WITH SPECIAL GUEST DJ DARY FROM NYC AND THE VELCRO BOYS FROM BATON ROUGE + LIVE ELECTRO WITH KID MIDI (LAF.) AND POORBOYS (NOLA)
On May 31, 2008, In /, By dno
On May 31, 2008, In /, By dno
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On May 31, 2008, In Video, By dno
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On May 29, 2008, In /, By dno
PHOTO: DAVID GRUNFELD / THE TIMES PICAYUNE
Betsy McDaniel, owner of Betsy’s Pancake House on Canal Street, helps President Bush off a step after the two ate pancakes for breakfast, Tuesday, August 29, 2006 one year after Hurricane Katrina.
The owner of the popular Betsy’s Pancake House in Mid-City has died, just days after she was brutally attacked in Marrero home.
Crimestoppers has substantially increased its reward for information about the recent killing of New Orleans businesswoman Betsy McDaniel, 72, after an anonymous donation from a Jefferson Parish businessman.
McDaniel was pronounced dead at about 6:20 p.m. Wednesday at West Jefferson Medical Center, said Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office spokesman John Fortunato. Investigators now consider McDaniel’s attack a murder, he said. No arrests have been made in the case.
“It was classified as a murder as soon as she succombed to her injuries,” Fortunato said.
McDaniel’s daughter, Mary Murdock, confirmed her mother’s death this morning, but declined comment.
“I’d like to rest,” she said.
By 8:40 a.m., a handful of mourners had already visited the Canal Street restaurant, laying flower pots and bouquets on the diner’s doorstep. A bouquet of pink roses hung on the door handle, near a sign that read “closed due to a family emergency.”
Several patrons who pulled up to the restaurant expressed surprise when they learned of McDaniel’s passing.
“Oh my God. No,” said Alejandro Vargas, who owns a body shop on Magazine Street. “I come at least twice a week. Whenever I was late, Betsy used to say, ‘Why’d you take so long this morning?’ “
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On May 28, 2008, In /, By dno
Greetings!!
Just emailing you to let you know I recieved my order on Monday!
Thank you so much for all your co-operation, it was well worth the wait!
New Orleans, I love you.
=)
Caroline
Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 14:18:00 -0700
From: defendneworleans@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: International Order Not Arrived
On May 28, 2008, In /, By dno
NEW ORLEANS — Mayor C. Ray Nagin recently suggested a way to reduce this city’s post-Katrina homeless population: give them one-way bus tickets out of town.
Mr. Nagin later insisted the off-the-cuff proposal was just a joke. But he has portrayed the dozens of people camped in a tent city under a freeway overpass near Canal Street as recalcitrant drug and alcohol abusers who refuse shelter, give passers-by the finger and, worst of all, hail from somewhere else.
While many of the homeless do have addiction problems or mental illness, a survey by advocacy groups in February showed that 86 percent were from the New Orleans area. Sixty percent said they were homeless because of Hurricane Katrina, and about 30 percent said they had received rental assistance at one time from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Not far from the French Quarter, flanking Canal Street on Claiborne Avenue, they are living inside a long corridor formed not of walls and a roof but of the thick stench of human waste and sweat tinged with alcohol, crack and desperation.
The inhabitants are natives like Ronald Gardner, 54, an H.I.V.-positive man who said he had never before slept on the streets until Katrina. Or Ronald Berry, 57, who despite being a paranoid schizophrenic said he had lived on his own, in a rented house in the Lower Ninth Ward, for a dozen years before the storm. Both men receive disability checks of $637 a month, not nearly enough to cover post-hurricane rents.
“If I could just get a warm room,” Mr. Gardner said, sitting on the cot under which all his belongings are stored, “I could take it from there.”
On May 26, 2008, In /, By dno
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“”Damn, we just can’t enough of Brooklyn-by-way-of-Kingston-Jamaica’s 77Klash these days. His beats are to us what donuts and coffee are to cops. Precious and yet imperative to get us through the day. (ok maybe it’s too early in the AM for analogies).
This time, we’re giving you a grand tour of 77Klash’s Klashcity Record label- with 3 tracks displaying his indie label’s mad diversity.”“
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CHECK OUT THIS SWARM RMX
On May 26, 2008, In /, By dno
On May 26, 2008, In Photo, By dno
This cover art is just too good… Designed by someone’s 9 year old and some dude from Rockers NYC.