By Diane Mack

New Orleans, La. – Fantastic Mr. Fox, an interactive puppet play challenges imaginations as those young and old literally climb into the pages of this storybook adventure. At the Contemporary Arts Center through January 2, 2011.

By Andre Perry

New Orleans, LA – Andre Perry discusses the process of selecting charter school operators.

 Jerry Alfonso Martin and his cousin Lloyd Serigny are in their 70s now. But they both have very clear, very fond memories of growing up in the Spanish-speaking Islenos community on Delacroix Island.

New Orleans, LA – The Jewish holiday of Hanukkah continues until this Wednesday night. Celebrations on the northshore have been taking place, and Jollaine takes a look at some of these holiday traditions.

New Orleans, LA – Jack Hopke hosts WWNO's weekly news magazine.

By Eileen Fleming

New Orleans, La. – Mayor Landrieu is calling it the "Fight the Blight" plan. It's coordinated around a five-block radius of schools, playgrounds, and high-traffic commercial corridors in each district.

By Eileen Fleming

New Orleans, La. – William Reilly is advising the oil and gas industry to form an independent body to increase safety in offshore, deepwater drilling.

"Three of the leading players in the industry made a series of missteps, miscalculations and miscommunications that were breathtakingly inept and largely preventable."

He told an industry group meeting in New Orleans that Congress should increase funding for better inspection systems.

By Angela Taylor

New Orleans, LA – Last week we heard the story of Noah Fischer and his mother's struggles to get her special need's son a public education in New Orleans. This week, in the second of a two-part story, Angela Taylor reports on what the State of Louisiana and the Louisiana Association of Public Charter Schools responses are to this issue.

We invite your comments or ideas for future reports. Please email: educationmatters@wwno.org

Aunt Daisy's Candied Grapefruit Peel

Yields 16 - 4 oz. gift jars

4 cups Louisiana grapefruit peels
cup Kosher salt
1 cup water
2 cups sugar
& 6 cups sugar

Cut a bag of grapefruit (8 - 12) in half, juice and reserve for later use.

By Eileen Fleming