Samedi

Sediment-laden water pours into the northern Gulf of Mexico from the Atchafalaya River in this photo-like image, taken 4/7 by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite.

Divide & Conquer ~"We just want someone to keep the legislators off of us so we can do our jobs."~Tim Doody, president of the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East.


LSU SHAME ON YOU!

Citizens argue against LSU's FEMA appeal on Charity Hospital
~Bill Barrow~The coalition, which in a separate case has asked an Orleans Parish court to order the reopening of Charity, does not say how much the state should get. But they accuse state officials, including the Louisiana State University System, of lying about the circumstances surrounding the hospital in an effort to secure "unwarranted FEMA dollars" as the financial anchor for constructing a new hospital that LSU wanted before Katrina. Public affairs officer Earl Armstrong said FEMA's Houston office does not believe the 27-page filing will have any bearing on its June 20 deadline to answer the state's latest appeal.
"I'm not sure we'll even respond," Armstrong said.
BREAKING NEWS ~SaveCharityHospital.com has obtained never before seen photographs demonstrating the condition of Charity Hospital just weeks after the storm in late September, 2005.
It looks ready to take patients. Editilla T'n'T~WCBF




Court Filings say LSU squeezing FEMA for hospital money
~Allen M. Johnson Jr.

Partisan squabble erupts over Child-Governor Jindal's faux- presidential campaign travel
~Mellinda Deslatte

Daily Slabbed

Federal report blasts conditions
at Orleans Parish Prison
~Bruce Nolan

Closer to the Greenway~Editor B

Plan could yield local hurricane, coastal projects~Nikki Buskey

Spy plane shows worth as
flood-fighting tool
In this photo released March 31, 2009, by Homeland Security's Customs and Border Protection Agency is an unmanned aircraft used to monitor Red River flooding as it lands at Grand Forks, North Dakota, Air Force Base on Feb. 16, 2009. (AP Photo/ Juan Munoz-Torres, courtesy Customs and Border Protection)

Toledo Mud Hens
~Kosher Computing

Katrina: The Girl Who Wanted Her Name Back
~Chicago Stage Review

Affrodite's Adventures in Nappy Hair

Live French Quarter Festival coverage coming your way ~Nola.com~Webcams, Live-Blogging, Twit'ing

Roast beef po' boy at Majoria's Commerce Restaurant
~Eating In Translation

Jacob's Andouille ~Nola Cuisine

Sync Up: The Jazz & Heritage Talent Exchange
~Sync Up is a series of morning conference sessions held the Friday and Saturday of both festival weekends (April 24-25 and May 1-2), from 9 a.m. to noon. Topics to be discussed include the economic climate for international music festivals, distributing music through such digital media as video games, artist development in the Internet age, new funding mechanisms like nonprofit record labels, copyright protection and more.

N.O. institution closes, only to move down the street
~Michael Luke, WWL
~John Blancher is closing the old Mid City Lanes Rock n’ Bowl Wednesday with a performance by Joe Krown, though he has already opened a newer, shinier version of his bowling alley/night club at 3000 S. Carrollton Ave.

CD Review: Allen Toussaint, “The Bright Mississippi”

Wild Magnolias Big Chief Bo Dollis is battling back from serious illness and a bitter dispute ~Keith Spera

Making It Hard To Forget the Big Easy~WNYC

Lil Wayne, Hip Hop, and How Life Informs Art
~Nordette Adams
~Having read yesterday that rapper Lil Wayne was sexually assaulted as a child and recalling that he is from New Orleans, I've been mulling him over. Whether we approve of rap or not, think it's art or don't, rap lyrics still fall within poetic literature.
So, how has Lil Wayne's life informed his art?

Vendredi

Louisiana’s flagship university runs aground on public opinion. Does the state care?
~Len Bahr, lacoastpost.com

Hurricane expert’s firing criticized
~Jordan Blum and Allan M. Johnson Jr.
~Clapping and chanting “L-S-U — Shame on you!” dozens of sign-waving demonstrators in New Orleans on Thursday protested the university’s firing of hurricane expert Ivor van Heerden.
Marcia Cooke, a high school math teacher, takes part in a demonstration against the firing of LSU professor Ivor van Heerden in front of LSU’s Health Sciences Center in New Orleans.

