Why do people live in a Flood Zone?
Louisiana state tax burden is being shifted to local governments, group says
Saturday, June 25, 2011
A Baton Rouge review from the New Orleans Assassin…
~Disenfranchised Citizen
Sen. David Vitter opposes pay raise for Interior Secretary Ken Salazar
Don't revisit failed efforts to raid New Orleans' flood protection funds
Minot, North Dakota flooding surpasses 129-year-old flood record
Port Fourchon, oilfield beginning to pick up steam
Flood has little effect on adult Louisiana black bears
Feds eye tougher measures to protect sea turtles
Gulf restoration task force to meet
German Coast Farmers’ Market: Destrehan, LA. ~NOLAFemmes
~Disenfranchised Citizen
Sen. David Vitter opposes pay raise for Interior Secretary Ken Salazar
Don't revisit failed efforts to raid New Orleans' flood protection funds
Minot, North Dakota flooding surpasses 129-year-old flood record
Port Fourchon, oilfield beginning to pick up steam
Flood has little effect on adult Louisiana black bears
Feds eye tougher measures to protect sea turtles
Gulf restoration task force to meet
German Coast Farmers’ Market: Destrehan, LA. ~NOLAFemmes
Friday, June 24, 2011
Race, Hurricane Katrina questions aren't so simple~Jarvis DeBerry
BP: Don't give Gulf oil rig's blowout preventer to Transocean
Louisiana Coalition for Science: HB580 Is Dead ~CenLamar
Renovations to New Orleans area libraries bring them into 21st century
Shop and Sign: Book Signing At Anthropologie~GO NOLA
Weekend Roundup~Blackened Out
Bo Dollis Awarded 2011 NEA National Heritage Fellowship
~OffBEAT Magazine
BP: Don't give Gulf oil rig's blowout preventer to Transocean
Louisiana Coalition for Science: HB580 Is Dead ~CenLamar
Renovations to New Orleans area libraries bring them into 21st century
Shop and Sign: Book Signing At Anthropologie~GO NOLA
Weekend Roundup~Blackened Out
Bo Dollis Awarded 2011 NEA National Heritage Fellowship
~OffBEAT Magazine
Thursday, June 23, 2011
One step closer to presenting our case ~Levees.org
Entergy Louisiana announces plans to build new natural gas unit at plant in Westwego
Good, not great: City deserves better plan for Mid-City Market
~Alan Williams, The Lens
~Also~Homeowner or homeless? St. Louis Street resident fights to hang on to what he has~Karen Gadbois
Entergy Louisiana announces plans to build new natural gas unit at plant in Westwego
Good, not great: City deserves better plan for Mid-City Market
~Alan Williams, The Lens
~Also~Homeowner or homeless? St. Louis Street resident fights to hang on to what he has~Karen Gadbois
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Levee Debris: Part 6~Fix the Pumps
Many courts making financial decisions in private, despite state law that demands openness and public hearings
~Matt Davis, The Lens
Someone please caption this picture
Louisiana Seafood: It’s About Family, Sustainability and Quality
BP oil spill restoration-project proposals due Saturday
Kenneth Feinberg “says” things are picking up…well, Ken “says” a lot of things~Disenfranchised Citizen
NOLA History: New Orleans’ Corner Drugstore, K and B~Edward Branley
Drink Like a Grownup: Patrick’s Bar Vin~He Said/She Said NOLA
Many courts making financial decisions in private, despite state law that demands openness and public hearings
~Matt Davis, The Lens
Someone please caption this picture
Louisiana Seafood: It’s About Family, Sustainability and Quality
BP oil spill restoration-project proposals due Saturday
Kenneth Feinberg “says” things are picking up…well, Ken “says” a lot of things~Disenfranchised Citizen
NOLA History: New Orleans’ Corner Drugstore, K and B~Edward Branley
Drink Like a Grownup: Patrick’s Bar Vin~He Said/She Said NOLA
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Josephites have affirmed decision to end paddling at St. Augustine High School, transfer president
Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind: That ain’t doughnut glaze on Johnny Young’s chin ~Slabbed
Barge hits Moonwalk
Fashion Solution - Customize!
~Bugeyed Guide
Bragalicious~NOLAFemmes
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Summer Reading Happened So Fast ~Blackened Out
Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind: That ain’t doughnut glaze on Johnny Young’s chin ~Slabbed
Barge hits Moonwalk
Fashion Solution - Customize!
~Bugeyed Guide
Bragalicious~NOLAFemmes
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Summer Reading Happened So Fast ~Blackened Out
Monday, June 20, 2011
Sunday, June 19, 2011
~Editilla Notellas~We missed posting yesterday, and posted little today, because we're getting into the dirty nitty gritty of restoring Editilla's House of Piety. I commute now from Memphis to Nola in 2-week work trips. It's gotten hard, and is getting complicated as we move into the guts of the house. While I had NO INTENTION of getting into something like this, a total gutting restoration, it seems well and fitting to go for it, smooth to the fine.My father gave me this house in a way, as he was gracious enough to include me in the succession of the family farm ---much to my honest and great surprise! Really. It's a long story, perchance even a book, but suffice to say I expected Nothing.
He'd tied up loose ends, come to me more than once. Pop and I were settled.
My father passed away at sunrise on July 11th, 2009. He was 80.
I loved him very very much.
One of the last cogent talks I had with Pop was from a pay phone in the French Market, during the Flood'05, I think the day or so after the Produce Company had exploded atop a 200 year old toxic waste dump a few blocks from my studio, and sometime after I had fought another man in the dark dark with a two foot long sword. It is hard to say what day it was, but it was so hot.
Dog Flora and I were aimlessly wandering into the Quarters to get away from the acrid smell of poison which still blanketed the hood like a rat bag.
Nearly everyone we knew had gone by then.
It is hard to describe the bleakness. It was just hard.
No cell phone towers within a hundred miles yet these old pay phones that Huey P Long installed still worked. So, Editilla phoned home. After getting the rest of the screaming family off the phones, I began to broach the issue with my father of my last wishes etc. It took a second, since Pop was still under the impression that "this can't be happening in America".. that people wearing a uniform meant something and I just needed to go find them and get out of there.. that our country, his country.. well whateva... we were left to die. I knew this. Many there knew this.
About that moment a NOPD car drove by full of BlackWater Mercenaries, all the windows gone with their little rifles sticking out, ball caps on jar heads... I really remember the tiny sunglasses when they looked Directly At Me. They too knew this.
"No, Pop. America doesn't DO uniforms any longer," I said.
So, I needed to get my affairs in order. No more 2nd chances.
"No, Pop, I'm not leaving dog Flora. She is all I have left."
Pop of course disagreed with that sentiment, all of it --and wasn't having any of it. "OK THEN, You get your Goddamn Dog on the Goddamn Levee and go North and we'll find you!" said R.L. Biles.
