September 2007
THE POINTS PLAY THE SATURN BAR
MISSISSIPPI AERIAL RIVER TRANSIT »> FROM THE 1984 WORLD EXPO »>
ARTIFACTS FROM OLD PROGRESSIVE NEW ORLEANS
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THIS IS NOT POSTED WITH ANY SORT OF AGENDA OR...
“SUNDAY STYLES SUNDAY STYLES SUNDAY STYLES IS BACK”
SUNDAY STYLES... ONE DAY LATE, WHATEVER
JAN ROCKING A SATURN BAR SHIRT ON STAGE AT WHITE TRASH IN BERLIN. AWESOME.
THOUSANDS MARCH ON JENA
Hailing from as far as England, protesters arrived at sunrise by the busload to rally behind the “Jena Six,” as the accused teens have come to be known, in a legal case that has drawn worldwide attention. The marchers, many of whom traveled overnight from cities such as Detroit, Philadelphia and New York, held hands and walked eight abreast, shouting, “No justice, no...
OLD NEWS, PRE JENA SX RALLY UPDATES:
http://blog.nola.com/updates/2007/09/activists_mobilizing_to_suppor.html
FROM ROBERT THOMPSON OF FAIR GRINDS COFFEESHOP:
PLEASE SUPPORT OUR FRIEND IBBY CAPUTO:This Saturday, friends and well-wishers of Ibby Caputo are encouraged to come by Fair Grinds Coffeehouse (3133 Ponce deleon) and participate in a giant well-wishing campaign. Borrowing from Abram Himelstein’s creative 100 T-Shirt art project, we will have blank T-shirts for interested persons to decorate with an orginal thought, message, joke,...
K-VILLE PREMIERS TONIGHT
FROM DAVE WALKER OF THE TIMES PIC: The big risks to New Orleans right now, at least when it comes to how the national media (including the entertainment media) portray it, are that the city will be forgotten or too well remembered. “K-Ville” will do its small part, for as long as it airs, to ensure that the prime-time-viewing nation, at least, won’t forget what happened and...
GO TO THE JENA SIX RALLY
FROM USA TODAY: The NAACP expects as many as 60,000 people from more than 30 cities to descend this week on Jena, La., a poor, rural community of 3,000 at the center of a racially charged case involving six black high school students charged with beating a white classmate. The case of the “Jena Six” has attracted national attention. It began in August when a student asked during a...
HERE'S A REPOSTING FROM PROJECT DIGNITY
Well, We are almost complete with our first day of Project Dignity. WOW, is just not enough to cover the experience. We have been working on the Martinez school. This school house was established over 77 years ago. Numa Martinez (my father) will be on the radio again on Sept. 13th at 1:30pm http://www.blogtalkradio.com /Martinez to discuss the recovery of the school in more detail. This...
EXCELLENT VILLAGE VOICE EDITORIAL CENTERED AROUND...
Mending the Levees Terence Blanchard plots New Orleans’ requiem and rebirthby Larry Blumenfeld …..I had headphones on, listening to trumpeter Terence Blanchard’s new Blue Note CD, A Tale of God’s Will (A Requiem for Katrina). But also rattling around my head was what Blanchard had told me months ago, when I visited his uptown home: “This president has gotten away...
TELFAR CLEMENS' NEW COLLECTION NOW ONLINE
TELFAR: spring / summer 08 show online. HERE: www.youtube.com/user/TelfarClemens AHD HIS URL: TELFAR.NET
ABSOLUTENEWORLEANS
Absolut has introduced a limited-release vodka, Absolut New Orleans, and will donate 100 percent of the profits to Gulf Coast rebuilding efforts. Only 35,000 cases of Absolut New Orleans have been produced. Sales will benefit the New Orleans Habitat for Humanity, Hands on Gulf Coast, Volunteer Mobile, Tipitina’s Foundation and the Louisiana Restaurant Association Education Foundation....
YOUNG JOHN YOUNG TO RUN AGAINST HIS FATHER...
THIS COULD BE OLD NEWS BY NOW„„„ Perhaps the oddest development Thursday was the entry of John Young into the Parish Counci’ls Division A at-large race against his father, John Young Jr. The son, a 22-year-old film student at the University of New Orleans, would not discuss his father’s performance office since taking office in 2004. “I know I’m very...
SORRY TO GET SO POLITICAL LATELY, BUT WE ALL KNOW...
NAGIN NOT RUNNING FOR GOV...
Many in Nagin’s city were surprised he was even considering a run, with more than 2 1/2 years left in his second term, a painfully slow hurricane recovery effort in the city and a gubernatorial candidate — U.S. Rep. Bobby Jindal — who has held a commanding lead in polls. READ IT HERE
BUSH, NAGIN, AND BLANCO FOUND GUILTY OF CRIMES...
see the story here
FROM THE DNO LIVE JOURNAL:
FEMA considering changes to Relocation Assistance program Sep. 7th, 2007 | 08:49 am Dear New Orleanians, In direct response to my concerns regarding the Feb. 1, 2006 start date on their new Relocation Assistance program, FEMA is strongly considering (NOTE: considering) revisions to the policy. I’ve received two phone calls over the last day FROM members of the Individual and...
“SAINTS ONLINE:”
– blackandgold.com neworleanssaints.com
FROM USA TODAY: SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE HOSTS CULTURE...
Smithsonian Magazine will host CultureFest Oct. 26-28 in New Orleans in partnership with the Louisiana Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism. CultureFest is one of the magazine’s signature events, and typically draws several thousand visitors. It has previously been held in Minneapolis, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Santa Fe and Portland, Ore., among other locales. The event will...
“NO INSPECTOR GENERAL BEGINS WORK TODAY.”
– NOLA.COM
MY FRIEND PETER EMAILED ME THIS EXCERT FROM...
New Orleans, my beloved hometown, is “dying,” said Brian Schwaner in the Associated Press. Two years after being devastated by Hurricane Katrina, the Big Easy is still a cesspool of physical ruin, broken lives, and neglect. More than 160,000 residents—about 40 percent of the population—have left, probably never to return. Once-flourishing middle-class neighborhoods are rotting ghost towns, choked...
FROM NY TIMES:
NEW ORLEANS — Maxine Cassin, a prominent local poet, thought her homeowners insurance would be more than enough to cover the $100,000 of hurricane damage to her Uptown house here. But two years after Hurricane Katrina hit, Ms. Cassin and her husband, Joseph, are still stranded far from home; their insurer has offered them just $41,000. Emile J. Labat III, a funeral home owner and real estate...
FREE THE JENA "6"
Jena, Louisiana. In the need of some National Attention and Justice. Read a good entry and watch the corresponding video about the Jena 6 Buy a T SHIRT. Support the mission and the fund.
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After Katrina, hope and despair coexist
66% are back in New Orleans, but basic services still lag
