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Monday, December 26, 2016Detectives determined that McKnight and Gasser were driving erratically on or before the two reached the Crescent City Connection bridge. The Sheriff's Office said one witness told investigators that McKnight possibly cut off Gasser, who became irritated and followed the former NFL player.A representative with the Jefferson Parish public defender's office he was assigned an attorney and his bond was set at $500,000.Keep up with local news, weather and current events with the WDSU app here.Sign up for our email newsletters to get breaking news right in your inbox. Click here to sign up!...
Monday, August 15, 2016Story highlightsFountain was a New Orleans fixtureThe Crescent City will give him a proper send off, his son-in-law says"He was a beautiful man," Harrell told CNN.The death of the jazz musician drew reaction from Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards."Mr. Fountain and his clarinet filled our streets, homes and hearts with music and joy," Edwards said. "Throughout his extensive career, Mr. Fountain was always a proud ambassador for the City of New Orleans. Although he will be greatly missed, his warm and cheery disposition will live on in the music he left behind."Edwards noted that Fountain and his wife, Beverly, were together for 64 years. Fountain was the foundation in the early days of the New Orleans Jazz Fest, and he was such a musical force that his name often started stories about the Crescent City and its music.Funeral arrangements were still being completed, but Harrell said to expect a traditional New Orleans second line to honor the music legend."Second line parades are the descendants of the city's famous jazz funerals and, apart fr...
Monday, June 27, 2016Arts Center; the Committee of 21, which was formed to elect more women to office; Cultural Communications; and the Mental Health Association in Metropolitan New Orleans. She also was a founder of the Crescent City Farmers Market and Partnership for Action, whose accomplishments included the installation or repair of about 2,500 street lights to deter crime.In recognition of Ms. Litwin's service, she received the Mayor's Arts Award, the YWCA and the Young Leadership Council named her a role model, and CityBusiness designated her one of its Women of the Year in 2002."No one asked her to do this stuff when she got off work," said Richard McCarthy IV, a founder of the farmers market. "When you look at New Orleans and the things that put a smile on your face about New Orleans expressing itself over the last 40 years, chances are she was behind it. You'd never know it because the last thing she'd want to do was broadcast that she was making something happen."Some things were bigger than others. Early in 1995, when 22 of Claude Monet's late works went on display at the New Orleans Museum of Art while Ms. Litwin was its assistant director for development, the city went mad for Monet. Restaurants offered Monet-themed meals, and people could enjoy a sound-and-light spectacular in the Warehouse District, a puppet musical about Monet and reproductions of the impressionist master's works in chocolate. Orleans Parish Prison inmates painted murals on a railroad bridge on the edge of City Park that were inspired by Monet's paintings, and they made wooden versions of water lilies, which appear often in Monet's paintings, to adorn streetcars."While the big cities are too big or blasé, there's a level of creativity in this town that is wonderful," Ms. Litwin said in an interview then. "This is a party town. If you can turn it into a party, you will turn it into a party."This all-out, unorthodox approach to promoting art worked. The two-month exhibit drew 234,524 visitors, the biggest turnout for any exhibit at the museum since the blockbuster "Treasures of Tutankhamun" show in 1977-78. Visitors spent about $25.5 million in hotels, restaurants and other outlets, according to an analysis of the exhibit's impact by the local pollster Ed Renwick.It was, Peck said, an example of Ms. Litwin's approach to whatever she did."She kept putting projects together," Peck said. "She saw possibility in everything. ... She didn't think she couldn't do anything."In addition to promoting exhibits like the Monet display, Ms. Litwin raised about $23.5 million to expand the art museum and launch the first big piece of an operating endowment, Sullivan said. At LPO, she led the musician-owned orchestra through tough times that required salary cuts for everyone, including her."The key to her personality was her English persistence," said John Bullard, who was Ms. Litwin's boss at the museum. "Once she committed herself to a project or an organization, she pursued her goals until she accomplished them."But despite her habitually sunny nature, crisp English accent and ever-present smile, McCarthy said, "Sharon was someone you didn't say no to."Sharon Norma Robinson was born on Feb. 16, 1941,...
