Kneecapped or Indigestion or Things Saints Fans Are Feeling At Midseason
~Library Chronicles

Louisiana Won’t Face Penalties, Dismissal of BP Spill Claims

Mirliton Madness

OUR OPINION: Corps of Engineers should read writing on flood wall
~The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers knows better than to mess with Mother Nature. But the Corps is inviting thunderbolts of a different sort by ignoring the storm clouds of frustration now roiling over the Missouri River. Too many thousands had to evacuate this year, and too many neighborhoods were lost for the Corps to keep treating flood protection as an afterthought.

Where Do Natural Disasters Most Affect Home Insurance Costs?

Former Director in Charlotte to Take Over at New Orleans Public Library

Additional federal charges added to River Birch landfill executive's case

Connect the dots: Did Jindal ghostwriter have a hand in Cain scandal?
~Mark Moseley, The Lens

Shrimpers face fines for allegedly failing to protect turtles

Hunting leases attract big bucks

LSU vs. Alabama~Your Right Hand Thief

New Orleans restaurants have turned Freret Street into a dining hot spot

SUNDAY: We Are One second line parade 12-4pm ~Big Red Cotton, Gambit

2011 Swamp Fest this weekend

Ladyfest 2011, the all-female YeMaYa parade, and a playlist celebrating New Orleans women in music~Allyson Fensterstock

And all that you love will be carried away… ~moosedenied

Unregulated NOPD details feed corruption: A letter to the editor by I.G. Ed Quatrevaux

Be back Monday…the trouble with the (personal) economy~Disenfranchised Citizen

Making ‘Complete Streets’ a policy makes complete sense~Matthew Rufo

Public library to raid reserves, cut programs if city slashes budget supplement to zero ~Ariella Cohen, The Lens

Caddo leaders to take down Confederate flag ~Matt Davis

Shrimpers and turtle advocates engulfed in federal or state enforcement debate

Flooded Homeowners` Frustrations Erupt at Corps of Engineers Meeting

Cracks In The System: Louisville's Levees

Krewe of Nyx wins approval from New Orleans City Council

LadyFest New Orleans 2011 @ Louisiana Music Factory - Lynn Drury

1929: The po-boy was created in New Orleans

The Bywater neighborhood celebrates quirky vegetable this weekend with Mirliton Festival

Of Oysters and Omelets in Eminently Edible Abbeville~Ian McNulty

~Hat Tweet @BlackenedOut~Interesting debate at home office today, what is the most polarizing restaurant in New Orleans blackenedout.com/2011/11/velvet…

Councilwoman blasts Landrieu for not changing the way sheriff gets paid
~Matt Davis, The Lens

Occupied: Homeless People, Occupy NOLA Protesters Converge at Duncan Plaza
~Shay Sokol, NOLA DEFENDER

Lee Zurik again tackles favoritism in Jefferson Parish Government getting reaction from Chris “Mini-me” Roberts on John Young’s former secretary ~Slabbed

~Hat Tweet @GHartley5 @Official_Saints RT @thomasmorstead has a raffle for 2 tickets for MNF vs the Giants! All proceeds go to Susan G. Komen New Orleans www.puntpink.com


~Cypress trees planted in Caernarvon Marsh

State restocks Pearl River with tens of thousands of fish

Corps refuses additional flood protection; ND residents infuriated

2011 "LOUISIBAMA" Gumbo Bowl for Tuscaloosa Tornado Relief
~The culinary team will create a monster pot of gumbo, using a 300-year-old cast iron pot from the sugarcane fields of South Louisiana. The World’s Largest Gumbo recipe calls for 750 pounds shrimp, 450 pounds catfish fillets, 100 pounds claw crabmeat, 50 pounds white crabmeat, 200 pounds alligator meat, 25 pounds Louisiana crawfish tail meat, 10 gallons oysters with liquid, 200 pounds diced onions, 75 pounds diced celery, 100 pounds diced green bell peppers, 150 pounds sliced okra, 50 pounds dehydrated garlic and 20 pounds butter. After simmering for three hours, the delicious, steaming contents will be doled out to hungry football fans during the spirited pre-game tailgate at the University of Alabama.

