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PechaKucha Night : New Orleans : Volume 4 – Conversations about the Gulf

On June 6, 2010, In /, Event, By dno

PechaKucha Night : New Orleans : Volume 4
Conversations about the Gulf
Thursday June 10th, 2010
The Building Block at the Icehouse [map]
Doors 7pm / Start 7:30pm
$5 Suggested Donation to benefit Gulf relief efforts.
———————————————————————————————- In essence, PechaKucha is a conversation starter, a networking opportunity, and an informal night for folk to come together, share and draw inspiration. And just as crucially, it’s a brilliant night out- Specialty Cocktails, Tasty Nibbles, Visual Treats, and a chance to connect with ideas and creatives in our disparate community.

The key to PechaKucha is its patented democratic system. Each presenter is allowed 20 images, for 20 seconds each – giving 6 minutes 40 seconds of time.

NO/other and The Building Block at the Icehouse has invited 10 practitioners from various fields in the local creative and academic community.

Volume 4 Presenters:

J. O. Evans III: FutureProof Director, Sustainability Consultant/artist

Monique Verdin: Photographer: Photo documentation of oil spill impacts on fishermen

Dana Eness: Urban Conservancy: Showing the trickle down economic impact effect

Nick Slie: Artist/performer: Loup Garou

Dan Favre: Gulf Restoration Network Campaign Director

Ritchie Katko: Landscape architect; recently went to Haiti to assist with site mapping

Lauren Goldfinch: FutureProof LEED Project Administrator

Don Blancher Systems Ecologist, ED of Groundwork NO

Bob Tannen BID in environmental design, MFA; Artist, designer, urban planner and activist

For more information please visit: www.pechakuchanola.blogspot.com
Facebook event page: http://bit.ly/PKN4Gulf
Facebook Group: http://bit.ly/PKN-NOLA-FB

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1 step forward, 1 step back: spill may go til fall

On June 6, 2010, In /, Defend the Coast, Uncategorized, By admin

NEW ORLEANS — The cap over a blown-out oil well is capturing more and more of the crude pouring into the Gulf of Mexico, but that bit of hope was tempered Sunday by a sharp dose of pragmatism as the federal government’s point man warned the crisis could stretch into the fall.

The inverted funnel-like cap is being closely watched for whether it can make a serious dent in the flow of new oil. Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, overseeing the government’s response to the spill, reserved judgment, saying he didn’t want to risk offering false encouragement.

Instead, he warned on CBS’ “Face the Nation” that the battle to contain the oil is likely to stretch into the fall. The cap will trap only so much of the oil, and relief wells being drilled won’t be completed until August. In the meantime, oil will continue to spew out.

“But even after that, there will be oil out there for months to come,” Allen said.

“This will be well into the fall. This is a siege across the entire Gulf. This spill is holding everybody hostage, not only economically but physically. And it has to be attacked on all fronts,” he said.

Since it was placed over the busted well on Thursday, the cap has been siphoning an increasing amount of oil. On Saturday, it funneled about 441,000 gallons to a tanker on the surface, up from about 250,000 gallons it captured Friday.

But it’s not clear how much is still escaping from the well that federal authorities at one point estimated was leaking between 500,000 gallons and 1 million gallons a day. Since the spill began nearly seven weeks ago, roughly 23 million to 49 million gallons of oil have leaked into the Gulf.

The prospect that the crisis could stretch beyond summer was devastating to residents along the Gulf, who are seeing thicker globs of oil show up in increasing volume all along the coastline.

In Ruth Dailey’s condominium in Gulf Shores, Ala., floors already are smeared with dark blotches of oil, she said, and things are only going to get worse.

“This is just the beginning,” she said. “I have a beachfront condo for a reason. With this, no one will want to come.”

Kelcey Forrestier, 23, of New Orleans, said she no longer trusts the word of either BP or the U.S. government in laying out the extent of the spill. But it is clear to Forrestier, just coming in off the water at Okaloosa Island, Fla., that the spill and its damage will last long into the future.

“Oil just doesn’t go away. Oil doesn’t disappear,” said Forrestier, who just earned a biology degree. “It has to go somewhere and it’s going to come to the Gulf beaches.”

Continue at the AP

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On June 5, 2010, In /, Photo, By dno

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The Ponderosa Stomp Presents The Return of the Congo Mombo Series at Rock and Bowl! Gulf Coast Soul Queen Barbara Lynn, Lil’ Buck Sinegal and his Buckaroos, The Lonely Knights – Saturday, June 5th

On June 5, 2010, In /, Event, By dno

The Ponderosa Stomp presents the return of the Congo Mombo series at the Rock n Bowl! The music fanatics at the Ponderosa Stomp bring the finest purveyors of Gulf Coast Soul to Rock and Bowl Saturday, June 5th. Lil’ Buck Sinegal and the Buckaroos will join Barbara Lynn for a show and dance! The Lonely Knights will open the show.

Native Texan/Gulf Coast Queen Barbara Lynn first came to New Orleans in 1962, when producer Huey P. Meaux brought her to Cosimo Matassa’s studio to cut the R&B smash “You’ll Lose A Good Thing.” Lynn’s soulful vocals—and bluesy guitar licks —had a swampier feel than most R&B at the time, and fueled by Joe Barry’s bayou rulin’ Vikings (one of the most underrated bands of the time) in tandem with Mac Rebennack’s groove-laden organ, she went straight to the top of the charts. Today, Lynn may be best known as the writer of “Oh Baby (We Got a Good Thing Goin’)”, which the Rolling Stones covered back in ‘65—but her later Atlantic material should by no means be overlooked.

