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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 […]

Suspect sought after breaking into South Claiborne business through ceiling

By Robert Morris | May 17, 2017

New Orleans police have identified a suspect who allegedly broke into a South Claiborne Avenue business through the ceiling last month, and they are hoping the public can help locate him.

city government

Residents frustrated with slow pace of discarded trash-can removal

By Robert Morris | May 17, 2017

Like revelers waiting for a parade that will never come or sign wavers on Election Day, the obsolete green trash bins have begun congregating on the Uptown neutral ground and street corners, abandoned in ever more prominent places by residents frustrated with the slow pace of their removal.

crime

Suspect sought in Annunciation home burglaries

By Robert Morris | May 16, 2017

New Orleans police have identified a suspect in two residential burglaries on Annunciation Street in April, and they are hoping the public can help locate him.

events

“Jane’s Walk” to explore history, culture along O.C. Haley Boulevard

By Robert Morris | May 16, 2017

A group of citizen activists wijl lead a walking tour of Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard on Saturday morning, relating stories about the history and culture of the corridor in the spirit of urban activist Jane Jacobs, who is also the subject of a documentary with a free opening-night screening this week.

crime

Man robbed of Camaro at gunpoint, police say

By Robert Morris | May 15, 2017

A man was robbed of his Chevrolet Camaro at gunpoint early Saturday morning a few blocks from the corner of Washington and St. Charles avenues, New Orleans police said.

crime

Three wounded in weekend shootings around Uptown neighborhoods, police say

By Robert Morris | May 15, 2017

Three people were wounded in shooting believed to have taken place in Uptown neighborhoods from Central City to Annunciation Street over the weekend, New Orleans police said.

city government

Owen Courreges: Roosevelt, Churchill, JFK and Jimmy Carter all defended Robert E. Lee. Why doesn’t New Orleans?

By Robert Morris | May 15, 2017

We’re down to two. Of the four monuments hand-selected by Mayor Landrieu for removal, only two remain – those memorializing Confederate Gens. Robert E. Lee and Pierre G. T. Beauregard.

If Landrieu remains true to form, he’ll leave Lee’s statute for last. It is the most prominent, the most controversial, and by far the most difficult to remove. The figure of Lee looming large over the city is a major fixture, and parting with it cuts deeply to many New Orleanians.

crime

Motorcyclist killed in crash with SUV at Jackson Avenue, police say

By Robert Morris | May 15, 2017

A motorcyclist driving up Jackson Avenue crashed into an SUV at a Central City intersection Sunday morning, throwing the motorcyclist from his bike and killing him, according to a NOPD news release.

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 | May 17, 2017

By Robert Morris | May 17, 2017

By Robert Morris | May 16, 2017

By Robert Morris | May 16, 2017

By Robert Morris | May 15, 2017

By Robert Morris | May 15, 2017

By Robert Morris | May 15, 2017

By Robert Morris | May 15, 2017