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The New Orleans-born inventor of the paper coffee cup has opened a new French Quarter museum examining the city's history with prostitution, gambling and alcohol.

Why it matters: You can't make this stuff up.

The latest: The New Orleans Storyville Museum is now open, named for the infamous red light district that once sat behind the French Quarter.

The big picture: "New Orleans was the gambling capital of America, the drinking capital of America, and the prostitution capital of America," says museum creator and curator Claus Sadlier. "But the museum is really about the storied past of New Orleans told in an interesting way."

Flashback: The neighborhood was founded in 1897 as an attempt by alderman Sidney Story to shove New Orleans' grittiest vices into just one corner of the city.

• If you can't beat 'em, the thinking went, at least try to manage 'em.
• Some residents with a solid sense of humor borrowed Story's name as a moniker for the neighborhood, which stuck to this day.
• The Storyville experiment managed to last two decades, according to New Orleans' history website A Closer Walk, while it filled with high-end brothels, rollicking nightclubs and gambling dens.

Zoom in: The new museum is a "passion project" for Sadlier, whose claim to fame and fortune is that, in the late 1990s, he invented the paper coffee cup.

• At the time, he was living in San Francisco and watching the specialty coffee craze take hold as plastic foam cups fell out of favor. Sadlier realized a single-walled paper coffee cup wasn't going to cut it.
• Eventually, he built a company around his invention and sold it to Dixie Cup for $170 million in 2006.
• He moved home to New Orleans in 2013. See his house.

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Kaitlin Guerin's Lagniappe Bakehouse has been delighting New Orleans since the pandemic, when a visit home turned into a permanent return and she started selling pastry boxes.

Why it matters: Guerin finally gets a permanent storefront, too, with the opening of a gorgeous, renovated Central City home just off Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard.

Between the lines: Guerin's baking is about more than creating "the perfect French croissant," she says.

• "We're here to highlight local, seasonal bounty, what is fresh, what's available right now, with a focus on Southern food ways and West African ingredients," she tells Axios New Orleans.

The vibe: The bakehouse sits off Euterpe Street under a soaring oak tree. A few tables out front offer a welcome spot for reading with a good cup of coffee and a breakfast pastry, or meeting with neighbors.

• With the front door open, I could smell bread rising from the street as I walked under the tree canopy.

What I ordered: A grains of paradise Swedish bun ($5.50).

• With its spicy, warm flavor and citrus glaze, it's the perfect compliment to a cup of coffee and a cozy morning.

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Instagram is launching Teen Accounts in September, with built-in protections limiting who can contact teens and the content they can see. Plus, only parents can approve safety setting changes for teens under 16.

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🛍️ Canal Street will be under the microscope in a new study as city leaders look to revitalize the iconic thoroughfare. The City Planning Commission will build off a similar one from 2018. (Fox 8; read the City Council motion)

🎸 Tab Benoit has spent nearly 30 years charting on Billboard's Blues Albums, but he finally scored a No. 1 spot with "I Hear Thunder." (Billboard)

🥪 Mahony's Po-Boy Shop is getting new life from LeBlanc + Smith, the hospitality company behind Sylvain, The Chloe and The Will and the Way. (Instagram)

🚨 A building collapsed Saturday in the 1400 block of Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard, NOPD says. There were no injuries, but the intersection of O.C. Haley at Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard is closed until further notice as investigations get underway.

🙈 The Saints lost to the Eagles, 15-12, at home yesterday. That didn't stop some fans from literally breaking the patio at Wrong Iron in their excitement. (WDSU)

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