Jeudi

Heeeeyyyyah! Hu'dat?

Protesters stage jazz funeral for arts programs~Sarah Chacko
~Brandon Nicholas, left, Derek Mudd and Brianne Waychoff carry a mock coffin during a jazz funeral Wednesday for the loss of state arts funding. Gov. Bobby Jindal’s executive budget proposes an 83 percent cut to a $3 million grant program. The protest march made its way from the Shaw Center for the Arts past the State Capitol to Capital Grocery on Spanish Town Road.

Child-Governor Bobby Jindal:
Louisiana's Fundraiser In Chief
~Jeff Crourere~This story is getting very old.
Once again, our Anti-science Christian Exorcist Repo'Page- Governor is leaving the state for a fundraiser. Over the next two days, The Governorcist is visiting Missouri and Illinois to raise money for his continuous gubernatorial presidential campaign.

F*cked Up by Church and State?
~"As long as the husband is not traveling, he has the right to have sexual intercourse with his wife every fourth night," Article 132 of the law says. "Unless the wife is ill or has any kind of illness that intercourse could aggravate, the wife is bound to give a positive response to the sexual desires of her husband."

The Nagin Countdown Clock
~Krewe of Truth

NYT promotes New Orleans
correspondent, Adam Nossiter,
to West Africa bureau chief
~Editilla jus'axin~Promotion, right? Vacation? Therapy?

New storm barrage causes train collision in South
~Holbrook Mohr

Pearl River crests today at historic level~WWL
~Floodwaters inch into St. Tammany Parish~TP

Editorial: Fargo's disaster envy

That’s a lot of sand
~Matt Chambers
~As interesting as that graphic is, I don’t quite feel it does the number of sandbags, or the effort of the volunteers justice. One sandbag placed next to Jin is an easy reference to grasp, but he is a tad out of proportion next to 3.5 million sandbags.
The real cool figure is three-point-five million. That is the number of sandbags that all ages of volunteers cranked out in just a matter of days. These sandbags were police escorted on flatbed tractor-trailers from the numerous sandbag- making stations to dozens of dikes in the Fargo metro area. Many of these sandbag dikes ended up being taller than 4′ and a half-mile in length or longer.

No one answer to Red River's troublesome ice jams
~Chuck Haga
An aerial view shows ice south of Fargo on Sunday.
Photo~ Allen Fredrickson, Reuters


Whistle-blowers say disasters from storms can be avoided
(Part 6)~Carol Forsloff
~Editilla T'n'T~Levees.org

Daily Slabbed

Mississippi Sea Wolves Leaving?
~Ixolib

Biking in New Orleans:
Sprocket Science~Ian McNulty

Chinese Drywall in New Orleans and Louisiana

It’s not all fun and games on
Bayou Lafourche~Robert Zullo

Two councils unite to discuss
Army Corps' plan for canals
~Scott Satchfield, WWL

Obama nominates Water Warrior Jo-Ellen Darcy to oversee Army Corps of Engineers
~Mark Schleifstein

Officials: Taxpayers paid too much for storm protection
~Ben Lundin, Daily Comet

Levees may not protect downtown, Corps of Engineers' final report says
~The Dallas Morning News

Court Rejects Army Corps Permit for King William Reservoir ~Mosquito Blog~U.S. District Court Judge in D.C. Finds Permit "Arbitrary and Capricious"
~Editilla hits da'Fat Signal~ ~dat'what call da'Fatman for a new blog find! 'Course, Gentle'rillas may be more familiar with the Bat Signal we send out when quick Bat Action is required... Fatman and Batman bein'related, super heroleros don't'cha know.
Plus plus plus we get a Motto of the Month for New Orlean's shrunken foot print: "If you think you're too small to be effective, you've never been in the dark with a mosquito."


Aquifer
~An under- ground bed or layer of earth, gravel, or porous stone that yields water.
Please click to enlarge.

2 convicted of bribery in Katrina levee case~A former Army Corps of Engineers consultant collapsed and had to be carried out on a stretcher after a jury convicted him of bribery Wednesday. Kern Wilson, 58, of Apollo Beach, Fla., was convicted in federal court along with Durwanda Elizabeth Heinrich, a subcontractor.

