Samedi

Update: The second line for Wendy Byrne has been changed to 2pm. It is still on Saturday, starting at Starlight by the Park, in the 800 block of Rampart.
~While the probable-cause hearing in juvenile court was based on prosecutor questioning of homicide detectives, Cannizzaro said he needs to obtain investigative reports before making a formal charging decision. He has 120 days to evaluate the case.
Do we have 120 days?

Notes from the Crime Meeting
~Liprap's Lament - The Line

Proponents of LSU/VA Feeling Threatened?
~We Could Be Famous

La. prepares to fight new flood maps~Robert Travis Scott

Terrebonne and Lafourche parish officials are urging residents to buy flood insurance~Ben Lundin

New Orleans native confirmed as EPA administrator

Napolitano searching for director of the “F-word"
~and~How do you spell “double trouble”? F-E-M-A-C-O R P S
~slabbed

Ten Things to Know about Louisiana Executive Branch Lobbying
~Christopher J. Dicharry

"This is all we have"
~Your Right Hand Thief
Editilla notellaz~After Oystya got me on wit da'Rage...
we gonna play lil'tag here. Y'all gotta figure the rest of hit...


Obama gives hope to Katrina activists ~Jonathan Tilove

Goodbye, icons; hello, infrastructure: Obama inaugurates a new era of architecture~Blair Kamin

Bush's legal foes now Obama's legal team~Ben Smith

Carnival crawfish could be in short supply

U. New Orleans fifth annual writing contest for study-abroad

Swan Peak: A Dave Robicheaux Novel by James Lee Burke

House Watching:
2113 Prytania Street

Friends With Poux!

The Isle of Orleans, Tim Laughlin
~all about Jazz

Vendredi

House of the Rising Sun~NODP

Parents turn in third teen suspect in French Quarter killing of Wendy Byrne
~Updates: The 2nd Line for Wendy Byrne has been changed to 2pm. It is still on Saturday, starting at Starlight by the Park, in the 800 block of Rampart.

Sen. Vitter (R-Pamp) to Face Porn Actress in GOP Primary? ~BBuzz

Hizonorable Mayor Larry Flynt
~Editilla the Pun

Residents want 'aesthetically pleasing' new pumps from Corps
~Scott Satchfield
~"I'm concerned about the aesthetics of it, whether they gonna camouflage it to, you know, where it'll look good,” Lakeview resident Jerry Aitken said. “That's mostly our concern here. We don't want a big monster building down (there)."

New Orleans ranked 18th as one of "most wired" cities

Rebuilding of five New Orleans libraries to be expedited
~Michelle Krupa

Literary geographies of war and natural disaster~Chasing Ray

But will she use the cash to buy brand-name clothing?
~Adam McDowell

The Next Real Estate Crisis:
Shuttered Stores and Empty Malls~Paul Craig Roberts


ZAP has electric cars at New Orleans show
~If you happen to be in New Orleans for the National Automobile Association Dealers expo this weekend, you might want to swing by Booth 4763. On display are three new vehicles from Santa Rosa's ZAP Alias, which is shaping up as an increasingly serious player in the burgeoning electric car market.

Long, Stretchy Carbon Nanotubes Could Make Space Elevators Possible

Bus fares in New Orleans will not change

The 60-Second Interview:
Dennis Woltering~Chris Rose
You know him as the veteran journeyman newsman and the evening anchor on WWL-TV -- alongside broadcast legend Angela Hill in the 6 p.m. slot. But, did you know: Dennis Woltering is a budding thespian as well?
Indeed, Woltering joins The Times-Picayune's own legend (and veteran actor), society columnist Nell Nolan, this weekend at Le Chat Noir for the theater's annual presentation of "Love Letters, " a poignant tale of a lifelong friendship told through letters.

Filmmaker Eyes The Frayed Edge Of Social Fabric~Laura Winters

Dr. Michael White to Perform at Hotel Galvez During Mardi Gras!

Jeudi

Wendy Byrne's shooting case goes to adult court~Laura Maggi ~Wendy's 2nd Line ~Update: The second line for Wendy Byrne has been changed to 2pm. It is still on Saturday, starting at Starlight by the Park, in the 800 block of Rampart.
~While the probable-cause hearing in juvenile court was based on prosecutor questioning of homicide detectives, Cannizzaro said he needs to obtain investigative reports before making a formal charging decision. He has 120 days to evaluate the case.