I broke down.. "Yes sir," said his son, and got my ass in gear.
Alas, his youngest, the straggler, the errant troubadour, I could not face my father until he came and found me, still armed, in Memphis, 4 months later.
He had a massive stroke the following April, yet was allowed 3 years to say goodbye to his children, 6 grandchildren and 3 great-grandchildren.
A Ramblin'wreck from Georgia Tech and a Hell of an Engineer,
both Civil and Electrical, 17th in his class, Lt. Col. USAF Ret,
Formidable Nemesis of the Corps of Engineers, to wit:
"Son there is Nothing more dangerous than a lying engineer,
because then all you have left is the word of a liar."
Planter, Maker, Science Fiction fan, Dog Lover,
Master of Sarcasm and Ruthless Wit,
Protector of the Sunflower River,
Son of the Mississippi Delta,
Richard Leonidas Biles Jr.
*
He'd tied up loose ends, come to me more than once. Pop and I were settled.
My father passed away at sunrise on July 11th, 2009. He was 80.
I loved him very very much.
One of the last cogent talks I had with Pop was from a pay phone in the French Market, during the Flood'05, I think the day or so after the Produce Company had exploded atop a 200 year old toxic waste dump a few blocks from my studio, and sometime after I had fought another man in the dark dark with a two foot long sword. It is hard to say what day it was, but it was so hot.
Dog Flora and I were aimlessly wandering into the Quarters to get away from the acrid smell of poison which still blanketed the hood like a rat bag.
Nearly everyone we knew had gone by then.
It is hard to describe the bleakness. It was just hard.
No cell phone towers within a hundred miles yet these old pay phones that Huey P Long installed still worked. So, Editilla phoned home. After getting the rest of the screaming family off the phones, I began to broach the issue with my father of my last wishes etc. It took a second, since Pop was still under the impression that "this can't be happening in America".. that people wearing a uniform meant something and I just needed to go find them and get out of there.. that our country, his country.. well whateva... we were left to die. I knew this. Many there knew this.
About that moment a NOPD car drove by full of BlackWater Mercenaries, all the windows gone with their little rifles sticking out, ball caps on jar heads... I really remember the tiny sunglasses when they looked Directly At Me. They too knew this.
"No, Pop. America doesn't DO uniforms any longer," I said.
So, I needed to get my affairs in order. No more 2nd chances.
"No, Pop, I'm not leaving dog Flora. She is all I have left."
Pop of course disagreed with that sentiment, all of it --and wasn't having any of it. "OK THEN, You get your Goddamn Dog on the Goddamn Levee and go North and we'll find you!" said R.L. Biles.
I broke down.. "Yes sir," said his son, and got my ass in gear.
Alas, his youngest, the straggler, the errant troubadour, I could not face my father until he came and found me, still armed, in Memphis, 4 months later.
He had a massive stroke the following April, yet was allowed 3 years to say goodbye to his children, 6 grandchildren and 3 great-grandchildren.
A Ramblin'wreck from Georgia Tech and a Hell of an Engineer,
both Civil and Electrical, 17th in his class, Lt. Col. USAF Ret,
Formidable Nemesis of the Corps of Engineers, to wit:
"Son there is Nothing more dangerous than a lying engineer,
because then all you have left is the word of a liar."
Planter, Maker, Science Fiction fan, Dog Lover,
Master of Sarcasm and Ruthless Wit,
Protector of the Sunflower River,
Son of the Mississippi Delta,
Richard Leonidas Biles Jr.
*
Friday, June 17, 2011
Whiz Kidding, also, if there's time left over maybe they 
will buy a theater
~Library Chronicles
'Perfect Storm' Along MO River Puts Army Corps Policies in Cross Hairs
~As the engorged Missouri River swamps towns and threatens to burst a backup levee in Hamburg, Mo., lawmakers are calling for a review of the Army Corps of Engineers' flood-control plans.
Missouri River flood hits unprecedented flow rates
~Jeff Masters, Wunderblog
To bolster real estate market, New Orleans must add jobs, experts say
Goddamnit! Phillis Wheatley Elementary School Torn Down
Ray Nagin to appear Monday on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
~Humid Beings
Major League Baseball to operate youth training academy in Gentilly
Kicking, smiling “Great Dane” is a Saints, Louisiana all-time star
Hundreds of Vespa scooter enthusiasts putt-putt through New Orleans
will buy a theater~Library Chronicles
'Perfect Storm' Along MO River Puts Army Corps Policies in Cross Hairs
~As the engorged Missouri River swamps towns and threatens to burst a backup levee in Hamburg, Mo., lawmakers are calling for a review of the Army Corps of Engineers' flood-control plans.
Missouri River flood hits unprecedented flow rates
~Jeff Masters, Wunderblog
To bolster real estate market, New Orleans must add jobs, experts say
Goddamnit! Phillis Wheatley Elementary School Torn Down
Ray Nagin to appear Monday on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
~Humid Beings
Major League Baseball to operate youth training academy in Gentilly
Kicking, smiling “Great Dane” is a Saints, Louisiana all-time star
Hundreds of Vespa scooter enthusiasts putt-putt through New Orleans
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Release the Hounds!
~a Corps of Engineers whistleblower's letter to the President ~Hat Tip~Levees.org
~Recent levee ruptures in Iowa and Missouri may reflect larger failures of the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) raised by whistleblower Maria Garzino. And there may be more tragedies on the horizon: in 2007, USACE released a list of 146 levees across America that are at risk of failing. In an article this week in Politico, Harry Shearer gave a curtain raiser to a letter Garzino sent to the Obama Administration earlier this year that fully exposes the degree of deception by USACE. The letter reveals not only a shockingly detailed portrait, but also the attempts of government officials to prevent Garzino from blowing the whistle at all.
The economics of flooding
Challenges of keeping MS River in check discussed at meeting of Louisiana coastal authority
Wait…didn’t he say there were no health claims?
~Disenfranchised Citizen
~Also~State Senate rejects ban on oil dispersants
GOP Seeks Bidders on Amtrak Rail Lines
Bourbon & Burlesque ~Gambit
~Lauren LaBorde on a fan-and-tassel fundraiser for the Contemporary Arts Center
New Crush~Blackened Out
Food Bloggers Get Up Close and Personal With Gulf Seafood
~a Corps of Engineers whistleblower's letter to the President ~Hat Tip~Levees.org
~Recent levee ruptures in Iowa and Missouri may reflect larger failures of the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) raised by whistleblower Maria Garzino. And there may be more tragedies on the horizon: in 2007, USACE released a list of 146 levees across America that are at risk of failing. In an article this week in Politico, Harry Shearer gave a curtain raiser to a letter Garzino sent to the Obama Administration earlier this year that fully exposes the degree of deception by USACE. The letter reveals not only a shockingly detailed portrait, but also the attempts of government officials to prevent Garzino from blowing the whistle at all.The economics of flooding
Challenges of keeping MS River in check discussed at meeting of Louisiana coastal authority
Wait…didn’t he say there were no health claims?