Court hears Texas case over animal sacrifices
~Michael Kunzelman
~A Santeria priest who sued a Texas city for denying him permission to sacrifice a goat as part of a religious ceremony asked a federal appeals court Wednesday to let him resume the ritual in his home.

What's new in spring cookbooks and food books~Judy Walker

What It Means to Miss
New Orleans?~Elyse Glickman

The Tio Family: A New Orleans Clarinet Dynasty~Riverwalk Jazz

Book Review: Hotter than That
~Trevor Herbert~Gabbard romps perilously through the history of the trumpet. He does history badly - very badly: generalisations come easily, his faith in anecdote is relentless and he resorts to cliche without hesitation.

Mercredi

Springtime in New Orleans
~Skeletonkrewe

Like you, I miss him fiercely
~Your Right Hand Thief

Pearl River sees "major flooding" ~WWL

Northern legislators form “Yankee caucus,” will file “the coast is toast” amendment shifting coastline to BR! ~lacoastpost

Corps of Engineers Unleashes FART ~WaterWired

Are Jindal and Levine Lying About NOAH?
~New Orleans--It's Just Me

Louisiana Child-Governor Jindal rejects more stimulus cash; this time for Medicaid programs, travels to Chicago for yet more out-of-state fundraising

After Flip-Flopping On Recovery Package, Rep. "Sacred" Cao Suggests He Might Support Obama’s Budget ~Think Progress

Nagin Still Chewing Over Shock Doctrine~We Could Be Famous

Welcome Home!
~Ben Jarrell and his girlfriend of two years, Camille Forstall, both of Covington, share a quiet moment away from the crowd following his return to Baton Rouge. Jarrell and fellow members of the Louisiana Army National Guard’s 1st Battalion, 244th Aviation Regiment, headquartered in Hammond, were reunited with family and friends Tuesday on the tarmac at Baton Rouge Metro Airport.

New Gulf recovery chief is appointed~Jonathan Tilove

Local government Katrina loans could be forgiven ~Becky Bohrer

Napolitano misses essence of New Orleans Problem
~The American Prospect

Temporary pumps at Orleans,
London and 17th Street canals
safe, investigation shows
~Sheila Grissett~The new report is the latest of at least a half dozen on the issue. It was written by Parsons Corp. of Pasadena, Calif., which holds multiple corps contracts for work around the world, including some work that has come under fire from the corps.

Disaster Law Reader:
Call For Papers

New national volunteer group to rebuild homes in neglected New Orleans lakefront community

Buck Moth Caterpillar (Hemileuca maia) Susan Ellis, Bugwood.org
Buckmoth Caterpillars... Fiyo!
~The Red Panther

Soil to stoops: Local food movement hits New Orleans

Pirates Are Coming
~Lord David, Humid City

NoLa Rising, It has begun...

Andrei Codrescu's latest work is a guidebook to a strange new era ~Susan Larson

Eric Lindell 's new "Gulf Coast Highway"~Jim White

Luther Dickinson, Alvin Youngblood Hart & Jimbo Mathus Tour as South Memphis String Band~all about Jazz

Mardi

Live music calls for hip shades ~Madam Lamb~Obama at the Pasadena Jazz Fest. The photographs were taken by Eric Moore, a friend of Obama's from Occidental College. circa 1980.
~Editilla Krewellas~ Jus'sayin...
that is the President of the United States there.
The President, Ladies and Gentlemen, of the United States.
Get Down! Get Back Up Again! Y'all think he need a Brass Pass?

On a Wing and a Prior
~"She has not returned my money or gotten me the correct wings. My original order was placed last September. She will not return my calls." ~Tawnee Lynne
~Editilla Mo'tellas~Wings is serious business in this naked City of Living Metaphor. Not only that, but Mz Lynne has grand and benevolent healing plans for these wings, photographs my new dog, Mazy, and is a huge fan of New Orleans, the Nola Blog'O'sphere and Your New Orleans Ladder.
Hence we take care of each other Sinn Féin!
Please help locate the crook wha'took this artist's money and get her reconnected with da'real angels.



