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	<description>by Richard Bienvenu.  All About the Music, Food, Events, Culture and Everyday Life in New Orleans, One of the World&#039;s Unique and Most Beloved Cities</description>
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		<title>Fiery Irish Coffee at Hermes Bar, Antoine&#8217;s Restaurant, New Orleans</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:53:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hermes Bar is a new addition to the more than a century old famous New Orleans establishment. The bar opens right onto St. Louis Street just a block away from Bourbon Street. In this video the waiter makes flaming Irish coffee with elegance and grace and just for effect pours the fiery brew all over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mr. Okra in My New Orleans Neighborhood</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:43:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mr. Okra is a veritable celebrity in these parts. Subject of an award-winning film and a much-loved and much celebrated part of our quirky New Orleans culture Mr. Okra comes down my street several times a week doing what he does best: driving slowly, decorating the neighborhood with his colorful painted truck and singing about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Freakin Out on Freret Street in New Orleans</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:58:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Bienvenu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK. That title was pretty poor attempt at an alliteration but I just wanted to sing the praises of a part of he city that is on a rebound. Years ago Freret St. was one of the hot places to go uptown. Then there was a shooting and the once primo spot for feasting and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sweet Second Line Dancing at New Orleans Po&#8217; Boy Festival &#8211; 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 14:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This lady really knows how to do it. How to second line. Such feeling, such grace, such gracia. Can you learn this? I don&#8217;t think so. It&#8217;s in the blood, the bones, the spirit. It bubbles up from the street. Authentic, real. Truly New Orleans. Related articles 24 Hours in New Orleans (hotelclub.com) New Orleans [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Xavier Laurentino of Barcelona Tapas &#8211; How to Slice Jamon Serrano</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 17:59:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know you love it. That silky flavor of Spanish ham or jamon. Only recently has it been allowed to be imported to the U.S. Xavier shows you how to do it. Does it make your mouth water? Do you feel that hole in your stomach that can only be satisfied with jamon serrano? How [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tasty Time at Barcelona Tapas</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 20:10:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Bienvenu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Years ago, too many too recall now, I lived in Seville, Spain, the place I got my start in teaching English as a second language. Living in Spain, especially southern Spain, Andalucia to be exact, was revelatory for me. I mean it was eye-opening, I mean it expanded my horizons in so many ways that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The New Orleans Levee: The Last Word in Ridiculous for the Last Five Years</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 16:13:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Bienvenu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I remember it well. It was exactly a year after Hurricane Katrina. Me and my coffee klatch were all sitting in PJ&#8217;s after Mass at St. Patrick&#8217;s and we were all still reeling from the feeling of the tidal wave of emotions the hurricane had rendered and all of us were quietly trying to put [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Orleans Bids a Fond Farewell to Archbishop Philip Hannan</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 15:15:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Bienvenu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several years ago I had the privilege of meeting Archbishop Philip Hannan at a private fundraiser at a home in Lakeview. I was standing on the porch at the top of the stairs when I saw Hannan walk up. He came over, extended his hand and I introduced myself. He said something about my last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Orleans is Actor Hugh Laurie&#8217;s Jerusalem</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 17:02:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Bienvenu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leave it to an Cambridge-educated Brit to come up with the perfect moniker for New Orleans &#8211; his Jerusalem. Religious folks take pilgrimages to that city in Israel so it fits that blues and jazz musicians and anyone who is a fan of those styles would make a pilgrimage where this true American music got [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Orleans at Night: A Deep History &#8212; Part Deux et Trois</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 17:22:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Bienvenu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New Orleans History: The Moon Calls to Me Part Deux Here it is to be in the this place, of pleasure and misery, and joy and pain. Of the sighing in the night as the oaks in the distance call and sway in the breeze. The smell of the air, the night jasmine, and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Orleans At Night: A Deep History &#8211; Part Un</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 17:17:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Bienvenu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New Orleans History: The Moon Calls to Me Part Un Stockpiles of yearnings delivered to the back door of remembrance. The locks rusted and fallen in the river-clayed mud. The bracing of the fast wind, too powerful for justice, blown out doors carrying soot and dew. I remember you. This is the lost lawn upon [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Harry Shearer&#8217;s The Big Uneasy: The Core of the Corps &#8211; Release the Dogs!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 17:11:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Bienvenu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Harry Shearer, best known for his voices on The Simpsons especially the evil industrialist Mr. Burns as well as appearances in mockumentaries such as Best in Show, is a resident of New Orleans. Last year he produced The Big Uneasy a real honest-to-goodness documentary setting the record straight about the misconceptions promulgated by the national [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The American Sector Restaurant &#8211; Best Bet by John Besh</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 21:13:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Bienvenu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Twice in one week is unusual for me but The American Sector at the World War II Museum in New Orleans was good enough for me to splurge and order the same thing twice. The setup is pretty cute and respectful with period type dishes and a menu the style of which reflects the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Orleans Weather: The Calm After the Storm</title>
		<link>http://www.notesonneworleans.net/1266/new-orleans-life/new-orleans-weather-the-calm-after-the-storm.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 20:59:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Bienvenu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The storm was coming, we had been warned, with possible street flooding and 20 inches of rain. Yikes! OK. That&#8217;s New Orleans weather for you. So we got a bunch of rain and the depression was transformed into Tropical Storm Lee. And the proper amount of fear instilled by the news media. Yet, I couldn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tropical Depression 13 or Tropical Storm Lee. Maybe a little Katrina, Baby</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 15:57:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Bienvenu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So here we go. New Orleans with a storm sitting out in the gulf, they call it Tropical Depresson 13 or is it Tropical Storm Lee? perhaps, waiting to hit us and drop tons of water on us but I just wonder about all that and how much of it is just media hype, yes, [...]]]></description>
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