<~Pat Hebert takes part in a demon- stration against the firing of LSU professor Ivor van Heerden in front of LSU's Health Sciences Center in New Orleans on Thursday. An effort is growing to get LSU to rescind a decision to fire the coastal scientist who has been a vocal critic of the Corps of Engineers. Sandy Rosenthal, founder of levees.org and an organizer of the protest rally, called van Heerden a “hero.” “People who live here have lost an expert voice on hurricane and flood protection issues,” said Rosenthal, whose group has been dogging the Army Corps over the failure of the levees. “What will we do the next time a storm comes? There will be no independent voice representing us, the citizens.”
Photos~Bill Harber/AP ~~Video coverage here
~More Rally Photos at levees.org

MR-GO gets ready to go - Part 4: The Defense ~slabbed

Louisiana has much at stake in debate~Bruce Alpert
~For environmentalists, such as Aaron Viles of the Gulf Coast Restoration Network, Louisiana is "ground zero" in the fight to combat global warming because failure to address it aggressively will lead to more destructive tropical storms and higher sea levels threatening the coast. Any job losses from global-warming legislation, he said, could be more than offset with new "green energy" jobs.

U.S. Army North Completes Annual Hurricane Drill

Repairing New Orleans, one piece at a time~Don Eriksson

Get the scoop on who French Quarter Festival musicians plan to see~Allison Fensterstock
~French Quarter Fest webcast: Watch the Pavillion Stage live

Dog lover Ana Zorilla asks public to support 'Bark in the Park' this spring ~Chris Rose

High-Speed Rail Routes That Could Get Upgrades
HopeOver, HopeLash, HopeBreak: A Lexicon of Disappointment ~Naomi Klein

James Gill: Rapper C-Murder not the most credible anti-violence advocate

Wolfgang’s Vault
~Vikram Swaran Singh Chadha

Jeudi

MR-GO gets ready to go - Part 3 - the Plaintiffs’ case~slabbed

Rally to support and defend
Academic Freedom, Our Safety from Flooding
and
Dr. Ivor van Heerden!

