August 2009
Four Years Later, New Orleans' Green Makeover
After Hurricane Katrina flattened New Orleans exactly four years ago, on Aug. 29, 2005, the city emerged as an inadvertent symbol of global warming, the first American victim of climate change. Over 200,000 homes were destroyed during the Category 5 hurricane. But in the years since, the Crescent City has quietly embraced a new and unexpected role as a laboratory for green building. Sustainable...
A Bittersweet Anniversary
I moved to New Orleans in late August 2007, two years after Katrina and while the city was still very much in recovery mode. Two years later and I can’t imagine living anywhere else (I can confidently say I’m not alone in this sentiment).
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Health clinic keeps New Orleans music alive
By Mark PotterCorrespondentNBC Newsupdated 6:59 p.m. PT, Fri., Aug 28, 2009Mark PotterCorrespondent
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NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana - Bethany Bultman is passionate in her quest to preserve the musical culture which helps define this city’s richness. “Every time you go to iTunes and download Fats Domino or Irma Thomas or Allen Toussaint, they have given their heart and soul. And we...
Grass Roots Put New Orleans Back on Its Feet
NEW ORLEANS — This once-ravaged city is finally mending from Hurricane Katrina after years of administrative delays and political disputes that choked the flow of millions of dollars in federal aid.
Money now flowing through the city is beginning to deliver the most visibly widespread improvements since Katrina struck four years ago today. Scores of public works projects are under way. The...
The State of New Orleans: An Update
THIS year, the Gulf Coast’s recovery from Hurricane Katrina has become President Obama’s responsibility. How bad a situation has he inherited?
The good news is that, on the fourth anniversary of the storm, New Orleans is weathering the recession relatively well. Since June 2008, the metro area has shed only about one percent of its jobs, significantly less than the 4.1 percent of jobs that have...
LSU, Tulane OK revised New Orleans hospital plan
BATON ROUGE, La. — With some outside help, officials at LSU and Tulane University have reached a compromise over governing a new $1.2 billion public teaching hospital for New Orleans, a deal that paves the way for land acquisition to resume.
The revamped governing plan won unanimous approval Thursday from the LSU Board of Supervisors and the Tulane Board of Trustees, finalizing the...
Jamie Foxx brings music, laughs to New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS — Just two days shy of the fourth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, entertainer Jamie Foxx brought some music and laughter to New Orleans with his “Blame It” tour.
Foxx joked with the enthusiastic crowd of thousands at the New Orleans Arena on Thursday night. At one point he pulled women from the mostly female audience on stage to dance with him.
“I’m so...
“The fourth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina is upon us, and New Orleans...”
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New Orleans: A Day's Work Doesn't Mean A Day's Pay
Among the groups that have helped rebuild New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, one that is rarely mentioned is day laborers.
After the storm, tens of thousands of prospective workers came to the city in search of jobs. Casual laborers — hired by the day by homeowners or small contractors — are now an important work force in a city that still has years of rebuilding ahead. The trouble is, many...
On this day in history
On Aug. 28, 1609, English navigator Henry Hudsondiscovered Delaware Bay. In 1833 England’s Parliament banned slavery in the British empire. In 1955 Emmett Till, an African-American teen from Chicago, was abducted from his uncle’s home in Money, Miss., by white men after he supposedly had whistled at a white woman. (His body was found three days later.) In 1963 Martin Luther King...
“Originally businesses contemplating returning to New Orleans following Hurricane...”
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High marks for New Orleans' charter schools
NEW ORLEANS — The devastation of Hurricane Katrina four years ago brought with it many changes for this city, but perhaps its most enduring mark may be the new charter school system that came cascading in during the storm’s aftermath.
Take, for instance, the students at Langston Hughes Academy. Once struggling to meet state testing standards, they’re getting a lot of help to try and...
Probe: New Orleans flood control pumps not...
WASHINGTON — Huge flood-control pumps installed in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina don’t protect the city adequately and the Army Corps of Engineers could have saved $430 million in replacement costs by buying proven equipment, a federal investigation finds.
The investigation by the federal Office of Special Counsel finds there was “little logical justification” for the...
'The Year Before the Flood: A Story of New...
Musician and historian Ned Sublette couldn’t say no to a Tulane University fellowship that brought him and his wife to New Orleans from 2004 to 2005. “We acted as if it wouldn’t be there tomorrow,” Sublette writes in the introduction to “The Year Before the Flood: A Story of New Orleans.” “We couldn’t know we were scrutinizing, day by day, the last...
A Giganitic Trigone Designed for New Orleans
NOAH (New Orleans Arcology Habitat) or Arco(short for arcology), this massive trigone building that contains all the elements of a city within one structure. NOAH is a 1200-foot-tall arco designed especially for New Orleans.NOAH proposes to be a habitat for 40,000 residents who can benefit from the planned residential units, school system, commercial, retail, hotels, casinos, parking, and...
Latest Email from Static Television
We at Static are super excited about this one. Siren Fest was the first festival we have covered since I moved to the New York area. This episode features interviews with Micachu & the Shapes and Brooklyn’s own Bear Hands and a few other surprises along the way. Head to our website to watch the whole episode. All videos are in order of appearance: The Buttons - Roller Rock Tim Exile -...