Photo Finish, Winning shots from The Gambit's Pet Photo Contest

Outstanding Article: "Why I Live in New Orleans"~Ramblings of a River City Resident

Fargo Levee Flop Not So Different from New Orleans ~Levees.org

Dear Editilla
Do President Obama's most trusted advisers truly understand what caused the 2005 flood in New Orleans?
On March 4-5, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano toured New Orleans and the Gulf Coast region on a fact finding mission.
That visit hosted by Senator Mary Landrieu D-LA and others was meant to demonstrate that the new Administration is committed to the Gulf Coast's recovery and understands the issues the region faces.

Yet last Friday, while answering a question about how she believes the Obama Administration will make good on their promise to assist New Orleans, Secretary Napolitano said this: "I don't know that there ever is a levee big enough to withstand a Katrina-size storm..." *

The Secretary's statement is untrue for 3 reasons:
#1 When the Industrial Canal Surge Barrier is complete in 2011, the Army Corps of Engineers reports that the main basin of New Orleans should experience zero flooding in a Katrina-like storm (400 year event) and very minimal flooding in a 1,000 storm.**
#2 Levees in the remaining metro area can easily be improved to meet 400 year protection. And there are huge cost benefits to doing so.
#3 Not only does America have the technology to build protection against another Katrina (so-called 400 year storm), the Netherlands has protection against a 10,000 year storm! Before sending this email, we chose the road of "caution and cooler heads" by speaking directly with Sean Smith, assistant secretary of Public Affairs for Homeland Security about Secretary Napolitano's statement.

"Don't be concerned," he said. "The Secretary had just been briefed on the Gulf Coast Region and she was referring to the Mississippi coast in her statement."

Nonetheless, Levees.Org remains alarmed.
Levees.org believes that if the Secretary were, in fact, referring to New Orleans, important gains over the past three years in educating federal officials and the public at-large might be lost. While the President's commitment to the recovery is laudable, it would be troubling if the new Administration were unaware of what caused the metro New Orleans flood.

Please take action!

Please click here and write the President and your Members of Congress and let them know that America DOES have the technology to protect greater New Orleans from another Katrina! And that there are many reasons to do so.
*Interview transcript, "Obama Administration Says New Orleans is Not Forgotten." Scroll to Recent Press.
**The Corps of Engineers' flooding maps can be viewed here.

Thank you,
Sandy Rosenthal
Founder, Levees.Org

ND Flood costs put at $40M
~Brian Duggan

Once the butt of jokes, floodway now treasured in flood fight ~Steve Lambert

Coast Guard continues rescue operations and urges caution to boaters ~Coast Guard crews recorded their 95th rescue, March 30, 2009, after 6 days of flood response operations along the Red River.

Mississippi River to go above flood stage this week
~The Mississippi River at Cape Girardeau will rise above flood stage later this week, according to a Monday morning forecast issued by the National Weather Service.

Image:
Fisk, 1944. Map of ancient courses of the Mississippi River, Cape Girardeau, MO - Donaldsonville, LA.
See the entire set of beautiful Fisk Maps here... all brought to you by Pruned,
Editilla's new fav blog'O'rilla!
We just loves maps.
I first ran across this map here, ironically in the fields of my youth.

River flooding overwhelms homes in Washington Parish
~Doug Mouton

Homeowners group threatens to
foreclose on New Orleans Mayor
"Fey'Ray" Nagin's Dallas Palace
~Theodore Kim

After Child-Governor Jindal's
Remark, Alaska GOP Senator
Introduces Volcano Bill~BBuzz

Jarvis DeBerry: Band at anti-crime rally symbolized unity

Participatory Comprehensive Plan for New Orleans
~Planning Pool~Looking through the lens of the Caribbean, New Orleans is not among the most haphazard, poorest or misgoverned American cities, but rather the most organized, wealthiest, cleanest, and competently governed of the Caribbean cities.

Many saying New Orleans not business friendly~Eric Paulsen

New Orleans City Council to receive NOAH contractor records today~Michelle Krupa

Mideast conflict spills onto Canal St.~Valerie Faciane

'Citizens' passes on settlement in Katrina class action suit
~Rebecca Mowbray

Weather Forecast for Spring Planting~Margy Fischer
~With severe flooding in the Red River Valley and Upper Missouri River Valley, farmers are casting a weary eye to the weather for the upcoming 2009 planting season. During the Top Producer~Pre-Planting & Weather Outlook Webinar, Planalytics Senior Ag-Business Meteorologist Fred Gesser provided insights on the current weather news and outlook.

