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Zilker Holiday Tree brightens Austin this month
12/21/2011

Enjoy an Austin tradition, 6 p.m. - midnight through Dec. 31.

Community Tax Center volunteers
12/21/2011

Assist low-income residents who need income-tax preparation services.

Bring a pet home for the holidays
12/21/2011

Reduced adoption fees through Jan. 8.

Vote for City Hall artwork through Dec. 30
12/21/2011

People’s Gallery 2011 Art Exhibition ends Jan. 12.

Charter Revision Committee seeks public input
12/21/2011

Participate and stay informed about this process.

Ordinance will require registration for credit access businesses
12/21/2011

Payday lenders have until May 1, 2012 to register with the City.

Downtown Austin Connects launches
12/21/2011

Effort solidifies a collective commitment to implement the Downtown Austin Plan.

City Council highlights for Dec. 15
12/21/2011

Include Balcones Canyonlands Preserve enhancements and a new security checkpoint at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport.

School unveils statue of chef Warren Leruth
12/14/2011

Though Warren Leruth died a decade ago, the legacy of this New Orleans chef, food scientist and restaurant consultant is still palpable. You can taste it in such local staples as oyster and artichoke soup, one of the original standards at his renowned restaurant LeRuth’s; in Green Goddess salad dressing, which he developed in the early 1960s; and even in the recipes for biscuits, red beans and dirty rice from Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen, which he created for that company when it was based in Louisiana.…

Jazz Fest lineup to be announced; Voodoo tickets on super sale
12/14/2011

Two big music festival stories today ...

First: the schedule for the 2012 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival goes online at midnight (we'll have it here on Blog of New Orleans).…

Video: Drew Brees appears on Sesame Street this week
12/14/2011

Update: And here's the video with "Mr. Drew" (spoiler: Elmo is four potatoes tall):

The record-shredding, Super Bowl-winning, centurion-emperor of New Orleans will appear on PBS' Sesame Street alongside Elmo (pictured above, next to our beloved lord of pigskin). In the episode ("Elmozilla"), Elmo becomes a giant, and Brees teaches him about the word "measure" — as in, "This is how you tall you are" (and also: "These are how many yards I can throw every game with my eyes closed").…

Giant Cloud with Empress Hotel and the Hawks (of Holy Rosary)
12/14/2011

Park the Van's sixth annual Holiday Soiree forsakes the ghosts of Christmas present and future for a blast from the not-so-distant past. Giant Cloud, the charming, harmonizing husband-and-wife psych/pop band, effectively replaced the Peekers when the latter closed its harmonizing husband-and-wife psych/pop act in 2009.…

Works by Elizabeth Fox and the Bourghog Guild
12/14/2011

When painter Elizabeth Fox lived in New Orleans years ago, she worked in an office and observed corporate social behavior with the eye of anthropologist. She saw how products are marketed and how sleekly attractive employees become social commodities.…

A Victory for Occupy
12/14/2011

Landrieu's only misstep may have been not waiting until Judge Zainey heard the matter Time and again, public officials across America botched their responses to the Occupy protests. Images of cops beating protesters in New York and pepper spraying peaceful, seated college students on the University of California-Davis campus are among the most vivid examples of the overreactions.…

Cameron Jones For Your Home
12/14/2011

Cameron Jones For Your Home (2127 Magazine St., 524-3119) is holding a moving sale through Dec 31. The majority of the store's merchandise is discounted by 10-50 percent.…

Bistreaux Part II
12/14/2011

Bistreaux (1001 Toulouse St., 586-8000; www.maisondupuy.com/bistreaux.htm), the casual counterpoint to Le Meritage in the French Quarter's Maison Dupuy Hotel, now has a sister restaurant in Metairie. This second Bistreaux (3838 N. Causeway Blvd., Metairie, 832-3838; www.marriott.com) opened last week Metairie, taking over the space that had been Bistro 38, a restaurant once affiliated with chef Dominique Macquet.…

happy shoe Year
12/14/2011

Shoe fiends rejoice: This holiday season sees the arrival of two new shoe boutiques: French Sole New Orleans celebrates its grand opening this month, and CeCe Shoe has a soft opening in mid-December. French Sole New Orleans (The Shops at Canal Place, 333 Canal St., Suite 119, 267-9000; www.theshopsatcanalplace.com) specializes in European ballet slippers.…

2010 Innovacion Tempranillo Malbec
12/14/2011

Mendoza, Argentina / $10 Retail This high-quality wine comes with the added bargain of being packaged in a one-liter bottle, roughly eight ounces more than the usual 750 ml.…

Quotes of the Week
12/14/2011

"Was it the worst moment of [NBA Commissioner] David Stern's entire tenure? I never thought anything would top an official fixing games, but man ... how can anything be worse than this?…

Letters to the Editor
12/14/2011

Funding Mental Health Regarding the recent Gambit editorial "Time to Shift the Paradigm" (Nov. 29): Providing mental health and substance abuse resources for all of our residents — in particular defendants in our criminal justice system — is something that we deem a priority.…

Eagles, Tom Petty, Foo Fighters headline 2012 Jazz Fest
12/14/2011

The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival announced it’s 2012 lineup, and arena rockers making their debuts at the fest include the Eagles, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and Foo Fighters. There are a host of popular returning headliners, including Al Green, My Morning Jacket, Bonnie Raitt, Herbie Hancock, Esperanza Spalding, Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings and Maze featuring Frankie Beverly.…

#Occupy denied: Judge refuses preliminary injunction, protesters must leave Duncan Plaza tonight
12/14/2011

The details are still coming together, but U.S. District Court Judge Lance Africk has denied a motion for a preliminary injunction that was filed by some of the Occupy protesters who have taken up encampment in Duncan Plaza.

Short version: The temporary restraining order issued last week has been rescinded.…

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Review: Taste of the Caribbean
12/14/2011

Ian McNulty on a family-run Gretna restaurant that serves up food of the islands by Ian McNulty It's hard to guess the ethnic identity at work at Taste of the Caribbean until you look at the menu translations. Grilled fish, for instance, is listed first as pescado frito in Spanish, but then also as pwason fri in Haitian Creole.…
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Happy Days
12/14/2011

Keeping up a cheery front while sinking in the quicksand of life is the sardonic premise of Samuel Beckett's Happy Days, recently presented by Four Humours outside the Shadowbox Theatre. One possibly apocryphal explanation of why Beckett wrote the piece is that his wife complained about his depressing plays.…
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Wanted: Oversight
12/14/2011

Any objective observer of Bobby Jindal knows that he's long on spin and short on specifics by Clancy DuBos A new report from an independent government watchdog warns that lawmakers should keep a sharp eye on Jindal's new privatized Medicaid program, which will control $2 billion in public funds and provide care for almost 900,000 Louisiana Medicaid patients. Medicaid is the federally subsidized health care program for poor people.…
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