Hey,
I’m sure its a hectic time for yall (w./ Gustav looming) but thats why I felt now was the perfect moment to buy a little piece of the city I miss. I was hoping you could tell me whether the t-shirt distributor is located in NOLA bc if that is the case then you probably won’t be able to process my order before the hurricane makes land-fall (in which case I’ll cancel my order and wait for a better time). Thanks, stay safe, and best of luck.
-Celine Gaston
On August 30, 2008, In /, By dno
On August 29, 2008, In /, By dno
FREE SCREENING OF THE TREME DOCUMENTARY!
@ 7PM ~~ Co-Directors Dawn Logsdon and Lolis Eric Elie, and Producer Lucie Faulknor will be there.
Dawn was the editor on the Academy Award nominated documentary, The Weather Underground.
Lolis is a columnist for the Times Picayune.
Lucie used to be the manager for Four Non Blondes.
On August 28, 2008, In /, By dno
On August 28, 2008, In /, By dno
On August 28, 2008, In /, By dno
Gustav Weak, Edging Away from Haiti James Wilson, Lead Meteorologist, The Weather Channel 11:30 p.m. ET 8/27/2008
Gustav made landfall along the southern coast of Haiti yesterday afternoon as a hurricane, then weakened to a tropical storm overnight. The storm is creeping westward now, away from the rugged terrain of Haiti’s southwestern peninsula, and is likely to restrengthen.
View the Gustav Tracker.
On August 26, 2008, In /, By dno
THE two fighters cradle their birds on either side of the dirt pit. The roosters peck sharply at the air, their instincts revved for combat. But before the referee starts the first match of the night, he grabs a microphone and addresses the 200 or so spectators.
“If there are any law enforcement officers in the house tonight, please stand up and identify yourselves,” asks the referee, who goes by the name Woodchopper.
When nobody stands, Woodchopper continues: “I just say this so we can all relax and have a good time. You know there are three bills against us in the Legislature and it doesn’t look good. All I know is they’re trying to take away something that we all love.”
The crowd cheers in agreement, then starts whooping and hollering in anticipation of another long night of cockfighting at the Atchafalaya Game Club, an arena-style pit housed in an old potato shed in Henderson, La.
The club, smack in the middle of Cajun country, is one of the biggest and busiest in the state, but Woodchopper’s words carry the strain of a tradition that is in its twilight.
On August 26, 2008, In Quote, By dno
The assets of seashore, breeze, greenery and culture that defined Pass Christian before Katrina are still there.
On August 26, 2008, In /, By dno
Historic Pass Christian hopes to rebuild a town with style
by Bruce Nolan, The Times-Picayune
Three years after Hurricane Katrina nearly scraped Pass Christian off the face of the earth, the historic vacation retreat has crafted a novel rebuilding plan, but finds itself burdened by expensive insurance and a national economic slump that make a grueling recovery even harder.
Its challenges are unmistakable. At one level Pass Christian, like the rest of the Mississippi Gulf Coast, looks like a savagely burned patient three years after a near-lethal fire. Scar tissue is everywhere.
The city administration still occupies temporary trailers. A third of the population is gone. Vacant lots pockmark the town’s interior. Its commercial base is paper thin, with only a handful of restaurants and no retail district of any kind. There is no grocery store.
Only a few homes remain along the western half of Pass Christian’s seductive six-mile beachfront. Katrina destroyed the rest. Instead, the vacant beachfront sprouts an oversupply of for-sale signs, evidencing a market where lofty asking prices stubbornly resist the law of supply and demand.
Housing is scarce. More than 250 temporary homes called “Mississippi cottages” still dot the town of six square miles, and 700 names are on a community nonprofit agency’s waiting list for affordable rental housing.
Yet despite the struggle, most townspeople assert a determined optimism.
They believe the natural gifts that lured their forebears and generations of New Orleanians will carry the resort community through the worst crisis in its nearly 300-year history.
Mississippi Sound still attracts fishers and sailors; miles of grandfatherly oaks still frame Pass Christian’s scenic beachfront. Soft evening sea breezes soothe most days.
On August 26, 2008, In /, By dno
In uncommonly frank comments last week in which Douglas O’Dell called the Nagin administration’s vision of recovery impractical and “ethereal, ” the federal recovery coordinator singled out plans for a massive $1 billion justice complex that calls for building new jails, courts and law enforcement facilities over several years.
The controversial Crime Complex
With a shortfall of more than $750 million, the city nevertheless has continued pressing FEMA for more money to help pay for the plans, which O’Dell said can’t be achieved using any theoretical combination of FEMA, Housing and Urban Development and state money. O’Dell said it is unlikely to be financed because the project makes little sense, lacks broad support among local officials and “would not survive the court of public opinion in terms of spending priorities.”
On August 25, 2008, In /, By dno
Monday 25th, AUGUST 2008
The New Orleans 100 list is released!
We’ve been showered with support and encouragement from people all over the world. It’s been an inspirational experience and we hope that you can share and take part with us!
“The New Orleans 100” is a worldwide initiative that will highlight and encourage discussion among millions about 100 of the most innovative and world-changing ideas to take root in the city since Katrina. Our goal is to reach 1,000,000 pageviews and we encourage everyone to spread the word by emailing the list, blogging the list, digging it, stumbling it, and yelling it out their windows!
You can make a difference. All it takes is a click.
To view the list, please visit http://www.alldaybuffet.org/