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According to New Orleans Police Department, gang related homicides spiked in 2007, which drove the city's homicide rate to a record high. [2] Some of the most vicious cliques, like the Dooney Boys and the 9th ward G-Strip Gang, moved to other cities and clashed with each other in violent gun battles.
Cafe Lafitte in Exile is a bar in New Orleans' French Quarter that has operated continuously since 1933. It claims to be the oldest continuously operating gay bar in the United States (along with White Horse Inn in Oakland, California, which has also operated since 1933).
Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop is featured in the historical novel Anthony Adverse by Hervey Allen.As depicted in the novel, the "blacksmith shop" was mainly a cover for maintaining a gang of exceptionally tall and strong black slaves – who were ostensibly engaged in shoeing horses while being used by the Lafitte brothers for intimidation, extortion and other criminal activities in and around New ...
A newly released photo shows New Orleans terrorist Shamsud-Din Jabbar calmly prowling the French Quarter on a bike before he ended up killing 14 people and injuring dozens more during an attack ...
Hurricane Katrina severely damaged the restaurant in 2005, causing it to close. [2] [4] [6] In 2007, Mr. B's Bistro was rebuilt to look the same as before the hurricane hit, and reopened. [4] [6] Cindy Brennan authored The Mr. B's Bistro Cookbook: Simply Legendary Recipes From New Orleans's Favorite French Quarter Restaurant (ISBN 0976300605). [11]
Days after the county's inspector general demanded that dozens of deputies reveal their alleged gang tattoos, employee unions filed a both labor complaint and a lawsuit.
K-Paul's Louisiana Kitchen was a Cajun and Creole restaurant in the French Quarter owned by Paul Prudhomme that closed in 2020. [1] [2] Prudhomme and his wife Kay Hinrichs Prudhomme opened the restaurant in 1979. The restaurant is “credited with helping put New Orleans on the culinary map” and popularizing Cajun cuisine. [3]
The quiet in New Orleans' famous French Quarter early Thursday morning was first cut by crews sweeping up trash -- then power washing Bourbon Street. At 2 a.m. Thursday, mangled metal that once ...