Neighborhood Anti Crime Meeting Friday January 23rd.

Crime victims' fund often not tapped due to minimal effort by police, New Orleans council told

Updates on the Call for Charity,
Bringing Change Home
~We Could Be Famous

Live Online Now: Plight of Mid-City New Orleans Comes Before LA House Committee

Nowdy’s insurance believe-it -or-not~slabbed

Tonight's Punch Crunch~BBuzz

Twine noose found on chair at the Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness
~Sonia Smith

Breaux Act Task Force looks for source of sediment on the lower Mississippi River
~Mark Schleifstein

Environmental review causing pump delay~Sheila Grissett

St. John the Baptist Parish Levee work must wait for years of more study by Exquisite Corps
~Victoria St. Martin

Army Corps says flood mitigation won't help one state and hurt another~Danielle Thomas
~A Hancock County supervisor says he feels the federal government is not doing enough to protect residents from the threat of storm surge.

Russel Honore among those on list for new FEMA chief
~Bruce Alpert

Three Things Congress (Yes, Congress) Must Do to Fix FEMA~Kelly Caldwell

Do You Know What It Means to Green New Orleans?

Cigar staffer sees hurricane's destruction firsthand
~The Good 5¢ Cigar

Michigan: Boy’s Louisiana Relatives Come for Him

John Biguenet and 'Shotgun'
From Playfest


First para- normal attraction to open in New Orleans
~Phantoms & Monsters
~The PARAPLEX is located throughout a completely remodeled, 14,000 square foot historic and haunted mansion built in the late 1800's as a private residence and later a funeral home.

Stuffed Miriliton's
~The Japanese Redneck

Night Peoples~Louis Maistros

Interview with Ned Sublette
~Thanks fo'da Food Music Justice

Tipitina's 31st Anniversary
~Jeffrey Dupuis

An Invitation To His Louisiana
Guitarist Sonny Landreth Reflects and Collaborates on 'From the Reach'
~Geoffrey Himes

Mercredi

Two 15-year-olds hand themselves over to NOPD
in French Quarter killing of Windy Byrne~NOPD not apprehending 3rd suspect, Chief Worthless Warren Riley still on the job spinning yarn about detectives' work hours,
Murder Brand Mayor still in office.

Turned Himself In? ~Humid City
~Children and parents, a constant topic when our city’s murederers ore often below the age of 17. All I can think of when I look at this situation is that the kids pictured in the police sketches look a lot like one kid I saw when in Gustav exile at a friend’s in Cincinnati. A kid who pulled up next to us on a bike, something that here induces fear because of instances like Wendy’s murder, and smiled and yelled “thank you,” my friend driving waved him ahead.
That is what it should be like, not this.
Not this. ~Loki, founder of Humid City


43 Katrina victims still a mystery
~Rick Jervis

Gautier approves MEMA cottages

Morganza work continues
~Mike Brossette

Alliance touts energy plan
~Allen M. Johnson Jr.

Court upholds New Orleans' domestic partner policy

slabbed, youz?

CenLamar: On Life in Louisiana

Louisiana, New Orleans, US Infrastructure, Obama And Flood Protection
~Stephen Sabludowsky

The Tone of Washington
~Harry Shearer

The Baracktail ~Serious Eats
~Gin, hibiscus syrup, mint, and lime juice come together to make this refreshing cocktail that honors our new president.

Kosher Computing

Living With Music: T Cooper
~Gregory Cowles

Mardi~ Inauguration of Hope

"It is the kindness to take in a stranger when the levees break."
~President Barack Obama Got It
~Bush's Chief Justice screws up oath?

