MRGO trial ends quietly:
is this a harbinger of journalism cutbacks? ~Lacoastpost
New Orleans may relax Inspector General prerequisites
~Michelle Krupa
~Interim Inspector General Len Odom and his predecessor,
Bob Cerasoli, the first person to hold the post, also objected this week to a concurrent move to give political appointees on the Ethics Review Board authority to amend the inspector general's annual budget, which now is reviewed by the City Council.
The move, they said, would chip away at the inspector general's autonomy. Even though one of the proposed changes would allow him to seek his post permanently, Odom opposes it so strongly he said he'd quit if it becomes law.
"I will not work in an environment that is different than what the people approved, " he said. "I don't want there to be any claim that I was looking out for my self-interest."
HEAD ON COLLISION~Adrastos
Missed the Easter Bunny?
Find what State Farm wants to keep hidden, win chocolate egg ~slabbed
Miss. AG: Keep State Farm settlement deal sealed
Coastal money survives debate ~Jeremy Alford
Big Money Spent On Temporary Sewage Pumps~WDSU
FEMA Works To Avoid Formaldehyde In New Units
~Brian Naylor
Swine flu confirmed in Terrebonne ~Nikki Buskey
Singular New Orleans Double Eagle Headlines Heritage Long Beach Coin Auction
NOMA Presents The Art of Caring: A Look at Life Through Photography~Artdaily.org
Call for Graduate Student Fellow
Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life
Tenth Annual National Conference: Culture, Crisis, and Recovery
Yard sale to benefit N.O. trip
What's a Whiter Shade of Pale? Interview: Lyricist Keith Reid
~Karen Dalton-Beninato
Instruments A Comin' | 04.27 | New Orleans~NolaFunk NYC
Saturday, May 16, 2009
Friday, May 15, 2009
Vendredi
"Why Are You So Afraid of Us?" After Years in Isolation, Burmese Dissident Still Torments Her Tormentors~NYT
“Why are you so afraid of us?” Daw Aung San Suu Kyi called out, taunting the military government of Burma as thousands of rapturous supporters listened in the rain, whistling and cheering from under a sea of black umbrellas.
That was 13 years ago, during a temporary period of freedom from house arrest, and Mrs. Aung San Suu Kyi was putting into words the dynamic that has kept her under detention for most of the past two decades. The seemingly all-powerful junta, which jails its opponents and crushes popular uprisings by force,
is afraid of Mrs. Aung San Suu Kyi, 63, the country’s pro-democracy opposition leader, and of the continuing undercurrent of support she commands among the people.
~Was Yettawa Pawn of Burma’s Generals?
Gen. Russel Honore says Louisiana should drop appeal and pay for new hospital itself
~Jonathan Tilove
Comments on Proposed VA Medical Center Designs
~PreservationNation
MRGO flooding trial ends!
Verdict now in judge's hands
~Mark Schleifstein
Going, going, MR-Go is gone
(for now)~slabbed ~Worry not if you’re feeling hopelessly lost trying to understand MRGO and the rest of the Canal Breaches litigation. Starting this weekend, SLABBED will be publishing a series of post that put MRGO in the context of the Consolidated Litigation.
Trial Against Corps of Engineers for Katrina Flooding Goes to Judge~Courthouse News Service
~Editilla Notellas~ We will post different articles on MRGO as we find them around the nets, apart from the AP media shotgun that most outlets simply repost <--which in this case unfortunately quotes the wrong, misleading and uninformed ASCECORPS mouthpiece. We also shall leave the wayward journalist nameless, since Editilla has decided to lay off journalists who can't seem to do their homework. Hell, what's the point anymore as ASCECORPS seems to have most journalists charmed like bugs on truck grill anyway.
Landrieu Leads Second CODEL To Netherlands to Study Dutch World-Class Flood Protection
Senator Mary Landrieu, D-La., will this month lead the second Congressional Delegation to the Netherlands to study the Dutch integrated water management system. Louisiana and administration officials, including EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, will join Sen. Landrieu to study the world-class water management and flood protection system in the Netherlands, which shares many of Louisiana’s challenges in protecting populations and economic infrastructure below sea level.
In early 2006, Sen. Landrieu along with the Royal Netherlands Embassy led an initial Codel to the Netherlands. Since 2006, Louisiana has made progress in protecting coastal communities, including 100-year flood protection for the New Orleans region to be completed by 2011, but this trip will help the state assess remaining challenges. Sen. Landrieu will also explore policies, which may include innovative Dutch technologies and practices, that can reduce the persistent delays and cost overruns of Army Corps of Engineers projects.
Also joining the CODEL:
New Orleans City Council President Jackie Clarkson;
Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority East Regional Director Bob Turner; Terrebonne Parish President Michel Claudet; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers representatives from Corps headquarters and the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army; Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works Staff Director Bettina Poirier; New Orleans Director of Disaster Mitigation Dr. Earthea Nance; American Planning Association Executive Director/CEO Paul Farmer; Levees.Org Executive Director Sandy Rosenthal; American Society of Civil Engineers President Wayne Klotz; Center for Planning Excellence, Camille Manning-Broome; Louisiana Speaks, Lee Einsweiler; LSU Hurricane Center Interim Director Joseph Suhayda.
CODEL SCHEDULE:
Tuesday, May 26: AMSTERDAM
Site visit and briefings include: Amsterdam WaterNet, the city water management and supply agency, on living with water: flood control, ground and surface water levels, water quality and ecosystem health; Amsterdam City Architect Ton Schaap briefing and tour of the Eastern Docks and Ijburg: discussion of successful redevelopment projects, as well as water management, flood safety and economic vitality working in tandem.
Wednesday, May 27: THE HAGUE
Briefings include: Association of Dutch Water Boards; Netherlands Parliament, Committee on Water Management; Cees Veerman, Chairman of the Delta Committee; Tineke Huizinga,Vice Minister of Transport, Public Works and Water Management.
Thursday, May 28, 2009: ROTTERDAM and DELFT
Site visit and briefings include: Rotterdam city architects on Rotterdam Waterplan and the city’s climate-proof initiatives; Delft Technical University briefing on Delta Urbanism; Deltares, the leading research/scientific organization on water, soil, modeling, climate change.
Friday, May 29: KAMPEN
Site visit and briefings include: Officials from Kampen on projects under construction, river diversion for flood safety, flood safety created by dredged material, ecosystem restoration and urban flood risk mitigation efforts.
Rally For Coastal Restoration
June 1st
~Caffin @ Florida, on the water - Lower 9th Ward
June 1 - Rally for Restoration
Noon - 1pm
Bayou Bienvenue Wetlands Platform, Lower Ninth Ward
~Despite congressional mandates, the Army Corps is years behind deadline to restore the decimated wetlands along the MRGO. Join your neighbors to ask the Corps to make the protection of our communities a priority! View Flyer [pdf]
Corps of Engineers or SHINOLA? Re-Branding, Re-Marketing
the Re-Branding Re-Marketing
of the Corps~WWL
~Stacy Mendoza, employee of Outreach Process Partners, said the polling graph, showing what she calls a "case study," <-(Oh My! How bloody rich!) was "misguided,” "too boastful" and "a mistake."
“I understand the confusion we've created over our role, which is a support role to the Army Corps and I'm sorry that there is that confusion,” said Mendoza.
~Editilla Rotellas~Like a self-cleaning outhouse,
da'Corps' $5 Million PR Firm OPP says its own PR is Aaaaalllll just a Big Misunderstanding! A Mistake! Yeah, that's the Ticket!
Sniffle... those poor poor Girls of OPPsee. But, they are sorry!
But...BUT, are they smoking Crack? Strung out on Xanex?
Are they Out of their ad-addled, idiot'wind blown minds?
Genteel'rillas are crying to know. Who's on First?
We are paying this Band of Miss'Fits to fork us around like this?
These are 7 women working for this increasingly hysterical Miscommunications Company, fey Piraterixes of the Word.
Now, we gotta figure the Corps buys the Ads, rents the meeting spaces, pays for all the supplies and sundry fetishes these ghastly haints must have to weave their haintly spells --even down to the Dixie Cups into which they pour their red Happy Corps Cool Aid.
Soooo one wonders how this $5 Million take is split amongst the Malevolent 7... Mrs. Mendoza... I really feel your pain.
Really, heavy sigh... poor misguided marketeers...
Hence I will post this as often as it takes so you know we know
You Know that We Hear Your Mouf'Talkin:
Does the above marketing assessment sound like it comes from a company who is in the business of mistaking communications? Pretty goddamn expensive Mistakes if you ask dumb'ol Editilla. What is not so clear is OPP's other, lucrative, neoconcon'ethical
cross-lobbying, inter-agency "Strategic Partnerships".
And just to make sure y'all don't miss this salient information:
[Curiously, I missed one job Janice held in-between GSIPT and OPP; that of VP Marketing for eTelemetry, a company that can “Find the person behind an IP in real time and historically. Track VoIP phones automatically. Monitor bandwidth usage, sites surfed, and chat times by person and department. Know how your network is being used.” Sounds like they’d be perfect for teaching people how to fake blog posts, eh?] Rut'Row, Astro!
The Corps own spokesman is just a few weeks on the Job, the latest Instant Press Officer Perp (IPOP) and doesn't seem to know the difference between a Contract and a Contract.
He will not be missed. Y'all remember PO Cephus?
Your New Orleans Ladder was first on these Ho's on May 5th.
