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Treme shut out of Emmy nominations
You can quibble or argue all you want about Treme (and here's the place to do it), but it's indisputably one of the best-acted dramas on TV these days. Apparently the TV industry doesn't agree,...
View ArticleJudge: Le Petit Theatre deal with Dickie Brennan Restaurant Group can proceed
The backstage battle over the future of Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre took another twist today when Civil District Court Judge Sidney Cates IV ruled in favor of the theater's board of governors. Le...
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A new round of buyouts at The Times-Picayune
Sources inside The Times-Picayune tell Gambit the paper will soon be announcing yet another round of staff buyouts. Employees who wish to be considered for a buyout will have until mid-October to...
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WWL-AM: We stand behind Garland
Those hoping for a complete explanation by WWL-AM radio host Garland Robinette were no doubt disappointed this morning, as the host punted on explaining the details of a $250,000 personal loan he and...
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David Vitter really wants you to know he doesn't want to watch the Obama speech
Sen. David Vitter's plans to ignore President Barack Obama's jobs speech by flying home to have a Saints party in Metairie have now been dashed, as Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has now called for...
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That Emeril movie, A House Divided? Total hoax
So the Internet was abuzz (very, very lightly, but still abuzz) this morning with the news that New Orleans' own Emeril Lagasse would be writing, directing and starring in in some atrocious-sounding...
View ArticleDid Cheap Trick lip-sync at Voodoo?
I wasn't there for Cheap Trick's Sunday night set at the Voodoo Experience, but the consensus among several people who did go was that CT performed a real cheap trick and lip-synched through most (if...
View ArticleCheap Trick: We didn't lip-sync at Voodoo!
After reports that Cheap Trick was lip-synching some of the band's performance at the Voodoo Experience on Sunday, we heard from Ben-David Fenwick, the band's publicist, this afternoon, who says any...
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Ray Nagin puts house up for sale
Former mayor Ray Nagin has put his Park Island home up for sale. The asking price?… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
View ArticleTSA-style wanding and patdowns mandatory at remainder of Saints home games
Take your pick. You can either get the news from a New Orleans Saints press release or an identically written "news" story on WVUE's website ... either way, it's only good news for those who find...
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The police are following you
It is instinctively frightening to realize the police are following you — even if it's just on Twitter. Many people got spooked after receiving emails notifying them that "Louisiana Police...
View ArticleThe sudden dubiety of his redoubt
In terms of volume, disgraced Assistant U.S. Attorney Sal Perricone has rivaled his assumed namesake, noted newspaper columnist and essayist H. L. Mencken, but that’s as far as it goes. Suffice it to...
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Going 'birther' in Baton Rouge?
The "birther" controversy regarding President Barack Obama's citizenship has caught new fire in Louisiana, according to a report from Leslie Turk of The Independent in Lafayette ... Tired of fielding...
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City Council standoff: The emails are flying
Just in time for the end of the work day: The New Orleans City Council standoff/imbroglio gets a couple of new wrinkles. Council president Jackie Clarkson and Councilwoman At-Large Stacy Head have...
View ArticleShocked … SHOCKED!
The recent debacle over Louisiana’s tax credits for vehicles that run on alternative fuels reminds me of a memorable scene from Casablanca. In the classic 1942 film, Capt. Louis Renault, the ethically...
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Public Transit Tuesdays: Leonidas
The second accompanied installment of Public Transit Tuesdays brings us from City Park to Audubon Zoo on the Leonidas bus, passing through Hollygrove, Pigeon Town and Gert Town, proving to be a fine...
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Public Transit Tuesdays: Lake Forest
The East is coming back and it's pretty close to what I remember. Ah, the East.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Y@ Speak: Tricks and treats
FORWARD…UPWARD…SIDEWAYS … DIAGONAL… CIRCULAR…all of these would be better than REALITY for this President.— Gov. Bobby Jindal (@BobbyJindal) November 3, 2012This Halloween week, New Orleans Twitter was...
View ArticleA culture of hubris
It’s often said that bad luck comes in threes; when two bad things happen, expect a third piece of bad news soon. If that old saw holds true, U.S. Attorney Jim Letten better brace himself, because...
View ArticleHeavy tolls
This week saw several bombshells in the local political arena: a Baton Rouge judge nullified the results of last November’s bridge toll referendum, and the feds dropped their years-long investigation...
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Azz report: Big Freedia's twerking world record officially challenged
Earlier this week, bounce musician (and Gambitcover star) Big Freedia gathered New Yorkers in Herald Square in an attempt to promote his new reality show set a new world record for twerking....
View ArticleSnakes everywhere
That hissing sound you’ve been hearing lately is the sound of a snake slithering through the halls of officialdom in Baton Rouge. This particular snake is Senate Bill 294, which lawmakers passed on...
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WDSU: It's not true that an anti-David Vitter PAC will air ad during...
Talking Points Memo reports that Gumbo PAC, the political action committee that calls itself a "non-partisan clearinghouse of information focused on educating Louisiana voters about U.S. Senator David...
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"Total War Puppets" demilitarize the Mudlark Theater
In the years I've been acquainted with the woman known as Nyx, she has been not only a very solid poet, artist and anarchist-feminist theorist but an outspoken and unstinting critic of what she...
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Nothin’ but Loozas
One special interest group described the frenetic final hour of the just-ended special legislative session as “fast-and-furious,” which was certainly accurate as regards the session’s closing minutes....
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