~Did We Survive Hurricane Katrina or Not
Judge: Miss. AG, trial lawyer Scruggs conspired
Katrina aid could get budget ax
Gulf Coast: Katrina Aide
~Gulf South Free Press
Oh, yeah, this just keeps getting better~Liptrap's Lament
Breaking: Senter tells Renfroe No Sanctions, Calls Policyholders Casualties ~slabbed
Apologies, for not hanging this one earlier! D'OH!
How Karl Rove played politics while people drowned~Salon
~T'n'T-First Draft
Obama won't be coming to New Orleans
Why Obama Can Win Louisiana ~CenLamar
2008 Democratic National Convention Delegate Event to Recognize the Spririt of New Orleans
Let's hear it for Jefferson family values~James Gill
Trailers in N.O. must go by July 1
St. Tammany set for another Katrina milestone
~Another milestone for recovery in St. Tammany Parish from Hurricane Katrina will be met by the end of the summer when all travel trailers must be gone from front yards or homes in residential areas.
Port of New Orleans Hotel Offers New Voluntourism Package
New Orleans Area MRGO Canal De-AuthorizedThe Big Easy Spirit to Serve Voluntourism Getaway Package includes:
- Care Concierge – Once reservations are confirmed, the Care Concierge will provide recommendations via email on local volunteer organizations for guests who want to help
- Donation to Local Charity - $50 of package rate will be donated to Habitat for Humanity to help in the revitalization of the Big Easy
- Goodies for Do-Gooding – Guests will be armed with breakfast to help keep them fueled throughout the day
- Rates from $149 - $249
Corps endorses plans for storm surge wall
Critics fault Army Corps designation of part of LA River
Army Corps to design W-14 Canal upgrades
WAVICS
~Wave-Current-Surge Information System for Coastal Louisiana
USGS
~Flood Stage Levels current 'real-time' guage readings
New Orleans Emergency Connectivity Having Problems
New Orleans mayor, Ray "Baby Head, Chocolate Don, Candy Man, Mad Dog" Nagin leads delegation to S. Africa
Katrina evacuees lower native worker wages~The Witness Box
WMS student organizes fundraiser for New Orleans school
97 Quirky New Orleans Discoveries
Hey! I bet I can tell you where you Got Them Shoes?~Soles4Souls Inc. Donates 130,000 Shoes in Atlanta and New Orleans
How to Think Like a Surreal Cartoonist
Illustrator
Lynda Barry
has questions:
What is an image? Where is your imagination? What is an imaginary friend, and are there imaginary enemies? Can you have thoughts without language?
Barry grapples with these ideas and more in her new book of collages, What It Is.~Gumbo Groove
Ignatius and Me: or, My Love Affair with a Book~Bill Ross
Literary Homecoming ~blogofneworleans.com
June Festivals!!
La Fête de Marquette : 2008 Schedule~Muzzle of Bees
A week's worth of great music
Tip's~Free Fridays~ Paul Sanchez & The Rolling Road Band With special guests Matt Perrine, Eric Bolivar, Craig Klein, and Shamar Allen
~Saturday~"PotLuckCon's Benefit Concert for Sweet Home New Orleans" Bonerama and Joey & John from Calexico and Chris Stamey with Mitch Easter and A reunion of the Blues Magoos
For Jazz’s Avant-Garde, an Annual Gathering and a Little Competition
The Future Of Music?
Ha! They Wish!~2008 Pot Luck Audio Conference (PotLuckCon), June 7-8 at the Sheraton New Orleans.
Fierce Swing, Deep Grooves and Even a Little Singing
~Growing up in a jazz family in New Orleans, the trumpeter Nicholas Payton absorbed a host of lessons about melody, rhythm and the implicit arrangement between an artist and his audience.
Grayson Capps, fresh off his 'Songbones' tour, tonight at dba
Frank Zappa's son is keeping the focus on the music
Homecoming On Muddy Ground
~Jazzhouse Diaries
IT'S A TRAP! SCANDINAVIAN MUSIC JOURNAL~Check out a video of Swedish-born/New Orleans-based artist Theresa Andersson performing the song "Na na na" live with an array of loop pedals.
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