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Good Cause, Good Food, Good Wine…What Could Be Better?

Good Cause, Good Food, Good Wine…What Could Be Better?

Wait, I know…by making a weekend of it and staying overnight for some Good Music. (I know this is late notice but I just heard it through the grapevine.) But if you hurry, there are still a few tickets available for both the B.R. Cohn Friday’s night Charities Auction Dinner and also for Saturday’s Music Festival. (Sorry, Sunday’s all sold-out)

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N’awlin’s :: Good News/Bad News

We all watched in horror as poor New Orleans was devastated by Katrina, which resulted in a sky-dive in tourism (their economic powerhouse), extensive property damage, to say nothing of their population loss and resulting labor shortage.(The labor shortage was in full evidence when I stopped in at the world famous Cafe Du Monde for cafe au lait and beignets and noticed that 15 out of about 16 of the wait-staff were Asian with absolutely no southern drawl– which I sorely missed.)

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