From our New Whitehouse.gov
~Katrina~President Obama will keep the broken promises made by President Bush to rebuild New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. He and Vice President Biden will take steps to ensure that the federal government will never again allow such catastrophic failures in emergency planning and response to occur.
President Obama swiftly responded to Hurricane Katrina. Citing the Bush Administration's "unconscionable ineptitude" in responding to Hurricane Katrina, then-Senator Obama introduced legislation requiring disaster planners to take into account the specific needs of low-income hurricane victims. Obama visited thousands of Hurricane survivors in the Houston Convention Center and later took three more trips to the region. He worked with members of the Congressional Black Caucus to introduce legislation to address the immediate income, employment, business, and housing needs of Gulf Coast communities.
President Barack Obama will partner with the people of the Gulf Coast to rebuild now, stronger than ever.

An Open Letter Supporting
Lord David’s Proposition
~We join with our 150-200 hits/day. Whatever you need.
Over half of our readers are like Editilla, nolafugees still on the back hand path. We do not live where we live, when there is still really only one place to die.
We stretch from Seattle to Miami, from Finland to Mumbai, we are all over the City Care Forgot and the NOPD has left to Die.
We are not getting by...
We need a little help from our friends.
Thank you,
Editilla
~Updates from the Humid City


"The Order of Myths"

How do you spot a New Orleanian at the inauguration? ~Chris Rose
~You -- the New Orleans reveler in President Obama's court -- have the cultural portfolio no one else has. You've got Mardi Gras and you've got Jazz Fest. You know crowds. Throngs are not something you're afraid of; in fact, when you're drunk, it's what you beg women to throw to you from Bourbon Street balconies.

Inauguration New Orleans Style: Handa Wanda Obama
~Karen Dalton-Beninato

Louisiana Coast, Hurricane Protection, New Orleans Slowly Gets Protection ~BBuzz

Corps should have known that rivers are changeable

Change in order to survive, survive in order to change - Change is coming ~slabbed

Skilling's attorneys file new appeals

Tonight: Author Night at Hubbell Library -and- Alvar Arts Night

Cajun Sausage
~The Japanese Redneck

Regulars celebrate inauguration at Vaughan's Lounge
~Katy Reckdahl

Irvin Mayfield Leads
New Orleans Jazz Orchestra
~The best of the Big Easy comes to the Emerald City as master jazz trumpet player Irvin Mayfield leads the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra in five Seattle Pops series concerts at Benaroya Hall.

Lundi

At The Cost of a Life~Lord David

French Quarters mourns bartender killed in deadly holdup~Brendan McCarthy






Sheriff all but admits guilt in killing of
Cayne Miceli ~NOLAmotion
Cayne Miceli @ NO Jazz Fest 2008 photo by Kim Uddo (Links to slideshow)

And the raven,
never flitting, still is sitting,
still is sitting
On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door;
And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming,
And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor;
And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor
Shall be lifted - nevermore!

Recession trolls Carnival krewes
~Richard A. Webster
Bill Egan, captain of the Krewe of Gladiators, says his organization could not stage a parade this year because of the recession. (Photo by Tracie Morris Schaefer)

To Miss New Orleans
~Glenn Ligon

Making Los Groceries, Latino Groceries in New Orleans
~Ian McNulty

Cuba struggles with recovery after three hurricanes
~Alan Gomez

City’s gay vacation appeal drops

Galveston seawall being repaired after Ike

JHL Supply Unveils UrbanSurvivalStories.com to Provide Information on Surviving Urban Emergencies

