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The church offers other opportunities to impact the community, most of which are under the umbrella of the “Care Effects” ministry. Some members provide academic tutoring and sports coaching for children in the Upper Ninth Ward. Others volunteer in a nearby public elementary school, tutoring children, helping in the library, cleaning up the school grounds, and providing food over the weekends for children who otherwise may not be fed.
Church members minister to abused children and youth through the Baptist Friendship House, prisoners in the local jail, and at the juvenile detention center. Some serve at Global Maritime Ministries, which ministers to sailors and seamen coming through the Port of New Orleans. Others serve the homeless at the New Orleans Mission or the Ozanam Inn homeless shelter. Some of the women minister to prostitutes in the French Quarter.

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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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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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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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… 33. The title of this cabaret show refers to 1933 and the Nazi crackdown on, among other groups, artists and performers in Berlin. It’s a one man show by Bremner Duthie (pictured) who has a beautiful voice, and he’s excellent as a number of performers who have been scattered by the crackdown — including everyone from male singers to an eccentric prostitute who “will do anything once, but no matter how nice, nothing twice.” He mixes in Nazi propaganda against artists, bohemians and degenerate cabaret-goers as part of the means to crush dissent and label some activities and communities as unworthy of the German “family.” The show is darkly comic, and the only complaint I might hazard is that the intro overdoes the Nazis. There’s only so much one needs to provide to establish that the Nazis were bad. And the music at the core of the show is the best part. (Shadowbox Theatre: 9 p.m. Fri.; 5 p.m. Sat.; 11 p.m. Sun.)

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During the previous three days I barely pulled my nose from Christine Wiltz’s The Last Madam: A Life in the New Orleans Underworld (2001). The story chronicles the rise and fall of both Wallace and her famous brothel.
“If only we could buy it,” I mused, as we maneuvered into the alley, navigating debris of all kinds. “We could open a Storyville museum!”
I imagined red velvet walls, deep sofas, and Bellocq photographs.
Although little is known of E.J. Bellocq (1873-1949), it is said that he lived for a time in this same house, capturing “the beauty and forthright presence of many of the women, photographed in homely circumstances that affirm both sensuality and domestic case, and the tangibleness of their vanished world.”**
I wasn’t looking for a monument to prostitution, but rather another slice of a New Orleans curiosity, complete with infamous city leaders, undo influence, and raids.
“That’s a recipe for divorce….” mumbled George, referring to the renovation, not the prostitution, as he stared at the crumbling Rampart Street wall. And I knew he was right.

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… These membership options are called ‘pathways options’ and were developed nationally by matching grade-level preferences and availability,” Addy said. “The troop option offers the same group of girls the opportunity to participate in a variety of activities, usually over a span of nine to 12 months. The event option is for girls who like to pick and choose from a menu of events that interest them.
“And the camp option allows girls to participate in the outdoors and/or focus on environmental education.”
The series pathway, Addy said, “gives girls the opportunity to explore a specific theme or topic without making a long-term commitment or joining a troop.”
“And the travel pathway presents girls with opportunities to prepare, plan, ‘money-earn’ and participate in travel opportunities through group travel, council-sponsored trips or nationally sponsored excursions.”
For more information about Saturday event, call Girl Scouts Louisiana East office at 504.733.8220 or visit the website www.gsle.org.

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Former French Quarter brothel becomes home sweet home
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PERSONAL SPACE THE HOME: An apartment in an 1850s townhouse in the French Quarter, a former brothel where ‘The Last Madam,’ Norma Wallace, plied her trade THE RESIDENT: Kathy Chauvin, a Houma native and resident who adores New Orleans and now has a home base for her frequent visits to the city THE SPACE: Her living room, located in what was once the stable of the townhouse WHY SHE LOVES IT: ‘I fell in love with the architecture when I found it online,’ Chauvin says. ‘The fact that it has such a history is icing on the cake.’
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“I’m not sure how you would describe it exactly,” Chauvin said. “But it definitely has the flavor of a brothel about it.”
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WHAT: A celebration of the renovation of the building, a former brothel; special guests will include Christine Wiltz, author of “The Last Madam.”

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Rachel Leah Tuttle, 33, 4116 Catherine St., Metairie, was arrested Nov. 9 at Jefferson Parish Correctional Center in Gretna and booked with failure to follow sex offender registration regulations.
Daniel Callero Jr., 27, 3818 E. Louisiana State Drive, Kenner, was arrested Nov. 10 at Jefferson Parish Correctional Center in Gretna and booked with theft over $1,500, two counts of theft over $500 and possession of stolen property over $1,500.
John Lucas, 56, 8712 21st St., Kenner, was arrested Nov. 10 in the 1600 block of Hickory Avenue in Harahan and booked with DWI-second arrest, two counts of simple battery, aggravated assault and reckless operation of a vehicle.
Kimberly Bollinger, 25, 100 E Street, Chalmette, was arrested Nov. 10 in the 4400 block of Hearst Street in Metairie and booked with prostitution and possession of drug paraphernalia.

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