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Monday, December 26, 2016Detectives determined that McKnight and Gasser were driving erratically on or before the two reached the Crescent City Connection bridge. The Sheriff's Office said one witness told investigators that McKnight possibly cut off Gasser, who became irritated and followed the former NFL player.A representative with the Jefferson Parish public defender's office he was assigned an attorney and his bond was set at $500,000.Keep up with local news, weather and current events with the WDSU app here.Sign up for our email newsletters to get breaking news right in your inbox. Click here to sign up!...
Monday, August 15, 2016Story highlightsFountain was a New Orleans fixtureThe Crescent City will give him a proper send off, his son-in-law says"He was a beautiful man," Harrell told CNN.The death of the jazz musician drew reaction from Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards."Mr. Fountain and his clarinet filled our streets, homes and hearts with music and joy," Edwards said. "Throughout his extensive career, Mr. Fountain was always a proud ambassador for the City of New Orleans. Although he will be greatly missed, his warm and cheery disposition will live on in the music he left behind."Edwards noted that Fountain and his wife, Beverly, were together for 64 years. Fountain was the foundation in the early days of the New Orleans Jazz Fest, and he was such a musical force that his name often started stories about the Crescent City and its music.Funeral arrangements were still being completed, but Harrell said to expect a traditional New Orleans second line to honor the music legend."Second line parades are the descendants of the city's famous jazz funerals and, apart fr...
Monday, June 27, 2016Arts Center; the Committee of 21, which was formed to elect more women to office; Cultural Communications; and the Mental Health Association in Metropolitan New Orleans. She also was a founder of the Crescent City Farmers Market and Partnership for Action, whose accomplishments included the installation or repair of about 2,500 street lights to deter crime.In recognition of Ms. Litwin's service, she received the Mayor's Arts Award, the YWCA and the Young Leadership Council named her a role model, and CityBusiness designated her one of its Women of the Year in 2002."No one asked her to do this stuff when she got off work," said Richard McCarthy IV, a founder of the farmers market. "When you look at New Orleans and the things that put a smile on your face about New Orleans expressing itself over the last 40 years, chances are she was behind it. You'd never know it because the last thing she'd want to do was broadcast that she was making something happen."Some things were bigger than others. Early in 1995, when 22 of Claude Monet's late works went on display at the New Orleans Museum of Art while Ms. Litwin was its assistant director for development, the city went mad for Monet. Restaurants offered Monet-themed meals, and people could enjoy a sound-and-light spectacular in the Warehouse District, a puppet musical about Monet and reproductions of the impressionist master's works in chocolate. Orleans Parish Prison inmates painted murals on a railroad bridge on the edge of City Park that were inspired by Monet's paintings, and they made wooden versions of water lilies, which appear often in Monet's paintings, to adorn streetcars."While the big cities are too big or blasé, there's a level of creativity in this town that is wonderful," Ms. Litwin said in an interview then. "This is a party town. If you can turn it into a party, you will turn it into a party."This all-out, unorthodox approach to promoting art worked. The two-month exhibit drew 234,524 visitors, the biggest turnout for any exhibit at the museum since the blockbuster "Treasures of Tutankhamun" show in 1977-78. Visitors spent about $25.5 million in hotels, restaurants and other outlets, according to an analysis of the exhibit's impact by the local pollster Ed Renwick.It was, Peck said, an example of Ms. Litwin's approach to whatever she did."She kept putting projects together," Peck said. "She saw possibility in everything. ... She didn't think she couldn't do anything."In addition to promoting exhibits like the Monet display, Ms. Litwin raised about $23.5 million to expand the art museum and launch the first big piece of an operating endowment, Sullivan said. At LPO, she led the musician-owned orchestra through tough times that required salary cuts for everyone, including her."The key to her personality was her English persistence," said John Bullard, who was Ms. Litwin's boss at the museum. "Once she committed herself to a project or an organization, she pursued her goals until she accomplished them."But despite her habitually sunny nature, crisp English accent and ever-present smile, McCarthy said, "Sharon was someone you didn't say no to."Sharon Norma Robinson was born on Feb. 16, 1941,...
