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. […]
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Armed robbery suspect arrested after standoff near Tulane University
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Police arrested Phillip Barbarinin, 24, on Monday after a dramatic standoff outside his University area home. Less than an hour after the New Orleans Police Department obtained a warrant for Barbarinin’s arrest on Monday morning, a SWAT team was called to his home in the 2100 block of Audubon Street, near South Claiborne Avenue. The standoff lasted from about 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Police had barricaded the surrounding streets. By 10:35 p.m., Barbarinin was booked into Orleans Justice Center on eight counts of armed robbery, one count of second-degree battery and three counts of aggravated assault with a firearm. He remained jailed on Tuesday morning.