In response to public outrage over LSU's decision to fire hurricane expert Ivor van Heerden, Levees.org held a rally at LSU's Health Sciences Center in downtown New Orleans, this morning.
~~~~~~~~~
Sign a letter to the LSU Chancellor
~~~~~~~~~
Ask the Governor to urge LSU Chancellor Martin to reconsider his decision on LSU Hurricane Center
UPDATE on the Child-Governor:
Governor Jindal, who is again touring out of state fund-raising for his presidential campaign, has not returned levees.org phone calls requesting a meeting --or at least a statement-- about this issue.
The Governorcist has received over 3oo letters from constituents in just the past 24 hours.
~~~~~~~~~~
Rumor has it that, since Dr. van Heerden could not be present at the Rally, levees.org sequestered and gagged a real live mannequin to stand in the good doctor's place against muzzling academic freedom.
....hehehe, New Orleans y'all! hahahahahaha
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Levee officials decry legislative bills as draining money from New Orleans flood protection
~Land loss on 17th Street Canal alarms levee officials
~Sheila Grissett

GOP to New Orleans:
Liberals Did It ~Betsy Reed

Exquisite Corps may pay students to clean up after flood

Crescent City Hack,
an inside account of driving a New Orleans cab

Mercredi

Leak returns near Metairie levee, triggering more tests
~Sheila Grissett

17th Street Canal erosion prompts investigation
~Sheila Grissett

Corps' coastal report faulted for lack of specifics
~Mark Schleifstein

Corps plan to protect state criticized~Amy Wold

Update: Judge Duval rules - and says so in an Order
and Be a First Responder to the disaster LSU created!

Bob Marshall: LSU ouster of
Ivor van Heerden removes most
honest appraiser of levee failures
~Editilla Notella~ Repost Composted fo'da comments

All progress depends on the unreasonable man - Ivor van Heerden, Welcome to SLABBED

LSU firing of scientist raises questions and commentary ~Deon Roberts

Putting a dollar value on our coastal largesse - and the energy cost of keeping it ~lacoastpost

Mississippi River mud to help build up marsh~Chris Kirkham

United Artist Front - New Orleans Mural Arts Program (Melissa Levine) ~NOLA RISING

Human Rights and Water
~Aguanomics

The National Disaster Reconstruction Expo

SAVE CHARITY HOSPITAL.COM
~casa de Charlotte della luna

In word and deed
~Squandered Heritage

Uptown, Lakeview meetings tonight on proposed master plan

LSU unveils realignment plan
~Jordan Blum~University officials describe changes at packed faculty forum

Survey: New Orleans in top 25 cities for walking

Iran in the 1970s before the Islamic Revolution

Dr. John clarifies his position on Shell, Jazz Fest and Louisiana's wetlands~Keith Spera

Mardi~ Hey everyone, let's MRGO!

Too True~Bob Marshal
~Ivor van Heerden pointed fingers at the feds after Katrina, and LSU decided its funding was at risk.
In the days immediately after Katrina, the world thought New Orleans had been ravaged by a huge storm simply too large for the high-tech flood protection system built at great cost by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. And according to some members of Congress and many media commentators, that's just what we deserved for living here, below sea level.
In fact, that was the official story being put out by the corps.
But about a week after the storm, as van Heerden and engineers on his staff began inspecting the deadly breaches in that system, the story began to change. They were expecting to see evidence of over-topping, signs Katrina was just too big for the system, the very scenario the center had predicted the day before the storm came ashore. What they found was something else:
Signs of catastrophic engineering failures.

Dr. Jeff Masters offers esteemed support for Ivor van Heerden
~Wunder Blog

The People's Court!~Gavel to gavel, blog to blog coverage of the historic MRGO Lawsuit! ~slabbed

Child Governor Bobby Jindal Faces Louisiana Bataan Or Baton March? ~Stephen Sabludowsky

"Mixed use community" set for 100 acres on Northshore~
Don Ames, WWL~St. Andrew's Village, a planned $30-million, 100-acre mixed-use community east of Abita Springs for adults with developmental disabilities, will officially launch the project with the dedication of its sign today.

John Glenn Photo Journalist Exhibits to Benefit the New Orleans Musician’s Clinic

French Quarter Festival just one of 28 Louisiana festivals this weekend~Keith I. Marszalek

After a lifetime of wagering, co-owner of 45 Tchoup struck it rich in the 2006 Kentucky Derby ~Angus Lind

High Heels Poker Tour to host satellite event in New Orleans

Mardi Gras Indians
Super Sunday | NOLA
~Jeffrey Dupuis

Scott Miller Steps onto Amtrak
