April 2011
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New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival opens Friday
For fans of its distinct mix of music, heritage, food and sheer laid-back atmosphere, the wait is over: The 42nd edition of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival opens its two-weekend run on Friday, April 29.
As always, the event presents a massive spread of acts playing musical styles distinct to Louisiana, from jazz to funk to zydeco. Jazz Fest also has a tradition of honoring other...
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City To Vote On Congo Square Name Restoration
NEW ORLEANS — District C Councilmember Kristin Gisleson Palmer said the city council will vote Thursday on officially restoring the name of Congo Square.
“Congo Square is a very important part of our city’s history and culture. It is a place where enslaved Africans celebrated their heritage through song and dance,” Palmer said in a press release.For 100 years, the...
Landrieu, in state-of-the-city speech, announces...
NEW ORLEANS — Lamenting violence that claimed 175 lives in New Orleans last year and 72 so far this year, Mayor Mitch Landrieu has announced creation of the Mayoral Strategic Command, which he described as a “war room” to combat murder.
Landrieu, nearing the end of his first year in office, made the announcement Thursday in his state-of-the-city speech.
Landrieu announced the...
Watchweareconstance:
New Orleans’ David Sullivan explores our relationship with the oil industry in his latest series of painterly video explorations.
above: Bubble Pop, 2010. HD animation with sound. Courtesy of Pelican Bomb.
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Louisiana’s Zydeco Trail
I HAD never noticed how closely the syncopated rhythm of zydecomusic echoes the rollicking stumble of horses on rough terrain. But on a September afternoon in the piney woods of Evangeline Parish, in Louisiana’s Cajun country, with hundreds of dusty horseback riders moving down a narrow trail, the kinship was impossible to miss. As the horses followed a tractor towing a D.J. and a zydeco-blaring...
Happy birthday to John James Audubon
nolanews:
Google’s doodle of the day celebrates the famed naturalist and taxidermist’s 226th birthday.
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Cops really do know their doughnuts, as three NOPD...
photo by Rusty Costanza, Times Picayune
On the first Friday of April, bunches of blue balloons announced the opening of Blue Dot Donuts in Mid-City. They really weren’t necessary.
For weeks, eager doughnut eaters kept tabs on the about-to-open Canal Street shop. Some monitored Facebook for clues. Others cased the corner spot by car.
“I came by every day, ” said a woman...
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Poll: Large, national majority wants oil spill...
An overwhelming majority of likely voters across the country and across the political spectrum support congressional action to direct oil spill fines to the Gulf Coast, according to survey results released Monday.
More than 4 in 5 respondents nationwide said that the spill penalties should go to “restoration of the Mississippi River Delta and Gulf Coast” rather than to broader...
Where The Tuba Lives: 5 New Orleans Songs...
The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival begins Friday, and music fans from all over the world will flock to the city’s racetrack for seven days of music. A lot of things make New Orleans a one-of-a-kind music town, but one is the tuba, the monstrous brass instrument worn like a python squeezing its victim. When jazz began there after WWI, the tuba supplied the rhythmic bottom. As the...
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Jean-Eric music video for "Ooh Ah Ah"
In 3D (intended to be viewed with red/blue 3D glasses)
and 2D
“I only made it two weeks on tour. I remember New Orleans because I got really...”
– Molly Ringwald in this week’s New York.
[New York mag, pitchfork]
(via the20s)
HEAD ABOVE WATER - A Response to the BP Drilling...
Community Records in conjunction with the Gulf Restoration Network released a free compilation in response to the anniversary of the BP drilling disaster.
Track list:
01 A Billion Ernies – Lucky You ** 02 Dan Potthast – Eat The Planet 03 Laura Stevenson – Landslide Song/The Dig 04 Caddywhompus – Let The Water Hit The Floor 05 Screaming Females – I Don’t Mind It 06 Mike Park – Rise...
Designer Billy Reid has new collection for J.Crew
Designer Billy Reid grew up in Amite and attended Southeastern Louisiana University. When he’s in New York, he uses his funky, almost-underground store as his home base. Home, though, now is in Alabama in an old house full of family treasures. (AP Photo/Stephen Chernin)
Louisiana native Billy Reid has a new seven-piece menswear collection offered through J.Crew.
Reid, who grew up in...
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Ground broken on New Orleans mega hospital
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Despite funding worries, ground has been broken on a $1.2 billion hospital in the heart of New Orleans to replace one shuttered by Hurricane Katrina flooding.
The groundbreaking was held on Monday in a parking lot where part of the hospital will be built. It will serve as a teaching hospital for medical students and a primary health center for the New Orleans region.
The...
A Love Affair with an Historic Home in New Orleans
My love affair with the S.W. Green house is, perhaps, my fondest memory of New Orleans. Discovering this architectural gem was the crowning achievement of my college years. I discovered – or I should say – stumbled upon the Green mansion while skateboarding one hot, sunny afternoon in 1996, my junior year. I’d been living, to my Mom’s dismay, off-campus in the French Quarter. (This was early...
Standard Supply & Service Co.: Standard Supply &... →
standardsupply:
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 interactive projects for select clients. The resulting spaces and objects are…
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Second Line Jump : New Orleans brass bands and... →
claytoncubitt:
“While the “golden age” of rap-brass band collaboration may have passed, the combination remains a compelling example of the connections between second line culture and local rap in New Orleans. However, there are other, less obvious, lines of influence. Exposure to brass band music may be responsible for the melodic qualities that often mark the vocal performances of New Orleans...
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The Gulf Spill One Year Later from the NYT
The Counselor: Foreign Land, Familiar Words
In the weeks after the oil spill, Tuan Nguyen visited 15 towns around the Gulf Coast to seek out Vietnamese fishermen whose lack of English made their sudden loss of livelihood even more daunting. By some estimates, as many as one-fourth to one-third of Louisiana’s 12,400 licensed commercial fishermen immigrated from Vietnam.
As deputy director of...
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Many Hit by Spill Now Feel Caught in Claim Process
BAYOU LA BATRE, Ala. — By October, Tim Nguyen found that his work in a Mississippi shipyard was no longer paying the bills. His hours had been cut back, part of the general ebb of work along the Gulf Coast after the terrible summer of BP.
Mr. Nguyen went to an office of the Gulf Coast Claims Facility, which was set up to administer BP’s $20 billion fund for coastal businesses and residents.
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