Here is that entire week as Levees.org took the story national.
Editilla recommends y'all go to the bottom of the week, scroll'up.
Budget votes
~Michelle Millhollon
~Coastal Restoration Funds Survive
Assessor sues oil company for millions in taxes~Robert Zullo
Tidewater seeks compensation for seized assets
~Stephen Maloney
Sandra Bullock To Be Honored By New Orleans School ~WDSU
Small-batch beers take center stage this week in New Orleans
~Todd A. Price
New Orleans Food and Wine Experience: It's wines. It's food. It's an education~Lolis Eric Elie
New Orleans Modern Jazz Pioneer Mike Serpas Dies at 77
~all about Jazz
ALAMAAILMAN VASARAT:
Vasaraasia~Prog Archives
~"It is almost inconceivable to me than anyone wouldn't love this band. Imagine a Bar Mitzvah played by Apocalyptica...or Finntroll with 60% less Black Metal and 80% more authentic instruments...or even John Zorn with a Gypsy fetish. How about Tom Waits' backing band doing Univers Zero cover tunes?
What's not to love?"
Better Than Ezra new album out! "Paper Empire" Tour starts 29th at House of Blues, New Orleans
“Why are you so afraid of us?” Daw Aung San Suu Kyi called out, taunting the military government of Burma as thousands of rapturous supporters listened in the rain, whistling and cheering from under a sea of black umbrellas.That was 13 years ago, during a temporary period of freedom from house arrest, and Mrs. Aung San Suu Kyi was putting into words the dynamic that has kept her under detention for most of the past two decades. The seemingly all-powerful junta, which jails its opponents and crushes popular uprisings by force,
is afraid of Mrs. Aung San Suu Kyi, 63, the country’s pro-democracy opposition leader, and of the continuing undercurrent of support she commands among the people.
~Was Yettawa Pawn of Burma’s Generals?
Gen. Russel Honore says Louisiana should drop appeal and pay for new hospital itself
~Jonathan Tilove
Comments on Proposed VA Medical Center Designs
~PreservationNation
MRGO flooding trial ends!
Verdict now in judge's hands
~Mark Schleifstein
Going, going, MR-Go is gone
(for now)~slabbed ~Worry not if you’re feeling hopelessly lost trying to understand MRGO and the rest of the Canal Breaches litigation. Starting this weekend, SLABBED will be publishing a series of post that put MRGO in the context of the Consolidated Litigation.
Trial Against Corps of Engineers for Katrina Flooding Goes to Judge~Courthouse News Service
~Editilla Notellas~ We will post different articles on MRGO as we find them around the nets, apart from the AP media shotgun that most outlets simply repost <--which in this case unfortunately quotes the wrong, misleading and uninformed ASCECORPS mouthpiece. We also shall leave the wayward journalist nameless, since Editilla has decided to lay off journalists who can't seem to do their homework. Hell, what's the point anymore as ASCECORPS seems to have most journalists charmed like bugs on truck grill anyway.
Landrieu Leads Second CODEL To Netherlands to Study Dutch World-Class Flood Protection
Senator Mary Landrieu, D-La., will this month lead the second Congressional Delegation to the Netherlands to study the Dutch integrated water management system. Louisiana and administration officials, including EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, will join Sen. Landrieu to study the world-class water management and flood protection system in the Netherlands, which shares many of Louisiana’s challenges in protecting populations and economic infrastructure below sea level.
In early 2006, Sen. Landrieu along with the Royal Netherlands Embassy led an initial Codel to the Netherlands. Since 2006, Louisiana has made progress in protecting coastal communities, including 100-year flood protection for the New Orleans region to be completed by 2011, but this trip will help the state assess remaining challenges. Sen. Landrieu will also explore policies, which may include innovative Dutch technologies and practices, that can reduce the persistent delays and cost overruns of Army Corps of Engineers projects.
Also joining the CODEL:
New Orleans City Council President Jackie Clarkson;
Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority East Regional Director Bob Turner; Terrebonne Parish President Michel Claudet; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers representatives from Corps headquarters and the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army; Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works Staff Director Bettina Poirier; New Orleans Director of Disaster Mitigation Dr. Earthea Nance; American Planning Association Executive Director/CEO Paul Farmer; Levees.Org Executive Director Sandy Rosenthal; American Society of Civil Engineers President Wayne Klotz; Center for Planning Excellence, Camille Manning-Broome; Louisiana Speaks, Lee Einsweiler; LSU Hurricane Center Interim Director Joseph Suhayda.
CODEL SCHEDULE:
Tuesday, May 26: AMSTERDAM
Site visit and briefings include: Amsterdam WaterNet, the city water management and supply agency, on living with water: flood control, ground and surface water levels, water quality and ecosystem health; Amsterdam City Architect Ton Schaap briefing and tour of the Eastern Docks and Ijburg: discussion of successful redevelopment projects, as well as water management, flood safety and economic vitality working in tandem.
Wednesday, May 27: THE HAGUE
Briefings include: Association of Dutch Water Boards; Netherlands Parliament, Committee on Water Management; Cees Veerman, Chairman of the Delta Committee; Tineke Huizinga,Vice Minister of Transport, Public Works and Water Management.
Thursday, May 28, 2009: ROTTERDAM and DELFT
Site visit and briefings include: Rotterdam city architects on Rotterdam Waterplan and the city’s climate-proof initiatives; Delft Technical University briefing on Delta Urbanism; Deltares, the leading research/scientific organization on water, soil, modeling, climate change.
Friday, May 29: KAMPEN
Site visit and briefings include: Officials from Kampen on projects under construction, river diversion for flood safety, flood safety created by dredged material, ecosystem restoration and urban flood risk mitigation efforts.
Rally For Coastal Restoration
June 1st
~Caffin @ Florida, on the water - Lower 9th WardJune 1 - Rally for Restoration
Noon - 1pm
Bayou Bienvenue Wetlands Platform, Lower Ninth Ward
~Despite congressional mandates, the Army Corps is years behind deadline to restore the decimated wetlands along the MRGO. Join your neighbors to ask the Corps to make the protection of our communities a priority! View Flyer [pdf]
Corps of Engineers or SHINOLA? Re-Branding, Re-Marketing
the Re-Branding Re-Marketing
of the Corps~WWL
~Stacy Mendoza, employee of Outreach Process Partners, said the polling graph, showing what she calls a "case study," <-(Oh My! How bloody rich!) was "misguided,” "too boastful" and "a mistake."“I understand the confusion we've created over our role, which is a support role to the Army Corps and I'm sorry that there is that confusion,” said Mendoza.
~Editilla Rotellas~Like a self-cleaning outhouse,
da'Corps' $5 Million PR Firm OPP says its own PR is Aaaaalllll just a Big Misunderstanding! A Mistake! Yeah, that's the Ticket!
Sniffle... those poor poor Girls of OPPsee. But, they are sorry!
But...BUT, are they smoking Crack? Strung out on Xanex?
Are they Out of their ad-addled, idiot'wind blown minds?
Genteel'rillas are crying to know. Who's on First?
We are paying this Band of Miss'Fits to fork us around like this?
These are 7 women working for this increasingly hysterical Miscommunications Company, fey Piraterixes of the Word.
Now, we gotta figure the Corps buys the Ads, rents the meeting spaces, pays for all the supplies and sundry fetishes these ghastly haints must have to weave their haintly spells --even down to the Dixie Cups into which they pour their red Happy Corps Cool Aid.
Soooo one wonders how this $5 Million take is split amongst the Malevolent 7... Mrs. Mendoza... I really feel your pain.
Really, heavy sigh... poor misguided marketeers...
Hence I will post this as often as it takes so you know we know
You Know that We Hear Your Mouf'Talkin:
OPP provides media support for print, broadcast and Internet media on local, national and international levels including outlets such as the Times-Picayune, WWL-TV CBS New Orleans, Associated Press, USA Today, The Weather Channel, The Today Show, French TV Channel 5, and Engineering News Record on issues such as Hurricane Gustav, “paper in the floodwalls” and other investigative responses, seepage, peer review and the state of the hurricane and storm damage risk reduction system.That looks pretty clear does it not, Gentle'rillas?
As part of this cause <-(W'everTF that means?), OPP fosters strategic relationships with media outlets that result in more accurate and balanced stories.
Results: OPP's media support has been a fundamental part of the transition from typically negative news coverage to more neutral and positive news coverage.
Does the above marketing assessment sound like it comes from a company who is in the business of mistaking communications? Pretty goddamn expensive Mistakes if you ask dumb'ol Editilla. What is not so clear is OPP's other, lucrative, neoconcon'ethical
cross-lobbying, inter-agency "Strategic Partnerships".
And just to make sure y'all don't miss this salient information:
[Curiously, I missed one job Janice held in-between GSIPT and OPP; that of VP Marketing for eTelemetry, a company that can “Find the person behind an IP in real time and historically. Track VoIP phones automatically. Monitor bandwidth usage, sites surfed, and chat times by person and department. Know how your network is being used.” Sounds like they’d be perfect for teaching people how to fake blog posts, eh?] Rut'Row, Astro!
The Corps own spokesman is just a few weeks on the Job, the latest Instant Press Officer Perp (IPOP) and doesn't seem to know the difference between a Contract and a Contract.
He will not be missed. Y'all remember PO Cephus?
Your New Orleans Ladder was first on these Ho's on May 5th.
Here is that entire week as Levees.org took the story national.
