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Dew Drop Inn aims to present the past, present and future of New Orleans music

The Dew Drop Inn Hotel & Lounge, after a 54-year pause, is hosting live music once again. The legendary Central City nightclub reopened Friday (March 1) with performances that paid homage to its storied history. The Dew Drop on the LaSalle Street was the city’s leading Black music venue during rock ‘n’ roll’s formative years. […]
After 50 years, Dew Drop Inn gets ready to open its doors

Beginning this fall, the legendary Dew Drop Inn in Central City is set to host live music for the first time in more than half a century. The city’s leading Black music venue for three mid-century decades, the club billed as “the swankiest spot in the South” holds a hallowed place in New Orleans cultural […]
Neutral Ground Coffee House planning move to Carrollton area

Neutral Ground Coffee House owners Caroline “Phant” Williams and James Naylor were driving through the Carrollton neighborhood recently in their quest to find a new home for the city’s oldest coffeehouse and entertainment venue. They had decided Carrollton would good fit for the Neutral Ground, exiled since it lost its lease on its longtime Danneel […]

crime

Three charged with violent crimes, five with property crimes in recent Uptown arrests

By Robert Morris | July 7, 2017

Three people were charged with a variety of violent crimes around the Central City area, and five others were charged with theft, burglary and illegal possession of stolen property around the university area and other parts of Uptown over the last week, New Orleans police officials announced.

city government

City begins $1 million drainage project on Henry Clay Avenue

By Robert Morris | July 6, 2017

A $1 million project to improve drainage on Henry Clay Avenue near St. Charles Avenue has begun and will last through the summer, according to the city of New Orleans Department of Public Works.

crime

Woman carjacked on LaSalle near universities, police say

By Robert Morris | July 6, 2017

A woman had her vehicle taken from her at gunpoint overnight on LaSalle Street near the universities, New Orleans police said.

city government

Danae Columbus: How Karen Carter Peterson’s flirtation with the race impacted the other candidates

By UptownMessenger.com | July 6, 2017

When state Sen. Karen Carter Peterson told Gambit last week she was “doing all the due diligence that a serious potential candidate has to do” before entering the race for mayor, one of her chief tasks was a meeting with her protégée, City Councilwoman LaToya Cantrell.

Cantrell felt betrayed, disappointed, and hurt, according to sources close to the family, and the ever-feisty Cantrell quickly responded that she was in the mayor’s race to stay. Last night, the popular senator reversed course and announced that she would not join the mayor’s race after all.

arts, books and music

Big Freedia, Tank and the Bangas perform at Tipitina’s

By Zach Brien | July 5, 2017

Basking in the national attention after winning the NPR Tiny Desk concert, New Orleans band Tank and the Bangas performed with another homegrown star, Big Freedia, at Tipitina’s on Saturday.

crime

Assault rifle, crack cocaine, meth found in Carrollton traffic stop

By Robert Morris | July 5, 2017

Four people were arrested over the weekend after a traffic stop led officers to the discovery of an assault rifle, a handgun, crack cocaine and meth, New Orleans police said.

elections

Activists begin planning fight against “gerrymandered” Congressional districts

By Robert Morris | July 5, 2017

A group of activists has begun organizing a fight redraw Louisiana’s Congressional districts away from the indescribable shapes of their current “gerrymandered” forms into common-sense arrangements that better represent geographical regions of the state.

crime

Home invasion on Broadway; shooting on Marengo and carjacking on South Liberty, police say

By Robert Morris | July 5, 2017

Three people were threatened at gunpoint in a home invasion Tuesday afternoon on Broadway Street in the university area, while a woman was shot on Marengo Street and two other people were robbed on South Liberty earlier in the holiday weekend, New Orleans police said.

Dew Drop Inn aims to present the past, present and future of New Orleans music

After 50 years, Dew Drop Inn gets ready to open its doors

Neutral Ground Coffee House planning move to Carrollton area

By Robert Morris | July 7, 2017

By Robert Morris | July 6, 2017

By Robert Morris | July 6, 2017

By UptownMessenger.com | July 6, 2017

By Zach Brien | July 5, 2017

By Robert Morris | July 5, 2017

By Robert Morris | July 5, 2017

By Robert Morris | July 5, 2017