~Disenfranchised Citizen
~Also~State Senate rejects ban on oil dispersants
GOP Seeks Bidders on Amtrak Rail Lines
Bourbon & Burlesque ~Gambit
~Lauren LaBorde on a fan-and-tassel fundraiser for the Contemporary Arts Center
New Crush~Blackened Out
Food Bloggers Get Up Close and Personal With Gulf Seafood
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Monkeying with the Constitution ~Gambit ~Jeremy Alford on how our "small-government" pols in Baton Rouge want to add (and add and add) to the state Constitution
La. lawmakers scrap 'birther' bill
Larger ‘dead zone’ feared, Gulf phenomenon could set record
~Amy Wold
Tugboats free tanker that ran aground in lower Mississippi River on Monday
Evacuteer.org volunteers provide a service when it's most needed
7 blighted homes sold at sheriff's auction in New Orleans
Iron Rail Book Store – Anarchy has returned!~Invade Nola
Le Petite Theater Sale Hits Intermission ~Nola Defender
Slow Southern Street Style: Seen at Freret Market
Check, please! Umm, please?
~He Said/She Said NOLA
Winesday~Blackened Out
La. lawmakers scrap 'birther' bill
Larger ‘dead zone’ feared, Gulf phenomenon could set record
~Amy Wold
Tugboats free tanker that ran aground in lower Mississippi River on Monday
Evacuteer.org volunteers provide a service when it's most needed
7 blighted homes sold at sheriff's auction in New Orleans
Iron Rail Book Store – Anarchy has returned!~Invade Nola
Le Petite Theater Sale Hits Intermission ~Nola Defender
Slow Southern Street Style: Seen at Freret Market
Check, please! Umm, please?
~He Said/She Said NOLA
Winesday~Blackened Out
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
A rare but important victory
~American Zombie
Da Train! Da Train! City of New Orleans
~How We Rollas~
On another one of our "work trips" for Editilla's House of Piety (EHOP) we take the southern rails. 7am comes hard on our nerve, but soon the MS Delta is sliding by, shining like a... like a laser-plained, leveled, leveed, over-irrigated, precision- agriculture guitar. We've been riding this particular train since 1979. It leaves Memphis, exiting the bluff into the delta at the beginning of the Corps Levee, then quickly into the very center, en route to Greenwood to Yazoo City, MS, the bottom gum line of the delta. Just passed Marks (they used to just beat the Hell outta my Cleveland High Wildcat football team. I mean every time. Mean delta boys in Marks.) The fields are beautiful golden -fresh cut wheat- and green of new soybeans. The cotton is moving along, but there is still a Lot of water around. The corn to me seems late. These little towns are but slivers of a glory they never had in the first place. This is across the tracks from Faulkner's Delta, "Their Day" was taken along time ago, if not by the Corps of Engineers' flood strategy then whittled down and sold to feed China. But in the space of a crack in an old oiled wooden floor, art has remained embedded in the land of my yout and festered. Many of these towns have secretly taken in Nolafugees, like Water Valley where Waiting Room Gallery immigrated.
Low levees get boost from corps
~Nikki Buskey~Houma~ The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is raising a floodwall at the Golden Meadow pump station from 11.5 feet to just under 14 feet, said Joey Wagner, corps manager for the Larose-to-Golden Meadow levee project. The corps will also improve protection at the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port deepwater facility and low-lying floodwalls along the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway in Larose.
As if we had to be told, I mean... Goddamnit!
Lawmaker wants BP Oil Spill medical cases monitored
30 more bays closed at Bonnet Carre Spillway
Have You Seen This? ~GRN
Follow the Money~Indie Film Guru
Postcards of the Hanging
~Tara Jill Ciccarone
Vinterview~Blackened Out
I’ll Have What He’s Having. Not!
~He Said/She Said NOLA
~American Zombie
Da Train! Da Train! City of New Orleans
~How We Rollas~On another one of our "work trips" for Editilla's House of Piety (EHOP) we take the southern rails. 7am comes hard on our nerve, but soon the MS Delta is sliding by, shining like a... like a laser-plained, leveled, leveed, over-irrigated, precision- agriculture guitar. We've been riding this particular train since 1979. It leaves Memphis, exiting the bluff into the delta at the beginning of the Corps Levee, then quickly into the very center, en route to Greenwood to Yazoo City, MS, the bottom gum line of the delta. Just passed Marks (they used to just beat the Hell outta my Cleveland High Wildcat football team. I mean every time. Mean delta boys in Marks.) The fields are beautiful golden -fresh cut wheat- and green of new soybeans. The cotton is moving along, but there is still a Lot of water around. The corn to me seems late. These little towns are but slivers of a glory they never had in the first place. This is across the tracks from Faulkner's Delta, "Their Day" was taken along time ago, if not by the Corps of Engineers' flood strategy then whittled down and sold to feed China. But in the space of a crack in an old oiled wooden floor, art has remained embedded in the land of my yout and festered. Many of these towns have secretly taken in Nolafugees, like Water Valley where Waiting Room Gallery immigrated.
Low levees get boost from corps
~Nikki Buskey~Houma~ The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is raising a floodwall at the Golden Meadow pump station from 11.5 feet to just under 14 feet, said Joey Wagner, corps manager for the Larose-to-Golden Meadow levee project. The corps will also improve protection at the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port deepwater facility and low-lying floodwalls along the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway in Larose.
As if we had to be told, I mean... Goddamnit!
Lawmaker wants BP Oil Spill medical cases monitored
30 more bays closed at Bonnet Carre Spillway
Have You Seen This? ~GRN
Follow the Money~Indie Film Guru
Postcards of the Hanging
~Tara Jill Ciccarone
Vinterview~Blackened Out
I’ll Have What He’s Having. Not!
~He Said/She Said NOLA
Monday, June 13, 2011
Two Missouri River Levees Fail
~The rising Missouri River has ruptured two levees in northwest Missouri, sending torrents of floodwater over rural farmland toward the Iowa town of Hamburg and the Missouri state park and resort of Big Lake. The levee failures both happened Monday morning.Authorities said a levee near Hamburg now has a 50-foot-wide hole in it. This is the same place in Atchison County, Mo., where a repair was done last week.The emergency manager said while the levee has been deemed irreparable, there are no plans to evacuate anyone.