~Outdoor Art, Polly Jackson~

It was 45 years ago today that our New Orleans Saints were born!
~Hat Tweet @defendnola

New jail building approved by City Council; sheriff must close others when it’s built
~Matt Davis, The Lens

No, Buddy, the sweater is just plain nerdy looking. Man up, dude~Mark Moseley

Lee Zurik tackles favoritism in Jefferson Parish Government as he profiles John Young’s former secretary ~Slabbed

New Orleans Stormwater Case Studies ~Watershed NOLA

Port director sees new growth at Fourchon

BP, Transocean, Halliburton, Cameron CEOs all decline to testify before House Natural Resources Committee

Transocean: Contract shields it from spill costs

Tickets to LSU-Alabama showdown in high demand

Making Boudin ~Blackened Out

Satsuma now open for dinner service ~Brett Anderson

On Levees.org birthday, we’re thankful for its years of myth-busting~ Mark Moseley
~"Why is this so difficult for some people to grasp? The system that failed on August 29, 2005 – the Hurricane Protection System – failed because the engineering and design system behind it had been in failure from the beginning of the project in the 1960′s. It was only a matter of time for this to happen, but it was going to happen no matter what. The crime is that people within the Corps knew this and did not let the citizens know in any meaningful, sustained, easily understood, and very loud way." ~Matt McBride, Fix the Pumps
~Folks gather at the first Levees.org rally in January of 2006, with founder Sandy Rosenthal wielding the bullhorn. (Some goof in a red shirt is also in the crowd.)
~Also~Sandy Rosenthal is guest speaker for U.S. Dept of State program! The group is interested in meeting with Ms. Rosenthal to discuss the role of grassroots citizen activism in holding the government accountable for the events that occurred during Katrina.

'Sliver by the river' neighborhoods that escaped flooding after Federal Flood have lost population

First 'Pump to the River' project set to begin

Levees and the National Flood Insurance Program: Improving Policies and Practices

Editilla has a stroke...
~Well, two actually...That I can type is part of the story here.... I walked out of the Memphis Methodist Hospitals Stroke Unit about 7pm Friday night, after 3 days, feeling like a very lucky man --not many patients walk out of that place. I've told you all before how lucky my life has been. Well, here it is again. I'm so lucky to be alive and kicking!

My friend The Raven, by my friend Polly Jackson.
Oh yes, The Raven was there... my barrister to The Reaper.

My room mate and old friend Brenda pretty much saved my life by being here to catch me as I fell over Tuesday morning, drooling, speechless and completely paralyzed on my right side. Were I alone, I probably would've let it slide after those 2 minor strokes had passed, as a series of nearly a dozen mini-strokes rolled through my brain --until an even bigger stroke took me later that day, forever. It was that close a call according to the 3 neurologists working my case. Brenda also stayed by my side the 9hrs in the Emergency Room before they took me upstairs to the Stroke Ward. I'm crying again...

Both strokes happened in a nickle shaped area of my brain just left of center, about an eighth of an in inch inward... hence my entire right side was completely paralyzed. I wondered if it was very near where my father's was. His of course was walnut sized and apparently one of many. Mine started with the mini-strokes Monday night, then Tuesday morning first thing cranked up to full blown strokes --though mild ones by comparison. I let it role Tuesday, as I just didn't get that this was actually happening to me, and took aspirin. Tuesday night was rough... Wednesday morning boss'friend Chuck took me to the ER at Methodist and they rolled me right in. I had several more mini strokes in the ER waiting to be moved upstairs to the Stroke Unit (they had to make a room) and then I was being taken care of by a lot of people.

I will be on the blood thinner Plavix for the rest of my life ($200/30 pill bottle)(WHOA!) Also Chlorthalidone blood pressure medication (mine is high but not so much) and Simvastatin anti-cholesterol medication (both cheap)(and this can be dealt with by diet, exercise and such as time goes on) and even 325 mg Aspirin.