Jobelyn - a Sorghum Based Natural Product May Provide Succor for Cancer and Cardiovascular Patients World-Wide

Alaska's Redoubt volcano changes eruption pattern
~Mark Thiessen~Federal and state officials also have established a unified command to address the volcano's impact on an oil storage facility holding more than 6 million gallons of oil.

Revamp your lamp
~Karen Martin~Baton Rouge women patent, market idea for lampshade slipcovers. It’s one of those things so simple, you can’t believe no one thought of it before.

Booker T.'s New Band:
The Drive By Truckers
~Robert Levine

Mississippi Blues Festivals in '09

Amphitheater being discussed for Mandeville's Dew Drop; the country's oldest rural jazz hall
~Cindy Chang

Preservation Hall Jazz Band
at the Blue Note~NolaFunk NYC

B.B. King, Pyrates, Strawberries highlight the week ahead
~Keith I. Marszalek

If It's Tuesday, It Must Be Street Date~Burning Wood
~John Scofield's "Piety Street" and other Gem'a'rillas!

WWOZ Piano Night

Leroy Jones Reassembles the Fairview Brass Band for a Special Concert at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival 2009
~all about Jazz

Voodoo Coup~Keith Spera
~"Voodoo's economic impact on the area is in the tens of millions of dollars. With such destinations as Las Vegas and Miami's South Beach competing for the same 18- to 33-year-old demographic, preserving Voodoo was essential," said Convention and Visitors Bureau President Stephen Perry.

Lundi

Marsh madness!~lacoastpost

Ascension tries for Spanish Lake deal~John McMillan

Computers and Writing: Lessons in Literacy from the New Orleans Blogosphere and the Comp Classroom ~Daisy Pignetti

Fargo vs New Orleans, It's Begun
~Neal Borshe
~Editilla locks'n'loads~ Get this bastard. Yeah I misspelled this Ann Randy Beotch's name because he is cold soup. "Discussion" thread here, started within the hour of the
Kneel Boorish article. Jeez Louie, they're like Cagga'roashes!

Scuzzbucket~Thanks Katrina
~Editilla T'n'T to Mz JudyB!

Rave: New Orleans wants Super Bowl in 2013
~Editilla Ho'tellas~ A little dust'up goin'down here.

Moral Hazard? Slabbed wipes our a$$ with Moral Hazard
(Part 1)

New Orleans Nagin Katrina Aftermath: Media, Race And Division ~Jeff Crouere

Trial opens in Katrina levee bribery case
~Michael Kunzelman

Corps "engineering on the fly" to protect levees from wave action

Rising sea level gets city's attention ~Daniel DeBolt ~New report says Bay, creeks would flood Mountain View's job centers

Tensions High as EPA Reasserts Mining Authority~Mike Lillis
~Just one day after the Environmental Protection Agency announced plans to reassert its powers to protect mountain streams from the ravages of mountaintop coal mining, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers approved the broad expansion of such a project without EPA input.

Company loses court appeal over Hurricane Katrina debris

Bid to oust Louisiana's top Dem fails~Ed Anderson

Miss. not as broke as rest of America~Mary Perez

28 injured as tornados rip through southern Miss.
~Holbrook Mohr

Abandoned Harahan warehouse
to become largest film studio east of MS River ~Mike Scott

New Orleans and Philadephia Society, Part I~Hunter Baker

Fabergé Easter Egg hunt at NOMA~Ashley Morris: the blog

Call to Artists: City One Minute New Orleans~NOPA

Serious Eats: Sex Foods

Teena Marie new single with Faith Evans~Big Ced

Preview from Marcus Roberts' "New Orleans Meets Harlem, Vol. 1"~Nick Deriso

Library of Congress Jazz Film Series~all about Jazz

NO Jazz, a 2009 Status Report
~all about Jazz

Dimanche

Breach sends water onto school campus in Fargo
<~Water sprays up at volunteer fire fighters from three neighboring towns as they attempt to pump flood water from the Red River out of George Korsmo's basement and brick enclosed outdoor hot tub area in Moorhead, Minn., Saturday, March 28. AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast
Bob Marshall: Solid wall not the right way to close MR-GO

LSU at odds with Tulane, other
schools over hospital authority
~Bill Barrow

Lafitte public housing residents
ordered to leave at once
~Katy Reckdahl~Although their leases were supposed to run through Tuesday, tenants of temporary apartments in the Lafitte public housing development said Saturday that they were told they had to move out immediately or face arrest.

