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Nyx captain speaks to TV station after losing New Orleans parade permit. What'd she say?

Julie Lea, the controversial captain of the Mystic Krewe of Nyx, didn’t appear at the New Orleans City Council meeting on May 16, when the parading organization she’d founded in 2011 was cut from the Carnival lineup. Nor did she speak to the press immediately after the announcement.

The Nyx Mardi Gras parade has been eliminated by the New Orleans City Council
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Do you recall this 1960s New Orleans lakefront lounge shut down for illegal drinking, gambling?

Like the beer and the Barq’s that once flowed from its myriad dockside restaurants, memories of West End’s storied past continue to flood in from readers transported by recent columns about its heyday as a New Orleans entertainment mecca.

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Nyx captain speaks to TV station after losing New Orleans parade permit. What'd she say?

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