BP said Sunday that the cement plug sealing its broken oil well in the Gulf of Mexico had hardened, according to published media reports and said pressure tests on the plug show that it's solidly in place, the Associated Press reported...
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Businessman Dave Dixon, who fought to bring an NFL team to New Orleans and was the catalyst behind construction of the Louisiana Superdome, died on Sunday. He was 87...
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It will be five years since Katrina on August 29. The impact of Katrina is quite painful for regular people in the area. This article looks at what has happened since Katrina not from the perspective of the higher ups looking down from their offices but from the street level view of the people a view which looks at the impact on the elderly, the renter, people of color, the disabled, the working and non-working poor...
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429 Records released Tribal,
the extraordinary new album by Dr. John and the follow up to his Grammy winning 429 Records album, "The City That Care Forgot" (2008). AKA the Night Tripper, the iconic American musician has returned with another spectacular slice of mercurial sounds. Steeped in his trademark melange of rock, funk, jazz, voodoo-inflected r&b and Creole flavor, "Tribal" is a statement that builds upon his already formidable musical legacy. Dr. John (aka Mac Rebennac) is joined by his band, the Lower 911 and they perform alongside several guest artists including 2009 Grammy winner Derek Trucks, New Orleans legend Allen Touissant, Donald Harrison and the late Bobby Charles, for whom the album is dedicated. "Tribal" is available now on 429 Records. Dr. John and the Lower 911 are currently on an extensive North American tour.
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One Book One New Orleans picks Louis Armstrong's 1954 memoir of the city as the 2010 title that everyone here should read, Satchmo. My Life in New Orleans.
"ONE book. ONE New Orleans. What a ONEderful world" is the theme of the sixth annual One Book One New Orleans community-wide reading project, whose 2010 title will be announced today at the Satchmo Summerfest at the Old U.S. Mint.
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Friday, 25 new officers joined the ranks of the NOPD, at a time when multiple investigations hang over the department.
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Commissioner of Food and Drugs at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Margaret Hamburg released three statements on Monday announcing the reopening of fishing waters off the coasts of Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi. the FDA has opened state waters that span from the Mississippi River Delta to the Mississippi state line including in the Mississippi Sound, from the mainland to the barrier islands, to commercial fishing...
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