Businesses need better awareness of levee risks
~Business Insurance
~There are an estimated 100,000 miles of levees in the United States, but many businesses may be unaware their facilities could be devastated should water over-top or breach a levee, says Carol G. Barton, senior vp of underwriting and reinsurance for Factory Mutual Insurance Co., which does business as FM Global.

Letter: Richton report’s political ties negate its credibility
~Mississippi Gulf Coast
~"In reference to your so-called scientific studies performed on the Pascagoula River and in the Gulf of Mexico to assist the ongoing preparation of the supplemental environmental impact statement for the proposed DOE Richton Strategic Petroleum Reserve, it appears you would rather accept reports from paid individuals with ties to the political machine instead of from those who have no ax to grind. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was used as an “authority” in your report. If it weren’t so important, I would think it was a joke and laugh. Personally, I see very little credibility in the Corps."

Bill O'Reilly Flaming Asshole Voodoo Doll ~Hrrmph!

Nolafugees' New Site (to me)
~Editilla jus'haddena been there in a while. They went dim for a time. Great looking site, tight'n'right.
Like much of New Orleans as time goes on and the waters roll over da'rockin, all the jagged edges seem to be getting buffed off, smoothed over. Yet They still advocate secession...
--and that's a good thing.

Will Fey Ray Nagin Lose His Dallas Palace?~Clancy Dubos

The genie-soul of the place
~Odd Bits of Life in New Orleans
~The room announced in understated ostentation:
"here at the Historic New Orleans Collection we are about the business of history."

Strawberry Napoleons, Mint Juleps and Recipes That Work
~New Orleans Can Thrive

Single Men Social Aid & Pleasure Club Second Line Parade Today
~Big Red Cotton

R.I.P Jerik
On the night of August 28th Katrina which filled the TV radar screens hugely, being larger than all of Louisiana and half of Mississippi combined, began to arrive. My apartment was directly under a flat, tapered roof, thankfully windowless in the center of a large 180 year old brick building that had weathered many storms before. I believed it would stand through one more, and was willing to bet my life on the outcome.
Thank Youz: Nicolette/post, Tawnee Lynne/photograph
~Editilla Notellas~ This news of Jerik's passing came late to me.
I remember him during "The Troubles" that first week of the flood after the levees failed. He was a good person to have around at such a time in our damn'nation. Still, his name has been called --better late than never-- and he is going home.


New Orleans' Marcus Brown's musical sculpture 'HUMs' its own tune ~Doug McCash

In spring, a columnist's thoughts
turn to gardening~Angus Lind

Café Des Amis, Breaux Bridge
~The Splendid Table

Sunday Funnies~Citizen K

Sunday Slabbed

Midnight Bayou: Haunting Romance in New Orleans
~Jerry O'Connell is appealing as Declan Fitzpatrick, a Boston lawyer who moves to New Orleans and buys a restored plantation manor that everyone says is haunted. He sees the ghosts right away.
They're fucking everywhere don'chya'know.

VECINOS
– Unity in the Community

Joe Krown Trio feat. Russell Batiste & Walter "Wolfman" Washington at the Maple Leaf

Samedi

French Quarter Fire ~Photograph: Tawnee Lynne



North Dakota Flood Sets Fargo Record, Forces Thousands to Flee
<~CURRENT LEVEL: RED RIVER AT FARGO.
Provisional data from automated station.
Elev. datum 861.80'. (please click pics, always)
Below~Day pass: NOAA-15 2009 Mar 27 22:38 UT
















Louisiana Help Headed To North Dakota~WDSU~"North Dakota didn't hesitate to send assistance following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and we're doing the same for them as they face devastating flooding that has caused many to be evacuated," said La Gov Jindal.
"The support we're sending will enable officials in North Dakota to streamline the evacuation and recovery process."

Rising rivers leave residents stranded~Roads in scattered areas across St. Tammany Parish became wading pools Friday, stalling vehicles and leaving some residents stranded, as river levels continued to rise.

Local corps office submits budget for 2010
~Mark Schleifstein
~The New Orleans District office of the Army Corps of Engineers has submitted a 2010 budget to the White House calling for more than three times as much money for construction and maintenance than it will receive in fiscal year 2009.