for East Coast Tour Dates
New CD out Today
~all about Jazz

Lundi

Ivor van Heerden and Levees.org on WWL Radio today 3pm! --says Hurricane Center Closed



LSU:
Shame on you!
Levees.org requests face-to-face meeting with Governor Jindal during the coming week to discuss this issue.
~Email the Governor
~Request a Meeting with the Governor

LSU shoots messenger, fires
Ivor van Heerden ~lacoastpost
~"Hurricane Katrina created a number of local and even national heroes, some of whom I am proud to know and Dr. van Heerden is high on that list.
If having the cajones to blow the whistle on the most catastrophic and expensive coastal disaster in recent US history is grounds for firing, what can possibly be grounds for advancement?"

"My own University (U.C. Berkeley) was also approached in an inappropriate manner during that same Winter of 2005-06, but such untoward pressures were simply rebuffed. That, in the end, probably goes right to the heart of what really separates a top-flight university with one of the top Colleges of Engineering in the nation (and the top-rated Department of Civil Engineering in the nation) from a university like LSU." ~Prof. Raymond B. Seed, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

~Dr. van Heerden said he was fired because LSU officials sought to silence him. He said his firing also may be related to a pending trial of the Army Corps of Engineers about flooding caused by the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet.
Dr. van Heerden may testify at the trial.

13 Slabbed

Let the good times boil...Thank you, NODP

Local union stevedores are struggling as cargo volumes at the Port hit the lowest levels since 1985~Jen DeGregorio

Agencies speed hiring for stimulus onslaught
~ Stephen Losey~To help with its task of hiring at least 930 engineers, architects, contract specialists and other employees over the next several months, the Army Corps of Engineers will use direct hire authority, which allows agencies with special needs to bypass the normal hiring process and bring new employees on board more quickly.

Tax season is high note for
New Orleans musician Joe Blakk's
second career~Alison Fensterstock

Betty Harris: Soul Perfection Plus (1963-69)~Soulful Divas


Sometimes, Monday ain't nothin'ta play wit. Thanks Jared.

Nicholas Payton~Trumpet World

Wynton Marsalis: He and She
~Graham Reid, Elsewhere

New Levon Helm: Electric Dirt
~JamBase

Dimanche~Happy Elevator Day!

Harry Shearer interview with Dr. Ivor van Heerden on Le Show!
~Editilla Notellas~ This excellent and detailed interview really opens up the story as Dr. van Heerden lays out clearly what has now happened to our Coastal Storm Protection, ASCECORPS roll in its current demise and how this miscarriage of justice was definitely planned well in advance of the MRGO lawsuit against the Corps, due for trial April 20th --and for which our hero had already received notice of a subpoena. LSU never notified the good Dr. van Heerden that he had been fired, never said a word, but instead left our hero to find out from the Press, the bastads.
(Gentle'rillas may download the podcast.) We will carry these posts forward due to the ongoing Heavy Discussion in the Comments Section of Mark Schleifstein's initial article. The more comments the more prominently this issue remains on the page.
Editilla believes that this injustice at least rates a Bat Signal!

Wine Island added to $125M Corps study~Nikki Buskey

Jarvis DeBerry: Mayor Ray Nagin, it's not about you
~Specifically, it's about whether it is possible for the average, non-connected person to get a fair deal at City Hall.

Subcontractors at the center of N.O. ethics issues
~Michele Krupa ~DIXCLAIMER!

Coming up this week in Gambit



Eostre Sunday Funnies & Arts
~Citizen K

Our New Sexy 1st Family gets a Water Dog named Beaux!
~Editilla K-Ninaaa~ We thought to correct the spelling!

New Orleans - Day Seven
- lower 9th, farmers market,
Blair Grocery School
~Painting With Fire

Coffee firm shifts forward
~Gary Perilloux

I Left My Heart in N'awlins...
~Sounding Forth

Dear Seattle, Please Support
New Orleans by Eating at
Macrella’s Cookery~Sarah Ford
~The First Test – Love for the Native:
I walked in and declared my place of birth.
Mais Oui, je suis nee a Nouvelle Orleans. Within 2 minutes, the entire staff and I know each other on a first name bases. Within 5 minutes, we can visualize where we all grew up and know exactly from which parishes (what we call counties in LA) we’re from based on our n’awlins accents. Within 10 minutes, they are offering me samples of food. Free food = major love = major win.

A different take on New Orleans in the Civil War~Judith Chettle
