Thursday, March 6, 2008

Jeudi

Getting a Headcount for NTC Meetup in New Orleans

GIS Workshops at Trinity Christian Community: How to Create Your Own Maps for Presentations and Proposals~Think New Orleans

Eve Ensler to speak at University of New Orleans
Eve Ensler, founder of V-Day, the global movement to end violence against women and girls, and author of The Vagina Monologues, will speak at The University of New Orleans on Friday, March 7, at 6 p.m. to invite college students from around the region to participate in the V-Day 10th anniversary celebration scheduled for April 11-12 in New Orleans.

Ecole Bilingue Benefits
An Afternoon Of French Food
~New Orleans Menu

The event's theme is Vive Les Art. It runs from 11 a.m. until 6 o.m. this Saturday, March 8, in the school's playground at the corner of Camp and Calhoun Streets, uptown. Admission is free; you pay for the food a la carte.

NOMA Helping Mid-City

A Taste Of New Orleans

Do you want a Food Co-op at St. Roch and St. Claude?


Day 921: Every Ting Be Eire, Mon!~Maitri's Vatul

Murder tax~Your Right Hand Thief


HUD: Demolition plan for New Orleans housing validated by survey


UN specialists admit they didn't visit, research post-Katrina New Orleans before Sticking their Foot in It~Lost in New Orleans

My notes for the Symposium tonight~Humid Haney


Liptrap discovers...
Koyaanisqatsi
From the Hopi language
~ko.yaa.nis.katsi (n)
1.crazy life 2. live in turmoil
3. life disintegrating
4. life out of balance
5. a state of life that calls for another way of living

Memo to Sax and Gurian~NOLA radfem

Of all the gin joints in all the world... NoLA Rising Supports the Spirit of New Orleans










Is Grey Graffiti?~Dirty Coast


Visual Concepts Helps Spalding "Make A Difference" In Post-Katrina New Orleans

$50,000 Prize for Preventive Journalism


New Orleans port plan tops $1B

Exquixotic Corps
~everywhere you want to be.
~IL- Flood conference brings major players together at perfect time
~GA-A container port at Aiken-Augusta

~SC-Lake Hartwell Coalition wants economic impact study
~MI-Bill calls for state to give up wetland enforcement role
~CA-Local officials visit LA to be sure levee project expedited

Mississippi lawmakers hold hearing on post-Katrina housing crisis~Facing South

Biloxi plan has hospitality in mind

The talented
Mr Connick

New Orleans musician, Harry Connick Jr, was in Kuala Lumpur recently. SHUIB TAIB had the extraordinary fortune to meet up with this entertainer extraordinaire.
Picture courtesy of
Dewan Filharmonik Petronas.

A songwriter who got lucky~Kinks legend Ray Davies was stuck in the creative process, reworking recordings he couldn't finish. Then he got shot in New Orleans and found a new sense of urgency. "Yessir. Nothing focuses the mind like a public execution."-Lyndon Johnson

From Far & Wide~Henry Butler's Pianola Live Scheduled for April 29th Release~all about Jazz

A bridge to the Jazz Age~‘Doc’ Rando of Las Vegas grew up along with jazz in New Orleans, played with big band greats

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2 comments:

Leigh C. said...

Tres kewl! Had no idea Godfrey Reggio was born in New Orleans...

New Orleans Ladder said...

Yes Mam. If you could put me in a church before you nailed the doors shut and burned it down and game me a choice of the last thing I would see? It would be that movie. (-:and not just because it is so long:-)