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3 years

A moment of appreciation for the @NOLAnews carriers who still got this on our porch this morning

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Told my neighbor that whenever she was ready to get her vax, I'd be happy to drive her. She just knocked on the door, and we're going to @nolaready this afternoon. We really are all in this together.

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Shoutout to everyone else spending Mother’s Day changing The family Netflix and HBO Go passwords so your sister’s ex-boyfriend can’t watch “Game of Thrones” tonight.

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“I’m gonna end up wth a divorce and no beads at the end of this night.” #overheard at #MardiGras

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The knife stays in the box.

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Kamala Harris @VP has arrived at @essencefest (she’s in blue)

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6 years

Heading downtown Loyola toward the Superdome #TomBenson @Saints @NOLAnews

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. @janellemonae gives fierce, unforgettable #Prince tribute at @jazzfest : "I am because he was."

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If you’re like me and feeling like you could hear some good news, here are two things: 1) New Orleans’ local news isn’t going anywhere. It’s strong. It’s vibrant. And it belongs to all of you. 2) You can hire me! I work hard and I hustle like hell. Email me cabrasted @gmail .com

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3 years

Just had that weird deja vu when you see a random house and immediately realized you’ve used the bathroom there during Mardi Gras but have no idea who actually lives there

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3 years

For my followers outside south Louisiana, this is what we mean when we say it’s *not normal* here, even for the folks like us who made out pretty darn lucky. Limited hours, limited availability on even the essentials.

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5 years

The Dr Pepper ball toss for $100k is only entertaining bc of a deep policy failure in the US and I’m not sorry for being a fun sucker on this.

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5 years

There should be a Twitter law that local news outlets can't tweet headlines from cities they don't cover without noting where the event took place.

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4 years

The idea that we're punishing bars and restaurants across the city bc we can't get Bourbon St to get its act together is mind-boggling.

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I'm the last person to want anyone not to take masking seriously, but the NFL saying you can line up on a field w/out a mask but can't celebrate mask-less in the privacy of your own locker room is some "only the optics matter but not your actual body" next-level nonsense

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Sources: Saints are facing significant discipline for not wearing masks during the postgame celebration last Sunday night in Tampa, as seen in the videos they posted on social media:

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7 years

lol I love you New Orleans

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1 year

There was a 100% chance of this happening, right? #LoveIsBlind

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6 years

Just ran into Choppa. He is drinking straight lemon juice, popping cough drops and smiling his face off. #whodat

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7 months

We do live in the weirdest place

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1 year

What a hell of a security breach. La State govt suggesting anyone with a Louisiana drivers license, ID or car reg: - freeze credit - change pwds - get IRS pin - check SS benefits - reported suspected ID theft

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Don’t you just love New Orleans? #TomBenson ’s death announced just hours ago and this second-line came together for him by 7 @Saints @NOLAnews

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THREAD | It's my last shift as breaking news editor at @nolanews . In my final column, I noted how folks don't usually want to know how the news gets made. Well, I thought I'd share a bit as the final hours of this particular chapter comes to a close.

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We're officially one month down, one month to go from our @NOLAnews layoff announcement. So please excuse me while I introduce you to the newsroom I grew up wanting to be a part of, and somehow got lucky enough to join.

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1 year

Still seeing a lot of Qs (inc from New Orleans friends texting me, lol) about saltwater intrusion, so here’s a thread recap: — a low Mississippi River means salt is coming up from Gulf. There’s not enough rain in the forecast (we need 10” across Miss River valley) to stop it.

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8 months

Making too much out of a request to explain Mardi Gras to our editors.

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7 years

Khris Royal leads a dirge-like version of the National Anthem as we await the removal of Robert E Lee

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1 year

*in love and out of office*

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Yesterday was an indescribably beautiful experience for @cabrasted and I as we welcomed our daughter Ada into the world. A lot of people tried to prepare me for it, but there was nothing that could be done. I was and still am completely floored.

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2 years

Richard Simmons is trending and this is just your casual reminder that he is from New Orleans and I love that for us.

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4 years

So just to be clear, it’s the bars that cause “congregating,” right?

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2 years

A bit of *news* from me: I started today at @Axios Local! Soon enough, we'll be launching a New Orleans newsletter, covering the city in 1 email a day, but you can subscribe now to see what we're all about:

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5 years

Me seeing the #FACEBOOK news

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8 years

Tiger Band doing a really awesome post-flood tribute to Baton Rouge and Louisiana. #LSU

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5 years

Me: is this the right terminal for my flight home to New Orleans? Airport:

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6 years

Hey Saints fans: It's only 44 days 'til Mardi Gras, and just 228 days 'til football season.

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4 years

hello, I wasn't prepared for having a popeye's commercial make me cry today.

