Sources: Wikileaks Owner Sues Roger Goodell Over BountyLeaks Infringement ~Saints Tailgate
~Saints Tailgate investigative reporter  Editilla the Pun, codenamed @Editilla just broke the newest NFL drama story in the BountyLeaks saga. According to not one, not 2, but 3 "sources with knowledge of the situation" WikiLeaks owner Julian Assange sued NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell in International court early Saturday morning in Prague, the capital city of the Czech Republic.

Ledger-gate? Ok. Let’s look at the Carolina game ~The Angry Whodat

Brunch wit'da Whodat Social Club

Times-Picayune meetings now unscheduled for Monday and Tuesday ~Kevin Allman, Gambit

Riffing On the Tradition: Thank you, Mr. Buffett ~Evan Christopher, NolaVie

Nine Shot 3 Dead. Woman shouts “Enough is enough!” at NOLA Crime ~NOLAFemmes

Navigating Flood Regions ~Library Chronicles


Saints Nation: Drew Brees Won't Be Seeing Any of My Money

Epic life of the New Orleans 'Banana King' unfolds in a sweeping new biography

One Horn, Two Fronts: Unicorn Rights Group Backs Away From Mitt Romney ~NOLA DEFENDER

Recirculating Farms Help New Orleans Eat Local

New Orleans Oyster Festival!

Johnny White's, the Bar That Stayed Open Through Katrina, Will Now Close for Good ~NOLA DEFENDER

"Save the Picayune" protest set for June 4!

7 Stories That Made New Orleans’ Times-Picayune a Legend

City launches NOLA Ready web site as storm season arrives

Levees.org, leapfrogging over politics with a mobile historical app!

Let justice prevail on MR-GO: John Lopez and Amanda Moore

South Louisiana begins hurricane season today ~Nikki Buskey

Mississippi River management plan involving 5 states is in the works

White House threatens veto of House bill without funds for Louisiana coastal restoration projects
~Update~U.S. House votes to restore funding for Louisiana ecosystem restoration

Gleason makes passionate call for help at United Nations

Who Dat Billboard Project: Time To Let It Go

Saints game-worn jerseys up for auction!

Goodell granted 21-day delay for response to Vilma lawsuit ~WWL

City Council musical chairs ends today 

The Jefferson Parish Personnel Board bitch slaps the Young Administration ~Slabbed

Drug maker sues AG in Avandia drug case

The New Orleans dilemma: Is it hip to be so very, very ‘hip’? ~C.W. Cannon, The Lens


Friday Reads~Dakinikat, Sky Dancing

South Louisiana summer salt water fishing guide ~Bob Marshall

Summer Guest Blog Seri(es) ~Blackened Out


Picking parsley on Carrollton Avenue

Return of the Legends showcase spotlights female rappers from New Orleans' old school ~Alision Fensterstock

Happy Hurricane Season Everyone!

Follow on Twitter:
~National Hurricane Center @NHC_Atlantic
~Nola.com @NOLAhurricanes

WAVCIS~Wave, Current, Surge Information System for Coastal Louisiana
~LSU Earth Scan Laboratory~Find your Elevation above Sea Level

USGS~Flood Stage Levels current 'real-time' guage readings. I use the USGS maps to get oriented to the states and their flood gauges. This is active data.
~USGS River Flood Gauge Readings:
~New Orleans,LA
~Bonnet Carre Spillway, LA
~Old River Outflow Channel, LA
~Atchafalaya River @ Simmesport, LA
~Knox Landing, LA
~Natchez, MS
~Vicksburg, MS
~Greenville, MS
~Wolf River @ Memphis, TN~Cairo, IL
~Cape Girardeau, MO
~St. Louis, MO~Hannibal, MO
~Grafton IL

~Flood-fight Info from around Louisiana
~Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness
~Office of the Mayor, New Orleans
~Office of the Mayor, Baton Rouge
~The Advocate/WBRZ, Baton Rouge
~River Watch, WWLTV
~River Cam New Orleans @Nola.com~Houma, Daily Comet
~Morgan City, Daily Advertiser~Alexandria, The Town Talk
~Tri-Parish Times

~Wikimapia~Monster Mash'Up
Virtual Globetrotting
~Another Map'Mash Fetish'O'tillas...an atlas of the best satellite, aerial and street view imagery from around the world submitted by community members via Google® Maps, Bing® Maps and Yahoo® Maps!
~SkyTruth
~MarineTraffic.com~Maitri's Vatul Links~LCN-TV
~Louisiana HAM Radio Network
~GetAGameplan.org
~NOLA Ready

An extra 500k? ~American Zombie

Times-Picayune editor on reporting ambitions, salary rumors ~Jim Romenesko

Scrapping the Scrapbook: New Orleans Newsprint's Loyal Fans ~Karen Dalton-Beninato

Recalling the Great Flood of 2011 ~Delta Farm Press 

Recalling the Great Flood of 2005 ~Sandy Rosenthal

Rebuilding Together NOLA: Putting Homeless Veterans to Work ~NOLAFemmes

Legal battle between Costner, Baldwin over BP oil spill deal heads to N.O. court
~Hat Tweet @oceandog

Oversight of BP fine money sparks concern in Legislature ~Jeremy Alford

Federal judge outlines new structure for January 2013 trial over Gulf oil spill claims

The Rue Is On Fire ~Blackened Out

Check out this Rue, Liuzza's by the Track

Women of the Virtual Storm!
~Phone, e-mail, post on facebook pages, tweet... use all media at your disposal to contact the House members of the Transportation Conference Committee during this six-hour time period and urge them to include the RESTORE amendment in the committee's final report. 

