
New Orleans’ PyrateCon 2008 Planners Celebrate Talk Like a Pirate Day (2007-09-17)
Wednesday, September 19 is Talk Like A Pirate Day. In New Orleans, next April 18-20 will also be time to talk like a pirate, as the city hosts the second annual PyrateCon, a gathering of pirates and pirate fans. Convention organizers met in New Orleans in advance of Talk Like A Pirate Day to fine tune arrangements for next April's gathering while celebrating an early TLAPD.
Poker Industry Online Auction Site to Benefit New Orleans' Katrina Recovery (2006-08-25)
Paradigm Poker Consultants, Inc., and former World Series of Poker(R) Tournament Director Steve Morrow are pleased to announce the launch of ThePokerAttic.com, a low-cost online auction site devoted to poker and the birthplace of poker, New Orleans. ThePokerAttic.com's auction fees end where the big sites' start, and sellers who attain "Preferred Seller" status, which is as simple as donating to the New Orleans recovery effort, will pay no auction fees whatsoever.