Of course I am quitting cigarettes. It will take some doing but I must.
It turns out that I can still drink some alcohol in moderation (No more six-pack or two per day as I have for the past 5 months.) But the chief neurologist, Dr Lopez, wasn't concerned with the beer at all, and even suggested a glass or two of red wine per day. No, Dr Lopez was vehement about my quitting smoking. Hell, I've smoked 2-2 1/2 packs per day for the past 15 years at least: chain smoker. But, already I feel the change in attitude from cutting back so much. Dr Lopez says it isn't the Nicotine, but all the other crap in cigarettes that damages the arteries and destroys the cell wall lining them, hardening them. So I've got Electronic Cigarettes to give me Nicotine without the smoke. Dr Lopez even suggested Patches to quit. But he stressed that if I don't quit, even with the Plavix, I have a 50% chance of getting hit with a big one sooner than later. They called this "managing certain risk". I find that term interesting as "risk" denotes a gamble, whereas I face the certainty that another, more debilitating stroke could take me again, perhaps for keeps --esp if I don't quit smoking or don't take the Plavix according to Dr Lopez, (The Boss neurologist). (on that note, Plavix may be going generic soon so there is that.)

But, OH, I'm going to quite smoking because my room mate Brenda will quit with me! It's going to happen. I've had about 1/2 pack today which is astounding, supplemented with Electronic Delivery Devices (EDD :). You know, I started smoking at 14. Fuck nostalgia. Rather, I'm beginning to look forward to not having them as a part of my life. This could get very interesting indeed...and profitable!

I always thought cancer would be the one to get me 1st, but Stroke is the Thief In The Night. Should I have cancer from literally tons of cigarettes, I think I'll be able to deal with it and perchance prevail. Whereas, with Stroke I was absolutely powerless... I mean, once it came for me there was no countering it, before I realized what's happening it had me and whether or not it lets me go was totally up to the Stroke. Providentially speaking... I was let go!
Furthermore, this change in everything from bad habits to better diet and living in general will give me a leg up on my defenses against cancer should it rear its ugly heads.

The speech therapist that checked me out was pretty surprised after viewing my MRIs that I could even carry on a conversation with her. The physical therapist said that, sense I could, I needed to walk around the ward every once in a while to stretch my legs and work my brain pathways... and she laughed that I was the only person on that floor who COULD get up and walk around. It was a circular affair, this hospital tower, most of the patient's doors were open so they could be closely observed by the nurses, and all of them, every single one was totally stroked out paralyzed, gone just like my father was... I was about the youngest on the floor... and, I thought I saw my father in one of those beds... really... I mean, I had to look 3 times... In fact, I was in the very same type of bed my father was on his stroke ward, the exact same hospital bed that automatically adjusts to your weight, plugged into all sorts of critical monitors. My Pop, his sisters Muriel and Celista Bell and his father RL Senior all had massive debilitating strokes. Like...DUH BRUCE?

Please let this be a lesson to you all.

That said... I can still play guitar! Though I can still feel the pathways of motor function damage in my right hand and arm, the effects are slight. My basic Chops are still intact. That is to say, everything seems to work, and with, as you might imagine, a resurgence of certain creative dexterity and a tad bit of FUCK YEAH I'M ALIVE. What a profound relief! The days of me not playing guitar are over as well. I am crying again...
...tears that have happened before---but there is nothing to compare them to now.

No more self-destructive grief or anger or online ass-holery.
No more wasted living...
Everything's going to be OK!

I'm gonna sit
like an un-carved block of wood
waiting for the Goddess to make me
usefull...
...maybe a statue
...perchance a cup
to hold the peoples' memories
or the Body of Chaos.

Goddess takes care of fools and errant troubadours.
Tru'dat, Whodats! We Got This!

I love you all so much,
Editilla the Pun

The tourism of tragedy: From dead body dots to water marks, "Katrina" still haunts in New Orleans~Olga Campos

Corps of Engineers wants $1 billion to repair flood damage, yet almost no money to investigate how it happened

Orleans Parish District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro presents case for removing criminal court judges

Council frustrated that rank-and-file jobs frozen while top-brass spots getting filled
~Ariella Cohen, The Lens

Kenneth Feinberg vows better lifeline for shrimpers at House hearing

Feinberg testifies in DC, but shrimpers skeptical ~Disenfranchised Citizen

French Food Festival: A Cajun Feast Along the Bayou~Ian McNulty

Lucky 13th Voodoo Fest

Feds make slow progress on flood levee national inventory~Please check out our new Levees.org National Levee Map! We've made it interactive. Please have patience as it's just getting started and we have lots of data to input regarding levee failures --not only in La but all over the country.
~Editilla Rotellas~ Once again the Corps of Engineers is immune from anything as the seek to fuck us over again. They'll simply NOT DO SOMETHING THAT CONGRESS SAYS DO. They are lying, corrupt project engineering succubi. The Will hurt us again, and NONE of them will go to jail for it.

