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Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Public Transit Tuesdays: Kenner Local
Posted by Megan Braden-Perry on Tue, May 15, 2012 at 5:00 PM
While riding Jefferson Transit's Kenner Local bus, I stopped for spring rolls at a place I thought had been closed since Katrina, discovered where film crews get their lights, found three local places for party supplies and topped it off with a whiskey on the rocks at a saloon. The Kenner Local is a great bus—unless you actually want to ride around Kenner...
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Public Transit Tuesdays: St. Charles Avenue Shuttle
Posted by Megan Braden-Perry on Tue, May 8, 2012 at 7:03 PM
Remember how I said I wasn't going to blog anything on the St. Charles streetcar line because of the problems it poses for wheelchair-bound citizens? That's still the case, but thanks to preventative rail maintenance, I was able to ride for a few blocks on the St. Charles streetcar line, via the St. Charles streetcar shuttle. Too bad I only have a few more months to ride it...
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Public Transit Tuesdays: Metairie Road
Posted by Megan Braden-Perry on Tue, May 1, 2012 at 10:00 PM
At first, I wasn't excited about riding the Metairie Road bus. Last week, after shopping for the Mother's Day Gift Guide, I cried while waiting on RTA's Kenner Loop (the Stop ID signs are inaccurate and the automated system can't locate the stops along the route) and JET's Veterans bus (after the 6:14 p.m. bus, it doesn't come again until 7:47 p.m.) and I promised myself I'd hold off on non-New Orleans routes for a few weeks. After all, it was my birthday and I wanted to relax a bit while I had the chance. I also wanted to avoid racial tension, since friends of mine had a bit of a race riot on my Facebook page on Saturday. However, a Twitter conversation with a friend and a productive editorial meeting gave me a smidgen of hope.
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Public Transit Tuesdays: Veterans
Posted by Megan Braden-Perry on Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 1:22 AM
After cursing out RTA's automated phone service, suffering through a city tour-esque streetcar ride and crossing that super-scary Canal Street-Canal Boulevard-City Park Avenue intersection to get from the Canal streetcar to the Veterans bus, I was looking forward to a relaxing ride down Veterans Boulevard; I figured I'd find a few cool stores, grab something yummy to eat and be on my way back home to the 7th Ward by 4 p.m. After all, everything is in Metairie on Veterans Boulevard—right?
Find out why this bus ride was so frustrating after the jump.
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Public Transit Tuesdays: St. Bernard Parish
Posted by Megan Braden-Perry on Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 7:27 PM
Today I rode the St. Bernard Parish bus "Down da Road" from Arabi to Poydras, passing through Chalmette, Meraux and Violet, shopping and snacking along the way. I caught up on my thrifting and even got to eat at a nationally-loved restaurant that's only been in Louisiana for two months.
Find out why this has been my most pleasurable bus adventure yet and why I plan on spending more time in Da Parish after the jump.
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Public Transit Tuesdays: Broad
Posted by Megan Braden-Perry on Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 4:21 PM
I ride the Broad bus to work almost every day, but had never ridden all the way to the end of the line in eastern New Orleans until yesterday. There's so much to see on that bus line! I broke language barriers, was damn near arrested, honked and cat-called at way too many times on Chef Highway (Hello, I'm not "working" the highway!) and even saw a drug deal involving a guy who had been on the bus with me earlier. Small world, eh!
Scrape up $3 for a day pass and ride with me after the jump.
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Public Transit Tuesdays: Magazine Street
Posted by Megan Braden-Perry on Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 5:27 AM
Gas prices are high, it's hard to find parking and it seems like as soon as you and your friends find a cool new hangout, everyone and their Maw starts going there. We at the Gambit feel your pain! That's why we've started "Public Transit Tuesdays," a new weekly feature where an adventurous Gambiteer chooses a bus/streetcar/ferry to ride and blogs about three to five places she/he sees along the way.
In this first installment, you'll ride with me on the Magazine bus, stopping at Down the Hatch, myPhoneMD, Honeydeux, Zuka Baby and Jim Russell's Rare Records.
Scrape up $3 for a day pass and ride with me after the jump.
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
"Free Payton" T-shirts are already here
Posted by Lauren LaBorde on Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 2:39 PM
Shortly after the news broke about the penalties related to the Saints bounty scandal — which include the NFL's suspension of head coach Sean Payton and general manager Mickey Loomis, plus a hefty fine and draft-related penalties — local purveyors of quirky, New Orleans-centric T-shirts wasted no time in posting images of "FREE (SEAN) PAYTON" T-shirts. Fleurty Girl was first, shortly followed by a similar shirt from Dirty Coast.
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Winn Dixie breaks ground in Mid-City
Posted by Kevin Allman on Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 2:14 PM
Steam shovels provided the backdrop for this morning’s groundbreaking for the new Winn-Dixie shopping complex at S. Carrollton and St. Louis streets in Mid-City. The lot — site of a former Bohn car dealership — has sat fallow since Hurricane Katrina and the federal floods. Mayor Mitch Landrieu, District A City Councilwoman Susan Guidry and representatives of the supermarket chain and developers Stirling Properties were all on hand for the ceremony. “Though the lot was not technically blighted,” Guidry told the crowd, “it was a blight to our souls.”
“We’re not building the city the way it was; we’re building the city the way we want it to be,” Landrieu said, adding that the shopping complex is expected to provide 365 permanent jobs in the supermarket and satellite businesses, which will include Office Depot, Neighborhood Pet Market by Jefferson Feed, Felipe’s Taqueria, Five Guys Burgers and Fries, Pei Wei Asian Diner and the frozen yogurt chain Pinkberry, “which I am really pumped up about,” Landrieu added. (The mayor can be spotted at the Magazine Avenue location fairly regularly.)
Guidry referred to the complex as “a premier shopping as well as recreational area,” making reference to the Lafitte Corridor, the 3.1- mile greenway that will eventually run through Mid-City to the French Quarter. In December, the city agreed to let the supermarket build a car crossing on St. Louis Street into the parking lot, a move vigorously opposed by the group Friends of the Lafitte Corridor (FOLC) but defended by the Landrieu administration. Before the ceremonial shovel-turning, Landrieu made oblique reference to the contretemps, thanking FOLC “for taking what could have been a very big conflict” and helping find a solution — “while it may not be perfect,” he added.
Thursday, March 8, 2012
RHINO grand opening party Friday
Posted by Kandace Graves on Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 7:27 PM
RHINO Contemporary Crafts Gallery is having a grand opening party from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Friday, March 9, at its new location on the second level of The Shops at Canal Place (333 Canal St.). The grand opening party includes a reception and special events by artists.
Moving to a larger gallery space coincides with the 25th anniversary of RHINO, short for Right Here In New Orleans, an artist co-op that has operated at Canal Place (previously on the third level) since 1998. The new RHINO features the work of 26 artists offering jewelry, sculpture, oil paintings, textiles, ceramics, metalwork and more. The new location also has a larger area for holding art workshops, which are open to the public.
For more information, call 523-7945 or visit www.rhinocrafts.com
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