September 2008
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::TONIGHT:: Static, Static Static
The premiere party for the new episode of Static Television is tonight at the Saint from 8pm-10pm.
Then head over to the Circle Bar for Static Static from Los Angeles. If you missed their show on Friday night with Rock City Morgue, you missed a lot.
ONE OF OUR FAVORITE ARTISTS WORKING WITH A...
CHECK OUT CHRISTOPHER WOOL FOR SUPREME
In 1987, Christopher Wool began his black and white stenciled word paintings. Wool carefully chose words and phrases for these pieces and the letter composition he applied set his work apart from the stencil art category. Examples like “Riot”, “Prankster”, or “Sell The House Sell The Car Sell The Kids” force viewers to go one step beyond reading into...
Behind the Bar Presented by Tales of the Cocktail...
“Behind the Bar” is an exhibit of photographs taken in New Orleans bars and restaurants that convey the “spirit” behind cocktail culture in New Orleans. The month long exhibit will display photographs selected by a panel of judges including award winning photographer and author, Kerri McCaffety and designer and author, Phillip Collier. WHAT: Behind the Bar Photo Exhibit Opening Reception Enjoy...
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THIS IS THE LAST WEEK TO REGISTER TO VOTE
If you don’t register to vote by Monday, October 6th, you will not be able to vote in the presidential elections on Tuesday, November 4th.
Read the post below to see another important item to vote for on November 4th.
You can go to your local DMV, or your local Voter Registrar’s office to register in person. Here’s a parish by parish breakdown of Louisiana Voter...
“ “The chief advantage (giving the plan the force of law) has for everybody...”
– David Dixon of Goody Clancy, the Boston planning and architectural firm hired by the City Planning Commission to complete the master planning and zoning projects (read below)
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Hundreds gather to start work on blueprint for...
When more than 200 New Orleanians convened Saturday to begin creating a citywide master plan and overhauling the city’s zoning law, reminders of planning processes past sparked a certain air of deja vu.
The round tables, poster boards and fast-disappearing complimentary pastries; the familiar mix of community leaders, activists and planning enthusiasts; and the use of buzzwords such as...
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Photo Gallery: Rebuilding New Orleans -- Visions...
A National Geographic Article from May of 2006 shows images of several proposed projects for rebuilding New Orleans.
We’re pretty sure all of these have been forgotten…
A proposal for a New Orleans public school evokes what the designers call the “flows and rhythms” of the neighborhood it would serve. The design, by Charleston, S.C.-based Huff + Gooden Architects,...
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:::TONIGHT:::
Ballzack @ One Eyed Jack’s
Unless you're on a laptop sitting outside, you...
The forecast for the next few days calls for mild temperatures and no rain, with highs today in the mid-80s and lows in the mid-60s, according to the National Weather Service.
That’s expected to be the pattern through the weekend and into next week, the weather service said.
Highs Thursday will be in the low 80s and lows from 62 to 67.
The remainder of the week should see highs in the...
“2 art projects proposed for French Quarter fail to win VCC favor”
– WHY?
TONIGHT AT THE CAC
LOW AND BEHOLD AT 7:30 PM
Directed by Zack Godshall, Cinematography by Daryn DeLuco
VISIT THE OFFICIAL SITE > > >
“ “New Orleans, too, could become a bold vision — a laboratory for how to...”
– READ BELOW
“ “When the government has been involved, it has often shown a callous...”
– READ BELOW
Reflections: New Orleans and China
For Americans watching events unfold on television late last month, the arduous evacuation of New Orleans and the grandeur of the Olympic Games couldn’t have made for a starker contrast.
However one feels about its other policies, the Chinese government is clearly not afraid to invest in the future of its cities. The array of architecture it created for the Beijing Olympics was only part of a...
Saints List 7 Players Out for Sunday
by Doug MIller, NewOrleansSaints.com Friday, September 12, 2008 - 2:31 PM
The New Orleans Saints today placed linebacker Mark Simoneau on injured reserve with a lingering back injury that Head Coach Sean Payton said would require surgery. Payton likened to the procedure Simoneau will undergo as similar to the surgery that TE Mark Campbell had last season.
In...
Ruthie the Duck Girl
Ruthie the Duck Girl, a French Quarter eccentric who zoomed from bar to bar on roller skates, often wearing a ratty fur coat and long skirt and trailed by a duck or two, died Sept. 6 at Our Lady of the Lake Hospital in Baton Rouge. She was 74.
Ruthie, whose real name was Ruth Grace Moulon, had been suffering from cancer of the mouth and lungs when the residents of her Uptown New Orleans...
New Orleans Mentioned in this Lame Survey:
Las Vegas and New Orleans took the top spots as best city for a wild weekend, and Washington, D.C., was voted tops for historical sites/monuments. But Los Angeles residents may have a problem with being ranked last in the friendliest people and most intelligent people categories.
If you want friendly, you can’t do any better than Charleston, South Carolina, and if you’re looking...