Feinberg says new rules for payouts are being formulated

Can-Do: NOLA Brewing at Tipitinas tonight ~He Said/She Said NOLA

Ninth Ward Field of Dreams

Halloween Second Line: Rescheduled Black Men of Labor Rolls Saturday
~NOLA DEFENDER

12th Annual All Saints Day parade
~Big Red Cotton, Gambit

Richard Bienvenu: Spooky Neutral Ground

Flood insurance rates in N.O. will fluctuate with new rate maps
~New Orleans City Business~"The good news is the main basin of the city now has a substantially larger area classified as 'X', which is moderate risk," said Sandy Rosenthal, founder of the nonprofit Levees.org that pushed for federal accountability after the levee failures that compounded Hurricane Katrina's damage.
~Editilla Axes~ I watched The Big Uneasy again last night and wonder if it is prudent now to reclassify flood zones as another Corps flood could (and probably will) happen again.

Stennis Space Center celebrates 50 years

Judge: Employment didn't muzzle LSU scientist Ivor van Heerden
~U.S. District Judge James J. Brady rejected LSU's argument that van Heerden was speaking as a faculty member when he criticized work by the Army Corps of Engineers. That keeps his First Amendment claim alive under a 2006 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that public employees don't have free-speech protections for what they say as part of their jobs. "Although it is a close question, van Heerden was not acting within his official job duties," Brady wrote in an Oct. 20 summary judgment — one based entirely on court documents, without oral arguments.
The judge rejected several of van Heerden's claims, including one of conspiracy, one for breach of contract and one that LSU officials intentionally caused him emotional distress. "The record evidence shows their conduct at various times may have been rude, unfair, mean, or calculated to embarrass van Heerden, but none of it contains that extra dose of cruelty necessary for the Court to conclude it was intended to cause severe distress," Brady wrote.

New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Bees is a master at work and is getting better at his craft ~Jeff Duncan~Also~Breesy Beefy Mac: the recipe sensation that's sweeping the Who Dat Nation

Baby’s Got The Benz ~moosedenied

Hurricane Rina a strong category 2
~Jeff Masters, Wunderblog

BGR Report: Making the Waterworks Work: Fixing the Sewage & Water Boards Governance Problems~Watershed NOLA
~Also~ BGR recommends ousting elected officials from Sewerage & Water Board~Martha Carr, The Times-Picayune

Dramatically higher New Orleans water bills are needed to cover huge projects, consultant says~Mark Schleifstein

Despite Ridership Increase, Amtrak Loses Serious Money in New Orleans~Railroad.net
~Also~Republicans again mistake Civil Infrastructure for Totalitarianism ~Florida Congressman Joe Mica says Amtrak operates as 'Soviet-style monopoly.'

Update on St. Charles Avenue Streetcar: accessibility and precision in language
~Charles Maldonado

Freret merchants, neighbors dismayed by lack of input on upcoming roadwork
~Uptown Messenger

“You’re close….real close but not there”: A Jefferson Parish (non)Performing Arts Center Roundup ~Slabbed

Relax oversight? How about protecting us from oil’s ravages?~Anne Rolfes, The Lens

Dead dolphins still a concern on Gulf Coast ~Nikki Buskey

The chemical industry in Louisiana could be set to boom ~WWL

Mayor Bloomberg trust donated big to Louisiana education board elections

Python in New Orleans: Once Bitten, Quickly Smitten~The upcoming 2012 AMS Annual Meeting in New Orleans is only the second with a whole symposium devoted to the use of Python programming language in the atmospheric sciences.

