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Alex Chilton Tribute
04/26/2012

by David Kunian The late Alex Chilton was one of the most enigmatic figures in pop music. From his gruff, teenage vocals on the hit "The Letter" to the pop masterpieces of Big Star to his production work with The Cramps and Panther Burns and subsequent solo records, Chilton played his music and pursued his career however he saw fit.…

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Cee Lo Green
04/26/2012

by Michael Patrick Welch For too long, Cee Lo Green and his outsized talents always seemed to hit a ceiling. The 1995 debut album Soul Food by his Atlanta posse Goodie Mob is considered one of the best Southern rap albums of all time.…

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More on the Marigny ball pit house
04/26/2012

When I stopped by the site of the proposed Marigny ball pit house today, the project's leader, Josh Ente, was grabbing lunch. His friend Matt, who was visiting from San Francisco, was busy helping take down the back of the blighted Creole cottage to the wall frames.…

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New Orleans trying to decide where to build new dog parks
04/26/2012

Mayor Mitch Landrieu's administration is surveying citizens and holding meetings about the development of dog parks in New Orleans. More than 1,400 residents have responded to an online survey aimed at determining the needs of dog owners (you're welcome to do so; the survey closes Friday).…

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Ignatius Eatery relocates along Magazine
04/26/2012

Ignatius Eatery (3121 Magazine St., 896-0242) recently completed a nine-block leap down Magazine Street, taking over the former location of the Rue de la Course coffee shop. The move greatly expands the restaurant?s size, and perhaps just as significantly returns alcohol service to an operation that originally served beer and wine but later ran into licensing problems.…

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Review: Blues for an Alabama Sky
04/26/2012

Pearl Cleage?s Blues For an Alabama Sky, recently given a forceful production at the Anthony Bean Community Theater, both celebrates and mourns Harlem of the Great Depression.

Blues singer Angel Allen (Inas Mahdi) is the tragic heroine of the story.…

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Road projects lead way on spending
04/26/2012

Road projects lead way on spending

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Updated 12:05 a.m., Thursday, April 26, 2012

[...] the limited access is more than just an inconvenience for residents of this tiny neighborhood that's surrounded by cornfields and enclosed on two sides by Interstate 10 and Loop 410. A $5.6 million project to connect her neighborhood to East Houston Street, giving residents a second entrance and exit point, is one of 41 street improvement projects in the proposed 2012-2017 bond issue. On the North Side, a $30 million project would widen and reconstruct Hausman Road between Loop 1604 and I-10 near the University of Texas at San Antonio, adding traffic lanes, plus sidewalks, traffic signals and drainage improvements. In downtown, $40 million has been set aside for street improvements, including the realignment of Market Street so it runs straight and parallels Commerce Street. City officials have been eager to remind voters that no money in the bond issue is slated for VIA Metropolitan Transit's planned downtown streetcar lines. For several years, the city and the San Antonio Medical Foundation have partnered to improve roads and intersections around the South Texas Medical Center, work that can have a big impact on the ability of emergency vehicles to get around, said Jim Reed, foundation president. The $6.6 million in the bond issue to widen Callaghan Road is the local match that will be combined with federal and state transportation dollars to fund the total project. If the bond issue passes, the city can look to other funding sources, such as other construction projects that cost less than estimated or future federal and state transportation dollars, to complete the project, said Metropolitan Planning Organization Director Sid Martinez.

Injunction on drainage plan lifted
04/26/2012

Injunction on drainage plan lifted

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Updated 12:05 a.m., Thursday, April 26, 2012

The 4th Court of Appeals on Wednesday dissolved a temporary injunction that since May has blocked the city from building a controversial $14 million drainage project in the Broadway-Hildebrand corridor, paving the way for crews to begin construction soon. [...] city staff believed that the most efficient route to move storm water from the area around the intersection of Broadway and Hildebrand would be through underground drains along Broadway to an existing drainage ditch that flows into the San Antonio River near the Witte Museum. Bernard said the first order of business for city officials — including City Manager Sheryl Sculley and Mike Frisbie, director of Capital Improvements Management Services — is to meet and work out details of restarting the project, much of which will be funded through proceeds from the 2007 bond issue. Construction will involve building a new underground storm drainage culvert system to reroute floodwater off Broadway and Hildebrand. Because both streets will have to be totally reconstructed in that area, the city plans to do additional aesthetic work along the streets, incorporating landscaping and new pavement work, along with moving some utilities underground. “We have the appellate lawyers looking at the timeline for the appeal to the Texas Supreme Court because we feel like the (lower) court has ignored 100 years of Texas Supreme Court law that says that once a specific project is identified in a bond election, that project must be built at the location,” said Bebb Francis, an attorney for River Road.

Supreme Court Seems Receptive to Parts of Ariz. Immigration Crackdown
04/26/2012

Sleepy driver pleads not guilty in manslaughter case
04/26/2012

Sleepy driver pleads not guilty in manslaughter case

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Updated 11:18 p.m., Wednesday, April 25, 2012

The indictment by a Nueces County grand jury stems from an incident last August, when Renteria drove his girlfriend, her three children and her sister's five children from San Antonio to Port Aransas for a day at the beach. The vehicle flipped, killing two of the eight children inside the Mitsubishi SUV. “Obviously the evidence presented made them feel it wasn't an accident,” she said of the indictment, adding it would be inappropriate and against ethical guidelines to comment further on the pending case.