Editilla recommends y'all go to the bottom of the week, scroll'up.
Budget votes
~Michelle Millhollon
~Coastal Restoration Funds Survive
Assessor sues oil company for millions in taxes~Robert Zullo
Tidewater seeks compensation for seized assets
~Stephen Maloney
Sandra Bullock To Be Honored By New Orleans School ~WDSU
Small-batch beers take center stage this week in New Orleans
~Todd A. Price
New Orleans Food and Wine Experience: It's wines. It's food. It's an education~Lolis Eric Elie
New Orleans Modern Jazz Pioneer Mike Serpas Dies at 77
~all about Jazz
ALAMAAILMAN VASARAT:
Vasaraasia~Prog Archives
~"It is almost inconceivable to me than anyone wouldn't love this band. Imagine a Bar Mitzvah played by Apocalyptica...or Finntroll with 60% less Black Metal and 80% more authentic instruments...or even John Zorn with a Gypsy fetish. How about Tom Waits' backing band doing Univers Zero cover tunes?
What's not to love?"
Better Than Ezra new album out! "Paper Empire" Tour starts 29th at House of Blues, New Orleans
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Jeudi
FEMA Denial Renews Charity Hospital Debate~WDSU
Congressman Cao expresses his concerns over Charity appeals process~Gerard Shields
Rep. Peterson working to steer millions to GNOBEDD
~Save Charity Hospital.com
~Remember GNOBEDD? It stands for the Greater New Orleans Biosciences Economic Development District and it represents a state-empowered special tax district comprised of a host of public and private partners including the Downtown Development District and the Regional Planning Commission.
It was officially created by the State of Louisiana in 2005 to help attract businesses associated with the biomedical industry.
City of sickness~The Economist
Spillway meeting shows diversity, says PR Firm OPP
~DIXCLAIMER! WARNING! BAT SIGNAL!~
Funding sought to keep highway dry to Port Fourchon
~Allen M. Johnson Jr.
Barack Obama on Multiperil Insurance: I was for it before I was against it... ~slabbed
Release and Conceal:
The Mirror-World Edition
~Harry Shearer
~So, to review, Cheney wants more stuff made public and Obama wants less stuff made public. Will Cheney soon come out, so to speak, in favor of gay marriage? Will Obama soon support prayer in public schools? All we can do is stay tuned. Or tune out.
Don’t let the door hit'ya....
~C.B. Forgotston
Email-gate rules the planet
~Garland Robinette
New Orleans Nagin, Activists:
Off Head of Stacy Head
~Jeff Crouere
Jim Letten's true nature to be revealed?~NOLA-dishu
Organization Critical of
New Orleans Subsidized Housing Rebound ~BBuzz
~According to the Bureau of Government Research in a report released Wednesday, “In the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the federal government made available significant funding for rebuilding low- and moderate-income housing. As a result of these programs, the number of subsidized rental units in the city has already rebounded past pre- Katrina levels, and is expected to far surpass those levels by 2012.
Some Find They're 'Not Homeless Enough' For Help ~WDSU
Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts Train to Fight Terrorists, and More
~Jennifer Steinhauer
~Not to be confused with adolescents between the ages of 14 and 18, who have joined up "voluntarily" to survive in war-torn regions or to avenge violence inflicted on their family?
New Orleans delegation will travel to 2009 Bio International Convention in Atlanta
Green Crawl - green building resources party!!
~Alliance for Affordable Energy
First annual Veggie Fest wants to appeal to all types of eaters
~Judy Walker ~Attention, carnivores: You are specifically invited to the New Orleans Veggie Fest!
Jeff Buckley: 'Grace' Anniversary edition on the way
~Burn the Bowery
High-spirited Zydepunks share spice of Big Easy life
~Tony Sauro
Partisan or Parasite? Daniel Kahn and the New Jewish Questions~Rokhl Kafrissen
Tsunami Dance hopes to spark a renaissance of ballet ~Molly Reid
Congressman Cao expresses his concerns over Charity appeals process~Gerard Shields
Rep. Peterson working to steer millions to GNOBEDD
~Save Charity Hospital.com
~Remember GNOBEDD? It stands for the Greater New Orleans Biosciences Economic Development District and it represents a state-empowered special tax district comprised of a host of public and private partners including the Downtown Development District and the Regional Planning Commission.
It was officially created by the State of Louisiana in 2005 to help attract businesses associated with the biomedical industry.
City of sickness~The Economist
Spillway meeting shows diversity, says PR Firm OPP
~DIXCLAIMER! WARNING! BAT SIGNAL!~
Funding sought to keep highway dry to Port Fourchon
~Allen M. Johnson Jr.
Barack Obama on Multiperil Insurance: I was for it before I was against it... ~slabbed
Release and Conceal:
The Mirror-World Edition
~Harry Shearer
~So, to review, Cheney wants more stuff made public and Obama wants less stuff made public. Will Cheney soon come out, so to speak, in favor of gay marriage? Will Obama soon support prayer in public schools? All we can do is stay tuned. Or tune out.
Don’t let the door hit'ya....~C.B. Forgotston
Email-gate rules the planet
~Garland Robinette
New Orleans Nagin, Activists:
Off Head of Stacy Head
~Jeff Crouere
Jim Letten's true nature to be revealed?~NOLA-dishu
Organization Critical of
New Orleans Subsidized Housing Rebound ~BBuzz
~According to the Bureau of Government Research in a report released Wednesday, “In the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the federal government made available significant funding for rebuilding low- and moderate-income housing. As a result of these programs, the number of subsidized rental units in the city has already rebounded past pre- Katrina levels, and is expected to far surpass those levels by 2012.
Some Find They're 'Not Homeless Enough' For Help ~WDSU
Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts Train to Fight Terrorists, and More~Jennifer Steinhauer
~Not to be confused with adolescents between the ages of 14 and 18, who have joined up "voluntarily" to survive in war-torn regions or to avenge violence inflicted on their family?
New Orleans delegation will travel to 2009 Bio International Convention in Atlanta
Green Crawl - green building resources party!!
~Alliance for Affordable Energy
First annual Veggie Fest wants to appeal to all types of eaters~Judy Walker ~Attention, carnivores: You are specifically invited to the New Orleans Veggie Fest!
Jeff Buckley: 'Grace' Anniversary edition on the way
~Burn the Bowery
High-spirited Zydepunks share spice of Big Easy life
~Tony Sauro
Partisan or Parasite? Daniel Kahn and the New Jewish Questions~Rokhl Kafrissen
Tsunami Dance hopes to spark a renaissance of ballet ~Molly Reid
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Mercredi
FEMA won't pay to replace Charity hospital ~Becky Bohrer
FEMA trailer residents face final evictions~Desiree Evans
~More than 5,000 people in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama were living in temporary Federal Emergency Management Agency trailers and in hotels financed by the agency as of May 1. Now FEMA says its housing program has officially come to an end, and the agency plans on evicting all residents by the end of the month. But many residents say they have nowhere to go.
Policies that Make People Disappear~Kate Scott
Power of Word~slabbed
I think that I shall never see
all that change you promise me.
But maybe I misunderstood
and what you meant was making change-
like giving our people a two-bit change at FEMA
and expecting folks to act like it’s worth a dollar.
Coming Home provides more Katrina relief~Anita Lee
Artificial reefs may help restore a diversity of fish species to Lake Ponchartrain~Chris Kirkham
~The Lake Ponchartrain Basin Foundation along with the LSU Sea Grant and other organizations Tuesday deployed four new artificial reefs in Lake Pontchartrain designed to increase fishing opportunities for anglers.
Photo: Eliot Kamenitz / TP
Implications of proposed 2010 Corps budget~Lacoastpost
Local senator chosen for top levee position~Nikki Buskey
NOAH Meeting Tonight
~The New Orleans City Council will be holding an after-hours meeting, 6 p.m.-8 p.m., to discuss the planned closing of the New Orleans Adolescent Hospital (NOAH). The Council decided to hold the NOAH meeting during the evening in order to allow concerned citizens, who might not otherwise be able, to attend.
Survey: Just half of business in metro area have reopened since Katrina~Dominic Massa, WWL
Appeals panel clears the way for Tracie Washington to post City Council e-mails on the Internet ~Frank Donze
USS New Orleans back at sea~The vessel was "fully mission capable" on Tuesday night after repairs were made to its damaged hull, ruptured fuel tank and ballast tanks as result of a collision with USS Hartford in March in the Strait of Hormuz, the fleet said in a statement.
"While underway in the US Fifth Fleet area of responsibility,
New Orleans is scheduled to conduct maritime security operations," it added. {Pirate Huntin!}
SIGGRAPH 2009
Computer Animation Festival
Broadmoor Neighborhood Festival features Manmade Disaster, Sunpie and the Louisiana Sunspots and Vivaz!
Celebrate St. Bernard Kickoff Party, May 14th
New Zombie Thriller Necravin
Local trumpeter Shamarr Allen to tour with Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan~Keith Spera
FEMA trailer residents face final evictions~Desiree Evans
~More than 5,000 people in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama were living in temporary Federal Emergency Management Agency trailers and in hotels financed by the agency as of May 1. Now FEMA says its housing program has officially come to an end, and the agency plans on evicting all residents by the end of the month. But many residents say they have nowhere to go.
Policies that Make People Disappear~Kate Scott
Power of Word~slabbed
I think that I shall never see
all that change you promise me.
