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By Diane Mack

New Orleans, La. – Disney Channel Stars Jason Dolley and Nicole Anderson tape an episode with the Imagination Movers at the UNO NIMS Center Studio in Elmwood.

By Diane Mack

New Orleans, La. – Dreams Come True: Art of the Classic Fairy Tales from Walt Disney Studios opens for an exclusive run at the New Orleans Museum of Art. The exhibit includes works from The Princess and the Frog, an animated comedy set in New Orleans.

New Orleans, LA – Community IMPACT Series: Youth Empowerment Project Nov. 19, 2009

For many young New Orleanians, growing up means maneuvering an environment of pervasive poverty, violence, illiteracy, drugs and bleak personal economic prospects. These are the kids commonly dubbed "at risk," and often they find very little help or guidance at home.

But the local nonprofit Youth Empowerment Project helps fill that void of support, and demonstrates that risks needn't become devastating realities.

11/21/2009 – Close your eyes and imagine your family's Thanksgiving table. I put good money on it that it includes Louisiana sweet potatoes. Dark orange and full of beta-carotene, we call them yams (from the West African word "djambi" meaning "to eat"). However, they're not really yams. Yams are long, tree-like tubers from Latin America with waxy bark-like skins. Needless to say, I doubt we'll stop calling them yams anytime soon. This time of year, they're great, they're everywhere and we're seeing more white sweet potatoes than ever before.

By Andre Perry

New Orleans, LA – Andre Perry discusses former Recovery Czar, Ed Blakely's comments about adult literacy in New Orleans.

New Orleans, LA – WWNO's Paul Maassen talks with Garland Robinette, host of the Think Tank on WWL Radio.

New Orleans, Louisiana – New Orleans is known for being an up-all-night kind of town. But staying up all night to draw? Once every year, the weekend before Thanksgiving, it's not just New Orleans bars that are open twenty four hours. Eve Abrams reports on the fourth annual Draw-a-thon.

New Orleans, Louisiana – New Orleans is known for being an up-all-night kind of town. But staying up all night to draw? Once every year, the weekend before Thanksgiving, it's not just New Orleans bars that are open twenty four hours. Eve Abrams reports on the fourth annual Draw-a-thon.

By Eileen Fleming

New Orleans, LA – WWL's Garland Robinette, and New Orleans Opera Association's production of Romeo and Juliet