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  • Ernie K-Doe's Mother-In-Law Lounge to cease operation as a bar July 10

    06/22/2010 1:12:45 PM PDT · by a fool in paradise · 5 replies
    The Times-Picayune ^ | Sunday, June 20, 2010, 6:58 PM | Alison Fensterstock
    Tonight at 9 p.m. the season finale of HBO's "Treme" will screen at Ernie K-Doe's Mother-In-Law Lounge. It will also be a finale of sorts for the Treme landmark, opened by Ernie and Antoinette K-Doe in the mid-90's; today on Facebook, Antoinette's daughter, Betty Fox, announced that after a garage sale on July 10, she will close the bar for good. Antoinette, an experienced bar manager, opened the business as part of a successful campaign to revitalize her new husband's career. The onetime #1 R&B hitmaker had begun to sink into alcoholism and obscurity in the 80's and 90's, but...