Archive for May, 2010

RTA will try to borrow $75 million for new streetcar lines – NOLA.com

May 31st, 2010

NOLA.com

RTA will try to borrow $75 million for new streetcar lines
NOLA.com
As part of its ongoing push to expand streetcar service in New Orleans, the Regional Transit Authority has given its ...

Met Opera regular from Teaneck gets a new career in HBO series – NorthJersey.com

May 30th, 2010

Met Opera regular from Teaneck gets a new career in HBO series
NorthJersey.com
"The immigration of Italians to New Orleans was just as strong as the immigration to Manhattan," Laciura says. What he remembers most, from his N'awlins ...

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History of La. makes for good summer reading – Monroe News Star

May 30th, 2010

History of La. makes for good summer reading
Monroe News Star
Dean M. Shapiro of New Orleans captures a wide variety of historic photographs for "Historic Photos of Louisiana" (Turner), capturing the state from ...

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Bob Wooten: Seafood is heart of the Big Easy – Northern Virginia Daily

May 29th, 2010

Bob Wooten: Seafood is heart of the Big Easy
Northern Virginia Daily
The restaurant has been in business for seven decades, surviving everything New Orleans has endured over the years, from gang violence and corrupt city ...

New York Production Listings – Back Stage

May 29th, 2010

New York Production Listings
Back Stage
A Free Man of Color, a new play by John Guare set in early-19th-century New Orleans. Produced by Lincoln Center Theater and directed by George C. Wolfe. ...

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Slowly driven to desperation – Albany Times Union

May 29th, 2010

Slowly driven to desperation
Albany Times Union
In Providence, RI, I'd march from the bus uphill, into icy wind; in New Orleans I'd step from the Saint Charles streetcar into puddles and splash home. ...

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Obama makes second trip to Louisiana Gulf Coast since oil spill – Examiner.com

May 28th, 2010

Examiner.com

Obama makes second trip to Louisiana Gulf Coast since oil spill
Examiner.com
The New Orleans & Carrolliton Line is the oldest street railway still in operation today? The St. Charles streetcar line is one of two national moving ...

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St. Charles Streetcar Hits Dump Truck – WDSU New Orleans

May 27th, 2010

St. Charles Streetcar Hits Dump Truck
WDSU New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS -- A streetcar struck a dump truck on St. Charles Avenue at State Street on Thursday afternoon. Witnesses said the truck did not stop for the ...

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CK native was big wheel in transportation – Chatham Daily News

May 27th, 2010

CK native was big wheel in transportation
Chatham Daily News
Perley A. Thomas designed and built hundreds of streetcars during his career, including many for New Orleans where visitors to the historic St. Charles Ave. ...

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Clubs discuss potential Vision 2012 projects – Rapid City Journal

May 26th, 2010

Clubs discuss potential Vision 2012 projects
Rapid City Journal
... operating as the Rapid City Trolley Association, said the 4.4-mile trolley route would be similar to what is seen in larger cities like New Orleans, ...

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