The talented & chic Jack Mayberry in the November issue of Cue Magazine ~perch

Mark Twain: Words & Music

The 2011 Fall Dining Guide~Blackened Out

Ray Davies~Alex Woodward, Gambit

Shoes! My trip home to heal a racially charged disaster ~Condoleezza Rice
~Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice loads supplies onto a truck in Bayou La Batre, Al. in September 2005, spies a Must-Have pair of pink shrimp boots she may have to buy.

Remembering Hurricane Katrina and Federal Flood Victims Obituary

Judge overturns some convictions in Danziger case~Louisiana Weekly

Alexander says Corps' efficacy amid flood threats has improved

Corps of Engineers dedicates $6.6 million to fix levee system at Cairo, Illinois

Louisiana bans using cash in sales of second-hand goods

Hey...I found a Brabalfish
~American Zombie

“Why Not Occupy Newsrooms?”: This one is sweet to me on several levels ~Slabbed

Looking for Democrats on the gridiron sidelines~Mark Moseley, The Lens

Rina quickly becomes hurricane off Honduras
~Hat Tweet @wunderground Weather Underground~Hurricane #Rina is expected to be a category 3 by tonight, could bring torrential rain to Belize & Mexico: wxug.us/g89g

Oil-related shipbuilding is picking up; law firms merge

Emblem stolen off new ‘Mercedes-Benz’ Superdome~The New Orleans Levee

Butterflies and Bayous~NOLAFemmes

Owen Courreges: The great (un-) American wings debate~Uptown Messenger

Bloody 66: Route 66 was a dangerous drive ~Quinta Scott

2012 Marks the Return of the American River Cruise Industry
~The American Queen is a classical steamboat with gingerbread and open decks. Her majestic dining hall is a replica of the grand dining room on the J.M. White Steamboat. Elegant table settings, crystal chandeliers, and private balconies will transport passengers back to the elegance of 1878, the Victorian era in American. Passengers will enjoy the cuisine of award-winning chef, restaurateur, and author, Regina Charboneau. Upon accepting the position last year, Regina set out to study the history of food along the rivers, and says her menus will tell the story of each region. Meals will feature local produce, sustainable seafood, and rare cheeses from local artisan cheese makers.

~This goes out to all my Night Tweeples

Voodoo Fest Top 5 – Defender of the Gulf, Aaron Viles

Inaugural New Orleans Horror Film Festival cranks up this weekend

Saints vs. Indianapolis, Curtis Painter, Sobriety and Zzzzzz…
~Disenfranchised Citizen

Why New Orleans Saint Jimmy Graham Is the NFL's Best Tight End~Bleacher Report

Engineer makes New Orleans streets safer for cyclists, pedestrians

Ashton O’Dwyer in his own words part deux deux ~Slabbed

A Studio in the Woods in Algiers inspires filmmaker

William Faulkner? Try 'Mosquitoes'

Louisiana Book Festival offers something for readers of all ages

New Orleans Top 10 restaurants for 2011 ~Brett Anderson

From Mahalia Jackson, prayers with soul ~Jarvis DeBerry

Ivor van Heerden allowed to proceed to trial in case against LSU ~Sandy Rosenthal
~Ivor van Heerden, Feb 10, 2010
~"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

Atchafalaya River reroutes local impact

Jus'sayin...WHODAT! YES! YES! NEW ORLEANS!


Cleared man freed from La. prison after serving 30 years

Katey Red at the New Orleans Public Library this afternoon ~Gambit

NOLA Craft Beer~Hullabaloo

2011 New Orleans Film Festival might set attendance record, official predicts

Goooooood morning, Gentle'rillas!
~Voodoo Fest Schedule!

