May 20, 2013

A week before he was gunned down, 30-year-old Zachary Carpenter pressed his hands into soil beneath Interstate 610, and built a community garden under an underpass.
The space, near the corner of Paris Avenue and Pleasure Street in Gentilly, was adjacent to the popular skatepark Parasite, a site that Carpenter had helped establish, and a place he spent much of his free time working to improve.
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A week before he was gunned down, 30-year-old Zachary Carpenter pressed his hands into soil beneath Interstate 610, and built a community garden under an underpass.

The space, near the corner of Paris Avenue and Pleasure Street in Gentilly, was adjacent to the popular skatepark Parasite, a site that Carpenter had helped establish, and a place he spent much of his free time working to improve.

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(Source: imgick.nola.com)

May 15, 2013
I Love You Louisiana posters now online.  Handprinted by Hannah Jegart.

I Love You Louisiana posters now online.  Handprinted by Hannah Jegart.

May 15, 2013
A Son of Music Royalty, Shot in New Orleans on Mother’s Day

The musician’s son knew how he was supposed to feel. Cheldon White has been to more second-line parades than he can remember. Hundreds, probably. So as the brass band started playing and the parade lurched forward in New Orleans last Sunday, White, who was standing amid the crowd, expected to find his feet dancing.

But for some reason, he wasn’t feeling it. He tried to do a little step — nothing. Then the Mother’s Day parade turned off a four-lane thoroughfare and onto a one-way residential street in the 7th Ward, one of the city’s most troubled neighborhoods. The crowd of roughly 200 people filled space, like water rushing into a hole. And with nowhere to dance, even if he could find his groove, White threaded his way to the front.

Up ahead, according to police, Akein Scott, a teenager with a criminal past, was waiting with a gun in hand, preparing to open fire, perhaps to settle a beef. Within moments, 19 people, including two children, would be injured in a storm of bullets. And White, a 21-year-old photographer, was walking right into it — for one reason: “I wanted to dance,” he says. “I needed some space, so I could dance.”

Music is part of the cultural fabric in New Orleans, an ethereal idea that draws tourists from around the world. But for Cheldon White, it’s a matter of simple genetics. White’s parents met at a second line more than two decades ago. He was raised in the Treme, the son of a seamstress and a trombone player. And that trombonist isn’t just anyone; it’s Stafford Agee, one of the stars of the Grammy award-winning Rebirth Brass Band: musical royalty in New Orleans.

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May 9, 2013

-FRANK-

Dir/DP/Prod: Daryn DeLuco
Music: Daryn DeLuco
Exec Prod: Defend New Orleans

May 9, 2013

weareconstance:

A difficulty lies in conveying the essence of a place that at once aches to show itself as full of allure, yet only reveals the depth of its beauty to those who reside within it. Hell’s Bells / Sulfur / Honey is a body of color photographs that serves as a testament to New Orleans’ radiance and darkness as well as an allusion to the tension between beauty and hardship inherent in the city.  

The title of this project comes from elements in a Louisiana Voodoo “cure-all” spell that can solve all one’s problems. Hell’s Bells are poisonous (aka Datura or Jimson weed) and are commonly found in New Orleans.  

Sophie T. Lvoff’s new iteration of Hell’s Bells / Sulfur / Honey opens on Saturday, May 11, 6-10pm, at Good Children Gallery. 4037 St. Claude Ave. // For the New Yorkers: Sophie T. Lvoff is included in a group show at Howard Greenberg Gallery entitled “Scenes From the South,” opening Thursday, May 9, 6-8pm  at 41 E. 57 St, Suite 1406 (at Madison Avenue).   

above: Reynes Street at the Levee, 2012; Delachaise Street, 2012.

May 8, 2013

“Shell Shocked: a documentary about growing up surrounded by gun violence.”​

Free Screenings will be held at:
First Grace United Methodist Church - Friday, 5/10 @ 6pm 
 A.L. Davis Park - Saturday, 5/11 @ 6:30pm

For more information, visit  http://www.shellshockeddoc.com.

May 7, 2013

mauditanglais:

Defend the Daiquiri - May 4th @ Defend New Orleans Store

2nd Annual New Orleans Daiquiri Festival
Saturday, August 18th from 3pm-9pm
4000 St. Claude Avenue (in the Bywater - map)

neworleansdaiquirifestival.com
facebook.com/neworleansdaiquirifestival

May 5, 2013

rustylazer:

1029 Piety St., before The Music Box was built (phase one of #Dithyrambalina)

A creole cottage formerly owned by Mr. Jake (the man in the stencil in the 4th photo)

(via iloveyoulouisiana)

May 4, 2013
Free daiquiri with purchase of a Defend the Daiquiri shirt or tank during our launch party today from 4-7.

Free daiquiri with purchase of a Defend the Daiquiri shirt or tank during our launch party today from 4-7.

May 2, 2013
The Mystery in Old Bathbath will screen at the 2nd annual Giant Puppet Festival.
Marigny Opera House
Sunday, May 5th @ 9pm
Quintron & Miss Pussycat will also be playing a show Friday with Babes, Trampoline Team, KATEY RED.
Siberia
Friday, May 3rd / Doors at 9pm

The Mystery in Old Bathbath will screen at the 2nd annual Giant Puppet Festival.

Marigny Opera House

Sunday, May 5th @ 9pm

Quintron & Miss Pussycat will also be playing a show Friday with Babes, Trampoline Team, KATEY RED.

Siberia

Friday, May 3rd / Doors at 9pm

May 2, 2013
Neal Bodenheimer and Kirk Estopinal of Cure, Bellocq, and Perestroika at Pravda share the best​ places to eat and drink in New Orleans (via Thrillist).

Neal Bodenheimer and Kirk Estopinal of CureBellocq, and Perestroika at Pravda share the best​ places to eat and drink in New Orleans (via Thrillist).

April 30, 2013

April 29, 2013

(Source: hannahjegart, via iloveyoulouisiana)