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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>
		<dc:creator>Richard Bienvenu</dc:creator>
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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>
		<dc:creator>Richard Bienvenu</dc:creator>
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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>
		<dc:creator>Richard Bienvenu</dc:creator>
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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>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>New Orleans is Actor Hugh Laurie&#8217;s Jerusalem</title>
		<link>http://www.notesonneworleans.net/1381/new-orleans-music/new-orleans-is-actor-hugh-lauries-jerusalem.html</link>
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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>
		<link>http://www.notesonneworleans.net/1360/new-orleans-culture/new-orleans-at-night-a-history-part-deux-et-trois.html</link>
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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>
		<link>http://www.notesonneworleans.net/1349/new-orleans-culture/new-orleans-at-night-a-history-part-un.html</link>
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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>HBO&#8217;s Treme and the F-Bomb Squadron</title>
		<link>http://www.notesonneworleans.net/1190/new-orleans-music/hbos-treme-and-the-f-bomb-squadron.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 21:59:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Bienvenu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I must confess that the original version of this article was not very complementary to this series. Although I am from here and live here I found that some of the elements of Treme to be, well, a little annoying to say the least. We rented the first season from Netflix as we don&#8217;t have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marching Through New Orleans Mardi Gras 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 15:55:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Bienvenu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that Lent is almost over I thought I&#8217;d go back to that day that started it all, Mardi Gras. Mardi Gras was good this year and by all reports it seems that we had a record breaking crowd. The hotels were filled to capacity and the weather held off for the most part and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Orleans Cemeteries</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 15:17:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Bienvenu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I remember when I was in Turkey a few years ago, I was riding on the bus in Istanbul with the brother of a Turkish friend of mine. He seemed to not have a good opinion of America and Americans. I found that I really didn&#8217;t have much to say to him. He seemed to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What If They Had Mardi Gras and Nobody Came?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:48:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Bienvenu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I was accepted into a Mardi Gras Krewe for the first time in my life. I’m not gonna say which one because I think I’m supposed to keep that private. Never thought I’d ever want to be in one but several of my family members are in it so I thought it would be fun to join them.
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		<title>New Orleans Own Mr. Okra Goes to Sundance Film Fest: You Can Vote!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:35:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Bienvenu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Hollywood comes a-calling how can you possibly refuse? Well, tinseltown came a-calling Mr. Okra, aka Arthur Robinson, who usually is the one doing the callin&#8217; &#8220;I have oranges and bananas, I have pears and apples, I have tangerine, I have collard greens, I have okra!&#8221; as he ride his beat up old, painted up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Somewhere Deep in the Quarter: New Orleans Poetry</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:39:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Bienvenu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Somewhere deep in the Quarter The secret of a city lives. A spot of Spirit A treasure buried, emanating An inexplicable cadence, One spot from which all weird life stems. Shot through with music Shot through with brilliant blue, An utterance from ancient languages A crystal stream flowing out In six directions. Ever-flowing, ever-abundant Ever-nurturing, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where Yat, Cher? People in New Orleans Don&#8217;t Say Dat</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:13:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Bienvenu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I saw an inquiry recently from the Internet wondering what does it mean when people in New Orleans call each other &#8220;cher.&#8221; First of all never, never, never have I ever heard anyone in New Orleans use the word &#8220;cher.&#8221; I mean, I heard it in French class OK, but it&#8217;s not an expression that&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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