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The 47th episode of the highly popular Super Bowl series will be filmed in New Orleans in 2013, league and television officials announced last month, buffing the city’s image as a major destination for film and TV productions.
In a move satirically unrelated to the release of e-mails in which City Councilwoman Stacy Head expressed outrage over the grocery purchases of a welfare mother, nurses aide and welfare recipient Michelle Jones recently expressed exacerbation over the largely organic contents of Head's grocery basket.
A week after she was indicted on federal racketeering charges, former state Rep. and New Orleans City Councilwoman and state Rep. Renee Gill Pratt has taken an unpaid leave of absence from her job at Southern University at New Orleans. “Unpaid? Is she crazy?” asked indicted former New Orleans congressman and Gill Pratt mentor William Jefferson, right.
A Gretna fireworks stand has test-fired at least seven short-range rockets in the past several weeks, marking the latest gambit in a simmering battle over arms proliferation in the region.
DiBari catches sex-scandal Sen. David Vitter in bed with porn star Stormy Daniels! Also, President George Obama?
New Orleans recovery czar Ed Blakely, who is leaving his post by July 1, ended his controversial two-year stint at City Hall by addressing his most famous faux pas. CLICK HERE
Do the Saints have a snowball's chance in Hades of making the Super Bowl? The Levee's own Albert Wrinkle has a deal for you.
On June 10, 1889, members of a number of Civil War veterans groups throughout the South gathered in New Orleans to consolidate and form the United Confederate Veterans organization. The Levee has the whole story.
The New Orleans Levee Newspaper has obtained a transcript of Mayor C. Ray Nagin's subconscious as the mayor was delivering his final State of the City Address last month. The 7,900-word speech has been edited of self-serving and skewed statements and statistics and comes in at about 1,700 words, which, proportional to his 7,900-word speech, is about the same as his approval rating.
The post-Jazz Fest accumulation of pot, acid, mushrooms, X, beer, acid, and the blue stuff in the Port-O-Lets are getting these animals "stoned to the bejesus!" new Fairgrounds official Angus Lind says.
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As local leaders plan to fail this hurricane season, the federal government promised to continue its ongoing failure to plan. Even the military’s well-known MREs, known as Meals Ready to Eat, have been gutted of food, stuffed with excuses and even renamed ERMs (Excuses Ready to Make).
In a secret deposition, The Levee has learned Mayor Ray Nagin claims he was “hypnotized” by the captivating eyes of embattled former city technology chief Greg Meffert.
In the wake of General Motors’ bust, determined Chrysler officials have announced the company will emerge from bankruptcy, be resurrected as a non-profit and renamed Christ’s Sake.
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From the Breach
The writing staff of the New Orleans Levee Newspaper has filed a workers compensation lawsuit against all Louisiana politicians.
The suit claims Levee writers have suffered "extreme fatigue of their hands, minds and souls" due to the fact that the politicians provide "way too much material to write about."
Levee editor Rudy M. Vorkapic, curled up in a ball in the corner of his office, declined to comment on the suit, whimpering that "it would just be another thing to write about."
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