The Cape Wind Project
~Wesley Roberts

Short Flights Can Be Grounded With Better Rail~Andrea Nocito

House Beautiful Magazine asks:
Who are design bloggers, really?
~*visual*vamp*

Playing For Change Presents "Don't Worry"~Mike Ragogna

The stage is reset in New Orleans ~Randy Lewis

NolaFunk Lagniappe

Dimanche

BREAKING NEWS:
FEMA deemed incompetent.
Also "nutty"~richard

New levee safety approach proposed~Mark Schleifstein
~The report also recommended that Congress address concerns by federal and state agencies and contractors that they will be held financially liable for the failure of levees they have built or inspected. Such protection is needed, the report said, "to prevent much-needed levee repairs, rehabilitation and certification from coming to a halt." (Emphasis mine)
~Editilla begs to diffa with that Corps line of reasoning and do not enjoy the implicit threat to public safety left hanging by the Corps of Engineers. They are basically saying: "We either build/engineer without independent Oversight or We Flood You To Hell". The Corps is still trying to run and hide from flooding New Orleans in '05 and flooding half of America with failing civil engineering infrastructures. Any engineer who signs their work is responsible for that work. Why would any of this engineering activity come "to a halt" due to threat of oversight? The Corps is only interested in covering their own sorry asses for their already copious Engineering Failures to date, particularly in over 50 locations in New Orleans on 8/29/05.
The Corps want their own Get Out of Jail Free Card.
Indeed, the costs into the TENS of BILLIONS of Tax Funding to implementing these Corps Recommendations which Mr. Schleifstein reports should be the real red zinger. The Corps of Engineers needs to join Shop'Aholics Annon (ShopAA).
The 8/29 Investigation Act requires only a fraction of this costs at around a cool $5 Million.
That is Chump Change in Col. Alvin Lee's Trousers.
~Comments and review by the Association of State Floodplain Managers (ASFPM)

LOOW Taking on the Army Corps
~Caitlin Murray
~“Well, let me send a message loudly and clearly to the Corps,” Niagara County Legislator Clyde Burmaster said. “This is not your government. This is the people’s government. ... To not include the public in the process is unforgivable and un-American.”

Some'say (?) New Orleans is poised to benefit from Obama's energy policies
~Rebecca Mowbray
~Editilla just wants these alleged editors at the TP to stop passing along hearsay from the some'says. We have had quite enough of these butthole commuendos thank you very much.
Some'say this some'say that some'say'some'say.

JFK Researchers Broaden Link To New Orleans Mafia Boss
~Carl Hartman

Jewdyssee - The return of Yiddish cabaret! ~Teruah

Samedi

Nagin fires back at IG gun request, Times Picayune issues Devestating Pun, Mayor Baby- head, Chocolate Don, Demolition Man wit'da Murder Brand, Rat'a'Tat- Ray angry at not getting to Play with Guns First ~Frank Donze
~Editilla toes'ya da'Bat Signal~ Our Mayor in many names only is stunned that this insolent IG is from a big time Yankee Mafia Town --even has a Vowel in his last name--
and he can't muster da'Manners, da'Mannish Respect to comesee Da'Don for Protection?!??!
Hasn't this stupidio even seen the movies?
Dirty Harry? Big Easy? Easy Rider? JFK? Flakes?
We Ahrrah Do Things... Lil'differnt, down heah, ya'heoird me?
Whoa he betta wash his back this naive northerner...
--else Baby'Head gonna Rub Him Up!

La., New Orleans sign flood control deal ~Allen Johnson Jr.
“The Corps of Engineers makes you do the same damn thing 20 times over,” Garrett Graves, director of the state Coastal Protection and Recovery Authority, said afterward, smiling.

Louisiana US Sen. Landrieu Questions FEMA's Housing Strategy Release~BBuzz

Bywater apartment building nears completion~City Business

Pfizer's love poem to the city of New Orleans
~Your Right Hand Thief

Sulu make pretty nuts for Obama
Oh! Zulu! Coconuts! Ooooh!

FEMA decries flooded Louisiana
as Glutton for MREs, sayz:
Let them eat Crabcake, aaaand,
FEMA, state at odds over new flood-zone maps
~Robert Travis Scott
~A dispute over the validity of FEMA's new flood-zone maps has turned into an escalating feud between the federal agency and state officials that carries profound financial and social implications for many communities across southern Louisiana.
~Editilla wisha'youz rotza'ruck trying here for your NFIP maps.

MEMA halts auction of damaged Katrina cottages

Galveston County Recovery fund raises $1.7 million~Leigh Jones

Congressional Inclusion of Libraries in Recovery Package Stirs Response ~Library Journal