But maybe I misunderstood
and what you meant was making change-
like giving our people a two-bit change at FEMA
and expecting folks to act like it’s worth a dollar.
Coming Home provides more Katrina relief~Anita Lee
Artificial reefs may help restore a diversity of fish species to Lake Ponchartrain~Chris Kirkham
Photo: Eliot Kamenitz / TP
Implications of proposed 2010 Corps budget~Lacoastpost
Local senator chosen for top levee position~Nikki Buskey
NOAH Meeting Tonight
~The New Orleans City Council will be holding an after-hours meeting, 6 p.m.-8 p.m., to discuss the planned closing of the New Orleans Adolescent Hospital (NOAH). The Council decided to hold the NOAH meeting during the evening in order to allow concerned citizens, who might not otherwise be able, to attend.
Survey: Just half of business in metro area have reopened since Katrina~Dominic Massa, WWL
Appeals panel clears the way for Tracie Washington to post City Council e-mails on the Internet ~Frank Donze
USS New Orleans back at sea~The vessel was "fully mission capable" on Tuesday night after repairs were made to its damaged hull, ruptured fuel tank and ballast tanks as result of a collision with USS Hartford in March in the Strait of Hormuz, the fleet said in a statement."While underway in the US Fifth Fleet area of responsibility,
New Orleans is scheduled to conduct maritime security operations," it added. {Pirate Huntin!}
SIGGRAPH 2009
Computer Animation Festival
Broadmoor Neighborhood Festival features Manmade Disaster, Sunpie and the Louisiana Sunspots and Vivaz!
Celebrate St. Bernard Kickoff Party, May 14th
New Zombie Thriller Necravin
Local trumpeter Shamarr Allen to tour with Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan~Keith Spera
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Mardi
$1.2 billion for soup and salad? ~Save Charity Hospital.com
Terrebonne council approves $122 million hurricane-recovery
House panel OKs bill to protect bicyclists~Will Sentell
~H/T'n'T~CENTRAL La. POLITICS
Jindal travels to Louisiana
~The New Orleans Levee
LA-Sen: Making Sinning Senator Vitter (R-Perp) Pay For Playing Politics~Daily Kingfish
Senator Vitter (R-Pamp), looking for more Cha Ching
~Uppity Woman
Stick A Fork In It~slabbed
5 states agree to take La. storm evacuees
New designs hope to avoid past problems in public housing complexes~Katy Reckdahl
Damaged roots in the fight for public housing?~Anita Sinha
Hope for homeless
in New Orleans~Walt Wiltschek
Texas students get taste of history and culture in
New Orleans archives
~Adam Duvernay
Church of Burns~Steve Bowman
Reason #1037 Why I Don't Go To Church Any More ~Citizen K
Fitzmorris: N.O. area hits record number of restaurants: 1000!
~Deon Roberts, City Business
Marcus Roberts: Has A Lot More To Do~Tod Smith
Terrebonne council approves $122 million hurricane-recovery
House panel OKs bill to protect bicyclists~Will Sentell
~H/T'n'T~CENTRAL La. POLITICS
Jindal travels to Louisiana
~The New Orleans Levee
LA-Sen: Making Sinning Senator Vitter (R-Perp) Pay For Playing Politics~Daily Kingfish
Senator Vitter (R-Pamp), looking for more Cha Ching
~Uppity Woman
Stick A Fork In It~slabbed
5 states agree to take La. storm evacuees
New designs hope to avoid past problems in public housing complexes~Katy Reckdahl
Damaged roots in the fight for public housing?~Anita Sinha
Hope for homeless
in New Orleans~Walt Wiltschek
Texas students get taste of history and culture in
New Orleans archives
~Adam Duvernay
Church of Burns~Steve Bowman
Reason #1037 Why I Don't Go To Church Any More ~Citizen K
Fitzmorris: N.O. area hits record number of restaurants: 1000!
~Deon Roberts, City Business
Marcus Roberts: Has A Lot More To Do~Tod Smith
Monday, May 11, 2009
Lundi
New Orleans Musicians Voice Support For Charity Hospital
For parents of mentally ill children, no price can be put on New Orleans Adolescent Hospital~Sheila Stroup
Fewer with flood insurance as hurricane season approaches
FEMA directs $10 million to elevating New Orleans' sewage pumping stations
~David Hammer
Judge says water war among Alabama, Florida, Georgia conducted in "never-never land"
OMFGoddess! What if the charge had been ...Littering?
Parkway Partners needs volunteer tree tenders
~Sheila Stroup
New Orleans Wine & Food Experience
New Orleans park pushes for Web votes to win funds
Stallone starts shooting stars in New Orleans~Don Ames, WWL
New Orleans' Patricia Clarkson joins Justin Timberlake and Andy Samberg for a little "Motherlovin"
Icons Among Us: Jazz in the Present Tense - Episode Four: Everything Everywhere
~all about Jazz
In Pursuit Of Bo-Consciousness - Part 3 ~Home of the Groove
Sunday, May 10, 2009
Dimanche
Survival tips, from a man who knows ~Rosalind Bentley
~Lt. Gen. Russel Honore, now retired, was lauded as the “John Wayne dude,” the face of competence and voice of clarity during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Last week Honore’s book “Survival” (written with former AJC military affairs reporter Ron Martz) hit the stands.
Part memoir, part doomsday checklist, the general puts forward a plan to make the nation more prepared to face disaster, natural or otherwise. Here he talks about pandemics, waterboarding and why chivalry still has its place.
Critics fear LSU Hospital site could end up half-empty
~Bill Barrow
Corps of Engineers prepares to fortify local pump stations,
says Corps PR firm OPP
~Sheila Grissett, Michelle Krupa
~DIXCLAIMER! WARNING! BAT SIGNAL!~
~Editilla Crow'tellas~If the Exquisite Corps tells'ya yo'mamma loves'ya, then ya'betta take it up wit'da OPP!
‘Shovel ready’ stimulus money goes to studies, not shovels
~Nikki Buskey~The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will receive $162 million in federal economic-stimulus money for so-called “shovel ready projects in Louisiana,” the agency announced this week.
However, only $35 million will go to actual construction of projects, and $9.3 million committed to levees in Terrebonne and Lafourche will go to pay for continuing studies on those projects.
Water and Storm Management in New Orleans, A Selection of Historical Documents
~Bill Thayer
N.O. residents band together to grow post-Katrina~Molly Reid
~Dubbed the Capacity College and organized by the nonprofit Neighborhoods Partnership Network, the program consists of two peer-led classes each week, for 78 representatives of 20 neighborhood organizations and nonprofit groups.
Making History More Palatable: Slave Auctions In New Orleans
~Socialogical Images
What I learned in New Orleans
~Eastside Eye
Work by traveling artist William Aiken Walker finds a home in New Orleans~Jill Anding
Delfeayo Marsalis Brings New Quintet to the Dakota, Minneapolis May 12-13
~Andrea Canter, Jazz Police
Dave Matthews talks about recording in New Orleans and his Jazz Fest show
~Keith Spera
~Lt. Gen. Russel Honore, now retired, was lauded as the “John Wayne dude,” the face of competence and voice of clarity during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Last week Honore’s book “Survival” (written with former AJC military affairs reporter Ron Martz) hit the stands.
Part memoir, part doomsday checklist, the general puts forward a plan to make the nation more prepared to face disaster, natural or otherwise. Here he talks about pandemics, waterboarding and why chivalry still has its place.
Critics fear LSU Hospital site could end up half-empty
~Bill Barrow
Corps of Engineers prepares to fortify local pump stations,
says Corps PR firm OPP
~Sheila Grissett, Michelle Krupa
~DIXCLAIMER! WARNING! BAT SIGNAL!~
~Editilla Crow'tellas~If the Exquisite Corps tells'ya yo'mamma loves'ya, then ya'betta take it up wit'da OPP!
‘Shovel ready’ stimulus money goes to studies, not shovels
~Nikki Buskey~The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will receive $162 million in federal economic-stimulus money for so-called “shovel ready projects in Louisiana,” the agency announced this week.
However, only $35 million will go to actual construction of projects, and $9.3 million committed to levees in Terrebonne and Lafourche will go to pay for continuing studies on those projects.
Water and Storm Management in New Orleans, A Selection of Historical Documents
~Bill Thayer
N.O. residents band together to grow post-Katrina~Molly Reid
~Dubbed the Capacity College and organized by the nonprofit Neighborhoods Partnership Network, the program consists of two peer-led classes each week, for 78 representatives of 20 neighborhood organizations and nonprofit groups.
Making History More Palatable: Slave Auctions In New Orleans
~Socialogical Images
What I learned in New Orleans
~Eastside Eye
Work by traveling artist William Aiken Walker finds a home in New Orleans~Jill Anding
Delfeayo Marsalis Brings New Quintet to the Dakota, Minneapolis May 12-13
~Andrea Canter, Jazz Police
Dave Matthews talks about recording in New Orleans and his Jazz Fest show
~Keith Spera
Saturday, May 9, 2009
Samedi
Corps Fancy All-Female PR Firm,
Atomic Opposite of Levees.org
~These "Ladies" are getting paid $5M in Flood Funding to misinform and misdirect the public view of the Perps who flooded our City on 8/29/05 and killed over 1500 American citizens.
In response to ASCECORPS' immediate attempts to spin'filtrate that criminal negligence in the National Media, Levees.org formed as a grass-roots, non-partisan, multi-ethnic, multi-generational, multi-gender, socio-economical, and hence, omni-adaptable gumbo of Nolafugees to Inform the Public View ...as somewhat of an Antibody Politic... for nothing!
