February 2012
You Look Hungry: Chris Hannah, Beloved New Orleans... →
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Vintage New Orleans Mardi Gras photo, via JanesVanity
Mardi Gras season is in full effect, and it can only mean one, two, or three things:
1.) What are you drinking?
2.) Where’s your King Cake?
3.) What’s your costume?
On today’s episode of U Look Hungry, I’ll be speaking with…
WatchTex Jernigan and Dominique Karwoski will create a large-scale heart for Valentine’s Day. The heart will be constructed out of donated clothes in Bayou St. John beginning at 12:30 Sunday, February 12th. For more details on Spread the Love, visit Tex’s website.
New Orleans Saints TE Jimmy Graham featured in USA...
New Orleans Saints tight end Jimmy Graham, who had a remarkable personal odyssey from foster homes to NFL stardom, will be a part of a USA Network special this Friday evening. The show, to air at 6 p.m., features Graham mentoring a teenager in trouble.
The teenager in question is Ashton Randall, 14, of New Orleans. Randall’s father was murdered and his mother lost custody of him due to ...
5 cocktail recipes from Dave Wondrich's 'Cuban...
Dave Wondrich, drink historian and author of “Imbibe” and “Punch,” two books that delve into the rich history and cultural influence of cocktails, spoke at the Museum of the American Cocktail Monday night.
The seminar explored the cocktail culture of Cuba before, during and after prohibition in America, and was part of the museum’s monthly mixologist series that...
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Local photographer and educator, Aubrey Edwards, will be hosting the first of a series of community photography workshops at her studio in the Treme. The upcoming series will focus on EXPOSURE, and will explain ISO, aperture, and shutter speed individually, as well as how to combine them….
WatchHurray for the Riff Raff needs help to release their next record, Look Out Mama! Visit their Kickstarter for details.
Report places New Orleans' homeless rate at second...
With a homeless population estimated at almost 6,700, the New Orleans metro area has the second-highest rate of homelessness in the nation. So says a new report from the National Alliance to End Homelessness.
The report, which focused on the years 2009 to 2011, found the national rate of homelessness was 21 per 10,000 residents in 2011. New Orleans’ rate was nearly three times the national...
NOPD releases identity of person of interest in...
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New Orleans police have identified a person of interest in the murder of a 41-year-old man in the Desire neighborhood earlier this month.
Labrando Williams, 37, is wanted for questioning in the murder of Eric Robinson, 41, who was found dead Jan. 7 in the 3700 block of North Rocheblave Street.
When police found Robinson’s body, they had been responding to a call of a grass...
January 2012
Katrina breach sites nominated for National...
A grassroots group is pushing to have the sites of two levee breaches during Hurricane Katrina placed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The group’s founder said Thursday that the mission is to change the belief that the storm caused the flooding in New Orleans after Katrina struck in 2005, killing hundreds across six states, with a majority of fatalities in Louisiana.
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Lawmaker: Bring National Guard back to...
New Orleans’ murder rate is 10 times the national rate. There were 199 murders in 2011, and just a few weeks in to 2012, there have been 20 slayings.
What could possibly stop the killing on the streets of New Orleans?
Some city residents — and now, one state lawmaker — are looking back to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina for a solution: They want to call in the National...
Gulf of Mexico oil spill: BP loses bid to make...
A US federal judge has told BP that contractors Transocean and Halliburton do not have to help pay compensation over the Deepwater Horizon oil spill because they are protected by their contracts.
More than 750m litres of oil spewed into the Gulf of Mexico after the undersea well blew out on 20 April 2010 and was not capped until July.
BP, Transocean and Halliburton have been sparring over who...
In The Music Box, New Orleans Residents Hear Hope
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When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in 2005, it left behind a city full of destroyed homes. Despite ongoing rebuilding efforts, thousands of blighted properties remain. Now, a group of artists is creating a structure that is part home, part musical instrument and part inspiration of what can be made of these damaged properties.
The Music Box is a...
New Orleans Arena could become 'Seafood Arena'
Could the New Orleans Arena be getting a new name? A big local industry is considering it, but who it is may surprise you. It’s not a local corporation — it’s the local seafood industry. The Louisiana Seafood Promotion and Marketing Board is considering a sponsorship that would rename the arena the “Louisiana Seafood Arena.” Harlon Pearce with the board said...
Helping the world with Mardi Gras bead mosaics
Stephán Wanger is saving the world, one plastic Mardi Gras bead at a time.
The long center table in Stephan’s Galeria Alegria is lined with dozens of clear cups, each filled with beads in a particular hue. Aquas here, cranberries there, tangerine and shell pink and translucent pearls – a veritable rainbow of bright little orbs, enough to fill a goodly portion of a curbside dumpster, which...
New Orleans Saints defenders never formally told...
Several New Orleans Saints defenders said Tuesday they have not been given any formal word from defensive coordinator Gregg Williams or the franchise about Williams reported departure for the St. Louis Rams. The players conceded they were perplexed by the situation.
Linebacker Jonathan Casillas and defensive end Cameron Jordan both said they learned Williams was likely headed to St. Louis...
“Email from the Mayor:
Dear Colleagues,
This Saturday, our New Orleans Saints...”
New Orleans Fruit Tree Project spreads the wealth
From a massive grapefruit tree from English Turn, volunteers for the New Orleans Fruit Tree Project picked 500 pounds of fruit without even getting on a ladder. All of it went to charity. The concept is simple, founder Megan Nuismer said. “You need a truck and some ladders,” she said, calling the year-old Fruit Tree Project “very Robin Hood-y,” because it spreads the...
Mardi Gras krewe 'tit Rex changes name slightly at...
The micro Carnival marching club formerly known as ‘tit Rex (a shortened form of Petit Rex) will change its name slightly in hopes of avoiding a legal showdown with the 140 year-old Rex parading organization, according to ‘tit Rex president Jeremy Yuslum. In March, a representative of the venerable Rex Carnival krewe instructed the three-year-old ‘tit Rex organization to cease using the...
December 2011
GIBBERJABBER: Work: Standard Supply & Service Co. →
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SS&S Co. was officially formed in January. From our mission statement:
“Standard Supply & Service Co., founded in 2011 by Jac Currie and Jonah Langenbeck, is a creative services studio. SS&S Co. produces retail environments, apparel, products, and events, as well as branding, marketing, and…
Louisiana comes in at No. 1 in ranking of best...
With just 10 days to go before the new year, Hollywood South is closing out 2011 on a high note, topping P3 Update Magazine’s annual ranking of the best states in which to shoot a movie.
The magazine — a Hollywood-based monthly trade publication — compiles its rankings based on “the most attractive combination of tax incentives, crew base, talent pool, infrastructure,...