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01/24/12--02:00: Manning's Kicks Off (chan 1006215)

  Manning's Restaurant (519 Fulton St., 593-8118) also opened last week on Fulton Square, the pedestrian mall developed by Harrah's New Orleans. Archie Manning, the former New Orleans Saints quarterback, created the restaurant in partnership with Harrah's.  Naturally, sports play a big part in the program at his restaurant.…

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01/24/12--02:00: "The Hope Factory," Part 2 (chan 1006215)

Lisa Rab on a chain of for-profit charter schools in Florida — run by the brother of Vice President Joe Biden by Lisa Rab New Times Broward-Palm Beach In Part 1: Mavericks is a Florida chain of publicly funded, tuition-free, for-profit charter schools with eight locations — and more are in the works.…

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01/24/12--02:00: Quotes of the Week (chan 1006215)

  "As an LSU and Saints fan, I feel like an Acapulco cliff diver that dove off and there was no water at the bottom. I did see a Crimson Tide roll in that drowned the Tigers, and rolled back out."…

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01/24/12--02:00: Keb' Mo' (chan 1006215)

Sun. Jan. 29 | The Keb' Mo' Band helps the House of Blues celebrate its 18th anniversary.…

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01/24/12--06:40: Bruce Springsteen added to 2012 Jazz Fest lineup (chan 1006215)

New Jersey's favorite son and American hero Bruce Springsteen will perform at the 2012 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival April 29. Springsteen's busy 2012 includes a full slate of U.S. tour dates (to be announced soon) and a new album — Springsteen also will deliver the keynote address at the 2012 South By Southwest festival.…

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01/24/12--07:58: Hugo and The Artist top list of Oscar nominations (chan 1006215)

Two worthy films that lovingly illuminate the early history of Hollywood scored big this morning when this year's Oscar nominations were announced. Martin Scorsese's Hugo earned 11 nominations, and Michel Hazanavicius's The Artist was nominated for 10 Oscars.…

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01/24/12--08:21: 2012 Jazz Fest daily lineups also announced (chan 1006215)



The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival has made a couple of big announcements in the last 24 hours, adding Eddie Vedder and Bruce Springsteen to the roster. It also has posted the daily lineups.…

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01/24/12--09:40: Dinner at Dooky Chase (chan 1006215)



Dinner service is back at Dooky Chase Restaurant (2301 Orleans Ave., 821-0535), the Sixth Ward culinary landmark and home base of chef Leah Chase.

Hours are limited to Friday evenings for now, from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m., and the restaurant still serves lunch Tuesday through Friday, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

“We’re looking to add more nights (for dinner) but we’re starting with Friday because that’s the day our customers told us they wanted,” says Stella Chase Reese, a restaurant manager and daughter of chef/owner Leah Chase.…

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01/24/12--15:26: This offline dating service ad raises more questions than it answers (chan 1006215)



On the public phone at the corner of Canal Street and N. Carrollton Avenue, there's an ad for Love Quest, a “free off-line blind dating service created to inspire romance.” Now, I’m not a single gal, but as the daughter of a flower child and the soul sister of Lisa Simpson, I had to check it out. One doesn’t take her fiancé into consideration when there are unicorns involved.…

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01/24/12--17:36: J'Anita's closes once more (chan 1006215)



One of the better purveyors of bar food in New Orleans is cooking its last redfish sandwich and sautéed duck grilled cheese.

Craig Giesecke, proprietor of J’Anita’s at the Rendon Inn along with his wife Kimmie, confirms that Wednesday, Jan. 24, is their last night.…

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01/25/12--08:13: It’s Girl Scout cookie time! (chan 1006215)



It’s time to find your favorite Girl Scout, Brownie or Daisy and place your order for Girl Scout cookies. In honor of the 100th anniversary of Girl Scouts — Juliette Gordon Low formed the group in Savannah, Ga., In March 1912 — a new cookie has been added.…

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01/25/12--10:27: In case you haven't heard, Monsterjam is coming to the Superdome (chan 1006215)

If you're a young boy that's grown up in United States, chances are that at one point or another, you've experienced the urge to go see Monster Trucks. For me, it was when the Simpsons aired their "Truckasaurus" episode and then I later realized that was based on a real-life, fire-breathing, car-eating machine.…

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01/25/12--13:58: Another week, another front-page murder... (chan 1006215)



Another crime-fighting strategy.