Shit in one hand, diamonds in the other. Who'ya gonna call?
~In contrast, Levees.org has been laboring since December 2005 to reduce the number of negative stories about New Orleans - and been very effective - without any tax payer support of any kind, an entirely volunteer effort. Your hard-earned dollars, $5 million dollars, could instead have gone toward finding the truth about the Flooding in Greater New Orleans.
AstroTurf or Real Grass? Guess we can see who dyes their roots?
Outrage Over Army Corps' $5M PR Contract~Pia Malbran, CBS
~Janice Roper-Graham, founder and president of OPP, said:
The information was removed from OPP's Web site after Rosenthal's email circulated because: "(we) didn't want to give the impression that OPP was 'signally responsible' (??)
for the decrease in bad press."
~Editilla sayz Oooo'rilla?~New Phrase! New phrase!
"Signally Responsible"? WTF does that mean???
Oh this is rich, even if it might just be a typo or cross-cultural grammatical error! HA! Double HA! HA!
I always wanted a girl in a Freudian Slip.
No wonder now why No One believes what the Corps is saying, even when we kinda understand what the Corps is maybe saying? Because this Communications Firm hired to Communicate the Corps to the Public is itself a pack of Horny-faced Lying MisComunicators, aka Public Relations Spin'filtraitors.
From the puissant lips
of the Succubus...
OPP provides media support for print, broadcast and Internet media on local, national and international levels including outlets such as the Times-Picayune, WWL-TV CBS New Orleans, Associated Press, USA Today, The Weather Channel, The Today Show, French TV Channel 5, and Engineering News Record on issues such as Hurricane Gustav, “paper in the floodwalls” and other investigative responses, seepage, peer review and the state of the hurricane and storm damage risk reduction system.
As part of this cause (?), OPP fosters strategic relationships with media outlets that result in more accurate and balanced stories.
OPP focuses on the enhancement of internal and external communications between the various Corps districts, stakeholders, media and the general public.
OPP has facilitated a myriad of interviews about the rebuilding of hurricane system levees and interim risk reduction structures. Our team members have facilitated in-depth interviews with producers and hosts of The History Channel and MTV. Oh'Snap!
OPP's media support has been a fundamental part of the transition from typically negative news coverage to more neutral and positive news coverage. (Signally Responsible?)
Critics: Army Corps' $5M PR tab is wasteful spin
~Cain Burdeau, AP
A home for entrepreneurs in New Orleans~Kate Moran
~DIXCLAIMER! WARNING! BAT SIGNAL!~
Flood protection trumps marina in Kenner~Mary Sparacello
Amtrak celebrates its 30 years with Crescent
The Midas touch: Practice of gilding enjoys a New Orleans renaissance~Molly Reid
Local filmmaker takes home prize at Tribeca Film Festival
~Mike Scott
~Amateur filmmaker Matt Faust's poignant experimental essay "Home" clocks in at less than six minutes, but in the world of short films, it's becoming something of a big deal.
Harmonica Web Site in the Spotlight ~Squeeze My Lemon
New Orleans Jazzfest: Jewish woodwinds division~JewSchool
Large family of saxophones to perform Sunday at Nicholls State
~Katherine Schmidt
Atomic Opposite of Levees.org
~These "Ladies" are getting paid $5M in Flood Funding to misinform and misdirect the public view of the Perps who flooded our City on 8/29/05 and killed over 1500 American citizens.
In response to ASCECORPS' immediate attempts to spin'filtrate that criminal negligence in the National Media, Levees.org formed as a grass-roots, non-partisan, multi-ethnic, multi-generational, multi-gender, socio-economical, and hence, omni-adaptable gumbo of Nolafugees to Inform the Public View ...as somewhat of an Antibody Politic... for nothing!
Shit in one hand, diamonds in the other. Who'ya gonna call?
~In contrast, Levees.org has been laboring since December 2005 to reduce the number of negative stories about New Orleans - and been very effective - without any tax payer support of any kind, an entirely volunteer effort. Your hard-earned dollars, $5 million dollars, could instead have gone toward finding the truth about the Flooding in Greater New Orleans.
AstroTurf or Real Grass? Guess we can see who dyes their roots?
Outrage Over Army Corps' $5M PR Contract~Pia Malbran, CBS
~Janice Roper-Graham, founder and president of OPP, said:
The information was removed from OPP's Web site after Rosenthal's email circulated because: "(we) didn't want to give the impression that OPP was 'signally responsible' (??)
for the decrease in bad press."
~Editilla sayz Oooo'rilla?~New Phrase! New phrase!
"Signally Responsible"? WTF does that mean???
Oh this is rich, even if it might just be a typo or cross-cultural grammatical error! HA! Double HA! HA!
I always wanted a girl in a Freudian Slip.
No wonder now why No One believes what the Corps is saying, even when we kinda understand what the Corps is maybe saying? Because this Communications Firm hired to Communicate the Corps to the Public is itself a pack of Horny-faced Lying MisComunicators, aka Public Relations Spin'filtraitors.
From the puissant lips of the Succubus...
OPP provides media support for print, broadcast and Internet media on local, national and international levels including outlets such as the Times-Picayune, WWL-TV CBS New Orleans, Associated Press, USA Today, The Weather Channel, The Today Show, French TV Channel 5, and Engineering News Record on issues such as Hurricane Gustav, “paper in the floodwalls” and other investigative responses, seepage, peer review and the state of the hurricane and storm damage risk reduction system.
As part of this cause (?), OPP fosters strategic relationships with media outlets that result in more accurate and balanced stories.
OPP focuses on the enhancement of internal and external communications between the various Corps districts, stakeholders, media and the general public.OPP has facilitated a myriad of interviews about the rebuilding of hurricane system levees and interim risk reduction structures. Our team members have facilitated in-depth interviews with producers and hosts of The History Channel and MTV. Oh'Snap!
OPP's media support has been a fundamental part of the transition from typically negative news coverage to more neutral and positive news coverage. (Signally Responsible?)
Critics: Army Corps' $5M PR tab is wasteful spin
~Cain Burdeau, AP
A home for entrepreneurs in New Orleans~Kate Moran
~DIXCLAIMER! WARNING! BAT SIGNAL!~
Flood protection trumps marina in Kenner~Mary Sparacello
Amtrak celebrates its 30 years with Crescent
The Midas touch: Practice of gilding enjoys a New Orleans renaissance~Molly Reid
Local filmmaker takes home prize at Tribeca Film Festival
~Mike Scott
~Amateur filmmaker Matt Faust's poignant experimental essay "Home" clocks in at less than six minutes, but in the world of short films, it's becoming something of a big deal.
Harmonica Web Site in the Spotlight ~Squeeze My Lemon
New Orleans Jazzfest: Jewish woodwinds division~JewSchool
Large family of saxophones to perform Sunday at Nicholls State
~Katherine Schmidt
Friday, May 8, 2009
Vendredi
Army Corps of Engineers in New Orleans: Buying Advice or Spin?
~Georgianne Nienaber, Huff
~Bit News Update! Fun's over Kiddi'rillas! Within minutes after the above Huff Post article, Corps PR Firm OPP shut down all web links to their Corps pages due to...???
Y'all go drop in some Word fo'da Corps!
~Editilla Specticulatas~We ain't saying we had anything to do wit'dis, buuuuttt, fortunately for Flood Survivors, all those pages had gone fairly Viral onto the internet before they started in with the ice pick or whateva these weirdos do to denude their nefarious content. Most of our links still work, some not, so please try them anyway. We toll'yaz, we can't make this stuff up!
And, speaking of OPP as a virus from outer space...
We The Antibody Politic...
Thank Goddess for the pubic commons of neural nets!
Our Pucelle d'Orléans does not suffer fools, but rather, prefers to have them served cold, with Oysters and a Bloody Mary.
Editilla is exquisitely gratified by the rising tide of Nola bloggers commenting in the article above. It appears that breaching this story finally connects more than a few dots for Flood Survivors, particularly regarding continuous Corps Obfuscations, Cost Increases, Useless Public Meetings, Project Delays and general Skull'Buggery.
We see this freakshow every day, while the rest of the country usually misses out on all da'fun circus sideshows.
Rest assured, Gentle'rillas, we will see OPP giving the Exquisite Corps Head again, if they aren't hopefully fired and shipped out of New Orleans on a rendering barge, Then what will we see?
Bwhahahahahaha, like we said you just can't make this stuff up. Butt with the Exquisite Corps of Engineers, one thing fo'sho...
OPP ain't the place to get caught...wit'cha pants down!
Hahahahahahahaha! Yeah You Know Me!
This contract with OPP to cover-up the Corps' engineering failures of 8/29/05 is to pay out $5.25 million over its 3 year term, $1.75 million a year. Ironically, that amount is just $250,000 more than what it would take to Actually Get To The Bottom of the Exquisite Corps of Engineers Failures of 8/29.
Corps: MRGO did not aggravate Katrina flooding BWHAHAHA HAHAHAHA~Cain Burdeau
~"I'm sure it (Corps engineering) was cost effective until Katrina," Judge Duval said wryly. "Cost effective is the bane of our existence in New Orleans."
