Hearing starts in Charity Hospital, FEMA dispute
~Jonathan Tilove

Charity Hearing Behind Closed Doors~SaveCharityHospital.com

Louisiana angling for an answer on invasive fish

Presidio Flood Control Project ~Cubit

Corps, EPA and WVDEP to explain permit process
~Ken Ward Jr.

Hybrids make push into heavy equipment sector
~Korky Koroluk

Mentally Limited and Attitudinally Limited
~Bree Palin


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Mother Catherine by Zora Neale Hurston~52 Stories
~One must go straight out St. Claude below the Industrial Canal and turn south on Flood Street and go almost to the Florida Walk. Looking to the right one sees a large enclosure walled round with a high board fence. A half-dozen flags fly bravely from eminences. A Greek cross tops the chapel. A large American flag flies from the huge tent. A marsh lies between Flood Street and that flag-flying enclosure, and one must walk. As one approaches, the personality of the place comes out to meet one. No ordinary person created this thing. At the gate there is a rusty wire sticking out through a hole. That is the bell. But a painted notice on the gate itself reads: “Mother Seal is a holy spirit and must not be disturbed.”

Local Abbeville author publishes debut novel~Jack Murray of Miami attempts a simple residential burglary which backfires, landing him in jail. When he gets out a year later, he runs into his old partner in crime, Rudy Maxa, who got away with the money.
As Murray tries to choose between leading a legitimate life and falling back into old ways — Maxa is now partners with a dangerous criminal named Tiras with ties to running guns — there’s intrigue, romance and more in Brandon Hebert’s novel, My Own Worst Enemy (Gale).

Sculpture for New Orleans
~Doug MacCash

Now New Orleans Is His Focus
~Larry Blumenfeld
~"I remember stumbling into my first second-line parade maybe 20 years ago," said Mr. Simon, now 49, as he leaned back in his chair at a production office in Manhattan's West Village. "The Treme brass band went up Orleans Avenue to Claiborne Avenue, then stopped under the I-10 bridge. The echo was fantastic. They went past the Lafitte projects and people came out of their homes to join in. I was all the way up in Mid-City before I realized I'd walked 30 blocks and would have to walk all the way back. I didn't know exactly what was going on, but I was hooked."

Oyster Evangelists Rise Up
~The Specialist,WSJ

Michael Pollan Offers 64 Ways to Eat Food
~Tara Parker-Pope

Irvin Mayfield to teach 2nd class at the University of New Orleans
~John Pope