Friday, June 6, 2008

Vendredi

HA!!! NO ICE FOR YOU!
~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

The 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
New Orleans Area MRGO Canal De-Authorized

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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