Corps releases alternatives for N.O. East projects; holds review
Michael Luke~WWL
LA Sen. Vitter (R-Pamp) Shows Mendacity In FEMA Fugate'gate
~Christopher Tidmore, BBuzz
Michael Dingler of NOLA Rising plans a New Orleans mural
~Doug MacCash
~A group of New Orleans art activists hopes to produce the nation's longest mural on a length of floodwall in the Lower 9th.
Wall of Emotion~Sandra Barbier
~The Wall That Heals, a half-size replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial will be on display through Sunday at Harry Hurst Middle School,
at 170 Roadrunner Lane in Destrehan, LA.
The exhibit, which is visiting the River Parishes for the first time, is open 24 hours a day, and on Sunday there will be a candlelight ceremony at 8 p.m.

~Why grown men should, or not, have action figures?
Trow Me Some'too on dat'Barbi! ~Inshore Shrimping seasons announced ~Chris Kirkham
"Plop Drop" fundraiser for Greater New Orleans Therapeutic Riding Center ~Sheila Stroup
Dan Baum, Fired By New Yorker, Recounting His Story On Twitter
~Jason Linkins
Icon Allen Toussaint's jazz talents crest on 'Mississippi'
~Jim Farber
Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz class graduates with a final show in New Orleans
~Keith Spera
7th Ward festival celebrates music and culture May 8-10
~Maria Montoya
~Georgianne Nienaber, Huff
~Bit News Update! Fun's over Kiddi'rillas! Within minutes after the above Huff Post article, Corps PR Firm OPP shut down all web links to their Corps pages due to...???
Y'all go drop in some Word fo'da Corps!
~Editilla Specticulatas~We ain't saying we had anything to do wit'dis, buuuuttt, fortunately for Flood Survivors, all those pages had gone fairly Viral onto the internet before they started in with the ice pick or whateva these weirdos do to denude their nefarious content. Most of our links still work, some not, so please try them anyway. We toll'yaz, we can't make this stuff up!
And, speaking of OPP as a virus from outer space...
We The Antibody Politic...
Thank Goddess for the pubic commons of neural nets!
Our Pucelle d'Orléans does not suffer fools, but rather, prefers to have them served cold, with Oysters and a Bloody Mary.
Editilla is exquisitely gratified by the rising tide of Nola bloggers commenting in the article above. It appears that breaching this story finally connects more than a few dots for Flood Survivors, particularly regarding continuous Corps Obfuscations, Cost Increases, Useless Public Meetings, Project Delays and general Skull'Buggery.
We see this freakshow every day, while the rest of the country usually misses out on all da'fun circus sideshows.
Rest assured, Gentle'rillas, we will see OPP giving the Exquisite Corps Head again, if they aren't hopefully fired and shipped out of New Orleans on a rendering barge, Then what will we see?
"Additional details previously posted about our (OPP) work with the Corps are currently under review. Appropriate additional information will be re-posted next week." ~H/T-Mat McBrideWhat sort of lobotomized market zombie could possibly top "Reducing Risk by Building Strong" with OPP?
Bwhahahahahaha, like we said you just can't make this stuff up. Butt with the Exquisite Corps of Engineers, one thing fo'sho...
OPP ain't the place to get caught...wit'cha pants down!
Hahahahahahahaha! Yeah You Know Me!
This contract with OPP to cover-up the Corps' engineering failures of 8/29/05 is to pay out $5.25 million over its 3 year term, $1.75 million a year. Ironically, that amount is just $250,000 more than what it would take to Actually Get To The Bottom of the Exquisite Corps of Engineers Failures of 8/29.
Corps: MRGO did not aggravate Katrina flooding BWHAHAHA HAHAHAHA~Cain Burdeau
~"I'm sure it (Corps engineering) was cost effective until Katrina," Judge Duval said wryly. "Cost effective is the bane of our existence in New Orleans."
Corps releases alternatives for N.O. East projects; holds review
Michael Luke~WWL
LA Sen. Vitter (R-Pamp) Shows Mendacity In FEMA Fugate'gate
~Christopher Tidmore, BBuzz
Michael Dingler of NOLA Rising plans a New Orleans mural
~Doug MacCash
~A group of New Orleans art activists hopes to produce the nation's longest mural on a length of floodwall in the Lower 9th.
Wall of Emotion~Sandra Barbier
~The Wall That Heals, a half-size replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial will be on display through Sunday at Harry Hurst Middle School,at 170 Roadrunner Lane in Destrehan, LA.
The exhibit, which is visiting the River Parishes for the first time, is open 24 hours a day, and on Sunday there will be a candlelight ceremony at 8 p.m.

~Why grown men should, or not, have action figures?
Trow Me Some'too on dat'Barbi! ~Inshore Shrimping seasons announced ~Chris Kirkham
"Plop Drop" fundraiser for Greater New Orleans Therapeutic Riding Center ~Sheila Stroup
Dan Baum, Fired By New Yorker, Recounting His Story On Twitter
~Jason Linkins
Icon Allen Toussaint's jazz talents crest on 'Mississippi'
~Jim Farber
Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz class graduates with a final show in New Orleans
~Keith Spera
7th Ward festival celebrates music and culture May 8-10
~Maria Montoya
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Jeudi
Update: Corps' Million Dollar PR company changed its website after expose~Levees.org
~Editilla Notellas~ We carried this post through today for the rollicking commentary developing there and elsewhere, as we gather around this growing threat to clear information on our Flood Safety, a blog'0'sphere moving as an antibody politic.
Corps of Engineers/OPP report released on location for new pump stations in outfall canals
~Sheila Grissett
The release, effective Monday, opens a 30-day period during which the public reviews and officially comments on the report known as Individual Environmental Report 5. The report, entitled "Outfall Canal Closure Structure, Orleans and Jefferson Parishes," evaluates the potential human and environmental impacts of the proposed locations for the new permanent pump stations and closure structures at or near the mouths of the 17th Street, Orleans Avenue and London Avenue canals.
It will be discussed during a public meeting the corps has scheduled May 20, at St. Dominic's Church, 6363 Memphis St.
Open house begins at 6:00 p.m, with presentation and discussion of this 300+ page behemoth report starting at 7:00 p.m.
~Editilla Com'postas~Kiss Ms Grissett.
Despite dogged gumshoes on this Pump House Gang'bang story she can only report what they tell her, has no control over the efficacy of the message being presented and, frankly, is paid perhaps 1/10th what the copy writers of that media packet get from the Corps PR Contractor. While our Post-Disaster Economy may soon see the destruction of Ms Grissett's livelihood as a print journalist, her counterparts in the Public Relations Industry are dancing like flies on sherbert, lapping it up ...Marketing Risk.
Editilla, alas, marches to a different 2nd Line. We are Beotchwolf,
the Corpsickled PR Spinfiltraitor's worst forking nightmare.
Perhaps Ms Grissett will go online and start a blog with all the other soon to be out-sourced real journalists, where they can enjoy doing their jobs without having to share the page with paid professional marketing jackals. We would go there, following the Word like Humid Beings, and enjoy the flood of supportive advertisements that would follow as well. Hear that Gambit?
Is this an actual article, or a press packet placed by the Corps' Million Dollar/Year PR Contractor: Outreach Process Partners OPP? <-(we can't make this stuff up with the name) This meeting will be staged by OPP, as per their 4 year contract. How is any journalists, or the general public at these endless meetings, to know what the Exquisite Corps is putting in their Cool Aid, when it is served up in little Dixie Cups for the slick'heeled "cause" of
can you say Other People's Professionals?
Section of Plaquemines waterways to be poisoned to kill foreign fish~Bob Marshall
A New Deal for the Gulf Coast: Advocates welcome vital recovery legislation
~Desiree Evans, Facing South
Slabbed Lucky 7
ICF International, profits fall
Justices mull venue for Charity Hospital case~Allen M. Johnson
Critics blast Port of New Orleans plan for warehouse on wharves near French Market
~Bruce Eggler
~Editilla Con'swellas~ This is at least the 3rd article from the TP on this Bad Development Decision --and still as yet the 3rd time they fail to bring up the Deadly Dangerous Chemical: Anhydrous Ammonia, at least 50,000 pounds for the Refridgerant Systems at the present NOCS site, to be stored at the bottom of the French Quarters, along the River,
at the very heart of our most cash-intensive tourist district.
I mean, aside from this horror, what about the Money? What part of NO MONEY do these disaster capitalists not understand?
New Orleans Levee Goes OnLine!
~WEB ONLY: Posted 10 p.m. Wed, May 6 :
Actual text messages with Mayor Nagin!
~Considering the recent memory loss, layered wardrobe, and uncontrollable giggling, a Levee reader may have figured out what's wrong with Ray Nagin.
Senator 'Vitty-Cent' Vitter (R-Pamp) Posturing Over FEMA Head ~BBuzz
~Fugate held the same position inFlorida, a state very much prone to hurricanes, under Republican Jeb Bush. According to The Hill, “Florida 's two senators, Bill Nelson (D) and Mel Martinez (R), both told The St. Petersburg Times that they were trying to change Vitter's mind, but Republican Martinez went further,
hinting that Vitter is grandstanding.”
Photo courtesy of one broken-hearted clown.
Take Craig Fugate's FEMA nomination off hold
~Sun Sentinel Editorial
~Apparently the junior senator from Louisiana didn't get the memo: Florida's Craig Fugate will be the new head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and he ought to be.
Class of Katrina Graduates
~The Huck Upchuck
Brazil gov't rushes aid to flood victims, 32 dead
~Allan Glendenning
New Orleans brewer sending beer to Fargo
~Mayor Dennis Walaker said during the city's flood fight this spring that he would buy everyone a beer after it was over.