Prospect 1 Presentation at Good Children Gallery...
Good Children Gallery is pleased to announce a preview presentation of Prospect.1,
given by curator Dan Cameron.
During the talk, Dan Cameron will preview plans for the event,
present images of some of the artwork, and answer questions from the audience.
Time and place:
Thursday Sept. 11th 6 p.m.
Good Children Gallery 4037 St. Claude Ave
“Maybe we are all just a bit hurt that our friends and family have to hear about...”
– Evelyn Hays retired medical assistant Denham Springs
in a letter to the editor of the advocate > > >
Loose storm barges in New Orleans from 1 company
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A single scrap metal company was responsible for about 70 barges and ships that floated loose in a major New Orleans canal during Hurricane Gustav, with at least a few threatening floodwalls and a bridge, the U.S. Coast Guard said.
The Coast Guard said Monday it was investigating whether Southern Scrap Recycling followed a plan for securing ships and barges before a dangerous...
The Economic Case for New Orlean
Yet again, thanks to the Solons in the media, we engage in reminding our fellow Americans that New Orleans’ survival is critical to the economic wellbeing of the nation.
Some commentators have criticized any notion of sending further hurricane recovery dollars to South Louisiana, despite the vast improvements in evacuation, safety, and coordination our leaders and populace demonstrated...
“The emergency declaration will extend from Sept. 6 to Oct. 5 unless Jindal ends...”
– wdsu »
Jindal declares state of emergency for Hurricane Ike
TONIGHT
Soiree. Wear a bathing suit and a trenchcoat-
“Let’s get to the point of this interview: You’re a garbage man, but...”
– Chris Rose’s 60 Second interview with Sidney Torres IV
ENTERGY COMMENTS ON NOLA.COM
Posted by Metry70005 on 09/05/08 at 8:56AM
Entergy needs some competition. Very few other businesses can monopolize a catagory. Entergy has almost always posted large profits and returns to its shareholders. Entergy needs to do the job they are getting paid to do. You’d think after all their moaning and groaning from Katrina and the large amounts they were given by the Feds they’d...
New Orleans Residents Can Return, Mayor Says
“This is going to be a continued challenge going forward,” Mr. Nagin said. “Some...”
– Mayor’s quote from this NYTimes
We got this email today from our pal Jimmy Stamp...
great job on keeping the DNO blog up-to-date! It seems like the media is almost disappointed things weren’t worse. that’s fucked up. - j
He’s an architect. Used to live here. Runs this blog: Life Without Buildings.
“Seriously. We got power and drinks and the internet and a couple working traffic...”
“COME ON BACK Y’ALL!”
– New Orleans residents can re-enter > > >
“Anderson Cooper and his various competitors were roaming the Quarter Monday...”
– Chris Rose
SIDNEY TORRES FOR MAYOR
CHRIS ROSE SAYS:
Tuesday morning brought a familiar sight to French Quarter residents: The jet black SDT Waste and Debris trucks and street sweepers out on the streets in force, cleaning up.
These guys are amazing. I’ve said it before, can I say it again: Sidney Torres for Mayor? If a man can keep the French Quarter clean, even the day after a hurricane, I believe he’s up to saving...
No Thanks to Times Pic and others for focussing on...
Nagin: Re-entry only days away, not weeks
“If the same weather patterns hold up as they have been, we could see Ike making...”
– Defeatism
DRAINAGE
The city’s drainage work is being handled by the New Orleans sewerage and water board, which mans 30 pumping stations around the city. Those stations have a combined capacity to drain an olympic-sized swimming pool in a couple of seconds. But even so, the pumping can only lower floodwater levels in the city by six inches an hour once pumping is fully under way.
FROM THE NYTIMES >...
“Re-entry? Wednesday at the earliest”
– NOLA.COM
LATEST TEXT MESSAGE FROM SAVANNAH IN THE LGD:
Power’s on, bbq for dinner, booze in tha freezer.
Fucking curfew!
“Saints want to play in the dome on Sunday”
– Nola.com
Entergy Power Maps
If you’re an Entergy customer you can CLICK HERE to see a map that will tell you if your house has power or not. (in theory at least, it’s not working too well now, but we hope it will improve over the next day).
MINOR FLOODING IN UPPER NINTH... BUT IT LOOKS LIKE...
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As much as six inches of flooding has been reported in the Upper 9th Ward from water splashing over the western side of the Industrial Canal floodwall, said Jerry Sneed, New Orleans director of homeland security and emergency preparedness.
Army Corps of Engineers officials said the spillage does not pose a major threat.
Water is overtopping for several hundred yards on the Upper Ninth Ward...
“Since the bulk of the storm remains over LA we won’t have a full...”
– FEMA
“Loose vessels in the harbor are not endangering flood walls or levies.”
– Army Corps of Engineers
“This was a category 2 storm, and there was no serious damage from what we can...”
– FEMA
WATER TOPS INDUSTRIAL CANAL BARRIER | VIDEO
‘We’re confident in the stability of that wall.’
