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Cover Story Features

08.06.02


COVER STORY

Tapped Out
This city's young tap dancers are no longer welcome in the French Quarter. Are these kids troublemakers, or are they keeping an age-old New Orleans tradition alive?
By Katy Reckdahl


NEWS & VIEWS

Commentary
Watching the watchdogs.


The Secret Files of Peter Munster
Before his death in 1998, former Office of Municipal Investigation director Peter Munster asked for whistleblower protection. For four years, those files have remained closed - until now.
By Eileen Loh Harrist

Inside Jeff Parish
By Jeff Crouere

Bouquets and Brickbats

They get what they deserve.


Penny Post

Andrei Codrescu on silence.



FEATURES


HEALTH & WELLNESS


Health News
By Kandace Power Graves


The Mackie Report
Know the Risks.

By Mackie Shilstone


Health Talk
Kandace Power Graves discusses dyslexia with Denise Nagin, director of Jefferson Speech & Language Center.


Skeleton Crew
Keeping bones strong takes a unified effort.

By Kandace Power Graves


Home Runs
Low interest rates and a mood of optimism are encouraging people to become first-time homeowners.

By Frank Etheridge



Blake Pontchartrain
New Orleans Know-it-all.


Shop Talk

Kandace Power Graves on Portofino's.



ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Row, Row, Row Your Boat
Nathaniel Stone captures his trek from New York
to Louisiana in his travelougue, On the Water.

By David Winkler-Schmit

Hot Seven

Our suggestions for all that's worth doing and seeing this week,
including the HotPick.



Special Events Listings



Set Break

Scott Jordan Corey Harris.

Music Listings


Club Directory



Theater

Dalt Wonk on Running Last of the Red Hot Lovers.


Theater Listings




Art

D. Eric Bookhardt on David Halliday.

Art Listings



Film
 
Rick Barton on K-19: The Widowmaker.


David Lee Simmons on Signs.

Film Listings




CUISINE

Restaurant Review
Sara Roahen on Byblos.


Food News

By Sara Roahen


Wine of the Week

By Brenda Maitland


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