Following this morning's killing of Harry Ainsworth, who police say was shot to death in Algiers while trying to stop a carjacking, Mayor Mitch Landrieu this afternoon called on the city's judges to help in stopping violent gun crime before it happens.…

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01/26/12--07:40: Big Freedia makes national TV debut on Jimmy Kimmel Live (chan 1006215)

Intergalactic bounce superstar Big Freedia, clad in a black-and-white body suit, took the stage at Jimmy Kimmel Live last night, making her performance debut on national TV. (She previously had appeared on Last Call with Carson Daly in an interview setting.)…

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01/26/12--11:47: Barbecue in motion (chan 1006215)



The Joint is now counting the last days before making a long-planned move. It’s a big change for the popular Bywater barbecue restaurant, but it won’t be a very far one.…

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01/26/12--13:00: On the television show Homicide, this was called a "red ball" (chan 1006215)



From angry celebrity David Simon's book, Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets, upon which the show was based, "red-ball case," meaning a politically sensitive case that the media is following:

"A red-ball case can mean twenty-hour days and constant reports to the entire chain of command; it can become a special detail, with detectives pulled out of the regular rotation and other cases put on indefinite hold."

From the NOLA Info press release machine:

FBI Offers to Assist in Identifying and Locating Carjacking/Murder Suspect

(January 26, 2012)- FBI Agents will meet with New Orleans homicide detectives this afternoon to assist in identifying and locating the man suspected of killing an Algiers father yesterday morning.

Agents contacted New Orleans police yesterday to offer their help, and detectives accepted the offer because of all the FBI brings to the table.…

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01/26/12--20:24: Remembering Etta James and more (chan 1006215)



I’m a little late in this tribute, but a family death, one beloved and too young, like Etta, derailed me, even as we honored this special man today at Algiers United Methodist Church, the church of my childhood, the altar where my parents said “I do,” and the backdrop of a recent murder/car-jacking.

New Orleans suffers under this murder-weight, as people add security and shake their fists.…

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01/27/12--09:00: Listen: Gambit's free music Friday (chan 1006215)

Lovey Dovies perform 10 p.m. tonight at the newly reopened Circle Bar. Download the band's latest recordings here.…

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01/27/12--09:57: Movie Review: Le Havre (chan 1006215)

It’s not hard to understand why Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismaki’s Le Havre has become a major hit on the international film festival circuit, and found a spot on a number of critics’ top-ten lists for the year. The film starts out gloomy—a man is inexplicably shot in a train station, and the wife of our hero, ex-bohemian shoeshine guy Marcel (French actor André Wilms), becomes seriously ill. But Le Havre has a few tricks up its sleeve.…

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01/27/12--11:20: No second line parade this weekend... (chan 1006215)


No second line this weekend my good people. So take this time get caught up on overdue cleaning, family obligations and the like cause next weekend we will be rolling the THE TREME SIDEWALK STEPPERS!! And if we’re lucky, the Prince of Treme Glenn David Andrews will be on hand again to grace us with this beloved ode to the 6th Ward.…

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01/27/12--15:02: Shopgirl style: Patricia Steere of A Girl is a Gun (chan 1006215)



My first exposure to Patricia Steere was through her voicemail. On her shop's answering machine, her pleasant voice sounded cool and clipped, melodic yet articulate — almost a little too perfect.…

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01/27/12--15:13: Marching groups prepare for parade season (chan 1006215)



Several marching groups are preparing for Carnival parade season with parties and fundraising events this weekend. The Camel Toe Lady Steppers throw their annual Toe-Down fundraiser at Tipitina's tonight.…

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01/27/12--15:20: Wizard World Comic Con, other comic book events begin (chan 1006215)



The 2012 Wizard World New Orleans Comic Con opens its doors tomorrow at 11 a.m. But tonight, the weekend comic rager begins with a meet-and-greet with Marvel Comics founder and nerd world demigod Stan Lee (6 p.m. to 7 p.m.), followed by a kick-off party at The District (177 Tchoupitoulas St.) from 8 p.m. to midnight.…

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01/27/12--16:17: What it's like inside a Monster Truck (Hint: extremely loud). (chan 1006215)

Loud Noises! Riding inside a Monster Truck from Come See About Me on Vimeo.…

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01/29/12--06:25: Enough! (Gambit Commentary) (chan 1006215)

Last week, for what seems the umpteenth time, an act of violence shattered the calm of a quiet neighborhood and shocked the sensibilities of a city already numbed by an out-of-control murder rate. Harry “Mike” Ainsworth, 44, was shot and killed in Algiers Point on Jan. 25 when he tried to stop a carjacking near a school.…

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