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FRIDAY, MAY 3 2013
CITY BRIEFS Jazz Fast Taxi Fares Have Set Price
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Singing in the rain with Dave By Chevel Johnson AP National Writer
The City of New Orleans alerts residents of 2013 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival taxi fare regulations. This Jazz Festival weekend, taxicab rates to and from the Fairgrounds will have a set price of $5 per passenger, according to the city of New Orleans Taxicab and For Hire Bureau. The bureau is urging all customers to request receipts from their Taxicab drivers so customers are provided with essential information about the whereabouts of lost items. In addition, the receipts are expected to assist with follow up compliments and complaints.
New Orleans (AP) — A steady, sometimes heavy rain, pelted fans at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, but the music flowed on. Umbrellas, rain boots, and plastic ponchos were out in abundance Sunday as fans stood among the puddles and watersoaked grass awaiting clearer skies. As Khris Royal & Dark Matter played the Gentilly Stage, pockets of fest-faithfuls grooved and danced to his funky saxophone opening instrumental. Keith Frank & the Soileau Zydeco Band enticed fans to the front of the nearby Fais Do-Do stage, where a few couples rocked a two-step to the band’s steady beat. The Nevilles, without brother Aaron, performed later Sunday just before the Dave Matthews Band, which closed the fest’s first weekend and largest stage.
Midnight Basketball Continues Nola For Life continues its midnight basketball season at Kipp Central City Academy this weekend. The program, which is in its third season, was developed by New Orleans mayor, Mitch Landrieu, in an attempt to provide young men in crime hot spots with safe recreational activities. The Nola For Life program hopes to get to the root of New Orleans’s crime problem by investing in prevention, improving the NOPD and helping young men and women get more involved in the betterment and rebuilding of their neighborhoods.
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(Above) The Dave Matthews Band plays in rain at 1st weekend of Jazz Fest. (Below) The crowd sings along as the Dave Matthews Band performs at Jazz Fest on Sunday, April 28.
Treme Center Reopens After more than a year of renovations, the Treme Center reopened its doors this Wednesday with help from the city of New Orleans and FEMA. “When construction began on the Treme Center in Jan. ‘12, we promised that we would build it back better than before and today we are delivering on that promise,” said New Orleans mayor, Mitch Landrieu. “This building is a symbol of what is possible when we work together to create the city we always dreamed of.” The $5.6 million in renovations not only updated the center with a new swimming pool and computer lab, but it also helped repair previous storm damage from Hurricane Katrina.
New York Was Next Target for Bombers By Jennifer Peltz AP National Writer
New York (AP) — New York City officials say the Boston Marathon bombing suspects intended to blow up their remaining explosives in Times Square. Government officials said Dzhokhar Tsarnaev told Boston investigators from his hospital bed that he and his brother had discussed going to New York to detonate their remaining explosives. They said they decided it spontaneously. Tsarnaev’s older brother, Tamerlan, died in a shootout with police.
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(Above) Storm clouds roll in over the festival grounds just before the start of the first act at Jazz Fest.