and visitors who look below the surface and venture deeper into the real New Orleans, the Carnival experience is entirely different — and far removed from the stereotypes that have shaped outsiders’ perception of this holiday.

See the full article from “Washington Post”

Believe it or not, there are things going on this weekend in New Orleans other than parades. Not many things, mind you, but, still, things. So this week’s Thinking Outside the Box Office feature — running down off-the-beaten-path events for local movie fans — might be a little shorter than usual, but, hey, it’s something:
Brooke Shields, in an image from the 1978 New Orleans-shot drama ‘Pretty Baby.’
Monday Movie Madness La Divina Cafe e Gelateria, 621 St. Peter St., 302.2692. This week: Coincidentally — or maybe not so conincidentally — just as Brooke Shields arrives in town to shoot the basketball comedy “The Hot Flashes,” a screening of the New Orleans-shot 1978 drama that introduced her to movie-going audiences gets a local revivial. “Pretty Baby” screens at 7:30 on Monday, telling the story of a pre-teen girl who grows up in a house of prostitution in the Storyville section of New Orleans in 1917. Shields, Keith Carradine and Susan Sarandon star. For $15, attendees get dinner and movie.

See the full article from “NOLA.com”