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However, what the site captures as the characteristics that make New Orleans one of the “Best Cities for Dating” is quite interesting (although romantic is their euphemism of choice). Judging by what I saw on Yahoo Travel’s featured photo alone, I imagine this is how it was pitched in a Monday morning editorial meeting:
“In N’awlins, romantic couples always start their date with a walk on a beautiful sunny afternoon down their only street, Bourbon Street, where PDA and kissing along the line of strip clubs is just the first of many romantic gestures to come. You can even take your drinks out on your walk, so it’s almost like a picnic at the same time. What’s more romantic than that? Let’s make sure that the couple is wearing matching red outfits in the photo, just to emphasize how romantic strip clubs and sugary alcoholic beverages are.”

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You can always count on Ferrell do something interesting when he pays a visit to Conan O’Brien. Ferrell’s appearances on Conan back when Ferrell was still a repertory player on “Saturday Night Live” were legendary; his funniest and most infamous recurring bit was a vaguely defined yet oddly compelling character called “Sexy Leprechaun.” Ferrell would appear in green top hat, puffy silk belly shirt, and tiny green panties, and make O’Brien as uncomfortable as possible, typically by grinding on his desk to “traditional Irish music” (and by “Irish,” he meant “strip club”). When Conan celebrated his 10th anniversary on late night with a special show from New York’s Beacon Theater, Ferrell came out to congratulate him, dressed sharply in a dark suit. Then he peeled off what was actually a breakway costume to reveal Sexy Leprechaun underneath. Begorrah.

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I tell them that we’re off to grab a good bite to eat, which also brings about puzzled looks. Apparently folks don’t believe a chef should ever eat outside of his own restaurants. But today being what it is calls for celebration, and when I’m thinking celebration and lunch, the only place I think of is Galatoire’s.
It is one of the dozen or so neighboring restaurants that are more than 100 years old. Not only is it old, but it’s aged gracefully, and in my opinion, is the best of its class. Approaching the restaurant, I notice remnants of a line that once stood before the floor-to-ceiling windows just to the right of the highly lacquered wooden and polished brass doors, a block and a half off of Canal Street on Bourbon Street–the same Bourbon Street that is host to the cheesiest of tourist trap restaurants, strip clubs, and seedy T-shirt shops. Yes, what a juxtaposition: world-class restaurant next door to a cross dressing and sex toy shop (only in the Quarter).

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Zombie Joe’s Underground Theatre Group presents the World-Premiere of Joe Musso’s brutal story of love, lust, blood, and betrayal, set in New Orleans during the rampant onslaught of an apocalyptic Hurricane Katrina. Greta – a Bourbon Street stripper, lustfully played by Denise Devin, wants “The Prophet”, passionately played by Phillip J. Wheeler, to die for his damnation of her seedy sinful ways. It’s her criminally-minded street-smart husband Rod, powerfully portrayed by Boston Sturgis, who stands in her way.
This gritty, raw drama, written by Joe Musso, and loosely based on the biblical story of Salome, takes place in New Orleans during the lawless environment caused by the catastrophe. Directed by Rod Sweitzer, as this dark moody story unfolds, twisted clues appear along the way that reminded us of this historic biblical story. Greta is tired of the corner preacher loudly condemning her in public, and she wants him stopped. She convinces Rod to take care of it. With the help of his henchman Stan, Rod kidnaps …

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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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