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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>
      <link>http://bestofneworleans.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=64820</link>
      <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>
      <category>News &amp;amp; Views/Blake Pontchartrain&amp;amp;#8482;</category>
      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Make Him Happy | Special gifts for the men on your list]]></title>
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[image-14]... By Kyla Boutte.]]></description>
      <category>News &amp;amp; Views/Gambit Feature</category>
      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Bouquets & Brickbats | They get what they deserve]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[

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>
      <category>News &amp;amp; Views/Bouquets &amp;amp; Brickbats</category>
      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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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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      <description><![CDATA[

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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      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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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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      <description><![CDATA[

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>
      <category>News &amp;amp; Views/Cover Story</category>
      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <description><![CDATA[Imperfect Compass

Jeremy Alford's recent article ("Tao of Cao," News &amp; Views, Nov.
3) praising U.S. Rep. Anh "Joseph" Cao, R-La., for allegedly having and
following "an inner moral compass" was unfortunately one-sided and
missing some important points. What his article fails to mention is
that...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[The 3rd Annual Po-Boy Preservation Festival ]]></title>
      <link>http://bestofneworleans.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=64763</link>
      <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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      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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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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      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Cameron Parish and Louisiana Geothermal ]]></title>
      <link>http://bestofneworleans.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=64749</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>
      <category>News &amp;amp; Views/Scuttlebutt</category>
      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Tariffs Aid Alt-Energy Use ]]></title>
      <link>http://bestofneworleans.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=64748</link>
      <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>
      <category>News &amp;amp; Views/Scuttlebutt</category>
      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Fighting the Oyster Ban ]]></title>
      <link>http://bestofneworleans.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=64747</link>
      <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>
      <category>News &amp;amp; Views/Scuttlebutt</category>
      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</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>
      <category>News &amp;amp; Views/Scuttlebutt</category>
      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Anybody But Jay Batt? ]]></title>
      <link>http://bestofneworleans.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=64745</link>
      <description><![CDATA[&ensp;&ensp;At the beginning of 2009, outgoing Mayor Ray
Nagin reported $153,042.08 in campaign funds on hand for a "major
office TBD," according to a Jan. 12 campaign finance report &mdash; the
mayor's most recent filing as of late last week. Businessman David
A. White, the mayor's close friend and...]]></description>
      <category>News &amp;amp; Views/Scuttlebutt</category>
      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[New Sentence date for Ellenese Brooks-Simms ]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[&ensp;&ensp;U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman has ordered a
new sentencing date for former Orleans Parish School Board President
Ellenese Brooks-Simms, the key prosecution witness in the
Mose Jefferson bribery trial last summer. Brooks-Simms, who
pleaded guilty in June 2007 to corrupting the school...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Lee Zurik to WVUE-TV ]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[&ensp;&ensp;Lee Zurik, the investigative reporter who
departed WWL-TV Nov. 5, was introduced to his new coworkers in the
WVUE-TV newsroom Nov. 10, concluding what was perhaps the worst-kept
secret in local media: Zurik was leaving the city's top-rated news
station for the local Fox affiliate, where...]]></description>
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