Police are seeking the public’s help identifying five different men caught on security cameras in connection with separate shoplifting cases at three frequent targets for thieves in the NOPD Sixth District, the Citi Trends on South Claiborne Avenue, the Rite Aid on St. Charles Avenue and the Circle K on Howard Avenue. Continue reading »
Frederick George (via NOPD)
Frederick “Freddie” George, 18, will be charged with armed robbery, police said. For details, see the NOPD news release:
Today NOPD detectives issued a warrant for 18-year-old Frederick “Freddie” George who carjacked a man on Saturday December 22, 2012 at about 6:12pm at the intersection of Freret Street and Law Road in the University Area.
The victim stated he arrived at the location to pick up an acquaintance at the location to which he only knew as “Freddie”. George enters the victim’s vehicle a produced a handgun and demanded cash. The victim fearing for his safety jumped out of the vehicle leaving George in it. George then fled in the victim’s vehicle abandoning it at the intersection of South Robertson and Calhoun Street where it was later recovered. Detectives were able to positively identify George through a photographic lineup and victim participation.
George had no prior arrest record.
Once apprehended Frederick “Freddie” George will be charged with Armed Robbery.
The Christmas duck (photo by Craig Giesecke)
Craig Giesecke
As mentioned in the last column, I opted to go with smoked duck for our Christmas dinner this time around. Honestly, a month’s worth of dealing with turkey and ham every day at work made the idea of doing either of those rather unappealing. I also deal with a fair amount of things like eye of round, so I wanted to do something that would absorb a little more flavor from the outside. There are only three of us in the house, so doing something large like a goose was never really on the radar. Continue reading »
(photo via facebook.com/ParasolsNewOrleans)
“Friends, neighbors and employees of Parasol’s have organized a benefit to give back to a family that has given us so much, especially their friendship,” reads an announcement about the event on Facebook. “Come honor and celebrate a great man with a huge heart, John Hogan, and wear a Hawaiian shirt to help us send him off in style.” Continue reading »
KIPP Schools in New Orleans plan to increase their class sizes, reduce expenses, attract more students and boost private fundraising to shore up their budget as a variety of major one-time education grants expire, creating a sort of “fiscal cliff” for the charter school network, according to a report by Kelsey Foster of The Lens.
Allan Katz and Danae Columbus
The location of the robbery in Hollygrove (via NOPD)
Eric Orlando, the owner of Carrollton Station since 2002, has sold the rock venue on Willow Street to a couple who will keep the business open while Orlando opens a new bar called Red’s Uptilly Tavern at 7601 Maple Street, according to a report by Keith Spera of The Times-Picayune. For his final weekend at Carrollton station, Orlando will present a two-day “Grand Finale” showcase of a dozen singer-songwriters Friday and Saturday (Dec. 28-29), and he hopes to open Red’s by the first week of January, Spera reports.
District B City Councilwoman LaToya Cantrell will join a group of physicians and children’s health advocates leading a vigil against gun violence at 5:30 p.m. tonight on the steps of City Hall. Continue reading »
Liberty Cheesesteak will open in the former Dat Dog (photo from Google Maps)
Jean-Paul Villere
The calender says today is 12/26/12, so we must have all survived the Mayan apocalypse and yet another Christmas season, on to the New Year and resolutions quickly fudged. I look forward to this day more than Christmas itself because it’s finally over! The hype and lead up and obligatory this and that of each holiday season leaves me strung out and exhausted, like the last few rigs of the seemingly endless truck parade down Napoleon on Mardi Gras Day. I live half a block from this silly nightmare of pastiched 18 wheelers in queue for likely miles, and it isn’t the size so much as the noise. Truck horn after truck horn after truck horn, like a really slow marathon of all the Smokey & The Bandit “films” with a lagniappe viewing of Convoyto bring it on home. Only this year the drainage work along the avenue is so massive my guess is in 2013 we will get a break from the madness. And at the pace the work is going maybe 2014 too. Continue reading »
A man had his car stolen at gunpoint Saturday evening by someone he was picking up from in front of the Loyola campus, he told police. Continue reading »
St. Charles Avenue Baptist Church (via scabc.org)
Owen Courreges
At this time of year I always get to thinking of how the American ideal of Christmas just seems to center around an ideal of a much colder climate than ours here in the Gulf South. Lines from popular Christmas songs are always the biggest reminder of this.
“I’m dreaming of a white Christmas, just like the ones I used to know…” Continue reading »
The alleged embezzlement of $25,000 in forged checks by former Lusher employee Lauren Hightower was reported to police Jan. 25, but no charges have been filed amid an ongoing investigation, according to a report by Jessica Williams of The Lens.
The Women of Class second line that had been scheduled for noon today has been canceled, Red Cotton is reporting at her Facebook page.
Craig Giesecke
We’ve been cocooning in the house these last few evenings, feeling the wind buffet the siding after the midweek cold front came through. Those many of us who live in old, drafty houses here in New Orleans know the place never gets completely warm. About the best you can hope to do is dress for the cold occasions, enjoy a stiff toddy and try to not move off the couch or chair too much. Very Southern Winter and, of course, Very Holiday. Continue reading »
The masked gunman at GameStop at left, and at right, a “person of interest” in the case who entered the store just before the robbery. (via NOPD)
A masked man robbed a GameStop video game store in the Lower Garden District at gunpoint Thursday morning, and in a separate case a woman in Hollygrove was attacked inside her home by a man who then stole her purse, police said. Continue reading »
The Women of Class will start their annual second line at noon Sunday on Earhart Boulevard and Gert Town and head down Washington and Louisiana avenues, then make a few loops through Central City, according to the route published by Big Red Cotton.
Turnbull Bakeries, known for Melba toast wrapped in plastic with a green logo, has closed after operating its bakery on First Street in the Irish Channel since 1907, according to a report by Dominic Massa of our partners at WWL-TV.