~The rising Missouri River has ruptured two levees in northwest Missouri, sending torrents of floodwater over rural farmland toward the Iowa town of Hamburg and the Missouri state park and resort of Big Lake. The levee failures both happened Monday morning.Authorities said a levee near Hamburg now has a 50-foot-wide hole in it. This is the same place in Atchison County, Mo., where a repair was done last week.The emergency manager said while the levee has been deemed irreparable, there are no plans to evacuate anyone.
More trouble ahead for New Orleans? ~Harry Shearer, Politico
~“The (Army Corps) is guilty of engaging in deceptive and fraudulent acts in order to hide the known inadequacies of the hydraulic pumping equipment and the (Corps’) own wrongdoing from the public and other responsible government agencies.” ~Maria Garzino, Civil Engineer USACE
~At right: Maria Garzino, Danielle Bryan, and Harry Shearer in March, at the AFI Silver Theater premier of The Big Uneasy, in Silver Spring, Maryland.
Your Ho Ho Homble Editilla was in that audience. After the Q&A we saddled up and presented Mz Garzino with a pair of big shiny Brass Balls!
Yesm, we sure the hell did!
She is the 1st recipient of the Editilla's Civil Engineering Brass Balls Award for standing up to the Corps of Engineers. We shall hang this award for Real Engineers who Defend NOLA. While it is fitting for Matt McBride to be the first, we would be remiss to ignore the contributions of Maria Garzino, the Corps engineer who blew the whistle on our Bad Outfall Canal Pumps. The Lady's Got OVA.
So we Award them both Brass Balls for Testicular Fortitude and Engineering Acumen. One of the biggest problems for me regarding the worst civil engineering failure in the history of our country, the Flood of New Orleans by the Corps of Engineers, is the incredulously small number of real engineers who have stepped into the face of industry intimidation to refute the Corps Lies. These brave engineers stand to loose much given the Exquisite Corps of Engineers' contracting reach. But rest easy, Gentle'rillas, to quote Sandy Rosenthal, founder of Levees.org: "We Are Winning!" Yes, we mfkn are! And this coming sixth Flood Anniversary I will have more Brass Balls for more Herolero Engineers.
Whole Lotta Love during Loyola Avenue streetcar line groundbreaking
Ignatius on Magazine, Walgreens on Carrollton, and proposals for coffee shop and fresh market Uptown all seeking city approval
~Uptown Messenger
Anti-blight program Lot Next Door reaches 1,000 purchase agreements
UMC a "Done Deal"? Not After Today ~SaveCharityHospital.com
Clancy DuBos makes some wishes for Gov. Bobby Jindal's birthday ... then blows out his candles
Gov. Bobby Jindal -- They love him in Ohio ~Stephanie Grace
Louisiana drivers don't know the rules of the road ~WWL
Mapping shoreline activity in Louisiana ~Jeremy Alford, Gambit
New Louisiana oil spill highlights industry's chronic pollution problem
~Facing South
Doing the Math on Louisiana’s 2011 Shrimp Season
Louisiana's largest inshore artificial reef completed northeast of Grand Isle
~The Louisiana Charter Boat Association, Bridgeside Marina (Grand Isle), The Louisiana Seafood and Promotion Board along with www.visitlouisianacoast.com present the Inaugural Saints Alumni Fishing Rodeo on Grand Isle June 17th and 18th at the Bridgeside Marina.
Your Favorite Saints Players of Yesteryear will decent on Grand Isle and will be public Friday evening for a Captain's Party and get together.
Food will be provided by the Louisiana Saefood and Promotion Board so you know that you will be treated to some good ole Louisiana Saefood. The former Saints Players will be on hand to sign autographs and mix it up with the crowd. There will be auction items and as much memorabilia as we can amass. Have a football item that you want autographed - bring it, these guys are great and want to sign it for you.
Okra and Tomatoes~NOLAFemmes
The Fried Shrimp Po-Boy
~Blackened Out
"Pause for Dinner" Thursday night to benefit LA/SPCA ~Gambit
Sugar Park ~Hat Tweet @BywaterNeigh
The Ultimate Fully Loaded Bloody Mary ~Serious Eats
Susan Cowsill takes 'Treme' viewers to Carrollton Station
~“The (Army Corps) is guilty of engaging in deceptive and fraudulent acts in order to hide the known inadequacies of the hydraulic pumping equipment and the (Corps’) own wrongdoing from the public and other responsible government agencies.” ~Maria Garzino, Civil Engineer USACE
~At right: Maria Garzino, Danielle Bryan, and Harry Shearer in March, at the AFI Silver Theater premier of The Big Uneasy, in Silver Spring, Maryland.Your Ho Ho Homble Editilla was in that audience. After the Q&A we saddled up and presented Mz Garzino with a pair of big shiny Brass Balls!
Yesm, we sure the hell did!
She is the 1st recipient of the Editilla's Civil Engineering Brass Balls Award for standing up to the Corps of Engineers. We shall hang this award for Real Engineers who Defend NOLA. While it is fitting for Matt McBride to be the first, we would be remiss to ignore the contributions of Maria Garzino, the Corps engineer who blew the whistle on our Bad Outfall Canal Pumps. The Lady's Got OVA.
So we Award them both Brass Balls for Testicular Fortitude and Engineering Acumen. One of the biggest problems for me regarding the worst civil engineering failure in the history of our country, the Flood of New Orleans by the Corps of Engineers, is the incredulously small number of real engineers who have stepped into the face of industry intimidation to refute the Corps Lies. These brave engineers stand to loose much given the Exquisite Corps of Engineers' contracting reach. But rest easy, Gentle'rillas, to quote Sandy Rosenthal, founder of Levees.org: "We Are Winning!" Yes, we mfkn are! And this coming sixth Flood Anniversary I will have more Brass Balls for more Herolero Engineers.
Whole Lotta Love during Loyola Avenue streetcar line groundbreaking
Ignatius on Magazine, Walgreens on Carrollton, and proposals for coffee shop and fresh market Uptown all seeking city approval
~Uptown Messenger
Anti-blight program Lot Next Door reaches 1,000 purchase agreements
UMC a "Done Deal"? Not After Today ~SaveCharityHospital.com
Clancy DuBos makes some wishes for Gov. Bobby Jindal's birthday ... then blows out his candles
Gov. Bobby Jindal -- They love him in Ohio ~Stephanie Grace
Louisiana drivers don't know the rules of the road ~WWL
Mapping shoreline activity in Louisiana ~Jeremy Alford, Gambit
New Louisiana oil spill highlights industry's chronic pollution problem
~Facing South
Doing the Math on Louisiana’s 2011 Shrimp Season
Louisiana's largest inshore artificial reef completed northeast of Grand Isle
~The Louisiana Charter Boat Association, Bridgeside Marina (Grand Isle), The Louisiana Seafood and Promotion Board along with www.visitlouisianacoast.com present the Inaugural Saints Alumni Fishing Rodeo on Grand Isle June 17th and 18th at the Bridgeside Marina.Your Favorite Saints Players of Yesteryear will decent on Grand Isle and will be public Friday evening for a Captain's Party and get together.
