 It sure was one hell of a race season. Political Analyst and Handicapper Jack Moss recounts the New Orleans Mayoral Stakes (G3), and speculates on the 2010 season.
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Vote, Drink, Discuss
 Do you remember where you were on the night when the margin for error was zero? NOLAFugees correspondent Bill Loehfelm was holding down the bar at a popular CBD watering hole. Read his assessment of the reactions of some of our fellow citizens to what has been billed as the most historic election in the history of New Orleans.
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 Historian Brinkley Accused of Using Migrant Labor to Write Book
Yet another former UNO History professor has his methodology scrutinized.
 New Roles for Barbaro, Landrieu
The post-race future looks bright for these two top-pedigree ponies. Stud fees, anyone?
 So White the Con of Man: A Review of the DaVinci Code
NOLAFugees Film Critic Feelicia Brown discusses murder, Monique, and miscegination in the summer's first blockbuster. The verdict? It would make a better book than a movie.
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 Wild GinSang Music
There are two sides to West Virginia. One involves banging oxycontin and drunk driving your truck to the swap meet. The other is all about the sun breaking mist above the New River gorge, mountain laurels, and a return to innocence. A couple of weeks ago, Dave Parker said his pa, Dave Senior was bringin' his ol'lady Connie down to the Big Easy. He said she had a voice like a songbird carrying over the holler, and could they do a gig at Handsome Willy's? You don't know nothin' 'bout old-timey music until you've heard Connie Townsend.
 Flowering Jasmine: A Photo Essay
Bill Lavender, on public art and protest, political opportunism and his NIMBY neighbors, and the erection of a quasi-public utility in the Bayou St. John.
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 The Rock Trio God Intended
Narcissy plays heavy, spawning fuzzed out riffs that buzz out the space in the veign of Mike Watt, Mudhoney, and all those bands you listened to back in the halcyon Clinton Era. NOLAFugees.com rock girl Erin Haindle takes a trip to One Eyed Jacks in search of the bigmuff sound that is Narcissy.
 Hazardous Material
Yes, The Hazard County Girls are based out of the post-Apocalypse, and yes, their music is heavier than the pours at The Brother's Three. Heavy, like looking at three feet of doom rising in your front yard while lolling out on Vics and listening to "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath." But when NOLAFugees correspondent Marcus Gilmer met up with them before their May 12 CD release at One Eyed Jack's, he discovered they aren't nearly as serious as their jams.
 God Ain't My Co-pilot: A review of United 93
Film Critic Feelicia Brown reviews the latest post-911 cliffhanger.
 Servility with a Smile: Is this a Coffee Shop?
Brent Badeaux, on the not being a barista in the new order.
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