From the ASCE Research Library
~Up or Out? Economic-Engineering Theory of Flood Levee Height and Setback
~Water Rationing Model for Consequence Minimization of Water Infrastructure Destruction

Spanish Lake basin under duel threats of drainage and the BR loop tollway: coastal implications ignored~lacoastpost
Spanish Lake Conservancy

Levee district making Catch-22
improvements without Corps’
approval~Amy Wold
~The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has repeatedly instructed the South Lafourche Levee District to stop raising its levees without first getting corps review and approval.
But the Exquisite Corps has also informed the levee district that it doesn’t have time to review the levee district’s improvement plans.
(Emphasis and tagging all Editilla's, Y'all Honeys!)

More time for elevations
~Louisiana homeowners will have three more years to elevate and storm-proof their houses with help from the National Flood Insurance Program, and it makes sense to give them additional time to make their homes safer.

New Orleans rally draws thousands to protest violence ~Katy Reckdahl~T'n'T~ WCBF

Population Update
~Your Right Hand Thief

Liprap's Lament - The Line

Firesquito vs. The Grey Ghost!
~Editilla Chin'chillas~ Firesquito will beat the rude, white'bred angry Ghost! We know this because Firesquito is Herolero, born in the Burning Swamp of our fetid, crucified city. 'Squito knows from whence our Maid weeps, where her tears have fallen, to what they return washed away upon the walls our own damn'nation.

N.O. cops accused in grisly storm story ~Laura Maggi

Senate kills Vitter’s ACORN amendment ~Gerald Shields

New Orleans submits bid to host 2013 Super Bowl

Slaaaaaabbed!

Shuttle Discovery streaks toward Earth~In this image provided by NASA the International Space Station is backdropped by the blackness of space and the thin line of Earth's atmosphere as seen from Space Shuttle Discovery as the two spacecraft begin their relative separation Wednesday March 25, 2009. Discovery and its crew of seven were due back Saturday afternoon, ending a nearly two-week mission that left the international space station fully powered with a new set of solar wings. (AP Photo/NASA)

How the Nation’s Only State-Owned Bank Became the Envy of Wall Street
~Josh Harkinson ~The Bank of North Dakota is the only state-owned bank in America—what Republicans might call an idiosyncratic bastion of socialism. It also earned a record profit last year even as its private-sector corollaries lost billions.

Debut novel full of New Orleans' musical past~Susan Larson

The Diary: Michael Moorcock
~"Unable to make it to Paris this spring, my wife Linda and I, along with our cats Bill and Betty, are heading towards the Mississippi Delta, via a science fiction convention in Biloxi.
With its tall Greek-columned houses, the holiday homes of southern aristocrats, Biloxi was once a rather genteel resort: Hove to New Orleans’ Brighton. But, after Hurricane Katrina, she is taking longer to restore herself than New Orleans and, sadly, might never come back as she was."
~Editilla T'n'T to Ixolib.com

Professional Practice,
the Dirty Dozen Brass Band will receive the Big Easy Foundation Music Heritage Award
~Will Coviello

Kermit Ruffins: Livin' A Treme Life ~all about Jazz

Voodoo Fest, City Park, tourism
officials to meet Monday
~Keith Spera

Mick Fleetwood Hits Da'Road!
~Scott Simon
~The Mich Fleetwood Blues Band ain't stoppin...
fo'da City That Care Forgotten'Notten !?!?! Jeez Louie!
Somebody give the boy a call! Invite him to breakfast!

Vendredi

Midwest Braces for More Floods

~Volunteers worked to raise the dikes protecting the city of Fargo, N.D. They hoped to hold back the Red River, which is expected to reach record high levels by Saturday. Hundreds of workers began building a second set of dikes inside the primary 12-mile long dike to protect Fargo's main services.
Photo: Daniel Barry for The New York Times
~Fargo uses social networks to fight flood waters
~ND floods force 2 power plants to shut down
~The Red River consistently confounds forecasters

Fargo, Dallas, New Orleans and the Corps of Engineers ~lacoastpost

Brace for more severe weather
~more weather from WWL

Rain storms cause flooding in Houma, sections of Terrebonne and Lafourche

Follow reporter, photographer as
they travel Bayou Lafourche
~Matt Stamey and Robert Zullo, The Courier and Daily Comet's modern-day version of Lewis and Clark, shoved off into Bayou Lafourche for a four-day, 56-mile canoe expedition. Check back often for updates straight from the banks of the bayou.

