New Orleans Saints vs Minnesota Vikings 27:30
Vikings won a big match against Saints, the Monday Night Football, on 6th October
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French Quarter Suites and the New Orleans Courtyard Hotel
French Quarter Suites and The New Orleans Courtyard Hotel invites you to experience New Orleans in a legendary French Quarter neighborhood where trumpeter Wynton Marsalis first picked up his horn & Jazz legends the like of Cannonball Adderly once played–all a stone’s throw from Congo Square–where Jazz “was born.”
Steps away, you’ll find celebrated Bourbon Street, New Orleans world renown restaurants, irresistible shopping and the many attractions & destinations that make the Crescent City one of the most popular and loved travel destinations in the world.
www.FrenchQuarterSuites.com
Duration : 0:2:31
Bluegreen Club La Pension in New Orleans, Louisiana
This New Orleans resort is located at the edge of the French Quarter and within walking distance of the citys attractions, restaurants and shops. For award-winning Italian cuisine, dine at the intimate 4-star-rated Cafe Giovanni next door to the resort. After dinner stroll to the historic French Quarter and listen to the soulful sounds of New Orleans jazz as the irresistible aroma of Creole and Cajun food fills the Quarter. Or, walk across the street from the resort and try your hand—poker hand that is—at Harrahs Casino. Plus, renowned Bourbon Street is only two blocks away. This Bluegreen resort is close to everywhere you want to be during your New Orleans vacation.
Duration : 0:1:5
SECRET NEW ORLEANS: TJ & Di Hoochie Coochie Ladies!
VIEUX CARRÉ CONFIDENTIAL! (series) episode #9! TJ Fisher and Di adventures! Drinks and tea with TJ and Di! Start the day with the zany duo, and enjoy a rollicking behind-the-scenes French Quarter morning! Wake up with CNN’s anchorwoman Robin Meade, but come home with TJ and Di, and live their life! So absurd, absolutely fabulous, and slightly off kilter!
The retro-style short film begins with a montage of imagery — a colorful gay parade, the Natchez steamship, Jax Brewery, the Cabildo and St. Louis Cathedral — then the camera zooms in on zany TJ and Di breakfasting in TJ’s old-timey kitchen, in a historic Vieux Carré home on Bourbon Street. TJ’s two blonde-and-blond dogs, Colonel Dudley Boudreaux Waddlesworth and Madame Calliope de Bourbon, join the Belles of Bourbon for mealtime. A dose of local-local comedy, satire and renegade behavior!
After a wakeup-call breakfast at TJ’s haunted house, the two friends check out a French Quarter adult clothing store and happen upon Marilyn Monroe (bawdy local drag queen character and showgirl Princes Stephaney); Marilyn offers up titillating tidbits of advice, along with an outburst of vivacious singing and storytelling. Afterwards TJ plays with Baby Totie, the loudmouth squealing miniature pig, deep in the heart of one of the French Quarter’s famed secret gardens. Private. Exclusive. Surreal. Insider sneak peek at life in the Quarter. From there TJ and Di move on to Lafitte’s Blacksmith Shop, the oldest bar in American, then they encounter a silver-painted street performer mime. Finally the double-trouble pair wind up in front of Jimmy Buffet’s Margaritaville.
Jack Jones makes a cameo appearance in his boutique Alternatives.
Eccentric French Quarter author/Bourbon Street resident TJ Fisher and Boho-chic stylemaker Di Harris fit the mold for outrageous New Orleans characters. Both enjoy hare-brained escapades and loony-tunes humor.
See Sandcastle Queen TJ Fisher and her fiesty friend and comrade Lady Marigny Di Harris in additional Tanzmanianmudbug YouTube postings: http://www.youtube.com/user/Tanzmanianmudbug.
Swamp Empress TJ drives a ’59 pink Cadillac convertible named Lulabell, and Di rides a 1968 “My Fair Lady” model banana-seat Stingray. TJ is the nationally acclaimed author of multiple New Orleans-based nonfiction and fiction works. Award-wining designer/artist Di owns Zogwald’s, an eclectic French Quarter boutique, and her original pinup-girl artwork graces celebrity homes. (TJ also maintains a home in Palm Beach, Florida and Di in Melbourne, Australia.)
