$5 for $10 Worth of Coffee and Casual Fare at Café Treme
Coffee and baked goods have always gone together, like rock ‘n’ roll, yin and yang, and bald-eagle hatchlings and William Howard Taft’s toupee. Introduce your mouth to a dazzling duet with today’s Groupon: for $5, you get $10 worth of coffee and casual fare at Café Treme . Nestled beneath an enchanting bell-shaped crown, Café Treme slings a Southern-inspired menu of fresh beverages, sandwiches, and desserts in an idyllic abode more than 150 years old. Sip on premium-roasted coffee or the café’s fragrant Creole tea blend while absorbing the area’s voluminous jazz history, or unleash an air-trombone solo while noshing on a fleet of fresh-baked pastries ($1.50 each). Pillowy quiches ($3.75) and robust sandwiches ($4.25+) quiet the rumbling of malcontent bellies. Café Treme’s industrial lighting spotlights vibrant local artwork and eye-catching black-and-white snapshots of renowned brass players, while the café’s soothing background tunes impart its complimentary WiFi with the ability to improvise on its binary codes. Groupon Says The Groupon Guide to: Creative Discipline Ideas Teach your children well, build a robot, and feed them on your dreams. Read more…
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$5 for $10 Worth of Coffee and Casual Fare at Café Treme
Jury hangs in Telly Hankton murder trial
A jury was unable to come to a verdict this afternoon in the second-degree murder trial of Telly Hankton, who is accused of gunning down Darnell Stewart on May 13, 2008 after a wild, high-speed chase up and down South Claiborne Avenue.
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Jury hangs in Telly Hankton murder trial
The Ponsetis’ new home and mother-in-law cottage in Old Metairie…
Luke and Margaret Ponseti must have realized their audacious new abode was a design success when a passing Hollywood location scout selected the place as the sophisticated set for a scene in “Loft,” the feature-film thriller starring James Marsden that just finished shooting in New Orleans.
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The Ponsetis’ new home and mother-in-law cottage in Old Metairie…
Sculpture for New Orleans donates statue — and other Jazz and Razz
JAZZ A $2 million statue by Seward Johnson of Shakespeare’s King Lear is being loaned to the University of New Orleans through SCULPTURE FOR NEW ORLEANS, which was founded by PETER LUNDBERG and MICHAEL MANJARRIS.
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Sculpture for New Orleans donates statue — and other Jazz and Razz
New Orleans man charged in Katrina fraud
Published: Saturday, July 30, 2011, 12:47 PM Updated: Saturday, July 30, 2011, 12:54 PM A New Orleans man has been charged with fraudulently receiving a disaster loan after Hurricane Katrina.
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New Orleans man charged in Katrina fraud
New Orleans revenue rises, but deficits projected in personnel budgets
The picture of city finances that emerged at a New Orleans City Council Budget Committee meeting Friday was decidedly mixed.
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New Orleans revenue rises, but deficits projected in personnel budgets
Images: ‘Hitler’s Wall’ Rises In New Orleans
Another piece of world history has arrived in New Orleans — a segment of “Hitler’s Wall,” now on display at the National World War II Museum.
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Images: ‘Hitler’s Wall’ Rises In New Orleans
Hugh Laurie previews his New Orleans-shot music special for PBS
Hugh Laurie , Fox’s ” House, M.D. ” came to New Orleans music through Willie Dixon , a circuitous route that will deliver the English-born actor to PBS screens in September for a French Quarter-shot music special featuring Allen Toussaint and Irma Thomas .
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Hugh Laurie previews his New Orleans-shot music special for PBS
Orleans Parish Civil District Court elections set for Oct. 22
One of the last bits of uncertainty about the fall election calendar in New Orleans has been cleared up now that special elections to fill two soon-to-be-vacant seats on the Civil District Court bench have been set for Oct.
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Orleans Parish Civil District Court elections set for Oct. 22
Meet the 69 members of the 2011-12 New Orleans debutante coterie
From summer through Carnival, debutantes pictured in the gallery below and featured in individual profiles at nola.com/society will participate in at least one of these presentations: Bachelors’ Club: The club formed during the 1930s has sponsored a debutante presentation each year since.
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Meet the 69 members of the 2011-12 New Orleans debutante coterie