~Nowadays, we tend to think of New Orleans as a city of easy living and beguiling charm. We do not associate it with industry and commerce, but the New Orleans of 1861 enjoyed a different reputation. Now historian Michael Pierson, in "Mutiny at Fort Jackson," vividly describes the conditions that led to the fall of New Orleans.

Poetry and the Creative Mind
~Beatrice.com

Author, musician shares love of Louisiana~Cheré Coen

Samedi

Ivor van Heerden, who pointed fingers in Hurricane Katrina levee failures, fired by LSU
~Mark Schleifstein
~Also, engineering professor Marc Levitan has stepped down as the center's director.
Although he does not have an engineering degree, van Heerden was granted a doctorate in marine sciences by LSU in 1983, and the research he had overseen at his health center was aimed at determining the potential for hurricane storm surge to over-top the New Orleans levee system.
"I brought a copy of Ivor's resume, showed them his background and degrees and a copy of the summary of the Team Louisiana contract that Ivor was appointed to head, " Levitan said.
He also pointed out that van Heerden had issued his critiques of the corps as the director of the forensic investigation, which included a team of scientists and civil engineers.
~Editilla stirs da'pot~ This is a Bad News Corps Victory.
This bad scene probably has as much to do with Dr. van Heerden's Storm Surge Modeling running afoul of Gerald Galloway's, the Storm Surge Modeling Business, FEMA Flood Zone Mapping and undue ASCECORPS influence in National Flood Control Policy.
~Video Interview with Dr. van Heerden, WBRZ

Government simulation predicted 61,290 deaths
~Hypothetical Hurricane Pam
~Actual Hurricane Katrina Hindcasts
~Rumor has it that there will be public protests this week in opposition to Dr van Heerden's firing.

Army Corps to ShamWOW area
~Damian Tatum

~The New Orleans Levee

Church memorializes murder victims during Easter
~Scott Satchfield~Father Bill Terry says it’s important to keep a spotlight on the city’s problems with violence. Terry says three years ago, members began writing names of murder victims on a board in front of the church. At year's end, organizers then turn what was a running tally into a permanent memorial.

Archaeologists glean treasures from plantation site dating to 1700s~Bruce Eggler

St. Bernard residents contest home razings~Chris Kirkham

The 31st Crescent City Classic

A book of verse, a jug of wine and thou. Or wine, then verse?
~This year marks the 150th anniversary of the publication of "Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam".
In January, the Guardian wrote, "It is said that its effect on Victorian England was no less considerable than that of Darwin's On the Origin of Species, published in the same year, 1859."
In the U.S., its popularity was so broad that it was the theme of the New Orleans Mardis Gras in 1905.

New Orleans, Walt Whitman and Leaves of Grass
~Nordette Adams

Revisiting Katrina: A Flood of DVDs ~Library Journal

Dirty Coast Fashion Show

Dr. John backs Shell-scolding plane that will fly over Jazz Fest ~Keith Spera

2 Nights Celebrating the New Orleans / New York Connection


Live Review- JOHN SCOFIELD & THE PIETY STREET BAND~NolaFunk NYC

Ornette Coleman - Twins (1959)
~Jupiter Variation

Festivals Going Strong, Despite Recession~ArtistForce

Ivor van Heerden, who pointed fingers in Hurricane Katrina levee failures, fired by LSU
~Mark Schleifstein
~Also, engineering professor Marc Levitan has stepped down as the center's director.
Although he does not have an engineering degree, van Heerden was granted a doctorate in marine sciences by LSU in 1983, and the research he had overseen at his health center was aimed at determining the potential for hurricane storm surge to over-top the New Orleans levee system.
"I brought a copy of Ivor's resume, showed them his background and degrees and a copy of the summary of the Team Louisiana contract that Ivor was appointed to head, " Levitan said.
He also pointed out that van Heerden had issued his critiques of the corps as the director of the forensic investigation, which included a team of scientists and civil engineers.
~Editilla stirs da'pot~ This is a Bad News Corps Victory.
This bad scene probably has as much to do with Dr. van Heerden's Storm Surge Modeling running afoul of Gerald Galloway's, the Storm Surge Modeling Business, FEMA Flood Zone Mapping and undue ASCECORPS influence in National Flood Control Policy.

~Video Interview with Dr. van Heerden, WBRZ

Stupid is as stupid does: Scientific Integrity at LSU gets a black eye ~slabbed
~Although van Heerden did not become an expert for hire in Katrina litigation, other members of the L.S.U. engineering department and geology/meteorology/climatology departments did for State Farm. This was a “too cute” move by State Farm to try and lend LSU credibilty to its bs defenses.

