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		<title>Jazz Funeral</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 05:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
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The photo above was taken at a funeral procession for Lawrence Robert, a longtime member of the Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club, outside the Zulu club house on Broad Street in Mid-City.   Robert died a few days before Mardi Gras.  He was 76 years old.   He reigned as King Zulu in the year of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Lower Ninth</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 05:53:26 +0000</pubDate>
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Louisiana, 2010
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It was a horrible place to build a city.  Malaria-ridden swamps, unbearably humid summers, ground so soft you could barely sink a post into it without it keeling over; prone to flooding from the Mississippi and storm surges from Gulf Coast hurricanes.  A network of bayous, delta sludge, and barrier islands so complex and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mad for the Dance</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:46:03 +0000</pubDate>
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Mimi&#8217;s, Friday Night
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In 1812, Amos Stoddard wrote that Louisianans &#8220;are particularly attached to the exercise of dancing, and they carry it to an incredible excess&#8221;.  Reid Mitchell, quoting Stoddard in his book All on a Mardi Gras Day, writes, &#8220;According to Stoddard, balls lasted from early evening to early morning, and the irrepressible, apparently inexhaustible [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Mysteries of Eleusis</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 07:32:53 +0000</pubDate>
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In ancient Greece, the town of Eleusis lay 15 miles northwest of Athens, in the heartland of wheat and barley fields that fed the city-state of Athens for over a thousand years. Within the walls of the town lay a temple that was ground zero for one of the most important and longest-lasting religious festivals [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Bone Gang</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:32:11 +0000</pubDate>
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&#8220;Wake Up, Wake Up, it&#8217;s Mardi Gras Morning!&#8221;&#8230;
So went the chant of the Northside Skull and Bones Gang as they floated quietly through the Tremé and the northeast corner of the French Quarter, rapping on doors and windows, waking up those who&#8217;d slept in cars they&#8217;d parked on the roadside late the previous night, waking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lundi Gras</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:02:29 +0000</pubDate>
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The goings-on of Carnival season can often present one with difficult choices.  There is simply too much happening, all at the same time, to do it all.  And, as my friend Richard Hofler (whom I will profile in an upcoming post) said to me on numerous occasions, &#8220;Carnival is a marathon, not a sprint.&#8221;   You [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mardi Gras</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 05:28:58 +0000</pubDate>
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Today&#8217;s the day&#8230;in about 6 0r 7 hours the celebration that has made New Orleans famous throughout the world will begin, the grand finale of weeks of balls, parades, masking, and dancing in the streets.  Tonight there are some pulling all-nighters to get their floats and costumes ready for the big day.   [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nanny</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 03:36:55 +0000</pubDate>
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Elizabeth Whitehead Kelsey
September 28, 1914 &#8211; February 15, 2010

My grandmother passed away this afternoon at 5 PM Eastern Time.  It was a long time coming, and there have been many false alarms, but she kept holding on for a few more days, a few more weeks, of this sweet life that is so hard to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Uncle Lionel&#8217;s Birthday</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 06:39:02 +0000</pubDate>
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&#8220;Uncle&#8221; Lionel Batiste, AKA Mister New Orleans Himself, turned 78 a few days ago.  In his honor, family and friends gathered last night at Sweet Lorraine&#8217;s jazz club for a birthday celebration.  Lionel, a longtime bass drummer and singer for the Tremé Brass Band, was in fine form, sporting his legendary dapper duds [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Dat&#8221; Tuesday&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 03:43:17 +0000</pubDate>
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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/10/us/10orleans.html?hpw
Doing an assignment for a daily national, especially one in a different time zone, is no walk in the park.  Especially when the event you&#8217;re supposed to be covering starts at 5 PM and your first deadline is at 3:30 PM.  Do the math on that one&#8230;
So the assignment from the New York [...]]]></description>
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