USS Hartford and USS New Orleans Undergo Extensive Assessments

Obama nominates ex-Miss. gov for Navy post

Corps shoots down park hog hunt, fears mistaken identity

A Gulf Coast Monitoring and Hazards Decision Support Tool -Enhancements Using NASA Products, Data and Models

Can Shaw Save The Big Easy? ~Jesse Bogan

Highways take back seat at
conference~Allen M. Johnson
~A light rail from Baton Rouge to New Orleans, aging drivers and inner-city development were among the topics at a regional future-of-transportation conference Thursday.

Jarvis DeBerry: Black-on-black hate needs love to match
~If black-on-black hatred and black-on-black violence are the problems, then clearly black-on-black love, black-on-black concern, black-on-black guidance and black-on-black accountability have to be the solutions.

Schwarzenegger Opens California Fairgrounds to Homeless Camp
~Michael B. Marois


New Orleans Gets Its Brews Back ~Nick Kaye
Special Editilla T'n'T to'da Big Chief Editorilla Kevin Allman!

Shiranai hito no yasashisa!
Rich Look will be headlining
Tennessee Williams Festival
~Chris Rose

Liberation Hiphop: Palestinian rap in New Orleans~hawgblawg

Album Review: Marcus Robert's 'New Orleans Meets Harlem,
Vol. 1'~Jacob Teichroew

New Orleans ensemble to perform March 29
~John Culhane ~Musaica, an ensemble of professional New Orleans musicians, are scheduled to perform March 29 at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Thibodaux

Cassandra Wilson: Standards Transformed~all about Jazz

Jeudi

Rising water level triggers closing of Harvey Canal

28 injured as tornados rip through southern Miss.
~Holbrook Moore

Welcome to My Bayou~JudyB

Rising carbon dioxide could help wetlands--at least temporarily

The Limitations of Levees
~Think Big Easy

Space law, the Disasters Charter and North Dakota flooding! ~slabbed

The "Fargo Flood" Homepage
~New crest at Fargo up to 43 feet

Day pass: NOAA-15 2009 Mar 25 21:45 UT

Map of flood and high flow conditions for US

Calls For Open Process in Decision-making for Major Hospitals~PRC Blog
Editilla T'n'T fo'to Karen Apricot

U.S. infrastructure is deplored
~Jon Schmitz~The nation has gone backward in the last four years from an already sorry performance in maintaining vital infrastructure, the ASCE reported yesterday.

Century of the City~Smart City

New Orleans lawmaker questions $50 million chicken plant deal

'Gray Ghost' Fred Radtke pleads
no contest to blotting out mural
~Doug McCash

David Simon begins work on 'Treme' in New Orleans
~Stacy Plaisance

Batt on a Hot Tin Roof to Benefit New Orleans Theatre
~Andrew Gans

The Music Dedication Line
~Big Red Cotton

New Orleans Jazz Fest schedule
release brings life to a screeching
halt~Chris Rose

Don't let weekend's rain deter
you from enjoying a Louisiana
festival~Keith I. Marszalek

Taj Mahal, Irma Thomas and Bettye Lavette to Headline 30th Annual Blues Music Awards
~Between the Grooves with Philip Booth

Mercredi

What's new at this year's
Tennessee Williams Festival
~Susan Larson~T'n'T Bathrobe named Desire
~Tons of authors signing and reading in New Orleans this week

