(Photo: Paul Sableman | CC Flickr) Unique Grocery store, located at 127 Royal St., was issued a “social distancing” cease and desist order from the city. It’s unclear when the order was issued, although one resident captured a photo of the order posted to the front door on Thursday.
The store was declared “dangerous and unsafe” because people “cannot maintain social distancing,” according to the city notice, “cease desist operations until operational plan.”
A city spokeswoman didn’t respond to emails seeking comment on Friday.
The city recently, on May 16, entered “Phase One” reopening as coronavirus restrictions are eased for “low-risk” businesses, while still being required to maintain public health guidelines, including limiting occupancy.
The Department of Safety and Permits is tasked with enforcing Phase One requirements.
Visit nola.ready.gov for a full list of reopening guidelines.
(Photo courtesy of the NOPD.) Three unidentified male suspects are wanted by New Orleans Police in connection to an alleged Sunday theft of a car and several sets of keys from the valet section of a parking garage on St. Louis Street.
New Orleans Police request public assistance in identifying the three males who allegedly entered a parking garage in the 600 block of St Louis Street shortly after 10:30 p.m. on May 17 and took nine car keys from the valet area before stealing a white Hyundai Santa Fe SUV.
One of the suspects is believed to be an individual named Anthony McBride, New Orleans Police said.
The stolen Hyundai has a license plate number of 945DJB. For reference, New Orleans Police provided a picture similar to the one stolen, as well as a picture of the alleged suspects.
The Louisiana Supreme Court complex contains the only parking garage in the 600 block of St. Louis Street and is guarded.
Anyone with information on the identity and location of the wanted suspects or the stolen vehicle is asked to contact New Orleans Eighth District detectives at 504-653-6080. Anonymous callers can contact Crimestoppers at 504-822-1111 or toll-free at 877-903-7867.
(Corner of Chartres and Conti streets. Photo: Infrogmation | CC Wikimedia) The intersection of Conti and Chartres streets will be closed intermittently to vehicular traffic for one day starting Friday morning so that crews can dig a trench to inspect utility lines in anticipation of a two-block road construction project, a New Orleans spokeswoman said on Thursday.
Closure begins at 8 a.m. and is expected to last until Saturday, May 23, as workers from Hard Rock Construction — a Public Works contractor — construct a trench in order to verify the location, depth and size of electric and gas lines under the roadway, spokeswoman LaTonya Norton said.
Construction is expected to last until Saturday, at which point the intersection will reopen to traffic.
“Public safety is our priority,” Norton said. “Commuters are asked to be mindful to workers and to travel at reduced speeds in this area.”
Norton said drivers, pedestrians and residents should expect intermittent road and sidewalk closures, constriction equipment, limited parking availability, cones and fencing, elevated noise levels, dust and continuous vibration monitoring.
Additionally, there will be temporary asphalt pavement over the completed trench.
The brief closure is part of a city project to design a full reconstruction of Conti Street between Bourbon and Chartres streets.
Entergy will upgrade its gas and electric utilities in advance of the city’s massive project in order to avoid construction conflicts and potential delays, Norton said.
Entergy’s work is anticipated to begin in the 700 block of Conti Street in June and the entire project is expected to take approximately 10 months, Norton added.
The project is part of an “unprecedented” and mostly FEMA-funded $2.3 billion program by New Orleans Public Works and Sewerage and Water Board to improve damaged infrastructure.
(Picture courtesy of the NOPD) Two men are wanted by New Orleans Police in connection to an alleged shooting on South Rampart Street Friday morning.
The shooting occurred at about 10:40 a.m. on Friday following an altercation between two groups of males in the 100 block of South Rampart Street, according to New Orleans Police.
Two males, pictured above, allegedly fired a handgun at a group of three other unknown males after the confrontation and ran away on Basin Street.
Further investigation revealed the two male suspects fled the scene in the vehicles also pictured above, New Orleans Police said.
The shooting is under investigation.
Anyone with information regarding the identity and/or the location of the pictured suspects is asked to contact Eighth District detectives at 504-658-6080. Anonymous callers can contact Crimestoppers at 504-822-1111 or toll-free at 877-903-7867.
(Picture: the location of the former J & M Recording Studio at 840 N. Rampart St., where Little Richard recorded “Tutti Frutti” in 1955. Jason Riedy/CC Flickr) Little Richard (born Richard Penniman in Macon Georgia) passed away on May 9 at the age of 87 and was earned the nicknames such as “The Innovator” for his contributions to rock and roll music, even though he didn’t invent the genre. Penniman’s hit single “Tutti Frutti,” which was recorded inside a French Quarter studio, is often credited with shifting the evolution of rock music for the next 60-plus years.
J & M Recording Studio, located at 840 N. Rampart St., was operated by Cosimo Matassa, a young sound engineer and Tulane chemistry dropout who recorded Penniman’s single, along with some of rock and roll’s earlier hits. The historic building, which many consider the birthplace of rock music, currently houses a laundromat.
Archived interview footage, including with Penniman and other historical figures, provide brief, first-hand accounts on the genesis of Tutti Frutti inside J & M.
While historians often cite late 1940s hits performed by Fats Domino and Roy Brown as some of its earliest examples of rock and roll recorded at J & M, Penniman’s recording of Tutti Frutti in 1955 changed things.
It wasn’t just Penniman’s energetic piano playing, but also his vocal ability and flamboyant showmanship, which included fancy dress and flashy hair styles, that added to his repertoire.
“Everything he did was dynamic,” Matassa told WGBH in 1995. “He’s an exciting performer. He performs as one of the best and he believes he’s the best, and he plays that way and he sings that way.”
Penniman had recorded under several labels before Los Angeles-based Specialty Records sent him to New Orleans to record in early 1955, although it took several months for inspiration to manifest itself.
Tutti Frutti’s exact origins aren’t clear, although rock historian Richie Unterberger said it was an obscene little ditty played by Penniman in between recording sessions. Penniman gives a similar account, according to one interview.
Dorothy LaBostrie, a songwriter hired to work with Penniman, offered a different version of events in an interview with WGBH. While she acknowledged Penniman’s tendency to recite songs with “dirty” lyrics, LaBostrie said Tutti Frutti‘s title was inspired by an ice cream flavor and wrote its lyrics in 15 minutes upon hearing a request from Penniman.
“I listened to his voice and I saw down and I wrote it,” LaBostrie said. “When I came back out and he stood at the piano. He went to banging, banging, hollering and then I took the song up and began to sing wamp poma luma poma lump bam boom. He couldn’t take a word from mine.”
The song was hit and earned Penniman instant fame, along with other subsequent hits. The success, however, was short-lived as Penniman suddenly quit rock and roll in 1957 while on tour in Australia.
Expressing “great fear” over the recent launching of Sputnik by the Soviet government and believing the world would end, Penniman ended his world tour early to “get his affairs in order,” according to the Atlanta Daily World.
Penniman became a gospel music performer and vowed to become an evangelist, enrolling in Seventh-day Adventist school at Oakwood University in Huntsville, Alabama—his reported final resting place, according to Essence magazine.
Penniman returned to rock and roll in the early 1960s with a little help from British invasion bands, according to Unterberger, but never regained the success achieved years earlier and instead lived out his days as a living legend.
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