Whistle-blowers say disasters from storms can be avoided
(Part 6)~Carol Forsloff

Chinese Drywall and the Cost of Truth-Telling~Harry Shearer

Holbrook, AZ, Seeks Help To Overcome Its Levee Recertification Problems
~Tammy Gray-Searles
Holbrook has been working its way through the process, but has met with several significant roadblocks, including being unable to produce documents proving that the levee was constructed to 100-year flood standards. Although the Corps of Engineers designed and constructed the levee, corps officials have been unable to locate documents relating to construction. Without the documents, the city needs to have significant work done to recertify the levee, such as core sampling, a geotechnical survey and other hydrology studies.

Artists want to turn floodwall into mirror of local homes
~Sheila Grissett
~A New Orleans public art group asked regional levee commissioners Thursday to let 65 local artists paint shotgun houses on an Industrial Canal flood wall to help rejuvenate the Lower 9th Ward.
The nonprofit community group NOLA RISING told a committee meeting of the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East that it wants to paint 3,900 feet of flood wall visible from the neighborhood.
Graffiti eradicator Fred Radtke opposes the proposal.

Who say I say I say? Let ‘em have it …with noooo problem
~Kevin Allman

New Orleans Easter parade schedule~The Gambit

Deacon John lived New Orleans history~John Wirt

Fifth Annual "Midnight Preserves" Series in New Orleans

Lil Wayne saved by alert off-duty cop~Ramon Antonio Vargas

Jeudi

Levees.org Calls ASCE Ethics Report 'A Whitewash'~WDSU TV
~"Drowning in controversy."~WWWL TV
~Editilla calls it: ASCE'Buff!

Mississippi River to hit 11 feet Friday in New Orleans, restricting work near levees
~Sheila Grissett

EPA: Floodwall would have "minimal'' impact on West Bank's Bayou aux Carpes Swamp~Paul Rioux

Child-Governor Jindal tells
New Orleans City Council he still
backs hospital~Bill Barrow

New Orleans to receive $30 million grant to protect port
~Sofia Voulgarakis

State raises cap on home elevation grants to $100,000
~Daily Comet

FEMA Dissolves Gulf Coast Recovery Office, Melting... Melllltiiiiiiiiinnng!

Letter from Oakville, Iowa: Scrappy, isolated town struggles to recover from last year's deluge
~Comeback is hard to come by as many residents have given up and moved on. Real-life comebacks, though, can be arduous, heartbreaking ordeals, burdened by self-doubt, impatience and the realization that whatever you're coming back to probably will fall short of what it once was.

National Outcry to Save Wolves

How to Spend $14 Billion to Improve U.S. Rail
~S.E. Kramer

City of Nets~Citizen K

The Birds
~Odd Bits of Life in New Orleans

Crawfish Berl Burrito
~The Chicory

Seafood City, very pretty
~Alison Fensterstock

New Orleans fans second-line to resurrected Pancho's Mexican Buffet ~Angus Lind

Inside Art New Orleans Website~NOPA

United Artist Front - New Orleans Mural Arts Program (Amy Martin) ~Nola Rising

Ani DiFranco Readies New Songs For Tour, Album
~John Benson

Katamari Pharmacy
every Thursday @ R-Bar

Benjy Davis Project

2009 French Quarter Festival 'World's Largest FREE Music Festival'

Mercredi

Louisiana rice fields salted by 2008 hurricanes~Becky Bohrer
~Please click Map courtesy of Wikimapia

Spring on the Cajun Prairie: Where Flat is Beautiful!
~David Pulling

Levees.org Press Conference today, 11:30am

Louisiana oysters spared a threat from an Asian cousin ~lacoastpost

Gulf Coast recovery chief discusses plans for office
~Jonathan Tilove

La. short on shelter space for hurricane evacuees
~Melinda Deslatte

Robo-Call Child-Governor Jindal ~Stephen Sabludowsky

Tax aid proposed to boost La. ports~Allan M. Johnson Jr.

Alligator Bayou floodgate meeting likely ~John McMillan

Weary ND residents prepare for 2nd river crest~Dave Kolpack

City of Moorhead, MN Requests Volunteers to Supplement Sandbag Reserves

Texas district unveils 'Fryer Flyer' bio- fuel school bus ~School Bus Fleet

Canal Street Chronicles' Reaches One Year Anniversary
~Editilla Krewellas~
Happy Blogger'day to Youz!
Happy Blogger'day to YOUZ!
Happy Blogger'day dear Canal Street Chronicles!
HAPPY BLOGGER'DAY TOOOOOO YOUZ!
--and many mooooore!

New Orleans Murder Blog

PWNED!~Suspect Device

Hump Day Slabbed

I'm not gonna be happy w/o air conditioning this summer! ~Hrrmph!

Post-Katrina rebuilding efforts fueling Jewish service movement
~Jacob Berkman

“Jewish-friendly” racists meet in US ~Harry's Place




Hail to'da Chia'f!
~Citing Racism, Walgreens Pulls 'Chia Obama'

