Bayou Boogaloo 2019 music lineup announced [ WWL - Local]

Tab Benoit, Cowboy Mouth, Raw Oyster Cult and Amanda Shaw are some of the top acts for the 14th annual festival

        

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New Orleans’ Mid-City library plans move to Canal Street building this fall | Advocate

The New Orleans Public Library’s Mid-City branch is finally getting a new home after months of operating under a short-term lease at its site on Orleans Avenue.

The library will move by the fall to the former Automotive Life Insurance Co. building at 4140 Canal St., just off Carrollton Avenue, library Director Charles Brown said in a memo this week to staff and city officials.

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Rain brings Jazz Fest business boom to some Mid-City stores | WWL

Thursday's unyielding rainstorms had Jazz Festers trying to stay dry. Many searched for the right gear and gave local stores a boost in business. While some Jazz Festers threw on ponchos, garbage bags, umbrellas and hats to fight the rain, others chose to brave the elements without much help...

 

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Arriving to Mid-City by boat to do the Boogaloo | Tri Parish Times

What began as a one-day event to help restore a broken city and promote local artists has blossomed into a free weekend celebration of New Orleans culture and the strides the city has made since the summer of 2005. The event, hosted by the Mothership Foundation, began as a small project after Hurricane Katrina with big hopes of contributing to the restoration of the damaged city.


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Mid-City bomb-laden truck allegedly part of man's insurance fraud scheme | NOLA.com

Photo by Kathleen Flynn, Nola.com / The Times-Picayune

A federal grand jury on Thursday indicted a New Orleans man accused of trying to bomb his own pickup truck before filing a fraudulent insurance claim in February. The bomb scare caused police to shut down traffic around the busy intersection of Canal Street and Jefferson Davis Parkway and evacuate the area for four hours...

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Mid City Bud's Broiler will reopen for Endymion | NOLA Defender

In just a couple of weeks, Mid City meat lovers will reclaim their favorite burger joint. The original Bud's Broiler (500 City Park Avenue) is nearly operational after a fire wiped out part of the kitchen in October. They’ve been slinging patties on their black skillet since 1952, and owner Shannon McGuire is anxious to get back in business. The restaurant will reopen for Endymion...

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Mid-City neighbors unhappy with types of stores in major new development | WWL

The more than 100,000 square foot lot, located on North Carrollton Avenue between St. Louis and Bienville Streets, sat vacant for years after Katrina. Now, restaurants, a grocery store, and an Ochsner clinic are set to open in June.

It will also be the first new development along the proposed Lafitte Greenway, a 3.1 mile bicycle and pedestrian path along a former shipping canal and railroad that would run from the French Quarter to Lakeview. The Laffite Greenway Corridor would also include recreational facilities...


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New Green Room on the Greenway | Friends of Lafitte Corridor

Join The Urban Conservancy, Friends of Lafitte Corridor, FutureProof, Massey’s Professional Outfitters and Merrell Shoes, to finalize building the third “Green Room” on the Greenway.

Meeting place is N. Carrolton at St. Louis (in front of Massey’s) Saturday, October 6,2012  from 9 am – 1 pm CDT.

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Failed pumps at Corps pumping station could increase Mid-City flooding risk | The lens

With Tropical Storm Isaac bearing down on New Orleans, one of three key Army Corps of Engineers pumping stations that help drain the city during a storm is only at partial capacity – far less than what is needed to keep the Orleans Avenue Canal from filling.

Photo by Danielle Bell

The city’s Sewerage & Water Board pumping station serving Mid-City and the City Park area can put significantly more water in that canal than the Corps could empty if the flood gates at Lake Pontchartrain have to be closed. Isaac is expected to be a Category 1 or 2 hurricane when it makes landfall in the New Orleans area Tuesday night..


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Old Schwegmann store on Broad Street could become fresh food hub | NOLA.com

The nonprofit Broad Community Connections has purchased the former Schwegmann Giant Super Market building at 300 N. Broad St., and plans to create a "fresh food hub" to spur redevelopment along the Broad Street corridor. Plans call for a grocery store, a culinary and life-skills training program for at-risk youth, a teaching kitchen and other health- and wellness-related tenants.

