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The reason, of course, is the nature of much of the section of Bourbon closest to Canal: blocks of raucous bars, jazz and pop music outlets for tourists, strip clubs and other adult attractions. It’s the place where TV reporters judge the success of Carnival each year by how densely packed the crowd is, and where women clamoring for beads are prepared to bend the rules on modesty to get them.
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Just as some residents dream nostalgically of the long-ago days when Bourbon was a prestigious residential address, others pine for the few decades in the mid-20th century when the street’s clubs were home to more than women, or men, shedding clothes to over-amplified music. There were singers, dancers, comedians, magicians and first-rate musical acts. Jazz headliners like Al Hirt and Pete Fountain had their own clubs. Even some of the strippers became nationally famous.

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Take a free ferry ride on the Mississippi River.
Browse the galleries, boutiques and jewelry stores on Royal Street.
Stop and hear some live jazz musicians while snacking on some pralines or a King Cake.
Street musician jazz band The Royal Street Gum Scrapers doesn’t have a website.
One of them didn’t even have any shoes.
Come see the mansions, gazebos, beautiful Catholic churches, marinas, yacht clubs, men’s clubs, oyster bars, racetracks, oak trees, egrets, magnolia trees and magnolia blossoms.
There’s a Rock n’ Bowl, Popeye’s Fried Chicken, barbeque on every block, $1 Dacquiris, Hustler topless bars, the LSU Tiger everywhere you look, and plenty of palm trees.
There’s a Jewish synagogue, a Gothic cathedral, the Louisiana Supreme Court, an Audubon Zoo, and a first-rate aquarium.
They’ve got African Americans, Native Americans, Vietnamese Americans, and Daughters of the American Revolution.

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Today, at a similar time of escalating crime and neighborhood violence, it is our duty as elected leaders to stand up, be bold and consider any and all methods that will keep our families and our communities safe.
To that end, with the support of my City Council colleagues, I authored and the council unanimously passed an amendment to the 1994 law that modifies the curfew for minors by three hours (8:00 p.m. rather than 11:00 p.m.) on crowded weekend evenings (Friday and Saturday), in the French Quarter and a section of Faubourg Marigny that contains the Frenchmen Street entertainment district.
The over-arching question has been, why the French Quarter and this particular section of the Marigny? The answer is simple. No other neighborhood in the city, state or nation sized at .66 square miles, just 12 blocks wide, contains more than 350 alcohol beverage outlets, and includes adult entertainment establishments and numerous strip clubs.

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View full sizeMelanie Bennett photoAaron Bennett and his father, Bill, were photographed in 2007.
On Sept. 28, just a week before he was charged with bribing Hingle and after sources close to the case say he’d already fielded at least one plea offer from U.S. Attorney Jim Letten’s office, Bennett went into his company Benetech’s general fund and intercepted the majority of a $719,000 payment from the Army Corps of Engineers before it could go into an account shared by Benetech and its partners on the $12.2 million pump station project.
That same day, financial records filed in court show that Bennett transferred $600,000 to a film production company registered to his fourth wife, Martha Russell. Russell, a former strip club employee and manager of a local Playboy golf tournament, later put up the $50,000 bond to keep her husband out of jail.

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Some New Orleans residents are up in arms criticizing their city council for adopting a law they believe was passed to keep low-income Blacks out of sight of tourists.
On Thursday, the New Orleans City Council approved a strict curfew for people 16 and younger in the French Quarter. The ordinance revises a long-standing 11 P.M. curfew on Friday and Saturday nights to 8 P.M. in the area. In the rest of the city, an 11 P.M. curfew remains. 
To many, it may seem like a good idea: Children are restricted from areas with strip clubs, a large nightlife zone and 350 places to buy booze. But on further inspection, to others, the ban doesn’t appear as harmless. 
In numerous emotional meetings, a large number of participants, mainly African-Americans, criticized the idea, alleging that the lawmakers simply do not want Black teens to be viewed by tourists. 