Food will be provided by the Louisiana Saefood and Promotion Board so you know that you will be treated to some good ole Louisiana Saefood. The former Saints Players will be on hand to sign autographs and mix it up with the crowd. There will be auction items and as much memorabilia as we can amass. Have a football item that you want autographed - bring it, these guys are great and want to sign it for you.
"GOODBY JOE" J'AI POUR ALLEZ, MI-O-MA-Y-O
J'AI POUR ALLEZ MOI TOUT SEUL
SUR LE BAYOU
MA YVONNE, LA PLUS JOLIE
SUR LE BAYOU
TONNERRE M'ECRASE
UN VA AVOIR UN BON TEMP
SUR LE BAYOU
----refrain----------
JAMBALAYA, DES TARTES D'ECREUVISSE, FILE GOMBO
PAR A SOIR MOI J'VA ALLEZ VOIR
MA CHERE AMI-O
JOUER L'GUITAR, BOIRE DE LA JOGUE(cruche)
ET FAIR DE LA MUSIQUE
TOMNNERRE M'ECRASE
UN VA AVOIR UN BON TEMP
DE SUR LE BAYOU
THIBODEAUX, FONTENOT, LA PLACE APRE SONNER
CA VIEN "EN TAS" POUR VOIR YVONNE
PAR LES DOUZAINES
FAIR BIEN L'AMOUR, ET FAIR LE FOU, FAIR LA MUSIQUE
TONNERRE M'ECRASE
UN VA AVOIR UN BON TEMP
J'AI POUR ALLEZ MOI TOUT SEUL
SUR LE BAYOU
MA YVONNE, LA PLUS JOLIE
SUR LE BAYOU
TONNERRE M'ECRASE
UN VA AVOIR UN BON TEMP
SUR LE BAYOU
----refrain----------
JAMBALAYA, DES TARTES D'ECREUVISSE, FILE GOMBO
PAR A SOIR MOI J'VA ALLEZ VOIR
MA CHERE AMI-O
JOUER L'GUITAR, BOIRE DE LA JOGUE(cruche)
ET FAIR DE LA MUSIQUE
TOMNNERRE M'ECRASE
UN VA AVOIR UN BON TEMP
DE SUR LE BAYOU
THIBODEAUX, FONTENOT, LA PLACE APRE SONNER
CA VIEN "EN TAS" POUR VOIR YVONNE
PAR LES DOUZAINES
FAIR BIEN L'AMOUR, ET FAIR LE FOU, FAIR LA MUSIQUE
TONNERRE M'ECRASE
UN VA AVOIR UN BON TEMP
Okra and Tomatoes~NOLAFemmes
The Fried Shrimp Po-Boy
~Blackened Out
"Pause for Dinner" Thursday night to benefit LA/SPCA ~Gambit
Sugar Park ~Hat Tweet @BywaterNeigh
The Ultimate Fully Loaded Bloody Mary ~Serious Eats
Susan Cowsill takes 'Treme' viewers to Carrollton Station
Sunday, June 12, 2011
200lb log debris found in West Bank levees, Corps of Engineers plays dumb
~This piece of wood, about 3 feet by 2 feet, was removed from the levee under construction between the new Westwego Pumping Station and Orleans Village.
Debris Part 5~Fix the Pumps
~Also this from Slabbed~There is a Heebe in the levee pile!
Michael "Brownie" Brown to sign Deadly Indifference in NOLA
~Kevin Allman, Gambit
~Hat Tweet @Editilla the Pun~@The_Gambit This is an Excellent idea for a Pie Throwing Party! Bring Pies lotta Pies! Chocolate Brownie Pies! Mud Pies! #nola #TheBigUneasy
Housing fight prompts racists to speak ~Jarvis DeBerry
In this episode of Magnum J.D.: Baldie amends the suit against Bull Durham, adds Magnum plus Gauthier Houghtaling and Williams ~Slabbed
NASA software gives Lusher Charter School students all the right stuff
Corps closes 30 bays at Bonnet Carre
High Mississippi River and Algiers Point levee make for good fishing
River flood builds land, but will it help locally? ~Nikki Buskey~“The real tragedy of this flood is that it isn't getting sediment to some of these areas that sorely need it,” said Phillip Turnipseed, director of the U.S. Geological Survey's National Wetlands Research Center, which published the satellite photos of the flood. “Terrebonne, Lafourche, Barataria, the Breton Sound — you're all being left out.”
The Nature Conservancy buys land for State of Louisiana
Missouri River levees in Iowa face historic test~Des Moines Register
Economy versus environment…the oil spill fine~Disenfranchised Citizen
While you were sleeping
~Judyb54, NOLAFemmes
The Green Goddess' Omivourous Outré
~, NOLA Defender
Tab Benoit in Memphis Tonight at the Levitt Shell
~Editilla Ruminellas~5 blocks from my house, this is an WPA-built outdoor amphitheater that we saved from demolition back in the '90s. I directed 8 Earth Day Festivals here in the heart of Memphis. It is the prettiest place in the city, a sacred space where I laid my heart for safe keeping.
~This piece of wood, about 3 feet by 2 feet, was removed from the levee under construction between the new Westwego Pumping Station and Orleans Village.“If they’ve got a 200-pound log buried in that levee, it makes you wonder what else is buried there,” said Giuseppe Miserendino, the levee authority’s regional director. “How does your quality-control person miss something that big? What else didn’t they catch?”
Debris Part 5~Fix the Pumps
~Also this from Slabbed~There is a Heebe in the levee pile!
Michael "Brownie" Brown to sign Deadly Indifference in NOLA
~Kevin Allman, Gambit
~Hat Tweet @Editilla the Pun~@The_Gambit This is an Excellent idea for a Pie Throwing Party! Bring Pies lotta Pies! Chocolate Brownie Pies! Mud Pies! #nola #TheBigUneasy
Housing fight prompts racists to speak ~Jarvis DeBerry
In this episode of Magnum J.D.: Baldie amends the suit against Bull Durham, adds Magnum plus Gauthier Houghtaling and Williams ~Slabbed
NASA software gives Lusher Charter School students all the right stuff
Corps closes 30 bays at Bonnet Carre
High Mississippi River and Algiers Point levee make for good fishing
River flood builds land, but will it help locally? ~Nikki Buskey~“The real tragedy of this flood is that it isn't getting sediment to some of these areas that sorely need it,” said Phillip Turnipseed, director of the U.S. Geological Survey's National Wetlands Research Center, which published the satellite photos of the flood. “Terrebonne, Lafourche, Barataria, the Breton Sound — you're all being left out.”