Representatives of the Dixie Brewing Co. in New Orleans heard about the flood and Walaker's comment and offered to help, by sending 1,000 cases of beer to Fargo for a post-flood party.
~Yeah You Right Where'Yat! Knockin'on da'door wit'da 504!
Vietnam Veterans Memorial replica traveling from
Pearl River to Destrehan
~Benjamin Alexander-Bloch
~The Wall That Heals, a half-size replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, heads down Interstate 10 in Slidell Wednesday, with a motorcycle escort of more than 150 riders en route to Harry Hurst Middle School in Destrehan.
Photo: Scott Threlkeld -TP
The Big Easy,
Biker Style!
Budweiser Clydesdales in town for New Orleans Bike Week
Zack Smith's New ChazFest Book Available ~NOPA
~Editilla Notellas~ We carried this post through today for the rollicking commentary developing there and elsewhere, as we gather around this growing threat to clear information on our Flood Safety, a blog'0'sphere moving as an antibody politic.
Corps of Engineers/OPP report released on location for new pump stations in outfall canals
~Sheila Grissett
The release, effective Monday, opens a 30-day period during which the public reviews and officially comments on the report known as Individual Environmental Report 5. The report, entitled "Outfall Canal Closure Structure, Orleans and Jefferson Parishes," evaluates the potential human and environmental impacts of the proposed locations for the new permanent pump stations and closure structures at or near the mouths of the 17th Street, Orleans Avenue and London Avenue canals.
It will be discussed during a public meeting the corps has scheduled May 20, at St. Dominic's Church, 6363 Memphis St.
Open house begins at 6:00 p.m, with presentation and discussion of this 300+ page behemoth report starting at 7:00 p.m.
~Editilla Com'postas~Kiss Ms Grissett.
Despite dogged gumshoes on this Pump House Gang'bang story she can only report what they tell her, has no control over the efficacy of the message being presented and, frankly, is paid perhaps 1/10th what the copy writers of that media packet get from the Corps PR Contractor. While our Post-Disaster Economy may soon see the destruction of Ms Grissett's livelihood as a print journalist, her counterparts in the Public Relations Industry are dancing like flies on sherbert, lapping it up ...Marketing Risk.
Editilla, alas, marches to a different 2nd Line. We are Beotchwolf,
the Corpsickled PR Spinfiltraitor's worst forking nightmare.
Perhaps Ms Grissett will go online and start a blog with all the other soon to be out-sourced real journalists, where they can enjoy doing their jobs without having to share the page with paid professional marketing jackals. We would go there, following the Word like Humid Beings, and enjoy the flood of supportive advertisements that would follow as well. Hear that Gambit?
Is this an actual article, or a press packet placed by the Corps' Million Dollar/Year PR Contractor: Outreach Process Partners OPP? <-(we can't make this stuff up with the name) This meeting will be staged by OPP, as per their 4 year contract. How is any journalists, or the general public at these endless meetings, to know what the Exquisite Corps is putting in their Cool Aid, when it is served up in little Dixie Cups for the slick'heeled "cause" of
can you say Other People's Professionals?
Section of Plaquemines waterways to be poisoned to kill foreign fish~Bob Marshall
A New Deal for the Gulf Coast: Advocates welcome vital recovery legislation
~Desiree Evans, Facing South
Slabbed Lucky 7
ICF International, profits fall
Justices mull venue for Charity Hospital case~Allen M. Johnson
Critics blast Port of New Orleans plan for warehouse on wharves near French Market
~Bruce Eggler
~Editilla Con'swellas~ This is at least the 3rd article from the TP on this Bad Development Decision --and still as yet the 3rd time they fail to bring up the Deadly Dangerous Chemical: Anhydrous Ammonia, at least 50,000 pounds for the Refridgerant Systems at the present NOCS site, to be stored at the bottom of the French Quarters, along the River,
at the very heart of our most cash-intensive tourist district.
I mean, aside from this horror, what about the Money? What part of NO MONEY do these disaster capitalists not understand?
New Orleans Levee Goes OnLine!
~WEB ONLY: Posted 10 p.m. Wed, May 6 :
Actual text messages with Mayor Nagin!
~Considering the recent memory loss, layered wardrobe, and uncontrollable giggling, a Levee reader may have figured out what's wrong with Ray Nagin.
Senator 'Vitty-Cent' Vitter (R-Pamp) Posturing Over FEMA Head ~BBuzz~Fugate held the same position in
hinting that Vitter is grandstanding.”
Photo courtesy of one broken-hearted clown.
Take Craig Fugate's FEMA nomination off hold
~Sun Sentinel Editorial
~Apparently the junior senator from Louisiana didn't get the memo: Florida's Craig Fugate will be the new head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and he ought to be.
Class of Katrina Graduates
~The Huck Upchuck
Brazil gov't rushes aid to flood victims, 32 dead
~Allan Glendenning
New Orleans brewer sending beer to Fargo
~Mayor Dennis Walaker said during the city's flood fight this spring that he would buy everyone a beer after it was over.
Representatives of the Dixie Brewing Co. in New Orleans heard about the flood and Walaker's comment and offered to help, by sending 1,000 cases of beer to Fargo for a post-flood party.
~Yeah You Right Where'Yat! Knockin'on da'door wit'da 504!
Vietnam Veterans Memorial replica traveling fromPearl River to Destrehan
~Benjamin Alexander-Bloch
~The Wall That Heals, a half-size replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, heads down Interstate 10 in Slidell Wednesday, with a motorcycle escort of more than 150 riders en route to Harry Hurst Middle School in Destrehan.
Photo: Scott Threlkeld -TP
The Big Easy, Biker Style!
Budweiser Clydesdales in town for New Orleans Bike Week
Zack Smith's New ChazFest Book Available ~NOPA
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Mercredi
Let Them Eat Stake!
~Corps of Engineers spends Our Tax Dollars to this Public Relations firm to have their corps message cleaned up and painted --with a better shade of Lipstick!
Sound like yet another case of Pig Flew?
Wit'nass how and where the Exquisite Corps Plants Its Flag.
~Stakeholders are an integral part of a project. They are the end-users or clients, the people from whom requirements will be drawn, the people who will influence the design and, ultimately, the people who will reap the benefits of your completed project. Executive stakeholders are the guys who pay the bills.
Stakeholder Communications: OPP staff regularly contributes articles and photos to the Corps’ various stakeholder communications including the Task Force Hope Status Update --like this one placed last night at WWL?
Riverside is an in-house monthly, full- color, glossy print magazine publication of the USACE New Orleans District. While the magazine is written for an internal audience, it contains useful information on a wide variety of topics and Corps activities.
{And Cost a Forkin'Bundle of Flood Funding to Publish!}
We The People, Who Pay Every Dime of this PR Firm's Contract, are considered "general public", and as such, are not considered "Stakeholders" or "End Users" or even particularly important components to OPP's Million Dollar/Year Strategic "Relationship" with the Corps of Engineers.
Over 1500 of us died after the last Corps Failure on August 29th, 2005, but OPP's job is to convince everyone that the Corps is Reducing Risk by Building Strong. Indeed, it could be easily argued from the Corps ongoing exploits of Delay that We The People are quite expendable, and (in the gunsites of this PR Firm) in the way of their message spin.
And BTW~BARRY JOHN M---$1,500???
On this same list of Federal Spending, where we found OPP at the $1M level, our own John Barry turned up at the $1500 level? For What did the Exquisite Corps pay $1500 to John Barry, a member of our esteemed new Levee Board: S.L.F.P.A.-East?
It certainly isn't the money, but the question... and the surprise.
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?
And Humid City, always quick on the draw, opens up a Ho'nutter can of misdirection, with a pan of dead fish on the women of OPP.
Corps Spends Pig for Purty Lips, We Pay for Public Relations Spin
{^^^Caution! Strong Language!^^^}
~Editilla Goz't'Hella~ Remember all these cute "public input meetings" the Corps expensively advertises?
ASCECORPS is spending Millions Mo'Dollars of Our Flood Protection Funding
to hire this Public Relations Firm to have lots of public meetings where the effected public can come Talk At The Corps.
This is the very type of firm you would have wanted to do the invitations for Hitler's Bat Mitsvah. These are the very people who have been hired to Spin'filtrate the Corps Message of Risk, keep us all distracted by pretty ads and flags while the Corps moves along with the same engineering methodology that Flooded New Orleans on 8/29 and de-swamped South Louisiana in the first place. These are the very people who have enable the Corps to get away with delaying our Flood Safety Studies.
Whenever the Corps has wanted to screw us in the ass,
these are the people who tell us how good it feels to be Punk'd.
This firm believes People want to feel like they have a stake in the work yad nauseum. Let'em Talk, Hell, talk is cheaper than bullets!
Yet the whole time, No matter what anyone says to the Corps of Engineers, ASCECORPS has had every intention of installing their own design of defective engineering so they can come back later and reinstall more defective designs so they can come back later and reinstall more defective designs so they can come back later and...have marketing groups run their meetings and risk message.
And just think, if OPP is successful in knocking us all dead here, then imagine the possibilities for making a killing marketing Risk to the rest of the country. Oh the Horror Cha'Ching!
