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      <description><![CDATA[The first Po-Boy Preservation Festival was held in 2007 and was an
immediate success. After huge crowds almost overwhelmed the location
the first year, the organizers have taken pains to spread things out a
bit more. The festival began with 15 vendors and will have 40 this
year. In addition to the p...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Gordon Gano &amp; the Ryan Brothers ]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Nov. 20


10 p.m. Friday

Hi-Ho Lounge, 2239 St. Claude Ave., 945-4446

Earlier this year, Gordon Gano declared the death of the landmark
folk-punk trio the Violent Femmes. With his unmistakable whine intact,
he picked up the brothers Ryan (of '90s indie rock outfit the Bogmen)
and former m...]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[If we charged a committee of experts with the task of picking the
absolute worst time of year to hold a citywide election in New Orleans,
they could not possibly come up with a more ill-suited time for
choosing a new mayor and City Council than the schedule we already
follow.

&ensp;&ensp;Not just f... By Clancy DuBos.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Romeo and Juliette ]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Nov. 20

8 p.m. Fri.; 2:30 p.m. Sun.

Mahalia Jackson Theater, 801 N. Rampart St., 529-3000; www.neworleansopera.org



World-renowned opera singers Nicole Cabell (pictured) and Paul
Groves (a Louisiana native) star in Charles Gounod's 1867 adaptation of
Romeo and Juliet, sung in French. Th...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Words &amp; Music: A Literary Festival in New Orleans ]]></title>
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Aspiring artists who want to both write the great American novel and
be in a band can find inspiration at the Pirate's Alley Faulkner
Society's Words and Music festival. Saturday's "Faulkner For All"
features Wesley Stace (author of Misfortunes, By
George) who performs as John Wesley Hard...]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Nov. 21


10 p.m. Saturday

Blue Nile, 532 Frenchmen St., 948-2583; www.neworleansindierock.com


The New Orleans Indie Rock Collective added Ruston, La., folkies
Giant Cloud and Lafayette's GIVERS (pictured) to the second night of
its annual showcase. Fresh from a string of tour dates with...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Neko Case with Deer Tick ]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Nov. 21


9 p.m. Saturday

Republic New Orleans, 828 S. Peters St., 528-8282; www.republicnola.com



The cover of Middle Cyclone (Anti-) has a sword-drawn Case
perched atop a 1970s Mercury Cougar. It's an anachronistic joke, and a
good one. But with the March release, the force-of-nature s...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The banh mi is New Orleans' po-boy for the 21st century | portable, delectable and incredibly inexpensive]]></title>
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About 28 years ago, Truc Tran's family began selling sandwiches from
a van not unlike those that now sell Hispanic delicacies. Just like the
taco trucks, their main clientele were recent immigrants who were eager
for the food of their homeland. The Tran family brought the recipe,
which th... By Robert Peyton.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The FDA's approach to VV and oysters is a glaring example of bureaucratic overkill | No Shucking Sense]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[With last Friday's announcement that the proposed ban on Gulf Coast
raw oysters during the summer months was being put on hold, it looks
like the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has come to its senses. But
for how long? Following a feasibility study, the FDA could still return
with its faulty reas...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[New Orleans Food Memories | a documentary by Peggy Scott Laborde]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[If New Orleanians aren't eating, chances are they are at least
talking or thinking about food. Peggy Scott Laborde's latest
documentary, New Orleans Food Memories, features chefs,
restaurateurs and foodies sharing personal stories and serving up
histories of local dishes. It airs on WYES at 7 p.m. a... By Will Coviello.]]></description>
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When the Berlin Wall came down, playwright Doug Wright found the
character and story of a lifetime: Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, a German
transvestite who survived the Second World War and the Cold War.

&ensp;&ensp;"She walked a fine line between the Nazis and the
Communists," Wright says, a...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[A new federal grant will provide better accessibility to evidence in the New Orleans justice system, and has the promise of securing justice for the wrongly convicted | Body of Evidence]]></title>
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For obvious reasons, defense lawyers and prosecuting attorneys don't
collaborate very often. The former want to prove their clients'
innocence while the latter's primary interest is in convicting
criminals. The spirit of cooperation, however, is at the heart of a new
$1.4 million federal... By David Winkler-Schmit.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Banh Mi Around Town ]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Banh Mi Sao Mai

14321 Chef Menteur Hwy., 254-3977

Open 8 a.m.-5 p.m. daily

Cafe Minh

4139 Canal St., New Orleans, 482-6266.

Open 11:30 a.m.-9 p.m. Tue-Thu.; 11:30 a.m.-10 p.m. Fri.-Sat.

Dong Phuong Bakery

14207 Chef Menteur Hwy., 254-1568

Open 8 a.m.-6 p.m. Wed.-Mon.