The Nature Conservancy buys land for State of Louisiana
Missouri River levees in Iowa face historic test~Des Moines Register
Economy versus environment…the oil spill fine~Disenfranchised Citizen
While you were sleeping
~Judyb54, NOLAFemmes
The Green Goddess' Omivourous Outré
~, NOLA Defender
Tab Benoit in Memphis Tonight at the Levitt Shell~Editilla Ruminellas~5 blocks from my house, this is an WPA-built outdoor amphitheater that we saved from demolition back in the '90s. I directed 8 Earth Day Festivals here in the heart of Memphis. It is the prettiest place in the city, a sacred space where I laid my heart for safe keeping.
Saturday, June 11, 2011
Still to come~Fix the Pumps
Corps options for levee 'armor' include dense grass, fabric turf or concrete
Rising Tide 6 ~The Rising Tide Conference is an annual gathering for all who wish to learn more and do more to assist New Orleans’ recovery. It’s for everyone who loves New Orleans and is working to bring a better future to all its residents. Leveraging the power of bloggers and new media, the conference is a launch pad for organization and action. Our day-long program of speakers and presentations is tailored to inform, entertain, enrage and inspire.
Rep. Cedric Richmond calls for health registry for people assigned travel trailers after Hurricane Katrina
Mandeville residents look to get flood insurance relief under new FEMA maps
Racial divides among New Orleans neighborhoods expand
~Michelle Krupa
Alternative plan to fund teaching hospital 'misses the point,' official say
~Paul Murphy
City shut down anarchist bookstore to run off homeless, member says
~Uptown Messenger
Parishes thankful floods never came
Stories From the Gulf: Living with the Oil Disaster~Disenfranchised Citizen
Joplin MO: toll rises to 151, some suffer from fungus
Sponsoring Hell Yes Fest New Orleans ~Hat Tweet @ianhoch
~Hat Tweet @ LouisianaFests~ This Wkdn in La - Corn Fest in Bunkie, River Fest in Madisonville, Cajun Music Fest, Tomato Fest & Zydeco Fest in Nola
~Hat Tweet @rock_n_bowl~Deacon John's 70th BIRTHDAY BASH tonight. Come celebrate with him 9:30pm
Corps options for levee 'armor' include dense grass, fabric turf or concrete
Rising Tide 6 ~The Rising Tide Conference is an annual gathering for all who wish to learn more and do more to assist New Orleans’ recovery. It’s for everyone who loves New Orleans and is working to bring a better future to all its residents. Leveraging the power of bloggers and new media, the conference is a launch pad for organization and action. Our day-long program of speakers and presentations is tailored to inform, entertain, enrage and inspire.Rep. Cedric Richmond calls for health registry for people assigned travel trailers after Hurricane Katrina
Mandeville residents look to get flood insurance relief under new FEMA maps
Racial divides among New Orleans neighborhoods expand
~Michelle Krupa
Alternative plan to fund teaching hospital 'misses the point,' official say
~Paul Murphy
City shut down anarchist bookstore to run off homeless, member says
~Uptown Messenger
Parishes thankful floods never came
Stories From the Gulf: Living with the Oil Disaster~Disenfranchised Citizen
Joplin MO: toll rises to 151, some suffer from fungus
Sponsoring Hell Yes Fest New Orleans ~Hat Tweet @ianhoch
~Hat Tweet @ LouisianaFests~ This Wkdn in La - Corn Fest in Bunkie, River Fest in Madisonville, Cajun Music Fest, Tomato Fest & Zydeco Fest in Nola
~Hat Tweet @rock_n_bowl~Deacon John's 70th BIRTHDAY BASH tonight. Come celebrate with him 9:30pm
Friday, June 10, 2011
FEMA chief sees bigger role for insurers in flood coverage
~Bruce Alpert
"Heckuva Job Brownie" Speaks~Kate Sheppard
~Editilla Shinolas~ We never pass up a chance to say FYYFF and tell the world about this shiftless, self-aggrandizing, opportunistic, pusillanimous, whining asshole. He is to current American Disaster Capitalism what Ed Blakely is to lying down under a tsunami.
Remember the advice I gave way back in September 2008 ~Slabbed
Second suspect from Mississippi identified in January home invasion
~Uptown Messenger
Oil Slick Reported Near Venice, Louisiana - Update ~SkyTruth
Riki Ott, marine toxicologist, weighs in on the Feinberg lie
~Disenfranchised Citizen
~Also see~Nobody Did It...
~Appeals panel for Gulf oil spill damage claims is formed
Fishermen say crab industry still in disarray
Drought causes salt intrusion on farms
Bonnet Carre Spillway bays to begin closing Saturday
Mississippi River flooding likely to spread Asian carp to lakes, bayous
Swollen Mississippi River, Jazz Festival Test Multiband Radios in Louisiana
~Responders from 16 agencies tested the promise of interoperability embodied in multiband radios at the two-week New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival and in daily operations that included monitoring a swollen Mississippi River.
An estimated 400,000 people converged on the New Orleans’ Fair Grounds Race Course for the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival providing state, local and federal responder agencies an opportunity to test a multiband radio in the event’s crowded and noisy conditions from April 29 to May 8.
Creole Stuffed Bell Peppers
~Chef John Folse
Le Petit Theater board says sale to Dickie Brennan is moving forward
~Hat Tweet @ WeLivetoEat ~Let the debate begin! N.O.'s 9 best snoball stands via @WWLTV Who got left out? http://ow.ly/5eQMU
~At Right in 2008: Haley, 7, and Shane Babb, 5, anticipate the cool sweetness of their snowballs as they wait for Shiela Marriott to prepare them at Ro-Bear's in Harahan. Photo: John McCusker
{We love to tell this story}
~Editilla was doing this very thing~ building some kid a perfect snowball, at the Flora Cafe' one morning when Valentine came in for his early juice.
{I also did fresh-squoze juice for Ali.}
Only this morning Val was a bit up on breaking news: "Hey, Juicy," he says "Did you hear that one of the World Trade Center towers is on fire?" "Nah", said I, more interested in making sure to swirl the Condensed Milk just right around the cone of crushed ice to the top, without breaking it down, which would not do at all, mashing up all the color layers I had painstakingly laid in the snowball already. While the kid watched, Val, stepped across Royal to get a paper and comes back in looking a little scared...looking me right in the eye he said, "You may want to get over to Big Daddy's and check the TV." "What?", I said, stepping around a few more of the children waiting for their snowballs. Then da'Angel storms into the cafe, "HEY EVERYBODY! SOMEONE HAS JUST FLOWN A GODDAMN AIRLINER INTO THE WORLD TRADE CENTER IN NEW YORK!"