That is the final judgment here, the actual Grapes of Wrath of this Public Relations "cause", to wit: by our deaths from the next catastrophic engineering failure, we will have proved this PR Company successful, as the Corps Reduces Risk, Builds Strong.

From the puissant lips
of the Succubus...
OPP provides media support for print, broadcast and Internet media on local, national and international levels including outlets such as the Times-Picayune, WWL-TV CBS New Orleans, Associated Press, USA Today, The Weather Channel, The Today Show, French TV Channel 5, and Engineering News Record on issues such as Hurricane Gustav, “paper in the floodwalls” and other investigative responses, seepage, peer review and the state of the hurricane and storm damage risk reduction system.
As part of this cause?, OPP fosters strategic relationships with media outlets that result in more accurate and balanced stories.
OPP focuses on the enhancement of internal and external communications between the various Corps districts, stakeholders (??), media and the general public (us?).
OPP has facilitated a myriad of interviews about the rebuilding of hurricane system levees and interim risk reduction structures. Our team members have facilitated in-depth interviews with producers and hosts of The History Channel and MTV. (Oh'Snap!)
OPP's media support has been a fundamental part of the transition from typically negative news coverage to more neutral and positive news coverage. (Spin'Filtration)
~Editilla Notellas~ Everything composted above: aforementioned, linked, referred to, parodied, smeared, slabbed, slammed, copied, pasted and condemned whatnot'whateva rests solidly and legally on the subject's public availability as News Evidence of where our Tax Dollars are going, and as such is inviolate of copyrights. More to point, we paid for this ass'wipe.
We have paid OPP 2 Million Dollars to date for this ass'wipe.
And, lest anyone sense even a drop of blood profit on this blog...
show me a reason and I'll walk the fire.
~More from yesterday's lengthy post.
Update: Corps' Million Dollar PR company changed its website after expose, they can run but they can't hide! ~Levees.org
We want the truth, not PR!
The cost of coastal restoration: how high can it go~Lacoastpost
Federal agency pulls plug on coastal protection funds
Efforts aim to raise levee in Pointe-aux-Chenes
~Nikki Buskey
Lafayette firm wins $2M N.O. floodwall contract~City Business
James Gill: LSU's 'Pack of Lies'
~Save Charity Hospital.com

Come, Mister tally man,
tally me banana ~slabbed
Painting ~Fernand Allard L'Olivier
~Getty Images
Chemical Industry Culture: Piercing the Veil~SEMP
DEQ cracks down on dumping
~Cain Burdeau
Former Ky. man who wears skirts files suit in New Orleans
~Karla Ward
'Class of Katrina' graduating,
4 years after storm~Kevin McGill
Chicken plant bill goes to full House ~Michelle Millhollon
HBO gives David Simon's 'Treme' green light~Dave Walker
'After the Storm' ~PWALLY
~Editilla Chin'chillas~Sometimes we just needs some'mo beautiful painting to straighten it all out.
Life after Jazz Fest
~Trevor C. Jones
Big Sam's Funky Nation
~Wednesdays at the Square
The Healer, Erykah Badu
~Whose shoes are these anyway?
~Corps of Engineers spends Our Tax Dollars to this Public Relations firm to have their corps message cleaned up and painted --with a better shade of Lipstick!
Sound like yet another case of Pig Flew?
Wit'nass how and where the Exquisite Corps Plants Its Flag.
~Stakeholders are an integral part of a project. They are the end-users or clients, the people from whom requirements will be drawn, the people who will influence the design and, ultimately, the people who will reap the benefits of your completed project. Executive stakeholders are the guys who pay the bills.Stakeholder Communications: OPP staff regularly contributes articles and photos to the Corps’ various stakeholder communications including the Task Force Hope Status Update --like this one placed last night at WWL?
Riverside is an in-house monthly, full- color, glossy print magazine publication of the USACE New Orleans District. While the magazine is written for an internal audience, it contains useful information on a wide variety of topics and Corps activities.
{And Cost a Forkin'Bundle of Flood Funding to Publish!}
We The People, Who Pay Every Dime of this PR Firm's Contract, are considered "general public", and as such, are not considered "Stakeholders" or "End Users" or even particularly important components to OPP's Million Dollar/Year Strategic "Relationship" with the Corps of Engineers.
Over 1500 of us died after the last Corps Failure on August 29th, 2005, but OPP's job is to convince everyone that the Corps is Reducing Risk by Building Strong. Indeed, it could be easily argued from the Corps ongoing exploits of Delay that We The People are quite expendable, and (in the gunsites of this PR Firm) in the way of their message spin.
And BTW~BARRY JOHN M---$1,500???
On this same list of Federal Spending, where we found OPP at the $1M level, our own John Barry turned up at the $1500 level? For What did the Exquisite Corps pay $1500 to John Barry, a member of our esteemed new Levee Board: S.L.F.P.A.-East?
It certainly isn't the money, but the question... and the surprise.
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?
And Humid City, always quick on the draw, opens up a Ho'nutter can of misdirection, with a pan of dead fish on the women of OPP.
Corps Spends Pig for Purty Lips, We Pay for Public Relations Spin
{^^^Caution! Strong Language!^^^}
~Editilla Goz't'Hella~ Remember all these cute "public input meetings" the Corps expensively advertises?ASCECORPS is spending Millions Mo'Dollars of Our Flood Protection Funding
to hire this Public Relations Firm to have lots of public meetings where the effected public can come Talk At The Corps.
This is the very type of firm you would have wanted to do the invitations for Hitler's Bat Mitsvah. These are the very people who have been hired to Spin'filtrate the Corps Message of Risk, keep us all distracted by pretty ads and flags while the Corps moves along with the same engineering methodology that Flooded New Orleans on 8/29 and de-swamped South Louisiana in the first place. These are the very people who have enable the Corps to get away with delaying our Flood Safety Studies.
Whenever the Corps has wanted to screw us in the ass,
these are the people who tell us how good it feels to be Punk'd.
This firm believes People want to feel like they have a stake in the work yad nauseum. Let'em Talk, Hell, talk is cheaper than bullets!
Yet the whole time, No matter what anyone says to the Corps of Engineers, ASCECORPS has had every intention of installing their own design of defective engineering so they can come back later and reinstall more defective designs so they can come back later and reinstall more defective designs so they can come back later and...have marketing groups run their meetings and risk message.
And just think, if OPP is successful in knocking us all dead here, then imagine the possibilities for making a killing marketing Risk to the rest of the country. Oh the Horror Cha'Ching!
That is the final judgment here, the actual Grapes of Wrath of this Public Relations "cause", to wit: by our deaths from the next catastrophic engineering failure, we will have proved this PR Company successful, as the Corps Reduces Risk, Builds Strong.

From the puissant lips
of the Succubus...
OPP provides media support for print, broadcast and Internet media on local, national and international levels including outlets such as the Times-Picayune, WWL-TV CBS New Orleans, Associated Press, USA Today, The Weather Channel, The Today Show, French TV Channel 5, and Engineering News Record on issues such as Hurricane Gustav, “paper in the floodwalls” and other investigative responses, seepage, peer review and the state of the hurricane and storm damage risk reduction system.
As part of this cause?, OPP fosters strategic relationships with media outlets that result in more accurate and balanced stories.
OPP focuses on the enhancement of internal and external communications between the various Corps districts, stakeholders (??), media and the general public (us?).
OPP has facilitated a myriad of interviews about the rebuilding of hurricane system levees and interim risk reduction structures. Our team members have facilitated in-depth interviews with producers and hosts of The History Channel and MTV. (Oh'Snap!)
OPP's media support has been a fundamental part of the transition from typically negative news coverage to more neutral and positive news coverage. (Spin'Filtration)
~Editilla Notellas~ Everything composted above: aforementioned, linked, referred to, parodied, smeared, slabbed, slammed, copied, pasted and condemned whatnot'whateva rests solidly and legally on the subject's public availability as News Evidence of where our Tax Dollars are going, and as such is inviolate of copyrights. More to point, we paid for this ass'wipe.
We have paid OPP 2 Million Dollars to date for this ass'wipe.
And, lest anyone sense even a drop of blood profit on this blog...
show me a reason and I'll walk the fire.
~More from yesterday's lengthy post.
Update: Corps' Million Dollar PR company changed its website after expose, they can run but they can't hide! ~Levees.org
We want the truth, not PR!
The cost of coastal restoration: how high can it go~Lacoastpost
Federal agency pulls plug on coastal protection funds
Efforts aim to raise levee in Pointe-aux-Chenes
~Nikki Buskey
Lafayette firm wins $2M N.O. floodwall contract~City Business
James Gill: LSU's 'Pack of Lies'
~Save Charity Hospital.com

Come, Mister tally man,
tally me banana ~slabbed
Painting ~Fernand Allard L'Olivier
~Getty Images
Chemical Industry Culture: Piercing the Veil~SEMP
DEQ cracks down on dumping
~Cain Burdeau
Former Ky. man who wears skirts files suit in New Orleans
~Karla Ward
'Class of Katrina' graduating,
4 years after storm~Kevin McGill
Chicken plant bill goes to full House ~Michelle Millhollon
HBO gives David Simon's 'Treme' green light~Dave Walker
'After the Storm' ~PWALLY~Editilla Chin'chillas~Sometimes we just needs some'mo beautiful painting to straighten it all out.
Life after Jazz Fest
~Trevor C. Jones
Big Sam's Funky Nation
~Wednesdays at the Square
The Healer, Erykah Badu
~Whose shoes are these anyway?
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