Learn more about TJ at:
http://www.tjfisher.com
http://www.tjfisher.net
VIEUX CARRÉ CONFIDENTIAL! The intersection of fact and fiction! Louisiana has a legacy of many lifetimes of passionate, flamboyant and parading women, magnificent and meaningful larger-than-life personalities, women of many mindsets, passions, nationalities and exotic traditions. Leaving an indelible mark on the world are the ladies of New Orleans: femme fatales, noblewomen, glamour girls, baronesses, placées, literary lionesses, nuns, singers, Mardi Gras maids, jazz musicians, restaurateurs, Creole belles, artists, burlesque dancers, Voodoo priestesses, entertainers, women of letters, politicians, sculptors, beauty queens, philanthropists, entrepreneurs, gens de couleur, society matriarchs, painters, shopkeepers, Storyville seductresses….??
Their stories live on, their essence lingers, their threads remain, embedded deep within the fabric of New Orleans.
The three-centuries-old French is like nowhere else in the world. Beyond the clamor and fracas of the Quarter, ancient prayers of patron saints sprout like briars of damp growth, calling forth memories. People feel a draft and thoughts of old pierce the heart. History traipses through the mind. Delicious ambrosia seems nearby, just beyond the brambles and thistles. The Vieux Carré houses the sundown and scintillation of checkered characters and centuries faintly known, misting all around. History intrudes. Filigree twists of the rise and fall of man and memories remain seamed into the bricks.
The French Quarter exudes the undertones of a tragic quality that cannot be denied; yet the hypnotic effect is otherworldly beauty, stark and startling, pure and paramount. She is a city that stirs the senses and seduces the soul, for she tampers with a person’s inclinations and toys with the mind. In New Orleans, time passes differently.
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HBO and David Simon’s lush new drama series Treme “gets” New Orleans; they definitely get it, do you? Do you get the resilient heart, soul, spirit and humor of the people and places of New Orleans…?
DO YOU KNOW WHAT IT MEANS TO MISS NEW ORLEANS?
Duration : 0:5:14
Magazine: Shaking It to New Orleans Bounce – nytimes.com/video
New Orleans Bounce
New Orleans Bounce is a raunchy, local hip-hop style that developed in the 1990s but is only now escaping its hometown with the help of some unlikely stars. Related Article: nyti.ms
Vince Vance’s music video, I am New Orleans, is a musical collage of sights and sounds of the city released for the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Vance, who has lived in New Orleans for most of his life attempts to honor the city and showcase its beauty and its uniqueness. Read and watch more on Bayobuzz.com
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New Orleans Bounce music is an energetic style of New Orleans hip hop music which is said to have originated as early as the late 1980s, but is typically believed to have begun with the 1991 single “Where Dey At” by MC T.Tucker and DJ Irv. A highly influential cover of “Where Dey At” was also released by DJ Jimi in 1992.
New Orleans Bounce – Structure
New Orleans Bounce is characterized by call and response style party and Mardi Gras Indian chants and dance call-outs that are frequently hyper sexual.
These chants and call-outs are typically sung over the “Triggerman beat,” which is sampled from the songs “Drag Rap” by the Showboys, “Brown Beat” by Cameron Paul, and also Derek B’s “Rock The Beat”.The sound of bounce has primarily been shaped by the recycling and imitation of the “Drag Rap” sample: its opening chromatic tics, the intermittent shouting of the word “break,” the use of whistling as an instrumental element (as occurs in the bridge), the vocoded “drag rap” vocals and its brief and repetitive melody and quick beat (which were produced with use of synthesizers and drum machines and are easily sampled or reproduced using like-sounding elements).
New Orleans Bounce – Influence
The genre maintains widespread popularity in New Orleans, LA and the southern United States and has a more limited following outside of the Deep South. Throughout this decade, the Take Fo’ record label has dominated the genre with artists such as DJ Jubilee, Choppa, Baby Boy, Lady Unique, Da’ Sha Ra’ and Willie Puckett. Overtly queer “sissy bounce” or “sissy rap” performers such as Katey Red, Big Freedia and Sissy Nobby have also made significant contributions.