The place emptied like fire in a theater, as everyone ran to the bars across the street to see it on the Tube. Suddenly Schiro's was packed too. Suddenly there was not a car on the street outside, as I suspect anywhere else in America that day.
Me, I turned around and looked at the kids waiting on their snowballs and asked,
Who's next?
Swoon At NOMA~NOLAFemmes
Gambit's Wellness Expo
Mythical Creatures & Beings Show from Fleur de Tease ~Humid Beings
BEASTS & BRASS:: A BENEFIT FOR CHEF NATHANIAL ZIMET
Weekend Roundup~Blackened Out
~Bruce Alpert
"Heckuva Job Brownie" Speaks~Kate Sheppard ~Editilla Shinolas~ We never pass up a chance to say FYYFF and tell the world about this shiftless, self-aggrandizing, opportunistic, pusillanimous, whining asshole. He is to current American Disaster Capitalism what Ed Blakely is to lying down under a tsunami.
Remember the advice I gave way back in September 2008 ~Slabbed
Second suspect from Mississippi identified in January home invasion
~Uptown Messenger
Oil Slick Reported Near Venice, Louisiana - Update ~SkyTruth
Riki Ott, marine toxicologist, weighs in on the Feinberg lie
~Disenfranchised Citizen
~Also see~Nobody Did It...
~Appeals panel for Gulf oil spill damage claims is formed
Fishermen say crab industry still in disarray
Drought causes salt intrusion on farms
Bonnet Carre Spillway bays to begin closing Saturday
Mississippi River flooding likely to spread Asian carp to lakes, bayous
Swollen Mississippi River, Jazz Festival Test Multiband Radios in Louisiana
~Responders from 16 agencies tested the promise of interoperability embodied in multiband radios at the two-week New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival and in daily operations that included monitoring a swollen Mississippi River.
An estimated 400,000 people converged on the New Orleans’ Fair Grounds Race Course for the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival providing state, local and federal responder agencies an opportunity to test a multiband radio in the event’s crowded and noisy conditions from April 29 to May 8.
Creole Stuffed Bell Peppers
~Chef John Folse
Le Petit Theater board says sale to Dickie Brennan is moving forward
~Hat Tweet @ WeLivetoEat ~Let the debate begin! N.O.'s 9 best snoball stands via @WWLTV Who got left out? http://ow.ly/5eQMU~At Right in 2008: Haley, 7, and Shane Babb, 5, anticipate the cool sweetness of their snowballs as they wait for Shiela Marriott to prepare them at Ro-Bear's in Harahan. Photo: John McCusker
{We love to tell this story}
~Editilla was doing this very thing~ building some kid a perfect snowball, at the Flora Cafe' one morning when Valentine came in for his early juice.
{I also did fresh-squoze juice for Ali.}
Only this morning Val was a bit up on breaking news: "Hey, Juicy," he says "Did you hear that one of the World Trade Center towers is on fire?" "Nah", said I, more interested in making sure to swirl the Condensed Milk just right around the cone of crushed ice to the top, without breaking it down, which would not do at all, mashing up all the color layers I had painstakingly laid in the snowball already. While the kid watched, Val, stepped across Royal to get a paper and comes back in looking a little scared...looking me right in the eye he said, "You may want to get over to Big Daddy's and check the TV." "What?", I said, stepping around a few more of the children waiting for their snowballs. Then da'Angel storms into the cafe, "HEY EVERYBODY! SOMEONE HAS JUST FLOWN A GODDAMN AIRLINER INTO THE WORLD TRADE CENTER IN NEW YORK!"
The place emptied like fire in a theater, as everyone ran to the bars across the street to see it on the Tube. Suddenly Schiro's was packed too. Suddenly there was not a car on the street outside, as I suspect anywhere else in America that day.
Me, I turned around and looked at the kids waiting on their snowballs and asked,
Who's next?
Swoon At NOMA~NOLAFemmes
Gambit's Wellness Expo
Mythical Creatures & Beings Show from Fleur de Tease ~Humid Beings
BEASTS & BRASS:: A BENEFIT FOR CHEF NATHANIAL ZIMET
Weekend Roundup~Blackened Out
Thursday, June 9, 2011
Corps of Engineers faces ‘accounting’ for MO River flooding~"The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will publicly answer questions about the current flooding along the Missouri River," Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., assured reporters Wednesday. "It’s too soon to decide whether to hold formal congressional hearings on this issue or whether some other venue would work better," Thune said. “But there has to be an accounting for this,” he said. “We have to get some answers.”
~Editilla Co'tellas~ We wonder if SD will get an Investigation of their own Corps Disaster before New Orleans of 8/29/05? And for that matter, what happens when other states inevitably begin lining up to deal with what the Corps of Engineers has been doing in every one of their own their backyards?
After the Levee Breach, She Never Spoke Again~Levees.org
The Big Uneasy in Chicago
~Also this from the Chicago Reader
In Historic Flooding On Mississippi River, A Missed Opportunity To Rebuild Louisiana~Chris Kirkam
It’s time to rethink flood control, coastal scientist says~Nikki Buskey
New floodgate at Bush Canal will serve as data hub
Port of Gulfport receives $481M
Slain insurance investigators mourned
UMC Plans Face Serious Opposition as Vitter, Kennedy, and Tucker Pitch Alternative~SaveCharityHospital.com
The shocking reveal, sifting though the pieces of the broken prize
~Library Chronicles
Neighborhoods are dandy, but no reason to settle for the ‘official’ 73
~Keith G.C. Twitchell, The Lens
LA Senate approves transfer of UNO to University of La. system
Tammy Fox, who grew up racing horses in New Orleans, now hopes to win Belmont Stakes~Bob Fortus
~Hat Tweet @defendnola
Welcome to New Orleans Land
~The Chicory
Gettin' naked at the World Naked Bike Ride~Gambit
The Radiators' 33 year ride comes to an end~Keith Spera
~Editilla Co'tellas~ We wonder if SD will get an Investigation of their own Corps Disaster before New Orleans of 8/29/05? And for that matter, what happens when other states inevitably begin lining up to deal with what the Corps of Engineers has been doing in every one of their own their backyards?