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3 years

Check out that @brbizreport cover coming soon to a newsstand near you! I had so much fun getting to know how entrepreneurship runs in @livvydunne ’s family. Grab a copy to get the details 💜💛🐯

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Louisiana is set to legalize raw milk sales as conservative media pushes perceived health benefits … and the risk of avian flu on dairy farms increases.

As conservative media pushes raw milk, Louisiana set to legalize its sale

When the bill received overwhelming votes to pass the state House, members were heard mooing in the chambers

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5 years

If you’re wondering how the @nolanews team is doing at Jazz Fest ...

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11 months

A lil scoop from me: Preservation Hall is going to 4x its French Quarter footprint with the renovation of a bldg next door. It'll be HQ for the foundation and used for artists in residence, gallery, additional performance space and an unrelated restaurant.

Scoop: Preservation Hall to quadruple its French Quarter footprint

The historic renovation is estimated to cost about $4.8 million.

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2 years

This is a shameless “my jasmine is also living her best life” post.

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4 years

If I ever opened a dive bar for freelance journalists, I'd call it Just Circling Back.

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6 years

Choppa let me follow him for an entire day, welcoming me and @emmatscott to see what being the creator of the @Saints ' latest anthem has meant for him. The magic isn't lost on him, y'all.

The Saints have a new anthem. For Choppa, it's a whole new world

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I just don’t know a better New Orleans moment of peace than being on the ferry when the engines go quiet and it slides sideways across the Mississippi.

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3 years

One hell of a way to get that first @nytimes A1 byline, but lucky to share it with folks like @RichardFausset and @katyreckdahl .

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6 years

If you didn't happen to have a reason to love New Orleans today ... Barkus made Sapphire, the pup companion to a man diagnosed with cancer who recently traveled all the way down the Mississippi on a houseboat, a duchess in its parade today.

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3 years

Everyone in Louisiana this morning

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I occasionally catch myself wondering if *this* — as in no festivals, few restaurant visits, very little if any live music, no lazy nights at the side of an expert bartender — must be how the rest of the world lives and I just get so damn thankful for this absurd town.

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3 years

💜💚💛

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In case you want to know how extremely from new orleans I am, my mom and I couldn’t figure out what “that mound of dirt” was from an airplane on the way into phoenix. A hill. What we saw was a hill.

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4 years

The Costco line just about wraps around the building ... pandemic or double-hurricane problems? This is A Very Local Tweet.

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3 years

A personal life goal is to have a krewe of dancing Britneys and we would be called the Krewe of Kentwood's Finest and all wear different lewks through the years and idk how this hasn't happened yet but someone hold me accountable so I make this happen

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6 years

lol the @Saints are all *just sayin* over here

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Our last 9-game win streak came in 2009 ⚜️

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1 year

TIL my husband has never heard “they all ask’d for you” and this is what I get for marrying someone from out of state.

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4 months

You love to see it.

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🎺🎸At midnight after the show I popped to @PresHall to see the Soul Queen of New Orleans, Irma Thomas, then jumped up to play 'Time Is On My Side' with her and her amazing band! #StonesJazzFest

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Seriously, the @nolaready covid testing setup is the easiest interaction with the American medical system I’ve ever had. In and out on 10 minutes, clear directions, and a washable mask & bagged lunch on the way out. Get tested, New Orleans!!

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Don’t mind me being moved to tears over here just bc I’m wearing a costume and dancing in the street while a high school band plays and I’m trying to catch a dumb plastic cup from George Porter Jr

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4 years

Us: let’s check in on the Marigny The Marigny:

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3 years

Look we’re all adults here so can we just agree there’s no excuse anymore for not installing coat/purse hooks underneath bar tops?

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4 years

We’re always taught in journo not to accept gifts from sources but today I interviewed a man who hustles selling stuff on Bourbon & when I tried not to accept his gifts he (nicely) yelled at me “don’t rebuke my blessing!!” so anyway I have a pink poncho & a great new keychain now

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7 years

Yeah I just didn't realize Tom Petty was from Gainesville. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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This one’s for you, @TomPetty .

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1 year

When you have exactly 5 minutes to put together a dessert plate for book club

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5 years

I really wish the fashion world would recognize the southern season known as When We Want To Dress Like It's Fall But Remain Realistic About The Fact That It's 90 Degrees Outside time.

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6 years

"Some people move on, but not us. Not us." -- The Avengers Or Saints Fans?

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5 years

So there’s a banner being flown over New Orleans right now: Katie, will you marry me? How many Katies are in the French quarter right now?

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5 years

❤️❤️❤️

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1 year

Did I get myself a Hubig’s pie as a reward for voting? Absolutely I did.

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11 months

Voting is so easy even a baby can do it. Get to the polls, Louisiana.

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2 years

So I guess my sister is the hero of Tulane classifieds rn? She’s still got a couple black phones left and if they’re not claimed soon, they’ll be dropped at NOPD. (They recovered a bag of stolen phones in front of Lafitte’s.) Check FB if you had one stolen yesterday.

