October 2009
New Orleans tops 10 categories in favorite cities...
New Orleans is America’s favorite place to escape for a wild weekend and antique shopping, according to Travel + Leisure’s annual survey of “America’s Favorite Cities.”
The Big Easy reigned atop 10 categories in the survey, which was conducted over three months and counted 60,000 votes, from local residents and visitors, who were asked what they liked and...
Forecast: 35, 800 New Louisiana Jobs Over 2 Years
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — After years of a moribund economy, Monroe will add jobs at the fastest pace in Louisiana in 2010 and 2011, while New Orleans will stagger through its post-Hurricane Katrina recovery with the slowest employment growth.
That’s the analysis of university economists who issued a two-year jobs forecast Wednesday.
Louisiana will add 17,800 non-farm jobs in 2010, a growth...
Miss America Visits New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Miss America 2009 Katie Stam is in Louisiana to talk about the importance of community service in an area that can really use it - storm-wrecked New Orleans.
Stam is spending Wednesday in eastern New Orleans, where she will meet with volunteers helping in recovery efforts from hurricanes Katrina and Rita four years ago. She will talk to students in the Recovery School...
“If anything, New Orleans is maybe stronger and better than ever. Katrina was an...”
– Chef Besh quoted in My San Antonio
PHILLIS WHEATLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Floating above Creole cottages and Victorian shotgun houses of the Tremé/Lafitte neighborhood of New Orleans is the glass-and-steel Phillis Wheatley Elementary School. In 1954, the architect Charles Colbert constructed an elevated cantilevered steel truss structure to provide an expansive shaded playground area, protecting the schoolchildren from the tropical climate. Progressive for a school...
No crowd of mayoral candidates in New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS — By most expectations, the New Orleans mayoral race should have had a passel of candidates by now, all elbowing for attention and funds.
Instead, only three candidates have officially announced their intentions to run, and the contest to replace Mayor Ray Nagin is being tagged in local news reports as “the incredible shrinking mayor’s race.”
In a crucial time in...
In New Orleans, Home Floats To Withstand Floods
The Make It Right Foundation will unveil a house Tuesday in New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward, which was largely wiped away by floodwaters after Hurricane Katrina. The house is different from others in the neighborhood that were rebuilt after the hurricane: It floats.
The house is the brainchild of Morphosis Architects and its founder, Thom Mayne, winner of the prestigious Pritzker...
Jindal rejects $300 million in stimulus money for...
BATON ROUGE — Gov. Bobby Jindal is at odds with a fellow Louisiana Republican over the governor’s decision not to seek $300 million in federal stimulus money for a high-speed rail line between New Orleans and Baton Rouge.
Like other governors, Jindal had a midnight Friday deadline to submit an application for the money. But Jindal aides have said the administration is not applying because...
New Orleans: Who Calls the Shots?
The good news: one day before the office was to expire, President Obama extended the life of the Gulf Coast Recovery “Czar” (don’t tell Glenn Beck) for another six months.
The bad news: according to her interview with Sunday’s Times-Picayune, the occupant of that office, Janet Woodka, who supposedly should be coordinating the efforts of federal agencies to facilititate...
Members of the local United States Bartenders...
WHO:Bartender Benefit WHAT:Members of the New Orleans Bartenders Guild are swirling Herbsaint and pouring Sazerac rye in honor of their fellowcolleague and Chicago USBG member Kyle McHugh. 100% of each Sazerac cocktail and Sazerac Rye purchased will go to Kyle McHugh’s medical fund and bartenders are donating 100% of all tips generated that evening. WHEN:Monday, October 5,...
God's Architects at NOFF
Our friend Zack Godshall (Director of Low and Behold) has a new documentary that will be playing at this year’s New Orleans Film Festival. We saw an early version of the film and really fell in love with it. We highly suggest you try to see this.
God’s Architects is a documentary that tells the stories of five divinely inspired artist-architects and their enigmatic...
Fo’ an’ oh!
Landmark Theatres is out at Canal Place Cinema,...
It appears that the last picture show before the Canal Place Cinema closes for its multimillion-dollar facelift will come a bit later than previously expected.
Landmark Theatres, which has operated the four-screen art house theater in The Shops at Canal Place since 1988, is still set to cease operation of the facility Monday (Sept. 7) as previously announced, ahead of the theater’s $4...