Chris Granger, The Times-Picayune

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Costco financial incentives approved by New Orleans City Council | NOLAcom

The New Orleans City Council signed off Thursday on a package of financial incentives for the planned Costco big-box warehouse store in the Carrollton area. The incentives, which could total nearly $6 million, include both infrastructure improvements and tax breaks. The measures, which were strongly backed by Mayor Mitch Landrieu's administration, were approved 6-0. The membership-only facility will occupy the vacant 14.7-acre site of the former Carrollton Shopping Center, across South Carrollton Avenue from Xavier University. Like other Costco outlets nationwide, it will sell both general merchandise and food and will feature a pharmacy, tire center and gas station.

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Fair Grounds: Gantry gives Faucheux his first stakes win in Thanksgiving Handicap | Daily Racing Form

Gantry gave 29-year-old New Orleans native Ron Faucheux his first stakes win as a trainer. He was ridden to victory in the $75,000 Thanksgiving Handicap by Richard Eramia, who was fortunate to escape injury in a spill earlier Thursday.

Gantry ($12.20) won the first stakes of his career while racing for the ninth time and making his first start since being privately purchased and turned over to Faucheux about three weeks ago...

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New Orleans pushes forward with greenway | wwltv.com

This city is holding another round of community meetings to hash out the details of what officials hope will become a transformative project for inner New Orleans — a 3 mile open space for walkers and bikers from the French Quarter to near City Park that engineers hope will be done by spring 2014.

Mayor Mitch Landrieu has made the Lafitte Corridor, as the greenway project is known, a priority...

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New Orleans' Lafitte Corridor park talks kick off ‎| NOLA.com

New Orleanians have been talking for years about turning the largely abandoned former railroad right-of-way along Lafitte and St. Louis streets into a linear park. Another planning effort gets under way when Mayor Mitch Landrieu's administration launches a series of community meetings to help create a master plan for development of the entire Lafitte Greenway and of Lafitte Greenway Park, a 16.5-acre site within the corridor just west of North Claiborne Avenue...

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Wild dog pack in Mid-City | Blog of New Orleans

One of them went down the middle of the street zigzagging like Reggie Bush, while the second one took a straight line down the sidewalk. The smaller dog brought up the rear. They were as brisk and silent as a school of fish; at the corner, they simultaneously made a right and disappeared...

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Stalled 3-mile long park back on track to connect New Orleans Neighborhoods | WVUE

Neighbors say it could transform New Orleans and connect communities in a way nothing else could. The federal government is putting $6.5 million dollars towards the project, but some residents remain cautiously optimistic, saying they've heard these pledges of progress before.

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Jazz Fest Live! Webcam from Liuzza's by the Track | NOLA.com #jazzfest #jf2011

Join NOLA.com live from Liuzza's by the Track both weekends of the New Orleans Jazz Fest. Or, if you're out at the Fest, stop by Liuzza's for a drink and a bite to eat where you can stand in front of cam and wave hello to the folk back home!

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City issues parking, permit reminders for 2011 New Orleans Jazz Fest | NOLA.com

With the 2011 New Orleans Jazz Fest set to open at the New Orleans Fairgrounds on Friday, April 29, City officials issued a reminder regarding the procedures and requirements for permitting for public parking in the festival's vicinity as well as businesses selling goods. This year's Festival dates are April 29 - May 1 and May 5 - 8...

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Car and streets flooded in Lakeview | WWL

Neighbors in the Lakeview neighborhood of New Orleans
spent much of Wednesday drying out from torrential rains
that fell around daybreak.

Neighbors in the Lakeview neighborhood of New Orleans spent much of Wednesday drying out from torrential rains that fell around daybreak. There was standing water on Carrollton Avenue near City Park. The Canal Boulevard underpass, an historic trouble spot in the city, was underwater and closed...

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Grocery may be built at strip mall on Bienville and Carrollton | WWLTV.com

In a New Orleans on the mend, one corner in Mid-City stands frozen in time. The Harry Ace Hardware, a Chinese restaurant and daiquiri shop that once did a good business here on Bienville and North Carrollton are boarded up and abandoned. The new grocery store would be right across the street from an existing Rouses Supermarket...

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