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5 years

We have one final message for you, New Orleans.

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5 years

There are a million people I want to thank for the love the past 20-ish hours. But a healthy dose of it goes to @Howlinwolfnola , the staff of whom didn't bat an eye when a slobbery mass of journalists showed up for midday beers. The cheese fries & crawfish beignets were 💯, too.

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5 years

Hello world. Casual reminder that if you’re in New Orleans tonight, please tip your Uber driver/bartender/server/musicians bc real people live here.

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4 years

@brynstole Bryn, if we don't get a live update on America's only remaining Popeye's all-you-can-eat buffet and the only remaining Borden's Ice Cream, I'm demanding a refund on my subscription.

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4 years

How’s New Orleans doing with reopening? Us:

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THE COAST GUARD ORDERED A MARDI GRAS PIZZA

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7 months

Pretty sure we saw the Coast Guard get a pizza delivered via a bike while they were on their boat

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4 years

If, like me, you’ve ever thought to yourself, “huh, why is @ByLukeJohnson so stubborn?” well, folks, I give you Luke’s grandmother in the time of coronavirus (narrated by his mother):

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5 years

Y’all I just saw the LSU poodles so I can confirm everyone has in fact showed up for the natty

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1 year

Lol ok I feel like there’s more of a story here

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4 years

Hey New Orleans, I know we’re a lil preoccupied with Marco and Laura, but you might also be interested in the protests happening out in Lafayette 👇🏼

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Protestors being told to leave or be arrested or subjected to chemical deterrents.

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3 years

Science is cool. Coming soon to a poorly ventilated dive bar near you 💉

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4 years

That is New Orleans WWII vet Lawrence Brooks on the next edition of @NatGeo , with a little profile written by yours truly inside. Very much looking forward to my copy to read the rest of this package!

National Geographic

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For more stories like this and to read our cover story on WWII, subscribe to National Geographic:

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If you need me today, I’ll be in the French Quarter celebrating with friends and feeling so lucky to live in a place where it’s normal for adults play a bit.

At Mardi Gras, New Orleanians dress the part

Adults have few opportunities to play. But Mardi Gras is one giant excuse.

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3 years

I would like to take this moment while we still have power to let all of you know that my esteemed husband likes neither board games nor card games and I don’t know why he’s like this.

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4 years

in all seriousness, I have no idea how what Cantrell is announcing right now isn't the same as we've supposed to have been doing since Monday. What is different?

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7 months

casual reminder that you drive east to get to the west bank, new orleans.

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1 year

*the painful urge to interrupt and offer advice to tourists talking about their new orleans weekend plans at this coffee shop*

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5 years

I asked for one last velox: the first day my name was on the masthead.

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3 years

Idk if anyone will ever be able to explain to me just how that sail thing on top of the WWII museum made it through Ida.

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3 years

Hey all — we made it through the night just fine. Not sure if it’s just me, but I’m getting no AT&T cell service. (This is coming from a hotspot on Luke’s phone for the moment.)

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5 years

When your #numberneighbor is most assuredly also in New Orleans.

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Nearly 7 years into marriage and I’m ready to say that there are two types of people in every relationship: — the people who like the overheard lights on and — the pekple who aren’t INSANE

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lol

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4 years

Which side of a hurricane is more dangerous? Here's a quick video study session...

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🎉Life update 🎉: I started this morning as the new content manager for @assn_success . However, @ByLukeJohnson left for work before me (thanks Saints camp!) so I have no back-to-school photo to prove it.

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Extreme lol at “Queer Eye” driving on a sunny day to look at an apt for Speedy when the street and sidewalk are just totally flooded while SWBNO works nearby, and Bobby is just like “… and this is just a regular occurrence?”

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It wouldn’t be the first day of @saints training camp without me making @ByLukeJohnson take his back-to-camp photo!!!!! 🏈🏈🏈

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Oh did you think that @saints training camp being on the west coast and @ByLukeJohnson getting on an early flight to be there would get in the way of his #backtocamp photo? Guess again, buddy. That’s just #marriedtofootball life.

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5 years

You’re damn right I made @ByLukeJohnson take a back-to-school photo before he returned to work today.

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7 years

You ever heard of the Waffle House index? #CajunNavy fueling up.

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3 years

I've been working on this story in some form or fashion since October and let me just tell you it's so so so so so so so lovely to see it out in the world. My latest, for @NatGeo . And to quote the wonderful Mavis Frugé, "All French is good French."

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7 months

Krewe of Dolly. Tucks. Between 37 and 38!

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1 year

Introduced our new cub reporter in the newsletter today!! Beyond thankful for the support from everyone at @Axios as I navigate the beginning of motherhood, but especially for @carlie_kollath , who is holding down our newsletter like an absolute queen.

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