Open Mic in New Orleans~WWOZ

#Occupied by Hollywood South?
~Library Chronicles

LSU football team, New Orleans Saints staying in national spotlight~Peter Finney

Benefit for former Saint Steve Gleason w/ The Kyle Turley Band

Schools Choice Breaking Down Tomorrow's BESE Elections~NOLA DEVENDER

Wonderful 3-part comment to Sandy Rosenthal's latest Huff Post

New Orleans, Plaquemines Parish share in Hurricane Katrina recovery money

Resiliency after Katrina, Gulf oil spill topic of forum in Biloxi

Re-alignment of Lower Atchafalaya River federal navigation channel approved

Feinberg back in Jefferson Parish...
~Disenfranchised Citizen

New Orleans fishing top spot: Round Lake ~Bob Marshall

Nutria-Palooza comes to town

Burning Man Comedown to Fire Up Marigny Studio

You Can't Stop NOLA Brewing, You Can Only Hope to Contain Them~Blackened Out

Aaron Bennett, convicted of bribery, keeps Army Corps of Engineers work

Payton returns to practice; plans to coach from press box

24 Reasons Why New Orleans Is the Best City on Earth & L.A. Is Bullshit
~god-eat-god worlds ~Hat Tweet @The_Gambit
#24. We are immune to financial crises. The market collapsed? We’re in a recession? When did that happen? We’re so poor on the whole and so pre-fucked by things like oil spills and broken levees that by the time the country goes through money problems, we’ve already fixed our economy. Right now? We’ve got a 7.2% unemployment rate. The country? 9.1%. California? 12.1%.

They call him “Lil’ Piece” for a reason: A (non)Performing Arts Center follow the money update ~Slabbed

King Georges just can't stop throwing turds ~American Zombie

Sheriff blocking reform, says councilwoman, causing group to delay decision on jail size~Matt Davis, The Lens

Walmart coming to Gentilly with the aid of a federal grant~Ariella Cohen

Louisiana education board approves changes to New Orleans' master plan for school construction

Ken’s world tour – next stop, Dublin…
~Disenfranchised Citizen

RTA lists worthy projects; let’s be sure they’re well designed

Light show on the Dome every night!

Filmmaker Helen Hill's husband returns to complete her story in the city she loved

.:.UNDER CONSTRUCTION.:. Building a Foundation for Home with Community Word, Song and Dance ~Junebug Productions & The Homecoming Project

1915: 'The Picayune's Creole Cook Book' was wildly popular

Thanksgiving is Coming!~Blackened Out

Oak Street Po-Boy Fest rolls out improvements to deal with crowds?

Hart and Soul: Talkin' Turkey with Bluesman Alvin Youngblood Hart
~NOLA DEFENDER

A New Life for Zigaboo Modeliste

Bywater 'Music Box' to Wind Up for the First Time This Weekend!

The New Orleans 6t'9 Social Aid & Pleasure Club's 7th Annual Halloween Parade ~Humid Beings

The Big Uneasy at The Green Project
~Press Street~Film Screening: 6:30pm Thursday, October 20, 2011
Location: The Green Project - 2831 Marais Street, New Orleans, LA 70117

~Hat Tweet @LeveesOrg~WWL TV Channel 4 Eyewitness News in New Orleans has created a special webpage for LeveesOrg archived stories. wwltv.com/news/local/Lev…

New Orleans Film Festival: Oil-spill doc 'The Big Fix' gets an encore screening

How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb ~moosedenied~Well that sure was a kick to the crotch.
And I'm not gonna lie, it rocked my world. I wish it hadn't but it did. It shook my confidence right to the bone. And it changed the way I'll be approaching the season from this point forward. On one hand, I don't have it in me to bitch and moan and rant and mope my way through the rest of the season. And even if I were capable of that, I'd choose not to. I refuse to let Saints football be a drag and a downer. Those days are long gone, and I'll be damned if I allow them to return. On the other hand, Sunday brought to light certain unpleasant truths which I no longer have it in me to ignore. So, where do I go from here?

A Guide to this Week’s Elections ~NOLAFemmes

“Something is definitely rotten in Jefferson”: The (non)Performing Arts Center Boondoggle in the news ~Slabbed

Dardenne, Nungesser race for lt. governor gets down and dirty~Mark Mosely, The Lens
~Also~Landrieu saying little about two no-bid contracts given to Gusman worth $1 million ~Matt Davis

~Hat Tweet @The_Gambit~Nungesser claims endorsements of 14 mayors; four mayors say it's not true: • This story was reported by Leslie T... bit.ly/nWp4yg

New Orleans judges' spending gets attention from Louisiana attorney general

British Petroleum: (still) encouraging the responsibility of others…
~Disenfranchised Citizen

Dredging is top priority to maintain Bayou Lafourche's health

Louisiana oil shale site impact ‘huge’

The InvadeNOLA Guide to New Orleans

Autumn In New Orleans
~Adrastos, First Draft

Dress to Impress: Southern Costume Company~He Said/She Said NOLA

Winnity, Winesday the Chinese Chicken
~Blackened Out

Coming to New Orleans – Freixenet Tastings and Tapas Truck!

