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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>Freakin Out on Freret Street in New Orleans</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:58:44 +0000</pubDate>
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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>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 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>
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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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		<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>Quiet Conversations at Quaint Cafe Amelie in the French Quarter</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 17:02:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Bienvenu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nestled in a beautiful little patio in the French Quarter you&#8217;ll find this quaint little space where some of the best food in the city can be found. This cafe is not ostentatious and you won&#8217;t find all the special dishes and such that you may find in other New Orleans restaurants. But what you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Floating on the Fly in New Orleans Audubon Park</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 17:33:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Bienvenu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Sunday we took a nice bike ride up Audubon Street toward the levee and made our way to a favorite New Orleans hang out a place called the Fly. This is a wide stretch of land behind the zoo right there on the banks of the MIssissippi River where college kids with barbeque pits [...]]]></description>
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