Today in New Orleans: 7.28.12
City Life, Louisiana/GulfCoast
July 28th, 2012
Today in New Orleans, Tales of the Cocktail mixes on, it's the last day of the National Urban League Conference, Deep South by Suroeste brings Latinos onscreen and Quintron and Miss Pussycat at One Eyed Jack’s. On this day in history, trumpeter Leon Prima, younger brother of Louis Prima, was born in New Orleans (1907), record producer and trombonist Delfeayo Marsalis was born in New Orleans (1965), and blues scholar and ex-White Panther Party chairman John Sinclair was sentenced to 9-10 years in jail for possession of two marijuana cigarettes in Detroit (1969).
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