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Long before Yuppies made pretension an art form by snorting cocaine through rolled-up one-hundred-dollar bills; long before your cousin Bobby’s homegrown marijuana plants let alone his unwavering belief that he could hear God sneezing on Side 2 of Pink Floyd’s “Wish You Were Here”; long before your grandmother did three guys in a mud puddle at Woodstock; long before it all, there was absinthe.
Mayor Ray Nagin says neither he nor his family has done anything wrong in making a deal to install granite countertops through their family business for four local Home Depot stores at a time when Home Depot was negotiating with the city to build its new store in Central City. But the fact that the company’s name, Stone Age, is the same as Nagin’s administration is raising many eyebrows.
From the “Senator David ‘He Did Her’ Vitter bonefish” at $300 an hour to the FEMA Flounder with formaldehyde sauce, the new Big Sleazy Fish Market promises to irresistibly stink up your dining and living experiences for years to come. See this menu.
In an attempt to speed up the traffic-fine collection process, a City Hall Web site will enable those who are caught violating red lights and issued tickets to log on, answer a few, simple questions and see if the fines can be waived. The simple questions include: Do you make regular payments to anyone whose last name is Morial, Brooks-Simms, Thomas, Shepherd, or Edwards, or whose first name is Mose?
At a time when Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal is being accused by some of fashioning an administration of smoke and mirrors and striking a 77 percent job approval rating in the process, something as simple as how he spent his Easter this year may be both scary and telling.
Apparently hit-and-run is no longer slang for another of Louisiana Republican U.S. Sen. David Vitter’s sexual trysts.
To Whom It May Concern: At approximately 6:40 p.m. on Monday April 14, 2008, I was stopped by police at the corner of Sycamore and Leonidas.
In an effort to accommodate Republican Party members still loyal to embattled Louisiana Sen. David Vitter, the senator reportedly will back legislation to add more men’s restrooms at Armstrong International Airport. The move comes in response to the recent vote of confidence Vitter received from another sex-scandal senator, fellow Republican Larry Craig of Idaho.
The mayor says growth can be achieved through the “bucket” approach.
An autopsy on how Gov. Bobby Jindal just got away with ethics murder right under your nose.
Asked if the governor’s blind popularity will allow him to be named a saint before he dies, the Vatican spokesman said, “Saints never die,” and then, displaying an uncanny knowledge of place, added, “except in the playoffs.”
Top Stories
For a short while - beginning on April 22 and remaining for two days - President Bush’s domestic legacy quite literally was enshrined in granite in New Orleans.
Katrina the Clown says she and sex-scandal plagued Louisiana U.S. Sen. David Vitter have been playing pattycake for years, and that he even wanted to involve Miss Mary Mack.
The Levee has learned that chef Emeril Lagasse has been in police custody since shortly after the shooting of fellow celebrity chef and former Emeril mentor Paul Prudhomme.
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To lure more women into its effort to mask its colossal negligence in regards to the federal levee system in the New Orleans area, the always-correct Army Corps of Engineers is opening its own woman-friendly charter school in the city. The Army Corps Academy for Dykes is scheduled to open during the 2012 hurricane season. The name was studied by top Army Corps officials and peer-reviewed by the American Society of Civil Engineers, which received an Army Corps grant for the project.
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