Section 5: Shopping
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Best Comic Book Shop:
Winner: Crescent City Comics
Runner Up: Old School Comics
Other Contestants: More Fun Comics & Cards
Crescent City is by far the best place to nerd-out in New Orleans. Their selection is massive, with plenty of graphic novels — try “The Alcoholic” by Jonathan Ames, which is terrific — and […]

Every year, the arcade comes up with a variety of categories to award Tulane’s favorite places in New Orleans with the highest accolade you can receive in this very newspaper — an A+ Award. This completely unscientific process results in the editors coming up with five choices per category and then leaving it is up […]

Section 4: FOOD
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Best Sandwich:
Winner: Domilise’s
Runner Up: Mahoney’s Po-Boys
Other Contestants: Casamento’s, Crabby Jack’s, Parasol’s
Domilise’s Po-Boys, the rundown abode located at 5240 Annunciation Street, is home to some of the most famous po-boys of New Orleans. It would be hard to spot the place if it weren’t for the perpetually long line snaking out the door. […]

VAGINA MONOLOGUES
Today 8 p.m.
Saturday 10 p.m.
Sunday 8 p.m.
Freeman Auditorium
Tulane’s rendition of Eve Ensler’s play encourages female empowerment and individuality. Tickets cost $8 for students and $10 for non-students and will be sold at the Lavin-Bernick Center until today. All shows are expected to sell out.
A READING WITH AMY HEMPEL
Monday
7:30 -  9:30 p.m.
Kendall-Cram Auditorium
Amy Hempel, Tulane’s Zale-Kimmerling writer-in-residence, will read selections from her four short […]

50-year old male found immobilized due to intoxication on Freret Street
A 50-year old male was found laying on his back near the intersection of Freret and Broadway streets Monday.  The man claimed to have been hit by a vehicle, but the reporting officer smelled the odor of an alcoholic beverage and began to question the subject. […]

Tight Iraqi election threatens to deepen divisions
The pending results of Sunday’s Iraqi parliamentary election suggest that it has developed into a tight race between two competing coalitions led by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and his main rival, Ayad Allawi. Coalitions have reported complaints of fraud and improper counting, potentially undermining public acceptance of the outcome. The […]

City Owed software company $300,000
The computer program Accela allows the city to quickly and easily store information on building permits, assessments, demolitions and a host of other city documents.  The program was down for almost 72 hours because the city owed Accela around $300,000.  Accela representatives said the shutdown was completely unprecedented
Kenner School Honored for Academic Success 
Greenlawn Terrace […]

Section II: Music
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Best Indie Local Band:
Winner: Caddywhompus
Runner Up: The Revivalists
Other Contestants: Silent Cinema, Giant Cloud, MyNameIsJohnMichael
Sean Hart and Chris Rehm compose Caddywhompus, New Orleans’ most hardworking psychedelic pop band. They spent 2009 touring relentlessly and recording material for release in 2010. Their music is the sort of fuzzy, joyous noise that you can’t […]

Here in the newsroom, we understand the importance of fried and fatty deliciousness. We edit with mozzarella sticks, chocolate bars and soda in hand, and we can’t imagine life without them. But we must ask, are we devouring these heart-clogging goodies because we want them, or because they’re the only available items after 11 p.m.?
During the […]

Some of Tulane’s Sodexo workers are finally making a move toward unionization. Not surprisingly, Sodexo Inc. is concerned. Though Sodexo says that it has always respected its workers, this week’s informational staff meetings are more than a little suspicious. Sodexo wouldn’t allow representatives from The Hullabaloo to attend its meetings, but several attendees confirmed that […]

In other parts of the world, there is a name for people who operate in loosely affiliated groups, hoard explosives, hate the government and think that God is on their side.
They are called terrorists. Or insurgents, if we want to be a little more politically correct about it. But I don’t want to mince words when […]

Seeing how different people communicate the same fundamental message is always a pleasant thing to experience. Perhaps that observation comes from my pride as a listener, and during the week of Feb. 22nd, I did a lot of listening. I heard speakers at three separate venues, and as I pieced together their stories, I uncovered […]

It’s a hard to deny that Barack Obama’s presidency has been off to a rough start. The students of this fine university voted for Obama by truly astounding margins — perhaps a symptom of misguided youthful optimism. But a sense of disappointment has started to chip away at the confident moral conviction that swept our […]

Entering the contest fresh off of a 7-0 win against Kansas in its last outing, the Tulane women’s tennis team put up six consecutive straight-set wins and rolled through doubles to notch its second shutout of the season with a 7-0 victory over Southern Illinois Wednesday morning at the Goldring Tennis Center.
With inclement weather threatening the […]

The Tulane men’s basketball team followed freshman point guard Jordan Callahan’s lead last Saturday and defeated the University of Houston Cougars 79-76 on Senior Night at Fogelman Arena. The contest was a must-win game for a Green Wave squad that had lost seven straight and was hoping to build momentum for the Conference USA tournament.

“This is […]