Vendredi

Ponchatoula farmers fear frozen strawberries
~Benjamin Alexander- Bloch

Levee panel backs markers denoting Katrina flooding levels~Allen M. Johnson Jr.
The measure did not pass without debate.
Commissioner Tom Jackson, the authority’s first president (former president of ASCE and Corps Medal Winner), warned the resolution could result in lawsuits by residents who are trying to sell their homes.
Jackson said the public would be better served by an educational program to clarify confusing technical jargon and what the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is “doing and not doing” to protect the metro area. Uncle Sam'Daddy Tom hates The Line.
Photo by Sandy Rosenthal.
Watermarks are clearly visible on the home to the right in this May 2007 photo of two homes adjacent to the 17th Street Canal breach in the Lakeview neighborhood of New Orleans. We hold These Lines to be Self Evident!
~Edtitilla mout'ta'tollya again~ we told Conflicted Tom Jackson to step down from the Levee Board months ago, and he is still there? Jeez Louie! What is this ASCE Pres'Corps conspicuous consultant ASCECORPS lackey doing opposing one of the most viscerally evident tags of that Flood of '05 as The Line? What does Tom Jackson have against The Line? Tom Jackson opposes us seeing The Line that his Corps of Engineers drew across our lives on August 29th, 2005. Why? Editilla gonna'tollya. While we don't begrudge him his cowardice, we also beg to differ. We face The Line. Everyone faces The Line and every time someone else faces The Line they will see The Flood and Remember the Corps. That is what Tom Jackson is afraid of and what he will always oppose: The Line.

New deal sends $1.3 million in drainage funds to area; state Coastal Protection and Recovery Authority to take reins of SELA program ~Rich Rainey

Locals learn new flood maps’ potential effects~Ben Lundin

Commercial traffic all but gone from Missouri River
~Lauren Donovan

Levee near bankruptcy
~ChaCha Pitoulas

3rd Annual Baton Rouge Jewish Film Festival

~The festival premieres January 21st with a screening of the hilarious Circumcise Me, a documentary told by Hassidic comedian Yisrael Campbell.

Studio at Colton presents The Arts of Mardi Gras Workshop
Sewing, Suiting, Singing, Strutting and Related Design Skills


Flat Track Fever
If you can't wait until then to get your derby on, the Red Stick Roller Derby is having their first public bout at 6:30p this Saturday, January 17, 2009 at Baton Rouge River Center Arena. See the Red Stick ladies take on the Beach Brawl Skater Dolls from Fort Walton Beach, Florida in the Inaugural Brawl.

Sidney Torres IV offers citizens the 'Mayor Ray Nagin Rate' for Real Good Smelling Mardi Gras in Orlando~French Quarter residents can experience a Mardi Gras concert series like no other, with performances by Billboard Chart-topper Ne-Yo, American Idol winner Kelly Clarkson, country music-duo Montgomery Gentry and Grammy Award-winning rapper Nelly.
Other headliners include the hit artists behind classics such as "Hit Me with Your Best Shot," "Too Legit to Quit," and "Y.M.C.A." - Pat Benatar, MC Hammer and The Village People, respectively. In addition, New Orleans bands will showcase their authentic bayou music in the French Quarter, a replica of New Orleans' famed district.

Drew Brees is a finalist for the Fed Ex Air Player of the year
~If Drew wins, then Louisiana Safe Kids, a program at Children's Hospital, will receive $25,000 to use for a pedestrian safety program in the New Orleans area. We ask that you to cast your vote for Drew and then pass this information to as many people as possible. If Drew gets the most votes, he and Louisiana Safe kids are the winners.
You can vote as many times as you wish.
T'n'T~Charlotte ~Photo of Drew waving to Editilla: Priceless!

The Dictionary of Word Verifications~Citizen K
Prestifigitation: Bushticulation of inner conflict, akin to a faint call for mercy across a killing field, even rescue from the screaming small words that battle within his mind to form one just one complete sentence.

Staying on course~John Wirt

Jeff Albert, New Release:
Similar in the Opposite Way ~Alonzo Weston

Or, the Whale:
Light Poles and Pines
~Tone Marrow

Yolanda Adams, a B.J. Crosby benefit, a Tipitina's anniversary and more music in New Orleans Jan. 16-22 ~Keith Spera

Al Green, Sonny Rollins & 'Beiderbecke Affair'
~all about Jazz

NolaFunk Lagniappe

Jeudi

Inspector General Enforces Law
IG Orders Weapons, Amm0, Handcuffs~WDSU
~Inspector General Robert Cerasoli has ordered thousands of dollars of weaponry and ammunition for investigators in his office."The office is a law enforcement office by ordinance and by state law," Cerasoli said.
We gotta watch our Boy'z Back like a Bat Signal!
~Editilla gotta ax~ What about his daily King Cake?
Are we making sure Mr. Cerasoli has had his King Cake?
And ummm'errrrah, let's not toll'him wit da'baby, ok?
~Editilla decrillas~Everyone Packing for Mardi Gras must have King Cake every morning before stepping out into it.

