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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>
		<dc:creator>Chris Bickford</dc:creator>
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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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		<title>Victory Dance</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:50:41 +0000</pubDate>
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Last night it was bedlam in New Orleans.  I was hanging out at a Super Bowl party at an apartment on Frenchmen Street when the late-game interception pretty much clinched the game for the Saints.   I decided to go down on to the streets to see what the action was like.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who Dat!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:15:19 +0000</pubDate>
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History is in the making today.  The town of New Orleans, having risen from the tragedy of Katrina, is on a comeback roll, and tonight it will celebrate as its home team makes its first ever appearance defending the NFC championship.  Having hosted 7 Super Bowls in its home stadium, New Orleans has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Band Practice</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 03:21:39 +0000</pubDate>
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New Orleans holds a particular place in the history and legacy of marching bands.   When the Spanish took control of Lousiana from the French in the eighteenth century, marching bands were a strictly military affair, and the primitiveness of instrument technology at the time limited the bands to the old-time  fife-and-drum corps, [...]]]></description>
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