New Orleans Magazine October 2007

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The Games that Were

It was one hour before kickoff to the Saints game at the Superdome and...

Chronicles of Recent History

How could you not be hooked?” That moment of truth came to avid bird-watcher...

Modine’s New Orleans

It’s a good thing God put Thanksgiving at the end of the hurricane season....

Last Call: Bourbon Society’s “New Fashioned”

You would expect that a ubiquitous cocktail with as respected and established a name...

Curtains Rising

The wealth of performance talent in and around New Orleans is on full display...

Making a Case

Louisiana has always had lots of lawyers. In a state short of high-level industrial...

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Letten Loose

Inside Dot's DinerOn Jefferson Highway, between sips of vegetable soup, 80-year-old criminal defense attorney...

Seaside Treasures

KNOWING THE ROPESClockwise from left: 18 K white gold heavy braided silver rope necklace...

Cash Prize

The months following Hurricane Katrina a flood of cash poured into local banks as...

New Orleans Home

The manicured front yard features a unique broad walkway with mondo grass interspersed with...

Deep Fried Turkey

Alittle over 20 years ago as a new food editor, I ran across a...

Language Barriers

Editor’s Note: Beginning with this issue is the first of a series of letters...

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Pain in the Abdomen

It started slowly but within 24 hours I could hardly walk. I was in...

Numbing Down

People are numb,” Robert K. “Bob” Moffett, president of the Orleans chapter of the...

Getting High for Physics

Andrea Spreter, a physics teacher, writes an algebraic formula on the white board wearing...

Give Me Shelter

For generations in the U.S., political and private sector leaders have preached the nobility...

Speaking Out

An important New Orleans cultural landmark is in danger of being destroyed or, at...

Halfway Back

Recalling the day, decades past, when the childhood home of Louis Armstrong was demolished...

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Read and Spin

Led by a bodacious blonde, fourth generation New Orleans natives, The Vettes, are rocking...

Earl Turbinton, Willie Tee and John Scott

Funeral Procession of Willie TeeThe weeks leading up to the cool breath of fall...

Newsbeat: Fellows Rockefeller

New Orleans has been a magnet for volunteers and grant funding from sources around...

Restaurant Insider

Pableaux Johnson’s book Gameday Gourmet was written under the auspices of cable TV sports...

November Pace: Table Talk

Fall is the time of year for soups. Soups nourish both the body and...

Newsbeat:Recycling from the Ashes

David McDonough and his local company Phoenix Recycling began a household recycling service in...

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November Pace: Persona – Paul Groves

There’s something to be said about opera lyric tenor Paul Groves – who most...

November Pace: Global Swarming

Since we last saw the New Orleans Hornets as our full-time pre-Katrina home team,...

Julia Street with Poydras the Parrot

Dear Julia,My mother went to Newcomb in 1917. It was located where Connery Place...

Our Top Picks of the Month’s Events

Three for One!This month, the New Orleans Opera Association will present a complete production...

4 Suggestions

My letter from the managers of the Waldorf Hotel group, asking me what they...

CHRONICLES: The End of an Era

She’s just four, but she already knows the sidewalk is concrete – it’s not...

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MODINE GUNCH: MASKING MAKEOVER

When I was little, I thought somebody three feet high and disguised in a...

LAST CALL

Ed. Note With this issue we offer a toast to Tim McNally. As a...

Fats Domino

Antoine “Fats” Domino’s flooded mansion in the Lower 9th Ward became a symbol of...

Men and their Yards

Primal man knew to protect his patch of green even if that patch was...

Social Aid and Lots of Pleasure

“It’s my life and I love it,” declares Alfred Carter, better known by all...

A STUDIED EFFECT

Photographed by Greg MilesFashion Editor: Tracee Dundas Make-up & Hair: Glenn Mosley Models: Aisha...

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HEALTHBEAT

• The Center for Restorative Breast Surgery in New Orleans now offers BRCA gene...

HOME: BY THE BAYOU

“BEFORE” VIEWIf location, location, location are the three main things to consider when purchasing...

FOOD: GRINDER

We talk mostly about French, Spanish, African, Caribbean and American Indian influences when we...

HEALTH: FIGHTING HOSPITAL INFECTIONS

Dr. Ronald Lee Nichols has spent his career studying what many would prefer to...

CRIME FIGHTING: THE EDUCATION OF James BERNAZZANI

Community activist Norris Henderson, who served 28 years at Angola for a 1974 murder,...

EDUCATION: HOW TO MAKE A PRINCIPAL

The only art work in Tyra Newell’s New Orleans office the day of this...

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BIZ: THE TECHNOLOGY EnGINE

A recent meeting of technology gurus downtown seemed to say a lot about the...

SPEAKING OUT: WELCOME BACK

Though the Hornets two-year exile to Oklahoma City was necessary, we’re glad that we’ll...

NEWSBEAT: A 30-foot-tall thank you

Expressions of gratitude to the many thousands of volunteers who flocked to the Gulf...

READ & SPIN

CD'sIn Adam Levy’s debut, Washing Day (Lost Wax Records), the lyrics are intimate narratives...

The Devil, Blues and the Crossroads

Goethe and Christopher Marlowe gave us the drama of Dr. Faustus, the learned man...

NEWSBEAT: Mid-City ghost hunting

For those who thrill at a chill, a project that has rapidly taken shape...

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Resturant Insider

Rio Mar (800 S. Peters St.) is expanding into the space adjacent; a brick...

GAME ON THE MENU

As the weather cools and ratatouille gives way to cassoulet on local menus, the...

NEWSBEAT: Pilates pioneer preaches

Larry Gibas had been a physical fitness trainer and dancer for years when he...

PERSONA: ROGER HOUSTON OGDEN

When confronted with a blank wall in our homes, some leave it that way,...

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