Rat Race Wars:
New York Over New Orleans
~By building mini-models of city layouts at the Tel Aviv University Research Zoo, Prof. Eilam and his colleagues found that grid-like city layouts — like that of Manhattan — are much more rat- and people-friendly than cities with unstructured and winding streets, like those in New Orleans.
~Ratitilla begs for change~ Yeah, well, aside from the big mistake in this research for not including the 3rd Dimension of Rat Living that has made New York Rats such vicious sociopaths, to wit: the ability to Go Down Deep Beneath the Naked City, New Orleans Rats are obviously smarter than New Your Rats because they have a more Complex Cognitive Resonance (CCR) goin'on down'heah, within such an arguably reso'phonic environ. Though our Rats also display a bit o'dat Complex Cognitive Dissonance (CCD) goin'on too, Ratitilla remains hopeful that we can also win that racewar between population and rythmystical density.

Proposal for New Orleans charter school for disabled children is withdrawn
~Sarah Carr

What Bush Forgot About the Katrina Event~Harry Shearer

Architects present concept for redeveloping New Orleans riverfront~Jen DeGregorio
~Editilla Krewellas~
We surely hope that these talented developers and architects working with superhipster Sean Cummings can save us from this clear and present danger to public safety.

Jindal announces major state support for local levees
~Robert Zullo

Gov. Bobby Jindal visited breaks ground on Morganza-to-the-Gulf levee ~Mark Schleifstein

Corps decides on "unsafe" gates for waterway~Sheila Grissett

A breakthrough in water war? Agreement may be possible
~The Anniston Star

Judge Walker picks up the drum and issues new marching order in Gagne v State Farm ~slabbed

Recovery continues after TVA ash spill~Andrea Hall
~But in the midst of the testing and spill in Kingston, arsenic was found in the water just over the border of Alabama near TVA's Widow's Creek Fossil Plant, after a spill occurred on January 9.
It has been reported by the TVA Web site that both sites drinking water is safe and meet standards.
Gregory Button, an anthropology professor at UT, has been studying disasters for the past 30 years and traveled to the sight of the spill. "In terms of toxic contamination there are certain chemicals that are undisputable harmful particularly in large quantities and we are beginning to see that might be a problem," Button said. As of right now Button said we don't understand the magnitude of the problem yet so people that live in close proximity will have live with that uncertainty or leave.

Michael "Jerk'Ya" Chertoff: Military ready if drug gangs cross border

Mrs. Francis Toomy’s Fresh Corn and Shrimp Chowder

Film Krewe
~Noah Bonaparte Pais

The New Orleans Jazz Centennial Celebration and the French Market
January 13th through 18th
~Editilla T'n'T~Cistizen K

'Come out and have a funky good time' New Orleans' Porter Baptiste Stoltz will bring jazz to Bennie's Boom Boom Room

Mercredi

What New Orleans Lost in Cayne ~Karen Dalton-Beninato

BREAKING LEVEE NEWS:
Marinello's 'piece' to pen tell-all book

Creationism ban stripped, exorcized, from rules by fun'mentalists d'oh'minions of Darth Mon'Jindal

Being Bob Cerasoli
~Kevin Allman

New Orleans' 2007 census figure to be revised upward by 50,000

Good Job Brownie: Bushie’s remarks invite a blizzard of editorial reaction. Historical forecast? Ask the ghost of Herbert Hoover ~slabbed

Gulf Civic Works: Last chance for Gulf recovery? ~Facing South

Army Corps of Engineers' delays outrage state lawmakers
~Mark Schleifstein

Waggaman residents oppose corps' borrow pit proposal
~Paul Rioux

Is the Problem with Finger- Pointing That We're Using the Wrong Finger? ~Harry Shearer