Frosty's Caffe

3400 Cl...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Who painted the 150-foot-tall clarinet painted on the side of a Holiday Inn hotel on Loyola Avenue? | Blake Pontchartrain]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ Hey Blake,

Your recent column on the Harahan industrial area got me thinking
about an old building in the area with a huge mural painted on one
side. It looks like a depiction of an early New Orleans street scene.
It is now all but impossible to see it due to surrounding newer
buildings. The plant...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[ArtDocs 2009 | ARTDOCS provides health care assistance to artists]]></title>
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ARTDOCS Benefit Art Auction

6:30 p.m.-10:30 p.m. Thu., Nov. 19

Hefler Warehouse, 851 Magazine St.; www.artdocs.com

ARTDOCS

Daughters of Charity at St. Cecilia Medical Center

4201 N. Rampart St., 827-2833; www.artdocs.com



Artist Dan Tague is one of more than 55 artists who contribu... By Will Coviello.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[New Orleans Cake Cafe | A once-wandering baker feathers his Marigny nest with frosting]]></title>
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Steve Himelfarb made his name in New Orleans as a man on the move.
For years, he earned a living selling slices of homemade cake
door-to-door, an enterprise that took him all over town. Not long after
I first heard about him from friends downtown, the receptionist at the
office tower wher... By Ian McNulty.]]></description>
      <category>Food &amp;amp; Drink/Restaurant Review</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Shopping News [Week of 11/17/09] ]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Swap Boutique (7716 Maple St., 304-6025; www.swapboutique.com) is teaming up
with Paris Parker Studio (5434 Magazine St., 891-1012; www.parisparker.com) and Life Yoga
(5422 Magazine St., 267-0380; www.life-neworleans.com) to offer
one lucky winner a complete designer outfit, a makeover and one month... By Kyla Boutte.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Between the Folds ]]></title>
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Japanese school children have folded boxy paper cranes and animals
for centuries. Akira Yoshizawa (1911-2005), considered the father of
modern origami, opened up a whole new world, bringing gestural
qualities and emotion to his creations. And he ushered in revolutionary
levels of complexit...]]></description>
      <category>film/Film Review</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Tariffs Aid Alt-Energy Use ]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[&ensp;&ensp;Renewable energy expert Craig Morris told the
Louisiana Public Service Commission last week that the state should
continue to encourage alternative energy sources via feed-in tariffs. A
feed-in tariff creates financial incentives for renewable energy
production, regardless of scale. It a...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Five places to get wrapped up in octopus ]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[RioMar

800 S. Peters St., 525-3474

www.riomarseafood.com

Call the hunk dusted with paprika "tentacle tapas."

Iris

321 N. Peters St., 299-3944

www.irisneworleans.com

Smoky and crisp grilled baby octopus is served with arugula and
citrus.

Domenica

123 Baronne St., 648-6020

www.domenicarestau...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Betty Fussell at Slow Food New Orleans Benefit ]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Writer Betty Fussell (www.bettyfussell.com) explores the
history and economics driving modern American eating habits in books
including Raising Steaks: The Life &amp; Times of American Beef
and The Story of Corn. She is the guest at a benefit this
Saturday, Nov. 21, for the food advocacy group Slow...]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[The debut of the Solomon Victory Theater in the National World War
II Museum's expansion marked the opening of a new restaurant from chef
John Besh. The American Sector (945 Magazine St., 528-1940;
www.american-sector.com)
offers a menu of re-engineered 1940s-era Americana. Look for short rib
sloppy...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Plessy v. Ferguson Commemoration ]]></title>
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Before it was appealed to the United States Supreme Court and became
the landmark "separate but equal" Plessy v. Ferguson
decision (later overturned by Brown vs. Board of
Education), the case of Homer Plessy's arrest for riding in the
wrong segregated rail car was argued and decided in th...]]></description>
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Bookish charm comes as naturally to Camera Obscura as breathing. The
well-read Scottish quintet has added a new shade of swoon to each of
its scarved, bespectacled and argyle-sweatered albums, from the
yearning, little-heard 2001 debut Biggest Bluest Hi-Fi
(featuring production by Belle a...]]></description>
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Early risers, night crawlers and penny pinchers take note: Open
seven days a week (and from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m., Monday through Friday),
Massage Envy (701 Metairie Road, Metairie, 832-0007; www.massageenvy.com) provides
affordable, professional massages and offers a membership package that...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Political Power Players | A-list political pundits and consultants reached across the aisle last week to chat about what's fair in politics.]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Bipartisan Policy Center, a D.C.-based nonprofit that advocates
ways for Republicans and Democrats to play nice, held its inaugural
Political Summit at Tulane University last week, and all the stars
turned out. New Orleans' own James Carville, a professor of practice at
Tulane, opened the event... By Jeremy Alford.]]></description>
      <category>News &amp;amp; Views/The State of the State by Jeremy Alford</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Bouquets & Brickbats | They get what they deserve]]></title>
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Justice Bernette Joshua Johnson

of the Louisiana Supreme Court will be honored with a Spirit of
Excellence award by the American Bar Association's Commission on Racial
and Ethnic Diversity in the Profession. As an African American in the
city's then-segregated school system, Johnson face...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Fighting the Oyster Ban ]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[&ensp;&ensp;The Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission voted
earlier this month to officially "disagree" with proposed federal
regulations that call for a ban on harvesting untreated oysters from
the Gulf of Mexico beginning in the summer of 2011. A commission
resolution requests that the U.S....]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 04:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Cameron Parish and Louisiana Geothermal ]]></title>
      <link>http://bestofneworleans.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A64749</link>
      <description><![CDATA[&ensp;&ensp;About $5 million in federal stimulus money will soon
make its way to Louisiana Geothermal, an up-and-coming company that
boasts it will be able to produce enough energy within the next two
years to power all of Cameron Parish. In fact, research suggests
there's enough alternative energy...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 04:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Arthur Morrell Seeks Rehearing ]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[&ensp;&ensp;Clerk of Criminal District Court Arthur Morrell
says he has evidence that should clear him of a conflict-of-interest
charge stemming from his 23 years as a state representative. In 2007,
the state Ethics Board ruled that Morrell, who is an attorney, violated
conflict-of-interest rules by...]]></description>
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