Article: Benjamin Button's house for sale in New ...
AP Online;  February 5, 2009 ;     487 words ...Benjamin Button called it home in the movie _ now sellers are ... someone to call it home in real life. The New Orleans house that was the setting for much of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is on the market. The 7,800-square foot ...

Article: New Orleans tourism officials tout 2007 progress
New Orleans CityBusiness;  February 9, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... in 2006 were filmed in New Orleans and the surrounding area ... movie to be filmed in New Orleans post-Katrina. Currently ... Curious Case of Benjamin Button," starring Brad Pitt ... film to ever shoot in New Orleans. There are more than ...

Article: New Orleans a player in video game industry
New Orleans CityBusiness;  January 12, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... video game industry, while New Orleans has pretty much stood by ... Baton Rouge. Last month, New Orleans appears to have pressed the start button and entered the game. On Dec. 18, Greater New Orleans Inc. held the first meeting ...

Article: Don't kick New Orleans while it's down
The Boston Globe;  January 21, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... Square, and help restore New Orleans. Next vacation, enjoy ... I have appreciated New Orleans, and the French Quarter ... pushed the red alarm button hard and long, but no ... who, having been from New Orleans, come back at frequently ...

Article: The Kindness of Strangers; New Orleans Seeks Boost ...
The Washington Post;  August 13, 1988 ;     700+ words ... ... National Convention for New Orleans was a major victory for ... Republicans can come to New Orleans, it must be safe for ... 24 hours a day into a button-down environment like ... Democrats last month. But New Orleans, with sanitation crews ...

Article: Ribbon pulls in wedding cakes: tracing a New ...
Folklore;  April 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... weddings in the New Orleans area is preceded ... a thimble, a button, a horseshoe ... Wedding cakes in the New Orleans area come with ribbons ... a thimble, a button, a horseshoe ... the thimble or button means "old maid ... wedding receptions in New Orleans itself, and ...

Article: From iced tea to absinthe, New Orleans' liquid ...
AP Worldstream;  April 7, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... scholarship about cocktails and New Orleans," says Amy Evans, who is ... created 130 years ago _ by a New Orleans bartender. Martin Wilkes ... originally called "Cuffs and Buttons" _ a nod to a popular New Orleans drink called "White Tie and ...