8 Shot in New Orleans ~NOLA DEFENDER
~Eight people were shot Tuesday in New Orleans, including a 5-year-old girl who died as a result of a gunshot wound she sustained at her cousin's birthday party.

Tourism tips advise New Orleans to be quiet on crime, not music: James Gill

Save the Picayune petition

The Saints Hold Public Mini Camps Next Week ~Saints Tailgate

The Underlying Math of a Brees' Holdout ~Saint's Win

Another hearing for suspended 'bounty' players

In this episode of Magnum J.D.: “it’s about the package and the people that surround it” ~Slabbed

Slidell area gets added levee protection

You Might Even Say It Glows: Radioactive Tuna and the Parallels Between Fukushima and the Gulf Spill ~Stuart Smith

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Being a New Orleanian: Lesson #2 ~IntheKnowla.com

Fourth Annual Charity Poker Crawl to Benefit The Roots of Music ~Molly's on Decatur

9th Ward organization gets $150,000 grant for gardening programs

Presto Pesto ~Blackened Out

Amy Winehouse Foundation and the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra: A Push in the Right Direction ~Aaron LaFont, offBeat

The Start of Hurricane Season and Quick Drive-by Levee Inspections ~Sandy Rosenthal, Huff Post

Orleans, Jefferson environmental losses could double by 2030, Entergy report says ~David Hammer

NOLA filmmaker Benh Zeitlin wins Camera d'Or award at Cannes Film Festival ~Gambit

Sean Payton Employs Movie Magic to Coach Saints in 2012 ~Wallace Delery

Who Dat Billboard Project – Atlanta ~The Angry Whodat

The 2010's May Become The Decade Of NFL Lawsuits ~Saints Tailgate

New Orleans Saints fan sets up Drew Brees trust account


Drew Brees Launches New Startup & Is Hiring A NOLA Entrepreneur To Take The Reins ~Silicone Bayou News

Tom Benson's Letter of Support for a Daily Newspaper in New Orleans

Valuing Journalism: David Simon ~Athenae, First Draft

How the country's only reading radio will handle The Times-Picayune's big changes ~Alex Woodward, Gambit

CALL TO ACTION: WEDNESDAY, MAY 30TH, 9AM TO 3PM ~Women of the Storm

To amplify a point ‘Gate and I are making ~Slabbed

The Lens' Summer Salon!

New Orleans looks to refinance hundreds of millions of dollars in debt

The anatomy of a deal~C.B. Forgotston

Debris Part 13 ~Fix the Pumps

Lafourche pump station work will help protect from floods

Bicycle tours go into high gear in New Orleans

Rocky & Carlo's reopens today!

Short Order Reviews ~Blackened Out

We Know What Good Is: The 12 Most Important Restaurants in New Orleans ~He Said/She Said NOLA

~Hat Tweet~ Alison Fensterstock ‏@AlisonF_NOLA ~Awesome editor @Alex_Rawls is leaving NOLA music monthly @OffBeatMagazine: http://smoothjazzsuperstars.blogspot.com/2012/05/open-letter-looking-back-looking-ahead.html  

Could New York Be Wronger About New Orleans? ~Harry Shearer

Times-Picayune employees to learn their fates next week ~Kevin Allman, Gambit

An Open Letter to Steve Newhouse
~Getting rid of the daily Times-Picayune is like closing down Galatoire's, ending Jazz Fest, and moving out the Saints all rolled into one. I'm writing this not out of nostalgia for the past but out of urgency for the city's future. New Orleans needs a daily Times-Picayune. The city is still recovering and rebuilding from one of the worst disasters in recent American history. It was a disaster that your paper did a heroic job covering. Journalists risked their lives for the city they loved and justly received international recognition for their hard work. It was one the finest moments for your media empire. But you are about to turn that victory into a sad defeat. All of that hard work and recognition is going to be flushed away if the daily paper ceases operations.

Open letter to Mr. Warren Buffet re The Times-Picayune By Evan Christopher

In Memoriam: The Daily New Orleans Times-Picayune~Beaumont, Lufkin, Tyler, Galveston and Huntsville will soon have papers that publish more frequently than New Orleans, formerly the queen city of the Gulf Coast.

Happy Memorial Day New Orleans!


Residents, officials getting ready as hurricane season approaches ~WWLTV

Fall of New Orleans beachhead for emancipation

Chargrilled Oysters

InvadeNOWFE : Royal Street Stumble

Your New Orleans Ladder just provided for 1000 meals at 2nd Harvest Food Bank!

A Response to Scott McKay and The Hayride ~CenLamar

Journalism under water ~Will Bunch, Philadelphia Daily News

Legislative act could help boost City Park funding ~WWLTV

Ycloskey crabbers continue to struggle after oil spill ~WVUE

Louisiana taxpayers finance a prison bonanza: James Gill

UL's new books look at communities, storms

"Prepper" speaks against stigma that all survivalists are nuts

Corps tweaks data to get diversion funding ~Grand Forks Herald~The Corps of Engineers has been engaging in some highly questionable analysis in its definition of the 100-year flood plain in Fargo-Moorhead. As a result, the Corps’ dam/diversion quickly is losing its claim to being a cost-effective project.

Food truck operators to form nonprofit association ~Richard Thompson

Pastry chefs battle for best burlesque-themed cake in NOWFE's anniversary event ~Laura McKnight

Animals Vocalist Eric Burdon to Release New Album, Til Your River Runs Dry set for September release

Today! The Money Wasters second line parade 1-5pm ~Big Red Cotton, Gambit