After the Levee Breach, She Never Spoke Again~Levees.org
The Big Uneasy in Chicago
~Also this from the Chicago Reader
In Historic Flooding On Mississippi River, A Missed Opportunity To Rebuild Louisiana~Chris Kirkam
It’s time to rethink flood control, coastal scientist says~Nikki Buskey
New floodgate at Bush Canal will serve as data hub
Port of Gulfport receives $481M
Slain insurance investigators mourned
UMC Plans Face Serious Opposition as Vitter, Kennedy, and Tucker Pitch Alternative~SaveCharityHospital.com
The shocking reveal, sifting though the pieces of the broken prize
~Library Chronicles
Neighborhoods are dandy, but no reason to settle for the ‘official’ 73
~Keith G.C. Twitchell, The Lens
LA Senate approves transfer of UNO to University of La. system
Tammy Fox, who grew up racing horses in New Orleans, now hopes to win Belmont Stakes~Bob Fortus
~Hat Tweet @defendnola
Welcome to New Orleans Land
~The Chicory
Gettin' naked at the World Naked Bike Ride~Gambit
The Radiators' 33 year ride comes to an end~Keith Spera
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Comment Bump ~American Zombie
Laying down the Hammer: Hammerman asks about what Ray Nagin knew and when in the St Pierre saga ~Slabbed
River Birch Landfill owners courted just about everyone~James Gill
Loyola Avenue streetcar project officially under way
Morganza Spillway down to only two open bays
Baton Rouge levee may reopen next week ~Amy Wold
Oil spotted in waters off Plaquemines Parish
Organizer who specialized in catastrophe conferences admits to financial disasters~The Lens
Big new artificial reef northeast of Grand Isle
Bayou Grand Caillou floodgate goes to construction
Dolphins, Turtles, Red Snapper…
and now, sand dollars and starfish
~Disenfranchised Citizen
Gulf Update: Sick Fish, Human Risks and a Federal Agency Trying to Keep the Lid on a Crisis~Stuart Smith
~New T from our friends a Dirty Coast!
Toye-ing With Fate~NOLA Defender
Slow Southern Style:
Seen on Magazine Street
~Editilla's new fav blog find! Hat Tweet @CanalStreetCar
Review: On the Air
~Dalt Wonk, Gambit
The Great Equilibrium: Artist Interview with Georgia Kennedy
~Fair Folks & a Goat
Louisiana caravan heading back from Joplin, MO~"We met some special people who had a strong spirit, who shared their stories, their rebuilding process with us," Chef Greg Reggio said. "In all, we had about 1,200 to 1,400 people show up, and they ate up all that great Louisiana seafood."
Winesday~Blackened Out
Bourbon House hosts rye whiskey tasting ~Todd Price
Beers, Not Bullets: A Fundraiser for Chef Nathaniel Zimet
~He Said/She Said NOLA
New Orleans' Best Snow Balls!
Loan Signing! We're going to open a grocery store!~New Orleans Food Coop
Chophouse New Orleans to open at former Cuvee space~City Business
Opening day on Freret; Adolfo Garcia's High Hat Cafe and Ancora Pizzeria
~Uptown Messenger
Creole Tomato Salad: Mediterranean Twist From Mena’s Palace
What to do? Vieux To Do~Colleen Rush
Concerts in the Courtyard with Sunpie & the Louisiana Sunspots
PresFest celebrates 50 years of Preservation Hall
~Noah Bonaparte Pais
Tracks from Bonnaroo weekend acts
~PICK OF THE WEEK
Desitively Bonnaroo, Dr. John
This 1974 slab of New Orleans funk gave the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival its name.
As a treat for the festival's 10th anniversary, Bonnaroo organizers have booked John along with Allen Toussaint and the Original Meters to re-create the entire Desitively Bonnaroo album at a late-night set this year.
Emmylou Harris Pays Tribute to Gram Parsons on New Album~Rolling Stone~On the album, Harris also sings about post-Katrina New Orleans, becoming a grandmother ("Goodnight Old World") and the death of her friend Kate McGarrigle ("Darlin' Kate").
Galactic bringing it to Brooklyn!
~Hat Tweet @TheAbitaBeer~Tonight 5p at 'Wednesday at the Square' it's Galactic + Marc Stone. Grab a Purple Haze and prepare to get funked people. http://ow.ly/5djB8
Laying down the Hammer: Hammerman asks about what Ray Nagin knew and when in the St Pierre saga ~Slabbed
River Birch Landfill owners courted just about everyone~James Gill
Loyola Avenue streetcar project officially under way
Morganza Spillway down to only two open bays
Baton Rouge levee may reopen next week ~Amy Wold
Oil spotted in waters off Plaquemines Parish
Organizer who specialized in catastrophe conferences admits to financial disasters~The Lens
Big new artificial reef northeast of Grand Isle
Bayou Grand Caillou floodgate goes to construction
Dolphins, Turtles, Red Snapper…
and now, sand dollars and starfish
~Disenfranchised Citizen
Gulf Update: Sick Fish, Human Risks and a Federal Agency Trying to Keep the Lid on a Crisis~Stuart Smith
~New T from our friends a Dirty Coast!Toye-ing With Fate~NOLA Defender
Slow Southern Style:
Seen on Magazine Street
~Editilla's new fav blog find! Hat Tweet @CanalStreetCarReview: On the Air
~Dalt Wonk, Gambit
The Great Equilibrium: Artist Interview with Georgia Kennedy
~Fair Folks & a Goat
Louisiana caravan heading back from Joplin, MO~"We met some special people who had a strong spirit, who shared their stories, their rebuilding process with us," Chef Greg Reggio said. "In all, we had about 1,200 to 1,400 people show up, and they ate up all that great Louisiana seafood."
Winesday~Blackened Out
Bourbon House hosts rye whiskey tasting ~Todd Price
Beers, Not Bullets: A Fundraiser for Chef Nathaniel Zimet
~He Said/She Said NOLA
New Orleans' Best Snow Balls!
Loan Signing! We're going to open a grocery store!~New Orleans Food Coop
Chophouse New Orleans to open at former Cuvee space~City Business
Opening day on Freret; Adolfo Garcia's High Hat Cafe and Ancora Pizzeria
~Uptown Messenger
Creole Tomato Salad: Mediterranean Twist From Mena’s Palace
What to do? Vieux To Do~Colleen Rush
Concerts in the Courtyard with Sunpie & the Louisiana Sunspots
PresFest celebrates 50 years of Preservation Hall
~Noah Bonaparte Pais
Tracks from Bonnaroo weekend acts
~PICK OF THE WEEKDesitively Bonnaroo, Dr. John
This 1974 slab of New Orleans funk gave the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival its name.
As a treat for the festival's 10th anniversary, Bonnaroo organizers have booked John along with Allen Toussaint and the Original Meters to re-create the entire Desitively Bonnaroo album at a late-night set this year.
Emmylou Harris Pays Tribute to Gram Parsons on New Album~Rolling Stone~On the album, Harris also sings about post-Katrina New Orleans, becoming a grandmother ("Goodnight Old World") and the death of her friend Kate McGarrigle ("Darlin' Kate").
Galactic bringing it to Brooklyn!
~Hat Tweet @TheAbitaBeer~Tonight 5p at 'Wednesday at the Square' it's Galactic + Marc Stone. Grab a Purple Haze and prepare to get funked people. http://ow.ly/5djB8
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