Southwest
Airlines is beefing up New Orleans service on June 10 with
new daily roundtrips between the Big Easy and Baltimore/Washington,
Chicago (Midway), Fort Lauderdale, Las Vegas and Phoenix. Southwest
is also adding a daily roundtrip between New Orleans and Houston
(Hobby), a route in which the airline already operates eight daily
roundtrips.
"Our customers'
demand for travel to and from New Orleans is strong," said Kevin
Krone, Southwest Airlines vice president of marketing, sales and
distribution.
Commemorating D-Day
The new
E.J. Ourso Discovery Hall opened at the
National D-Day Museum in New Orleans late last
month. Funded by Ourso, the late Louisiana philanthropist and
entrepreneur, the hall is the first space dedicated to educational
programming at the museum, designated by Congress as the country's
official national World War II museum.
The hall is the
first phase of the museum's multiyear expansion plan. The
10,000-square-foot pavilion includes an orientation center and
lecture hall, special exhibits gallery, teacher and student
resource rooms and meeting rooms. The gallery will host a
photography exhibit, "Snapshots of D-Day: Photographs of the
Normandy Invasion," June 3 to Oct. 28.
For more, visit
www.ddaymuseum.org.
W hotels
back in business
W Hotels
celebrated the reopening of its two New Orleans properties, the
W New Orleans-French Quarter and the W New
Orleans, on May 3 with a band concert, a parade and a
performance by singer-songwriter Lauryn Hill. Both properties,
shuttered after Hurricane Katrina, began receiving guests again in
March.
At the event, W
Hotels of New Orleans announced it is providing financial support
to local musician Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews and his band,
Orleans Avenue.
Shreveport area eats
Greater
Shreveport gained two restaurants this spring. One-Eyed
Jack's Restaurant & Saloon, which claims to be the
largest barbecue outlet in the tri-state Arkansas-Louisiana-Texas
area, opened at the intersection of I-220 and East Texas Street in
Bossier City on Dixie Overland Road. It specializes in pit barbecue
and steaks.
A second area
location of McAlister's Deli opened April 3 at 2511 Beene Blvd. in
Bossier City.
Nonsmoking,
alcohol-free McAlister's is known for sweet teas, deli sandwiches,
salads, "spuds" and reasonable prices. McAlister's first location
opened last year in the University Place Shopping Center in
Shreveport.
For more on
One-Eyed Jacks, call (318) 549-4990. For McAlister's, go to www.mcalistersdeli.com.
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