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Bali Ha'i Revisited | Remembering the Bali Ha'i Restaurant at Pontchartrain Beach, where New Orleanians went tiki

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Published May 17, 2010 at 3:00 a.m.

The things that get nostalgic locals wistful for bygone days tend to have only-in-New Orleans pedigrees. The seafood restaurants and camps that once honeycombed the lakefront; the glory days of shopping along Canal Street; the K&B pharmacy chain with its Mardi Gras-purple logo, long s ... By Ian McNulty ...

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Five spots for barbecue

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Published Sept. 14, 2009 at 3:00 a.m.

The Joint801 Poland Ave., 949-3232www.alwayssmokin.comGet a plate with three links of spicy, smoked Creole-stylechaurice.Walker's Southern-Style BBQ10828 Hayne Blvd., 241-8227Ribs rule at this Jazz Fest vendor's year-round lakefront roost.Hillbilly Bar-B-Q208 Tallulah Ave., River ...

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Five Awesome Onions

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Published Sept. 8, 2009 at 3:00 a.m.

Russell's Marina Grill8555 Pontchartrain Blvd., 282-9999This lakefront diner lays claim to inventing the "onion mumm," abouquet of batter-fried onion with remoulade in its center.Mahony's Po-Boy Shop3454 Magazine St., 899-3374www.mahonyspoboys.comEthereally thin, fried onion ribbons can ...

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HBO's Penis Envy

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Published June 18, 2009 at 2:47 p.m.
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In "Impossible to Tell," former poet laureate Robert Pinsky refers to "the rude, full-scale joke, impossible to tell in writing." , a new HBO dramedy, is that kind of rude, full-scale joke. It stars Thomas Jane as Ray Drecker, a high-school basketball coach with the luck of Job: his wife leaves him for a smug dermatologist. (Anne Heche plays said wife as such a brittle, overbearing person that it seems Ray caught a break, but in voice-over, he tells us this is a bad thing.) The lakefront home he

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