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5 Sep 2014:
City links: We explore the centrality of street food to Chengdu’s social life, the trend of parking spaces becoming parks, and a map of Portland’s immorality in this week’s best city stories
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29 Aug 2014: Nine years after Hurricane Katrina, and wealth disparity spreading at faster rate than in most US cities new data shows
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11 Aug 2014:
Drive-by shooting, which occurred in the Lower 9th Ward, wounded five people, three of them under the age of 13
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11 Aug 2014: Wounded included children aged two and four after a weekend of violence also left a man dead after a stand-off with police
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9 Jul 2014:
Nagin, who served two terms as mayor, convicted February 12 of accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes
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29 Jun 2014:
Police say eight people hospitalised, including one in critical condition, after an early morning shooting on famous street
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26 Jun 2014: Trombone to tuba, cornet to sousaphone, New Orleans to India, or colliery to marching military, let's trumpet those tubes and valves, says Peter Kimpton
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20 Jun 2014:
Notes on New Orleans blogger Richard Bienvenu says efforts to cut crime are moving the stats in the right direction, but calls for more, and argues that the city's potholes make driving on side streets difficult – although slower cars do mean a more pedestrian-friendly centre
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16 Jun 2014:
The city that gave the world jazz, gumbo and Mardi Gras has a colourful history as wide and deep as the mighty Mississippi
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13 Jun 2014: City links: this week we delve into what a future smart city's signs might look like, follow the 'People's Cup' in São Paolo and ride electric tricycles in Manila
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25 Mar 2014:
Journalists also told to lead off comment threads
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19 Mar 2014:
DJ Action Jackson traces the story of New Orleans' music, from second-line community brass bands to the Hot Eight Brass Band and the bounce phenomenon
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4 Mar 2014:
In New Orleans, the first recorded Mardi Gras – French for Fat Tuesday – took place in 1699. Originally, festivities marked the beginning of Lent, but today this officially recognised holiday is synonymous with beads, krewes and king cake
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25 Feb 2014: Building owner called police saying someone was attempting to cut out Umbrella Girl painting that was created after Hurricane Katrina
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24 Feb 2014:
Officials report light sheen following accident but river traffic halted to avoid contaminating passing vessel
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