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New Orleans, LA, USA - Everybody asks about Bourbon Street, the legendary theme park for adults, when they ask you about New Orleans. It's the center of the Mardi Gras celebrations for drunken revelers and people who believe they're getting a real taste of The Big Easy.

But among the cognoscenti of this storied town, the 21st Century hipsters, the place to be right now is a bit further down river. It's Frenchmen Street. Frenchmen Street has become so BIG and EASY in the last twelve months that the bridge crowd (people coming across the famed Causeway from the 'burbs) and tourists from France, Germany and the midwestern United States think of it as their private treasure

They've figured out where the locals go for good live music seven nights a week and they're becoming addicted.

The jewel in the crown of Frenchmen Street, by many people's lights, is a club called The Spotted Cat.

New Orleans JazzFest is mentioned by print journals like Details as one of the must-do events for globetrotting party types. Two of the local bands that made the JazzFest cut, The Jazz Vipers and Hot Club, play every week at "The Cat" (as habitues call it) on Mondays and Thursdays respectively...MORE


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by DENISE M. CLARK

Covina, CA, USA - Russian Experiences: Life in the Former USSR and Post-Soviet Russia - By The Raven and Marie Claire, Virtualbookworm.com Publishing, Publication date: April 2002

Do you know the difference between Communism and National Socialism? Do you have any idea what it was like to live in Post World War II Russia? How about the Cold War period? Do you know what happened during the turbulent period of upheaval during the late 1980's to the early 1990's, a period that witnessed the death throes of the former entity known as the USSR [Union of Soviet Socialist Republics- Ed.]?

Unless one went through it, experienced it, and lived it, one can't ever really know. But a man known as 'The Raven' lived through it, and with the help of co-writer Marie Claire, he tells us his story...MORE

Marietta, OH, USA - This corner of the jazz world has not been avoiding a review of Henry Butler's new album, "The Game Has Just Begun" (Basin Street Records). The CD and accompanying publicity material somehow got shifted to the "done" side of my music stacks. I hadn't written a review, but had listened to the disc and found it an odd combination of jazz and blues with a generous dollop of pop added for extra flavor.

While I don't recommend my filing methods to a person seeking neatness and quick availability in his or her office, it often (not always) works for me. But onward to Henry Butler, a fine singer and pianist extraordinaire....MORE


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by ROD AMIS

NEW ORLEANS - Being a journalist is tough sometimes. Being a dirt broke journalist is even harder. The hardest part of it all is that you don't lose your contacts or your sources. So like young Franklin Roosevelt visiting Germany, you see the clouds gathering on the horizon. The rumors of war tend to reach you first. You see the troop mobilizations and they begin to obscure all the other "news" around you.

That's how I now feel about the proposed October War my country is planning in Iraq. The last of The Dubya's vindications of his father's memory. We continue down the Orwellian path of Perpetual War and This Commentator is personally worried and remorseful about that fact.

I have enough problems of my own, I don't need to be worried for the world anymore....MORE

From Dawn, (No City Provided), USA:

SUBJECT: Thoughts from a Preacher's Kid

Excuse me sir, but could I have a moment of your time. I just read through your article, and I beg to differ. For one, some of us have a little self respect. I know that if some of the other PK's I know had read this, your inbox would be full. I know that I don't appriciate it being spread across the internet that you will have a wild time with a preacher's daughter. And another thing...I don't appreciate you saying that all preachers are just puttin on a show. Some are heart felt and sincere. Yes I admit that there are some people out there saying one thing and doing another. But that doesn't mean all preachers are hipocrites. I would appreciate it if you wouldn't put trash about people like me on the internet anymore.

Sincerly,
A PK

Love Ya Lots,

~*~Dawn~*~

Don't forget to always LIVE OUT LOUD!!!

"I need this shirt in a much smaller size!" -Beth...MORE

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