Standing in the same sweet shadow as Doreen Schaeffer, Inez Foxx, Rosie & the Originals, Doris Troy, Lavern Baker, Ruth Brown and Margaret Lewis, Barbara perfectly walks the line between teenage innocence and worldly, older-than-her-years adult hurt. Wounded perhaps, wiser for it, but nowhere near ready to give it all up. Now that’ what we mean when we say soul music!

Perhaps you don’t recognize the name Little Buck and the Topcats, but when this fraternity of South Louisiana R&B men hit the stage together for the first time since their reigning teenage years, suffice to say, you’ll more than recognize them. Bandleader Little Buck Sinegal played guitar with Clifton Chenier for years and is one of greatest axe-slingers on the blues scene today. Drummer Nat Jolivette provided the beat for everyone from Little Bob and the Lollipops to Rockin’ Dopsie. And then there’s Hammond B-3 organ maestro Buckwheat Zydeco—better known nowadays as one of South Louisiana’s top accordion players—and vocalist James Alexander, he of the La Louisianne Records soul classic “You’ve Got The Power.”

And speaking of wailin’ discs, collectively, this is the band responsible for the impossibly great, funky as all hell “Cat Scream” b/w “Monkey In A Sack,” (also originally released on La Louisianne), which has lately been making all kinds of waves with funk, soul and hip-hop DJs the world over.

Lil’ Buck Sinegal and Barbara Lynn Play Rock and Bowl Saturday, June 5th
9:30 p.m. – Tickets $10.00
3016 S. Carrollton Avenue

The First Annual Oyster Festival is Today

On June 5, 2010, In /, Event, By dno

The New Orleans Oyster Festival will educate the country about the benefits of the Louisiana Gulf Oyster, honor and celebrate the restaurateurs and oyster farmers who have solidified the New Orleans French Quarter’s position as the “Oyster Capital of America.”

Proceeds from the event will go to “Save Our Coast”.
Our Community, Our Culture, Our Coast.

Saturday
11:00 am – 7:00 pm

Sunday
11:00 am – 6:00pm

Location: French Quarter by the river at Berger Parking Lot
The Finest Local Culinary Delights
Great Local Music
Historic – Cultural Oyster Tent
Acme “Oyster Eating Contests”
New Orleans Fish House “Largest Oyster Contest”
P&J “Shucking Contest”

Visit the web site

How to help Gulf oil disaster, even if you can’t make it there

On June 5, 2010, In /, Defend the Coast, By dno

Can’t go down to the Gulf Coast to help out with oil spill cleanup? Here are some ways you can be an armchair volunteer following the worst oil disaster in U.S. history.

Adopt a pelican
It is heart-wrenching to watch birds drenched with oil. The International Bird Rescue Research Center, which picks up oiled birds, cleans and rehabilitates them, is asking for support for its 23-member team of bird-rescue experts.

The organization allows individuals to donate or adopt a bird. Adopting a pelican, for example, costs $200, which will go to the cost of raising and eventually releasing the bird.

The organization’s team is working with the Tri-State Bird Rescue, setting up rehabilitation centers in Louisiana, Alabama and Florida. Birds that are cleaned –it takes almost an hour to clean a single oiled pelican – and rehabilitated are then released in oil-free areas chosen by federal and state trustee agency personnel and the International Bird Rescue Research Center. The Tri-State Bird Rescue is also taking donations and adoptions.

Donate to help fishermen and the Louisiana seafood industry
Protectourcoastline.org is asking for donations to help families and businesses in the Gulf most affected by the disaster. With more than 30 percent of the waters closed to fishing, the site claims that a good portion of the fishing industry will be affected.

All donations will go to the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Foundation, in partnership with the Louisiana Seafood Board, and the America’s WETLAND Foundation, which heads the “Campaign to Save Coastal Louisiana” project.

Write a letter
Donations aside, the Audubon Action Center is asking for people to write to their senators and members of Congress to support President Obama’s proposed 2011 budget, which includes $35.6 million for larger coastal restoration projects. The site has a suggested letter that can be edited and sent out.

Part of it states: “We have an opportunity to create jobs, work to mitigate the impacts of this tragic oil spill, and again rebuild the critical coastal marshlands that nurture a significant Gulf of Mexico fishing industry, and buffer the Louisiana coast and its communities from storms and other threats.”

Greenpeace UK’s BP logo redesign competition

On June 4, 2010, In /, Defend the Coast, By dno

“Their nice green logo doesn’t really seem to fit them too well, so we’re running a competition to find a logo that we can use to rebrand BP,” says Greenpeace UK. It seems a shame they’re capping their competition with a June 28th deadline, when the actual oil well is not due to be capped until late August. Perhaps the competition will be extended.

In the meantime, they’re already approaching 700 entries, all of which can be seen on their Flickr page. Below are a few of our favorites:

To enter or just learn more about the competition—which was actually sparked by BP’s involvement with Canadian tar sands but has snowballed following the Gulf disaster—click here.

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