New Orleans Newspaper Man Takes Pulitzer Prize
~Editilla O'Rilla d'Aphasia
...on da'beat~off da'record...
Rudolf Manson Vorkapic, publisher of the city's newest and most high'ly suspected "news" "paper", The New Orleans Levee, was apprehended in advance of the Tennessee Williams Literary Festival in a French Quarter bathroom (probably Molly's) (more likely The Abbey) (who knows...) with a Pulitzer Prize tucked quickly and surreptitiously in his trousers.
Alleging that he had "borrowed" it from the Tennessee Williams Estate--who itself, according to urban myth, had lifted the Prize from the Truman Capote Estate--who in turn had always maintained that Truman "won" his Pulitzer from Gore Vidal in a game of strip poker--Vorkapic also quite drunkenly noted that this particular sheet is still considered valuable despite its questionable authenticity and condition when discovered on his person by offcifers of the NOPD, to wit: rumpled, stained and covered with "tacky" finger prints.
According to former prosecutor Eddie Jordan, who has been retained to represent the Vorkapic Estate, the Levee publisher was allegedly spotted on a night in question with no answers in Pirates Alley, stalking Festival Luminaries, dressed as a Silver Cowboy and doing Stella Shouts with one of those little robot-sounding whizzlers. Indeed one Faulkner Bookstore employee, who spoke to da'Ladda on the condition of annonymocity due to the sheer'ass creep'ness factor, recalls even being tasked to keep an eye on Mr. Vorkapic as he skulked about the back of the store, leering around the Patricia Clarkson promotional section, loudly queering festival participants, passing tourists, wall paintings, anyone within earshot---"Do'ya really know what it means? Do'ya???"
Apparently Mr. Vorkapic's defense will be that this Pulitzer Prize is not supposed to have even existed, in the first place, and The New Orleans Levee is not a real newspaper, in the 2nd place ...and...and...he was actually just trying to Low-5 the ociffer in the adjoining stall, who he alledges he thought was fellow newsman Chris Rose...really...I swear ...it's true...what?
At Press Time our Perp was last seen being led into OPP, the House of the Rising Pun, wearing the traditional orange jumpsuit but with the added accessory of a white, velcro straight-jacket and mumbling something about wanting to dig up the real Pulitzer
and "blow up real large".
More as events unfold.

Great Muppet Caper
~Your Right Hand Thief

There is no escaping the E-Maelstrom
~We Could Be Famous

“True Life Adventures” of a corporate lawyer~slabbed

Lafitte residents demand levee protection~Matt Scallan

LRA OKs generator program
~Allen M. Johnson Jr.
~State officials did not exactly salute retired Army Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré on Wednesday, but they may be on the same page as the “hero” of Hurricane Katrina. The Louisiana Recovery Authority approved a $32 million generator program to help cool the ill and elderly at hospitals.

Hump Day Ump Day
~Pierce O'Donnell

Ice jam break spills more water into Bismarck area
~Blake Nicholson
~One of Doug Stensguard's dogs, Annie, looks out over what used to be a 5-acre yard and an out building that is now flooded by the rising Red River, Tuesday, March 24, 2009 in Fargo, N.D. Stensguard built an earthen and sandbag dike around his home in the hope of holding back the rising floodwater from the Red River. AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster

Pioneering Hospital Opens In New Orleans~The only hospital in the world dedicated to reconstruction for women facing breast cancer

Notes from New Orleans: The Return of the ‘Miracle Mile’ ~Walter Gallas

Two Boots: New York and
New Orleans make sweet pizza
together~Blaze Nutter

Nine Lives~Food Music Justice

New Orleans Rocks
~Barry Yeoman

Mardi

Jazz Fest Schedule Grids
~Will Coviello, The Gambit

Opinion: 'Just Get Over It'
Wrong Message for Katrina
Disaster Victims~Carol Forsloff

Louisiana's Child Governor Jindal Ethics Deformed: Pay To Play ~Stephen Sabludowsky

Mayor Ray "Baby'head" Nagin
meets with FEMA officials to
discuss backlog

EPA to review mountaintop removal's impact on water quality ~Katherine Boyle

Lundi

Tsunami warning system to be tested on Atlantic, Gulf coasts in April ~Mark Schleifstein

Watch: Mardi Gras Indians celebrate 'Super Sunday' in New Orleans~Jennifer Zdon

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Demanche

They're the last of the swamp-rat skinners ~Nikki Buskey

Chris Rose's 2008 e-mail from Mayor Nagin

CNN's John King brings his Sunday show, 'State of the Union,' to New Orleans

Save our Barrier Islands and Coastal Marshes ~slabbed

Atlanta to New Orleans rail line in danger…because of Alabama?

Northrop Grumman project signals relatively healthy North Shore business climate

Corps cancels spring rise of Missouri River

Festivals are a serious matter in the City Care Forgot Not
~Jackie Borchart

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