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This Louisiana Voodoo Shop Hosts A Free Halloween Festival Rooted In Real Spiritual Traditions

Every Halloween, a whole street gets handed over to drummers, priests, and priestesses instead of plastic skeletons. The party is free, and it closes with an ancestral healing ritual at 7 PM. The hosts are actual practitioners. They run a small shop with handmade dolls, gris gris bags, and potion...

New Orleans, LA · 11d
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A Senior’s Go-To Guide: Halloween in New Orleans

On October 12th, I stepped outside to find construction workers painting the house next door a pale blue and nailing a large sign into the ground announcing the grand opening of Reverie, with a barcode to buy tickets to their opening event on the 31st. Although Reverie is a new restaurant, the sign says their grand opening will include food, beverages, and a “vampire opera.” I thought, only in New Orleans, on a scorching hot October Monday, would a “Vampire Opera” be announced directly outside my door.

New Orleans, LA · 10d
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RTA board officially announces new CEO after months-long search

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - The New Orleans Regional Transit Authority Board of Commissioners (RTA) confirmed they have a new CEO to lead New Orleans’ transit agency. According to the board, Justin Augustine was chosen to become CEO out of three finalists. “We look forward to the leadership and vision...

New Orleans, LA · 11d
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The barbershop quartet tradition is alive in New Orleans

NEW ORLEANS (InvestigateTV) - On a Mid City evening, a four-part harmony rang out just off Canal Street. The group, Southern Tradition, has been around since 1999. The quartet is a place where a traditional American art form forges a friendship. “The main attribute to be a barbershop quartet singer...

New Orleans, LA · 10d
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Louisiana National Guard leaders address readiness, transformation at annual conference

The Louisiana National Guard held its annual Command and Staff Conference at Jackson Barracks in New Orleans, Oct. 17-18, bringing together brigade and battalion command teams and senior headquarters leaders from across the organization. The conference opened with a physical fitness competition designed to build esprit de corps among the...

Louisiana · 10d

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Slidell public records hearing remains on schedule as questions persist over Seuzeneau’s SPD role

COVINGTON — A hearing in a public records lawsuit against the Slidell Police Department remains scheduled for Wednesday, Oct. 28, after attorneys for the department withdrew a request to postpone the proceedings. The hearing is set for 9:30 a.m. before Judge Martin E. Coady in Division E of the...

Slidell, LA · 11d

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Early voting numbers show strong Democratic turnout in Louisiana

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Democratic turnout has been higher than Republican turnout in Louisiana’s early voting period, but one political analyst said the GOP will prevail in the race between Democratic Senate candidate Jamie Davis and Republican Senate candidate Julia Letlow. According to data from the Louisiana Secretary of...

Louisiana · 12d

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New Orleans planning commission recommends new rules for short-term rentals, hotels, B&Bs

A year after consultants suggested big changes to New Orleans’ rules governing short-term rentals, the City Planning Commission on Tuesday endorsed several of the changes for those controversial rentals, including new limits on where they can be offered, along with updated rules governing hotels, bed-and-breakfasts and hostels. But the...

New Orleans, LA · 11d

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USW Local 620 supports NOLA to Angola bicycle ride with Gonzales stop

United Steelworkers Local 620 hosted a cookout for cyclists in the New Orleans to Angola bike ride. The 170-mile ride raises funds and brings cyclists together with families of incarcerated individuals. The event is a three-day journey from Orleans Parish Prison to the Louisiana State Penitentiary. Gonzales Mayor Tim Riley...

Gonzales, LA · 11d

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Transforming into monsters from New Orleans Nightmare Haunted House

This year, New Orleans Nightmare returns with an all-new Jason Universe Experience which will bring a terrifying new story to life.

New Orleans, LA · 10d

WGNO

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Where Y’at this Weekend: Rocky Horror Picture Show, Haunted Houses, Coquille Park, Louisiana Book Festival

Halloween in New Orleans is when the city really gets to show off, as we masquerade, stay out late, and have a little too much fun…with spooky celebrations, live music, and haunted houses.

New Orleans, LA · 9d

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As early voting ends in Louisiana, Senate candidates make final pitches: ‘go to the polls’

Louisiana’s two U.S. Senate candidates – Democrat Jamie Davis and Republican Julia Letlow – urged people to cast ballots Tuesday on the final day of the early voting period, offering contrasting appeals that reflect the different tenors of their campaigns. Davis held an open rally in New...

Louisiana · 11d

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New Orleans lawyer accuses nearby DA of damaging his reputation, worsening divorce with wife

A New Orleans-area lawyer is accusing the district attorney in St. Bernard Parish, Perry Nicosia, of taking up with his then-wife, enlisting a DA’s office investigator to spy on him and harming his career with an accusatory email to colleagues at his law firm. In a federal lawsuit, George...

New Orleans, LA · 12d

WGNO

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City officials to meet with Krewe of Boo over debris that organization is ‘responsible’ to clean

City of New Orleans officials will meet with the Krewe of Boo this week after the organization had issues with the clean-up of the left-over debris from the parade on Saturday night.

New Orleans, LA · 12d

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Día de los Muertos Festival Returns to Lafayette Square With Free Admission

New Orleans is once again throwing open Lafayette Square for its annual Día de los Muertos Festival, a free, family-friendly celebration honoring loved ones who have passed and packed with live music, food vendors, an ofrenda and a costume contest. The event is hosted by the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Louisiana and its HCCL Young Professionals group, continuing a tradition the organization has built over the past several years in downtown New Orleans.

New Orleans, LA · 11d

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Planning commission approves new short-term rental rules, rejects expansion in French Quarter

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - The New Orleans City Planning Commission approved a new study on zoning rules for short-term rentals, but rejected a plan to allow their expansion on four blocks on Decatur and North Peters in the French Quarter on Oct. 27. The planning commission approved the new rules...

New Orleans, LA · 11d

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CRISI Spotlight: $5.81MM for Louisiana Railroad Bridge Replacement

Written by Marybeth Luczak, Executive Editor, Railway Age. The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) is providing $5.81 million to the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development (DOTD) for the replacement of five aging railroad bridges between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, La. The funding is part of FRA’s recently announced CRISI...

New Orleans, LA · 11d

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Louisiana presently has highest rate of flu activity in Continental United States

According to the CDC, Louisiana has the highest rate of flu activity of any state in the Continental United States. Dr. Fred Lopez, a professor of medicine at LSU Health New Orleans, says this is a relatively early start to flu season. “The only thing predictable about a flu season...

Louisiana · 11d