Thursday, April 1, 2010

Jeudi

Hurricane on the Bayou
~Narrated by Academy Award-winning actress Meryl Streep and driven by a rousing Jazz, Blues and Gospel-fueled soundtrack, Hurricane on the Bayou is both a haunting document of a storm’s human effects and a compelling call to restore Louisiana’s wetlands, rebuild New Orleans, and honor the place where America’s most vibrant home-grown culture was born.

Environmental groups seek fix for Gulf dead zone~Nikki Buskey

Everglades deal in jeopardy after judge’s ruling

Contract awarded on first of seven delayed levee projects in eastern New Orleans
~Mark Schleifstein


Food Access Five Years After the Storm and Federal Flood
~Center for American Progress

~The Circle Food Store in New Orleans sits idle in this photo made February 23, 2006. Five years after the Federal Flood, many New Orleans residents still struggle to gain access to basic amounts of food, despite their rich food history and resources.
Editilla Potellas the billboard above the Vacant Food Store.
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*Special thanks to Scout Prime at First Draft

'Treme' 'Do What You Wanna' clip focuses on John Goodman's character, levee failure
~Ashley on How insensitive.
~Ashley said on August 4th, 2007 at 12:00 am
Hey Nance, way to include a ton of pub­lic works projects, but omit the one that killed over 4000.
Lev­ees.
It’s going to take shit like this hap­pen­ing to peo­ple who live in Amerika, as opposed to those of us who “should have known bet­ter than to live there” for you all to real­ize that infra­struc­ture matters.
Oh, and we’re the UNITED states, last time I looked.
To quote the cover story in Time this week: “The most impor­tant thing to remem­ber about the drown­ing of New Orleans is that it wasn’t a nat­ural dis­as­ter. It was a man-made dis­as­ter, cre­ated by lousy engi­neer­ing, mis­placed pri­or­i­ties and pork-barrel pol­i­tics.”
Wow. 5 whole peo­ple dead. Call me when 800 more bridges col­lapse, then I’ll give a fly­ing fuck.
Our fate is your fate, and we’re fucked.

More details emerge on why Levees.org will love TREME

What's the New Orleans stereotype that you're most tired of seeing on screen?

New Orleans Second Line over the Brooklyn Bridge this weekend! ~Treme Life

David Mills, ‘Treme’ Writer, Remembered By Peers

The New Orleans Levee and Gambit to merge operations
~Angus Lind


N.O. Avoided Catastrophe in '73 ~Simon Sez

“Charters are doing a heck of a job,” post-Federal Flood of NOLA ~Fred Klonsky

Misunderstood, like Jesus ~Monkeyboy

Tit for Tat and boobs in the news! ~slabbed

State Farm of Louisiana seeks 9.9% increase for home coverage
~Towntalk


Judge won't stop hospital projects ~Project Nola

Conference to Explore The Rightful Place of Science

Facebook rhetoric reveals mindset of beleaguered NOPD officers and supporters
~Eli Ackerman, The Lens

~Editilla Bow Wowrillas~
It appears that Mr. Ackerman may have waxed Eponymous?
Based on the nearly incomprehensible idea of “Facebook Rhetoric” (still can’t get my Mind around that one:) we now have the phenomenon of getting “FACEBOOKED”. Or, in the case of our Ferrel 5-O, we might hear…FACEBOOK’EM DANO!
Sorry, Editilla was born on April Fool’s Day.

Disgraced lieutenant killed

"Black Rage in New Orleans" ~HEPPAS Books
~New from Louisiana State University Press: Black Rage in New Orleans: Police Brutality and African American Activism from World War II to Hurricane Katrina by Leonard N. Moore.

Eastern New Orleans typewriter repairman is last of a breed
~Danny Monteverde


Use this recipe (or your imagination) with shredded phyllo dough~Judy Walker

Women’s Spring Literary Salon ~NOLAFemmes

AASL Seeks School Library Presentations for ALA 2011 Annual Conference in NOLA

"Bellona, Destroyer of Cities"
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