Dam discharge that swamped Pacific, WA spurs finger-pointing

We misread the river, Army engineers admit, Corps officals embarrassed, apologetic over Pacific flooding~Mike Archbold

Take the Levees.org challenge ~Humid Haney

Crude Reality: How Long Can Oil Stay Down?~Andrew Mickey

FATA, North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan: Threat Center of the World ~SEMP

Beyond Marriage: Broader Implications and Unforeseen Consequences of State Defense of Marriage Acts~Tulane Journal of Law & Sexuality

Writers learn about Cajun Mardi Gras~William Johnson
~While in St. Landry Parish, the group of writers from California, Indiana, New York and Canada, learned about rural Cajun Mardi traditions, which are more about costumed horse riders and chasing chickens than throwing beads from floats.

Abita brewery tank explodes
~Jeff Adelson

JEEZ De'Jesus!

African Americans and the Future of New Orleans

RISOTTO WITH SALAMI AND BORLOTTI BEANS

- makes 6 to 8 servings - Editilla T'n'T~Serious Eats

Reprinted from The New Mediterranean Diet Cookbook by Nancy Harmon Jenkins.

Ingredients

3/4 cup borlotti or other speckled beans, soaked overnight
4 cups chicken or vegetable stock
1 large onion, halved and thinly sliced
1 garlic clove, crushed
2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
1/3 to 1/2 pound salami, skin removed, chopped coarsely
1 1/2 cups Italian short-grain, such as arborio, vialone nano, or carnaroli rice
1/2 cup well-flavored dry white wine
Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
2 tablespoons freshly grated parmigiano reggiano cheese, or more if you wish

Procedure

1. Add the drained beans to a saucepan with 2 1/2 cups of water. Bring to a simmer and cook gently, covered, until the beans are tender—about 40 minutes. Add a little more boiling water from time to time if necessary to keep the beans from scorching. When the beans are done, set aside, but do not drain.

2. Bring the stock to a gently simmer and keep just below the boiling point while you prepare the risotto.

3. In a large heavy-duty saucepan, combine the onion and garlic with the oil and cook, stirring, over medium-low heat until the onion slices and garlic are softened. Stir in the chopped salami and the rice. Cook, stirring occasionally, for about 5 minutes or until the bits of salami are softened and the rice is well coated with the fat in the pan. Add the white wine, raise the heat slightly, and cook more rapidly, until the rice has absorbed the wine.

4. Stir in the beans with their cooking liquid and continue cooking until most of the bean liquid has been absorbed. Now cover the contents of the pan with a ladle or two of the not quite simmering broth, stirring to mix well. As the rice absorbs the broth, keep adding more, a ladle or two at a time, stirring as you do so, until the rice is done. The rice should always be just barely swimming in liquid but never awash and never let to dry out.

5. When the rice is done but still al dente, remove from the heat, taste, and add salt and pepper. Then stir in the 2 tablespoons of cheese, cover the pan and set aside, away from the heat, for 5 minutes or so to combine all the flavors well. Serve the rice, if you wish, with more grated cheese on the side.

Expanded SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival in 2009

Literary events in New Orleans ~Susan Larson

One-Named Guitarist Honors One-Eyed Pianist~Marc Silver

The Blue Note 7: Mosaic
~Between the Grooves

Mardi~30 Grand!

Heckuva Job Bushie!, Easy Internet Activism Experiment
(And more thoughts on Katrina, the Left, and New Orleans)
~We Could Be Famous
Can't be said enough...


Bushwacked: Bushie goes down swinging. Deaf dumb and blind ’till the bitter end ~slabbed

TVA Disaster Spreads Far and Wide~Erin Brockovich and Robin Greenwald

Archbishop comments on New Orleans parish evictions
~“A parked police car in front of a church on a Sunday morning? Where are we, in Russia?” asked one parishioner.
~“I believe that we tried to do this in a profoundly spiritual way,” Archbishop Hughes said yesterday. “We had made every effort to persuade people voluntarily to leave.”

Where Hope Died~Burning Cane
~When President Obama assumes his office there is at least one great American city that he has yet to earn the trust of. He must convince the disillusioned people of New Orleans that although the government has failed them before it will not happen again.