Like crunk, Miami bass, Baltimore club and Juke music, bounce is a highly regional form of urban dance music. Nevertheless, bounce has influenced a variety of other rap subgenres and even emerged in the mainstream. Atlanta’s crunk artists, such as Lil’ Jon and the Ying Yang Twins, frequently incorporate bounce chants into their music (such as, “shake that thing like a salt shaker”) and slang (such as, “twerk”).Mississippi native David Banner’s hit “Like A Pimp” is constructed around a screwed up sample of the “Triggerman” beat. The mixtapes of Three 6 Mafia’s DJ Paul also prominently feature traditional bounce sampling. DJ Paul, a native of Memphis, TN, has, in fact, been one of the most prominent purveyors of bounce outside of Louisiana, having incorporated its features into tracks produced for La Chat, Gangsta Boo and his own group, Three 6 Mafia. Another significant mainstream record influenced by bounce music was Beyoncé’s 2007 release “Get Me Bodied”.
Perhaps the most well known majordomo of New Orleans Bounce music has been Cash Money Records and their former in-house producer Mannie Fresh. Mannie Fresh began producing for MC Gregory D in the late 1980s, but in the early 1990s was signed to Cash Money and produced all of their albums. After Cash Money signed a national distribution deal with Universal Records in 1998, the label’s music began to reach much wider audiences. The label’s Hot Boys (Juvenile, B.G., Lil Wayne, and Turk) and Big Tymers (Mannie Fresh and Baby) released platinum albums and had several nationally charting hits using the bounce style. This was the genre’s first major mainstream exposure.
In 2010, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans featured an exhibition entitled “Where They At: New Orleans Hip-Hop and Bounce in Words and Pictures”, examining bounce’s origins, development, and influence.
New Orleans Bounce
Prospect.1 New Orleans Biennial 2008
Prospect.1 is New Orlean’s first biennial and the largest-ever international contemporary art show in the United States. Similar in style and scope to Venice, the exhibit consists of site-specific art installations, as well as several galleries in museums and elsewhere in the city devoted to it. As the front page of the event’s website proclaims, it’s designed to bring media attention and tourist dollars to New Orleans, so book your tickets now to get down there before it closes 18 January 2009. Why so bold-faced? Think of it as a giant humanitarian effort to get people to visit a fascinating location—it’s win-win for New Orleans and for visitors, especially the types who aren’t interested in Bourbon street and otherwise would have little reason to explore the beautifully ramshackle neighborhoods in various states of decay and rebuilding. As Peter Schjeldahl writes in the New Yorker, referring to the successful candor of the organizer’s intentions, “featuring few big names and nary a masterpiece, it is my favorite biennial since the nineteen-eighties.”
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Bum on the street begs for money to work for the law.Hurricane Katrina: New Orleans live video.
Live video of the storm making landfall in New Orleans. HurricaneNow.com’s Jeff Flock reports from the roof of a parking garage (Peters and University) during the landfall of Hurricane Katrina on Monday August 29.
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A Day at the French Quarter
A collage of photos taken during a trip to New Orleans, accompanied by the music of clifton chenier & the red hot louisiana band – new orleans -le città musicali – harmonica zydeco.
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The Aggies Roll In The French Quarter 2008
I was in the French Quarter and managed to get these Aggie fans (students?, band?) on film. They are singing the Aggie War Hymn. (That’s Texas A&M for those who haven’t caught up yet). Anyway, they were so loud and spirited that they were stopping both foot and car traffic in the French Quarter of New Orleans during Mardi Gras. I feel lucky to have seen this. Here are the lyrics to the song they were singing:
Goodbye to texas university,
so long to the orange and the white.
Good luck to the dear old Texas Aggies,
they are the ones who show the real old fight.
“The eyes of Texas are upon you,”
that is the song they sing so well (sounds like hell).
So goodbye to texas university,
we’re gonna beat you all to
Chig-a-roo-garem, Chig-a-roo-garem,
Rough tough real stuff Texas A&M.
[Chorus]
Saw varsity’s horns off, saw varsity’s horns off.
Saw varsity’s horns off, SHORT! Ay!
Varsity’s horns are sawed off, varsity’s horns are sawed off.
Varsity’s horns are sawed off, SHORT! Ayyyyyyyy!
Duration : 0:2:31