Sutton Company Proposes Towers In Rainey Street District
04/25/2012

The Statesman broke the story publicly yesterday that the Sutton Company intends to build a multi-tower 40+ story mixed-use project at the north end of the Rainey Street District. The assemblage includes 9-10 lots wrapping Rainey Street, Driskill Street, and East Ave. We’ve mocked-up a footprint of the site (below). The renderings show two point [...]

Sutton Company Proposes Towers In Rainey Street District

The Ting Tings with MNDR at House of Blues
04/19/2012

Wed. April 18 | It's been a very long engagement for MNDR's Amanda Warner and Peter Wade, who teased brilliance with 2010's tantalizing E.P.E. before going dark.…

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The art of Leah Chase
04/19/2012

Sneak into the kitchen of Dooky Chase Restaurant (2301 Orleans Ave., 821-0535) on any given weekday and you'll probably see Leah Chase chopping vegetables or completing one of her classic Creole dishes. Later this month, you'll be able to see her doing the same on the walls of the New Orleans Museum of Art (1 Collin Diboll Circle, 658-4100; www.noma.org) and there is a gala where the fruit of those labors will be on the plates.…

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IN THE RIGHT LIGHT
04/19/2012

A well-thought-out lighting scheme can brighten up an outdoor gathering. by Carrie Marks [iamge-1] From flickering gas lanterns at courtyard fetes to the twinkling pageantry of Celebration in the Oaks, many of our city's outdoor festivities boast lovely, creative mood lighting.…

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CUE, May 2012
04/19/2012

Neons meet neutrals; fixing frizz; and internationally-inspired fashion for him

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Dat Dog crosses Freret
04/19/2012

Dat Dog (5030 Freret St., 899-6883; www.datdognola.com) has moved into new digs just across the street from its former address, transforming a once-rundown service station into what now looks like a hot dog beer garden. Dat Dog opened early in 2011, serving a simple menu of hot dogs, sausages and fries.…

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A Confederacy of Titles
04/19/2012

Butterfly in the Typewriter: The Tragic Life of John Kennedy Toole and the Remarkable Story of A Confederacy of Dunces By Cory MacLauchlin.…

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Tupelo Honey Design
04/19/2012

Tupelo Honey Design (891-1333; www.tupelohoneydesign.com) has moved from 3712 Magazine St. to a new location at 4529 Magazine St.

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Chairlift with Nite Jewel at One Eyed Jacks
04/19/2012

Wed. April 18 | Representing opposing coasts, Brooklyn's Chairlift (Caroline Polachek) and Los Angeles' Nite Jewel (Ramona Gonzalez) nonetheless released two of 2012's most conjoined albums, synth-pop time machines Something (Columbia) and One Second of Love (Secretly Canadian), respectively.…

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Gabrielle returns
04/19/2012

In a sense, the restaurant Gabrielle (438 Henry Clay Ave., 899-6500; www.gabriellerestaurant.com) is back. In another sense, the Uptowner events hall is back, serving the food of Gabrielle to anyone who wants to book a table.…

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Burgeoning Bywater
04/19/2012

The Bywater Neighborhood Association (www.bywaterneighbors.-com) hosts the self-guided Bywater Home Tour from noon to 4 p.m. Sunday, April 22. It's a way for residents to celebrate their neighborhood's historic architecture, as well as the renaissance of "We only have one blighted property on the block now, and it's being renovated by a young couple," Bywater resident T.R. Johnson said in a press release about the tour. A Tulane professor, Johnson owns an 1870s-era camelback home featured on the tour.…

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What do you want to rename the New Orleans Hornets?
04/19/2012

Tom Benson, mayor-king of the city-state of New Orleans, announced last week his acquisition of the New Orleans Hornets, the basketball team equivalent of the prettiest girl in school you'll do anything to get her to win an NBA championship. (And no doubt disappointing Chris Trew, who has since moved on to coach the New Orleans Saints.)

Oh, and then Benson mentioned he wants to rename the team.…

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Musician Levon Helm near death, family says
04/19/2012

Yesterday the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival announced Levon Helm would not be playing this year's Jazz Fest. Today, Helm's family has issued a statement:

Dear Friends,

Levon is in the final stages of his battle with cancer.…

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More Vietnamese on Magazine
04/19/2012

The ranks of Uptown options for pho and banh mi have grown again with the recent opening of Pho-Noi-Viet.

Found in a newly-renovated storefront, Pho-Noi-Viet is a family-run restaurant from Kim and Vinh Vu.…

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Straight Stick Ranch Burger Co. joins Rock ?n? Bowl line-up
04/19/2012

The Blancher family has built something of an entertainment compound along South Carrollton Avenue between its Rock ?n? Bowl music venue/bowling alley and its Ye Olde College Inn restaurant. The latest addition is a new walk-up burger stand attached to Rock ?n? Bowl called the Straight Stick Ranch Burger Co.

?It?s really simple.…

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