Tim Gautreaux’s ‘The Missing’
~On Point with Tim Ashbrook

'The Water' to be presented in Los Angeles~Georgia Stitt

The Cocktail Film Festival

Sustainable practices give way to economy at Nola restaurants?
~Jaime Guillet

Pizzeria to Build 'Junk Food Pyramid' in New Orleans in May
~Serious Eats

Asparagus with Tabasco Mayo

Ivan Neville’s DUMPSTAPHUNK + Shades of Praise
~Wednesday at the Square

Mardi

“Below Sea Level” (???) is open at Mass MoCA
~The Villamil Organization
~One of the defining attributes of a cyclorama, of a panoramic theater, is that it does not guide the attention of the viewer.
The viewer has to explore the cyclorama, looking in all directions, discovering for themselves meaningful images and events within the scene. To some extent, this is why this format worked for this subject: the piece is more about New Orleans as a living, breathing place, able to recover and survive from disaster, and not as the city as the tragic victim of a hurricane.
From the very beginning, Pawel believed it was important that the piece not be strictly didactic, that it not point the finger, but rather immerse the viewer and let them discover New Orleans in all its richness, by actively exploring.

Review: Isaac's Storm
~Dave Wells
~Editilla Rotellas da'Sorcerer Apprentice~
Tuesday is Myth Sweeping day and we need some brooms for the above two ledes, cobwebs we hung atop your trusty Ladder. Why? Because they have comments sections. For some reason, perhaps an expanded Monday, today begins with Myth and Misnomer batting poor Editilla in the eye like music at a Dead show:
A#1- Katrina flooded New Orleans and not the Exquisite Corps,
B#2- New Orleans is below sea level.
It is the same as when I hear the words "Niagra Falls":
Slooowly I toin! Step by Step, Inch by Inch, Mile after MILE!
Another story circulating is that "New Orleans dodged the reccession." Oh? And all this time I have been seeing herolero New Orleanians dodge: bullets, the Exquisite Corps' Krewe of Leake, housing bulldozers, LSU, carpet baggars, money launderers, and the exorcist child-governor, megalomaniacal asshole mayor and insidious, racist corrupt city council.
Silly Editilla... so blinded by the red dust.

Game of Chicken
~David Winkler-Schmit
~A proposed cold-storage facility adjacent to the French Market pits the Port of New Orleans against WORRIED French Quarter and Marigny residents.
~Editilla Notellas~ This threatens all of us.
Please also see: Building a Time Bomb.


Louisiana Responds To Stolen Cessna Threat~BBuzz

High-tech hero rode in on a Trojan horse~Jarvis DeBerry

New Orleans Master Plan District Meetings: Let your opinion and input be heard ~Nolabrarian

Hurricane Katrina did not raise awareness of poverty, study finds
~Louisiana Weekly

The first bail-out: NFIP accessed by manipulation of construction price data following Hurricane Katrina~slabbed

Winds of Change:
The Rebirth of New Orleans
~Mark Newberg

Census Bureau seeks help from New Orleans ethnic media
~Anthony Advincula

Parishes ask Vatican for mediation over closings, fail to notice misdirection from Child Molestation Lawsuits or Tons of tax-free Church profits from Real Estate Sales

New Bill Would Restore Clean Water Act Protections

America's 10 Most Endangered Rivers Of 2009~American Rivers

Flood control dictates gate use ~Molly Wold~With the opening of the flood gate Sunday at Alligator Bayou, officials in Iberville and Ascension parishes will now use water levels in Bayou Manchac to determine when to close the structure.

Bayou dredging aims to ease local flooding~Naomi King
~Shrimping to open April 13 off Terrebonne

Hurricane Forecast 2009: 6 Expected in "Average" Season
~Willie Drye
~Dr. Jeff Masters' WunderBlog

A powerful aftershock has hit central Italy, nearly two days after a major earthquake caused severe damage.

Offshore drilling, wind power hearing planned in New Orleans
~Gary Perilloux~The battle over how best to use offshore U.S. waters for energy will come to New Orleans on Wednesday when Interior Secretary Ken Salazar holds one of four national hearings at Tulane University.
~Contentious New Jersey Hearing Shows Challenge of Crafting Offshore Energy Policy

Residents and volunteers
reclaiming a natural resource
hidden in the 9th Ward
~Molly Reid~Wards of New Orleans

Aeromexico adding service to New Orleans

The worst street in the world- in New Orleans
~Emerging Past Katrina

Easter in New Orleans~Sharon Keating

Law & Order: Special Bloggers Unit~Canal Street Chronicles

Chris Rose on enjoying a New Orleans evening at Bistro Daisy

Spring Restaurant Guide
~The Gambit

Runners take to the streets, Easter parades roll and Tiki Drinks are served this week in New Orleans
~Keith I. Marszalek