It's Carnival Time!
~Louisiana Weekly

Art Killers and Mercury
in Retrograde ~PWALLY
Apartment buildings sprouting on Mid-City corridor in New Orleans~Kate Moran

Analysis: Louisiana budget cuts reveal little pain
~Melinda Deslatte

Ecosystem Restoration as Infrastructure–MRGO, Part 3
~Quinta Scott

Ascension Parish looking for drainage relief~Cheryl Mercedes

Season a mixed bag for La. sugar cane farmers~Becky Bohrer

Deal would see New Orleans' Saenger Theatre reopen by 2011~Michelle Krupa

Corps of Engineers talks down to small town Iowa about the stupidity of trusting Corps engineering.~Residents of Iowa and the Midwest learned important lessons about Corps Competency during this past summer's catastrophic flooding. Now, as the Corps of Engineers deliberately flooded little towns in Washington State this weekend, they are extending their Corps Office of Corporate Communications (COCCs) around the country to further Spin the cause of those failures back onto the tax-payer: Corps officials were asked IF they personally owned property in Park View Terrace (below the failed Coralville Damn) and IF they knew the information provided Saturday whether they would stay.
Although the corps' policy is to never tell people where they should or should not live, "I would not," said Ron Fournier, chief of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Rock Island District corporate communications. "I live on a hill."
~Editilla Gross'tellas~
Ron Fournier is a Public Affairs Director (PAD) fo'da Corps Office of Corporate Communications (COCCs). Gentle'rillas will hear more of this PAD COCC in the near future as ASCECORPS pumps up their COCCs' Spring Rut of Accepting Risk of Failure in American Civil Engineering across the nation. Ron Fourneir could not engineer his way out of a flooded outhouse.

Roast Suckling Pig opportunity in New Orleans -Sat, Jan 17th



Layla the dog is sooo good!
~Cupcake Takes The Cake

Lil' Wayne Donates $200,000 To Hurricane Katrina Relief Project

'American Routes' marks 10 years with concert, broadcast from New Orleans

Lundi

Momentum continues for switch to charters~Steven Maloney

No Man's Land~Chris Kirkham

Artists gather to support "David's House"

Oscar Grant III, Adolph Grimes III and the Outmoded Outrage Debate~Ethan Brown

What to Do When the Bishop is Wrong? 5 Options (Though Most Might Not Work)~Errol Laborde

Kimball to take oath as 1st female chief justice~Allen Johnson Jr.

BYOB and celebrate RICO Settlement~slabbed

Engineers survey damage to levees in Pacific, WA
~Army engineers: Sorry for the man-made flood

High court to hear dispute over Alaska gold mine
"The whole reason Congress passed the Clean Water Act was to stop turning our lakes and rivers into industrial waste dumps," Waldo said. "The Bush administration selected the Kensington mine to test the limits of the Clean Water Act."
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers issued a permit for waste disposal at the proposed Kensington mine north of Juneau in '05.
Under the plan, tailings would be dumped into Lower Slate Lake.

Gold mine wants court to OK dumping waste in Alaska lake ~Matthew Daly
~But mining company lawyer Theodore Olson told justices that the waste is more accurately defined as "fill." And, after a decade or more of mining, he said, the lake could be restocked with no permanent harm to the environment. "There will be more fish in a bigger lake, and more livable conditions for the fish and the aquatic life after this process is finished," Olson said.
Justice David Souter called that logic "Orwellian." He said the mining company, Coeur Alaska Inc., and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which granted a permit for the mine, were "defining away" the problem by calling the wastewater discharge fill.

Guerrilla Tactics at Oil-Lease Auction, Activist Drives Up Prices With Bidding~Karl Vick

Keeping home life-support up when power goes out
~Lauran Neergaard

Students at Loyola University New Orleans Gain High-Performance Wireless

Co-op provides resources to musicians, filmmakers
~Jason Brown

“The Bad Lieutenant:
Port of Calls New Orleans”
Scored by Mark Isham

The Ensemble Theatre Presents World Premiere of the Man Who Saved New Orleans

Derek Trucks Band – 'Already Free'~Squeeze My Lemon