Old Mint Exhibition Celebrates Preservation Hall's 50th Anniversary

~Hat Tweet @Gerald_Duhon~A spectacular beautiful day for #Harvest the Music w/ @dirtydozenbrass @LafayetteSqNOLA 5-7:30. Be there. #fighthunger w/@2ndHarvestGNOA

Coach Sean Payton faces long recovery

Out Of Bounds by Jabari Greer: DJ for a day ~Hat Tweet @skooks

The Big Fix Presser~American Zombie

The Big Fix - New Orleans Premiere - Kindra Arensen from Jason Berry on Vimeo.

And round and round we go…NOPD windfalls ~Disenfranchised Citizen

~Polly Jackson~Waterproof art for patio, garden, pool.....one of a kind, original
"Raven, Full Frontal", acrylic on waterproof board, 8 1/4 x 6", $75

Proposed 2012 N.O. city budget grows by nearly $50 million

It's what we always suspected:
Stacy Head is actually James O'Keefe.
~Library Chronicles

In this episode of Magnum J.D.: Brother can you spare a dime with special guest star Bull Durham ~Slabbed

Billy the Mountain leveraging celebrity as Lieutenant governor candidate

St. Charles levee armoring project

East St Louis officials bristle at key levee's rating of 'unacceptable'

Fish kill reported in Bayou Castine in southeast Mandeville

1913: New Orleans drainage system is a marvel of the world
~Please also click our flag upper right for other history of Storm & Water Management in New Orleans such as October 1915: The Hurricane of Sept. 29th, 1915, the official report to the Sewerage and Water Board, written a few days later, on how New Orleans weathered the first hurricane after the flood control measures were implemented.

US State Department bringing about 40 ambassadors & their spouses to occupy NO

N.O. Film Fest First Look: Helen Hill's The Florestine Collection~NOLA DEFENDER
~Also~Happy Lawrence Ferlinghetti Day! NOLA's Andrei Codrescu Talks About the Renowned Poet-Publisher

Dueling Bloggers: Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes
~Blackened Out

The Creole Grande Dame~Sarah Roahen

Harvest the Music Wednesdays in Lafayette Park now offering tickets online!

Acro-Cats jump through hoops -- and more -- in New Orleans shows

Cyndi Lauper, Dr. John have date, headlining the "Memphis to Mardi Gras Tour!"

SGIA Expo: Benefit Show For New Orleans Musicians

Walter Isaacson, authorized biographer of "Steve Jobs", supports Levees.org's quest to list New Orleans breach sites to National Register ~Sandy Rosenthal
~Editilla Markerellas~Click pic to enlarge
~~Artifacts Not Politics
The title comes from R. Buckminister Fuller.
I wish there were enough flowers at Robert's to honor all those souls lost to the Flood of 8/29... but perchance Gentle'rillas will take it to heart to bring flowers or whatever mementos to the base of these fine Historical Markers... much like a cross beside a lonely highway, or a telephone pole wrapped in teddy bears to mark the spot where someone died needlessly, negligently. During the short time cutting the flowers and such, 2 tour busses and 4 cars from as many states stopped to check out this Fine Marker and read about how the Corps of Engineers killed so many fellow citizens. They were all very cool and respectful. We should honor as well these folks who come to look, as they would bare witness to this crime. We should wave to them, thank them, welcome them to the horror of resurrection. It doesn't matter to me how they do it. Nola will take them as she takes us all, without a care to pretense but a graceful tendency towards The Line...
Here's an example of why NRHP designation is so necessary: rampant, self-imposed and goddamned stupid Katrina Shorthand: Op-Ed: 'Disaster Tourism' in post-Katrina New Orleans