Gargantuan NOAH 'Ark' Proposed to New Orleans with...
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How do you know when your building plan has gotten unnecessarily crazy and pretentious? When it’s named after a Biblical figure who was fabled to save life as we know it…that might be a clue.
NOAH (New Orleans Arcology Habitat) is a...
Orange couch espresso and muffin. Orders mailed out. Biking through town
Brad Pitt For Mayor of New Orleans?
By NIKKI DOWLING8/15/09, 8:19 AM EDT
Pitt could take a cue from other Hollywood personalities turned politicians.
Since Hurricane Katrina, Brad Pitt’s “Make it Right” foundation has helped so many New Orleans residents that folks are calling for him to run for mayor. Pitt says he doesn’t have a chance, explaining he’s running on the “gay marriage, no religion,...
Generationals song playing at borders bookstore on Louisiana and St Charles
Brad Pitt on the Today Show
Brian Richard in Sydney
Sydney Australia
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Memphis musician Jim Dickinson dies at 67
Originally published 11:02 a.m., August 15, 2009 Updated 11:02 a.m., August 15, 2009
Iconic Memphis musician and producer Jim Dickinson has died.
The 67 year-old Dickinson passed away early Saturday morning in his sleep, according to his wife Mary Lindsay Dickinson. Dickinson had been in ill health for the past few months, and was recuperating from heart surgery at Methodist Extended Care...
News from the Idea Village, a List of News Links...
1012 Corridor A Place of Their Own “If you’re a young, bright entrepreneur, New Orleans looks pretty interesting right now,” [Idea Village CEO Tim] Williamson says. “There aren’t hundreds of thousands of layoffs; there’s actually a growing, entrepreneurial community. We’ve got our coolness, but there’s also a sense of opportunity here, because we’re going through a transformation. “ The...
Hitting this spot for Brunch this weekend...
Fiesta Latina Bar and Grill
133 N. Carrolton Ave. (Mid-City) 504.484.0999. Tuesday through Sunday: 7am to 10pm. Credit Cards. We’ve been suckered in by Galatoire’s alcohol tsunami and Antoine’s mosaic tile floor, yet the value — economic, social and psychological — of a small, divy-type restaurant remains. The Fiesta Latina Bar and Grill is a cozy new...
Timothy McSweeney's Summer Garage Sale is here....
Timothy McSweeney’s Summer Garage Sale is here. Almost all titles are just $5, a few are $3, and yet fewer are $10.
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About Voices From the Storm: The People of New Orleans on Hurricane Katrina and Its Aftermath.
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In the late summer of 2005, Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast, leveling entire cities and leaving others...
Screening at Peaches Tomorrow
The Dead Weather Film Screening at Peaches Records (408 N. Peters Street)
This Saturday, August 15th come to Peaches Records for an all day film screening of Jack White’s new band, The Dead Weather, starting at 12pm. Come beat the heat and enjoy free Peaches granitas (while supplies last) from the Peaches Cafe during the screening! The 30 minute film will be continually broadcast...
“Hard to say.. I ripped them all up.”
– Dj Pasta’s response to the question, “which city on your tour has been the best so far?”
In Crisis New Orleans Cuts Mental Health Efforts
The only hospital in New Orleans providing in-patient mental health treatment will close next month despite an epidemic of psychological problems plaguing the hurricane-ravaged city.
Even as it faces a skyrocketing suicide rate and increases in cases of depression and post-traumatic stress, the Gulf Coast city is slated to lose the New Orleans Adolescent Hospital, which has been the center for...
Rapper C-Murder Faces Life In Prison After Final...
Rapper Corey “C-Murder” Miller — a former No Limit rapper and the youngest brother of Master P (Percy Miller) and Silkk the Shocker (Vyshonn Miller) — was found guilty of second-degree murder on Tuesday (Aug. 11), a verdict stemming from a fan shooting that dates back to 2002. He faces a mandatory life sentence in prison.
Miller had been charged with killing 16-year-old...
New Generationals Video
Directed by our good friend Daryn DeLuco. Shot in the LGD in New Orleans, LA in April 2009.
Louisiana pushes for New Orleans-Baton Rouge...
BATON ROUGE (AP) — The state is working on plans to seek about $300 million from the federal government to launch passenger railroad service between Baton Rouge and New Orleans.
Similar proposals have failed, including two tries since Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005.
This plan faces major hurdles too. One is how the state would come up with $18 million per year to operate the rail...
New Orleans rapper C-Murder's murder trial begins
GRETNA, La. — Opening arguments are under way in the murder trial of Corey Miller, a New Orleans rapper known as C-Murder.
It took only two days to seat 12 jurors and two alternates before testimony began Wednesday, although the defense had argued it would be impossible to get a fair jury in Jefferson Parish, where the slaying took place.
Miller is charged with second-degree murder in the Jan....
Ex-Rep. Jefferson Convicted in Bribery Scheme
WASHINGTON — Former Representative William J. Jefferson was convicted Wednesday afternoon of using his office to try to enrich himself and relatives through a web of bribes and payoffs involving business ventures in Africa.
A federal court jury in Alexandria, Va., deliberated for five days before finding Mr. Jefferson, 62, a New Orleans Democrat who served in Congress for 18 years until being...