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A new law passed in New Orlean’s French Quarter sets an 8pm curfew for kids who are 16 and younger, setting it earlier than the previous curfew which had been fixed at 11pm. Councilwoman Kristen Gisleson Palmer, who promoted the law, says her goal in changing the curfew is to protect kids within her district from violence and underage drinking. The French Quarter is awash with liquor stores, strip clubs, and other tourist attractions and “If we can, in any way, protect children from that, I think it’s very reasonable,” Palmer said.

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Just down the river is the French Quarter, the oldest part of New Orleans and the most famous; people come to the French Quarter from all over the world to drink and eat and listen to music. It’s full of neon signs and bars with the doors and windows wide open so you can hear the music, and incredibly bright bars that make incredibly strong drinks in to-go cups. Tourists walk around holding these drinks in plastic cups. In the doorways of the strip clubs, bored-looking women in lingerie lean against the wall while loud men rush at anyone who looks at the women, calling for them to come inside, come inside.
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In the mornings, small trucks with large tanks of lemon-scented water drive through the Quarter, spraying the streets and gutters clean so that the new day’s drinkers will start fresh. A fine lemon mist hovers behind the trucks for a while. It’s quiet for a few hours in the Quarter; the jazz musicians, bartenders, strippers, and tourists are mostly asleep.

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A new ordinance passed last Thursday in New Orleans places a curfew on the popular, tourist-attracting French Quarter section of the city. The law, which applies to youths 16 and under, creates an 8 p.m. curfew on Fridays and Saturdays, from its long-standing 11 p.m. curfew. It also applies to the nearby Faubourg Marigny neighborhood.
The main backer of the law, Councilwoman Kristen Gisleson Palmer, whose district includes the French Quarter, said this was to protect children from violence and liquor. The popular open-air nightlife zone has more than 350 places to buy liquor and an abundance of strip clubs. “If we can, in any way, protect children from that, I think it’s very reasonable,” Palmer said.
But many African Americans in the city believe that this new law isn’t about protecting children from liquor and violence but about protecting tourists from them. “There is this desire not to have these black males in the French Quarter,” Tracie L. Washington, an attorney who heads the Louisiana Justice Institute, a nonprofit civil rights group, told the Boston Herald. Washington has called for an African-American boycott of the French Quarter to begin on Jan. 16, Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

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My favorite novel is Robert Penn Warren’s All the King’s Men. In the book, Louisiana governor Willie Stark is a fictional rendering of Huey P. Long, the corrupt, benevolent populist governor of Louisiana. The best line in the book is Stark talking about the broken nature of humanity, and how the most dishonest people in politics are those who pretend that anyone can outrun their worst impulses: “Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something.”
This quote lives at the heart of Louisiana politics. When I began reciting it to Carville last week, he finished it with me. The state has always elected folk heroes who did naughty things: hookers, affairs with Bourbon Street strippers, freezers of money, and an endless rap sheet of boring felony charges. The two biggest folk heroes are Long and Edwards.

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… If you’re running these bowls, it’s an opportunity to do good, not to do well,” Dean Zerbe, who investigated charitable exemptions while on the staff of Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), told HBO Real Sports. “You can pay yourself a reasonable salary…and after that it has to go to a charitable purpose.”
Charitable purpose, however, likely doesn’t include lavish trips for executives and guests, another area that has drawn criticism. Executives at the Fiesta Bowl spent more than $100,000 on a corporate golf trip, and former CEO John Junker spent more than $1,200 at a strip club, according to an investigation into the Fiesta Bowl after a scandal enveloped the bowl in 2009. The bowl spent $3.3 million on The Fiesta Frolic, an annual trip for sponsors, executives, and others involved in the game, since the start of the BCS. In the same time frame, the Orange Bowl hosted a similar trip, The Summer Splash, at an average annual cost of more than $111,000.

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