Have you noticed during the series with San Antonio that, both at home and on the road, the other's team's jersey says "Spurs." The Hornets' jersey, at home and on the road, says "New Orleans."
Thank you, George Shinn....
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Happy Cinco de Mayo, a day that is clearly misunderstood. It is not, as many people believe, a Mexican Independence day, and the victory it represents was not over the Spanish but the French. France had used war as an excuse to collect back debt, but its real motivation was to have a presence near...
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In a week in which music abounds around town, here's my list of "Six Top Live Music Peeves." Just to be dramatic, they're listed in ascending order from No. 6 to No. 1.
6. Performers who introduce one their standards by saying, "This next song goes something like...
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THE WISDOM OF ERNIE K-DOE
This year marks the 10th anniversary since I last saw Ernie K-Doe perform at Jazz Fest.
I'll begin by conceding that Ernie K-Doe is a subject about which I am hardly impartial. His "T'aint it the Truth" is my...
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How Problem Solving Gave the Vieux Carre A Festival
There are many reasons why festivals are started; an appeasement for ticked off merchants is one of the less romantic explanations. Yet, because of anger that...
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7 Proposed Speech Lines
Mayor Ray Nagin is in China this week reportedly to help promote tourism and trade. Since the trip there can be fatiguing and he may not have had time to work on all his comments, we offer these speech lines:
On Crime
Y'all's policemen...
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Several seasons ago when the New Orleans Zephyrs first became a farm club of the Houston Astros one of the jokes around town was that the local team would be renamed the Half-Astros. I winced, not just because of the joke but because of the symbolic implications. I suffer from a malady common to...
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We detect a certain smugness about Baton Rouge toward New Orleans these days. The attitude began during the months after Katrina when the capitol city, to which many New Orleanians fled, briefly had a larger population than New Orleans. It...
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I have never been one of those people who is anti-United Nations. I always figured that it was beneficial to have a deliberative body trying to bring some measure of stability to the world and the U.N. seemed about as good as anything that has been tried. But then again, the U.N. has never had much...
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Whoever wins the special election for the First Congressional District seat will take over a position that among all other Louisiana Congressional Districts has been the career maker. Consider the last two holders of the position: Bobby Jindal was elected governor from the seat. Jindal replaced...
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