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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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Sugar Bowl 2012: Virginia Tech Player Thinks There’s Too Many Distractions, Gifts In Bowl Week
The Michigan Wolverines and Virginia Tech Hokies are set to do battle in the Sugar Bowl, but that all hinges on whether or not the various players can actually resist attending various strip clubs, bars and other sultry establishments. In a somewhat odd blog for ESPN, Virginia Tech’s long snapper, Collin Carroll, talks about how there’s too many distractions and, more than that, too many distractions during bowl week:
For the seven days we spend in New Orleans, we received a per diem check totaling $450.71. That equates to $64.39 in daily spending cash, when we already receive roughly two meals and two snacks from the team per day. The Sugar Bowl committee also brought us to a bowling alley, New Orleans’ finest steakhouse and a Mardi Gras float parade that included a visit from the Saints’ cheerleaders. What on Earth could we possibly need all this money for? Here’s the scary part: I can think of a few options.

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… Going to La Casa” meant a night of boozing, conga drum banging and dancing dances you never thought you knew with women you never knew. It also meant rubbing shoulders with motorcycle gang members, anti-Castro Cuban revolutionaries (many of whom eventually wound up stranded or dead on the beaches at the Bay of Pigs), transvestites, physicians, nurses, high school classmates (nobody checked anybody’s ID at La Casa), strippers from Bourbon Street, Mafiosi and Mafiosi wannabes and characters who would become part of late District Attorney Jim Garrison’s “Kennedy Assassination Trial” circus.  In short, anybody who was anybody – or nobody, for that matter – sooner or later wound up at the iconic bar, La Casa de Los Marinos, at the corner of Decatur and Toulouse.  However, no need to go through all those tongue twisting gyrations. If you said simply, “La Casa,” you said it all.

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… PhotoNOLA 2011, New Orleans annual photography festival, snaps into focus
Published: Tuesday, December 06, 2011, 5:00 AM     Updated: Tuesday, December 06, 2011, 10:26 AM
What do an ice cream parlor, a Bourbon Street strip club, a fitness center and the facade of a Piety Street shotgun house have in common? They’re all being used as temporary photography galleries during PhotoNOLA 2011, the sixth annual photography festival presented by the New Orleans Photo Alliance.
PhotoNOLAThom Bennett’s PhotoNOLA exhibit ‘The Mythology of Mardi Gras’ at La Divina Gelateria, 621 St. Peter St., includes toy camera photos of Carnival revelers.
Jennifer Shaw is the founder of PhotoNOLA. Or, as she prefers to put it: “I was the silly girl who raised her hand,” and volunteered to organize the first fest in the chaotic days after Hurricane Katrina.

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What do an ice cream parlor, a Bourbon Street strip club, a fitness center and the facade of a Piety Street shotgun house have in common? They’re all being used as temporary photography galleries during PhotoNOLA 2011 , the sixth annual photography festival presented by the New Orleans Photo Alliance.
PhotoNOLA Thom Bennett’s PhotoNOLA exhibit ‘The Mythology of Mardi Gras’ at La Divina Gelateria, 621 St. Peter St., includes toy camera photos of Carnival revelers.
Jennifer Shaw is the founder of PhotoNOLA. Or, as she prefers to put it: “I was the

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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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