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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>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>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>
				<category><![CDATA[Hurricane Katrina]]></category>
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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 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>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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		<title>Hurricane Katrina Six Years Later: The Truth Behind the Hype. Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 20:02:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Bienvenu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; Continued from Part 1 Third. The people that suffered in the city were only poor blacks. This was encouraged of course by the news media who always like to focus on the disadvantaged and the underdog simply because it makes for conflict and drama. Good television. And then there are people like the Spike [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hurricane Katrina Six Years Later: The Truth Behind the Hype. Part 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 20:01:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Bienvenu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today marks the six year anniversary of the catastrophe that hit our beloved city of New Orleans. As many folks here know it was not the hurricane that caused all the damage and flooded the city. No. What a lot of people don&#8217;t realize is that although Katrina was a category 5 hurricane when it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HBO&#8217;s Treme and the F-Bomb Squadron</title>
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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 own Drew Brees and Governor Bobby Jindal Sing &#8211; No Kidding!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Aug 2010 19:41:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Bienvenu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just discovered this video on YouTube. It&#8217;s something called auto-tune the news. And halfway through we actually see Drew Brees and Bobby Jindal break into song. I thought it would be appropriate in light of the five year anniversary of Katrina, and acknowledgement of just how far our city has come since what we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WWL&#8217;s Garland Robinette Rant about the BP Oil Spill</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 19:57:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Bienvenu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ole Garland can rant with the best of them. Listen to his passionate take on the BP, the government, incompetency, the real story behind the story, how this thing is threatening our very way of life in our coastal communities and and how that will impact the rest of America. Related articles by Zemanta BP [...]]]></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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