New Orleans

Oil of Delay: McCain Cancels Louisiana Trip After Barge Spill

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 07.23.2008 | Green

Read More: New Orleans, New Orleans Oil Spill, John McCain, Oil Spill, Mississippi River, Oil, Offshore Drilling, Green News
Karen Dalton-Beninato

McCain had been planning to visit an offshore rig on this New Orleans junket, but it's not the image a presidential candidate wants in the middle of an environmental nightmare.

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Guitar Virtuoso Jimmy Robinson at New Orleans' Ogden: "After Hours"

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 07.22.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Susan Cowsill, New Orleans, Katrina, Arts, Guitar, Music, Jimmy Robinson, Ogden Museum, Southern Art, Entertainment News
Georgianne Nienaber

"Vibrating Strings" is a solo acoustic tour de force for electric guitar virtuoso Jimmy Robinson, who established his solid reputation with Woodenhead and Twangorama.

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Eyes in My Eyes

Terry Marotta | Posted 07.04.2008 | Living

Read More: Boston, New Orleans, Dialects, National Society of Newspaper Columnists, Katrina, Accents, Diversity, Regional Dialects, Living News
Terry Marotta

I had a lesson in diversity last week in New Orleans, where I found myself so completely out of my element that when a couple of young women kept calling me "Ma'am" I took their tone for sarcastic.

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Gay Weddings and 32 Funerals: Remembering the UpStairs Lounge Fire

Erik Ose | Posted 07.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Glbt, Gay History, Louisiana, Gay Pride Weekend, Metropolitan Community Church, Lesbian, Same-Sex Marriage, UpStairs Lounge, 1973, Firebombing, Gay, Fire, GLBT History, California, Anti-Gay Violence, Mcc, 2008, California Supreme Court, Homophobia, Christianity, June 24 1973, Bigotry, Gay Marriage, Rip, Gay Rights, Politics News
Erik Ose

To fully understand recent events, it's important to remember a tragedy that happened thirty-five years ago, and how much things have changed for gays and lesbians since then.

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FEMA's Trailers: The Cheapest, The Most Toxic

Harry Shearer | Posted 07.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Fema Trailers, Fema, Fema Formaldehyde, Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Katrina Mismanagement, Katrina, Formaldehyde Fumes, Politics News
Harry Shearer

Another shoe dropped in the FEMA trailer scandal this week, with the publication of a report pinpointing why so many New Orleanians inhaled such high levels of formaldehyde fumes for so long.

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Jammin' Generosity Gets Guitars to Young Rockers

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 07.01.2008 | Living

Read More: New Orleans, NOLA.Com, Chris Rose, Times Picayune, The Giving Life, Nomrf, New Orleans Musicians, New Orleans Musicians Relief FUnd, Musicians, Living News
Karen Dalton-Beninato

Today nola.com's Chris Rose described the New Orleans Musicians Relief Fund guitar transfer (story here). Next month our charity is passing along a do...

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Floods: Update, New Orleans Examining Levee Seepage

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 06.29.2008 | Green

Read More: Floods, Katrina, New Orleans, Levees, 17th Street Canal, Vice President Dick Cheney, Army Corps of Engineers, Green News
Georgianne Nienaber

Corps engineers in New Orleans maintain that the seepage is not cause for alarm.

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Congress' (and the President's) Priorities: ABNO

Harry Shearer | Posted 06.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Iraq War Funding Bill, Iraq War, Iraq Spending, Anything but New Orleans, Iraq Supplemental, Cost of the War, Iraq, Politics News
Harry Shearer

That would be "Anything But New Orleans", as reflected in the whopping bill, ostensibly to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, along with a number of other domestic "priorities."

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New Orleans Now

Suzette Standring | Posted 06.24.2008 | Living

Read More: New Orleans, St. Bernard Parish, Ninth Ward, Recovery, National Society of Newspaper Columnists, Flood, Katrina, Survivors, Standring, Suzette, Living News
Suzette Standring

New Orleans is like a newly grime-free Sistine Chapel. It's hard to believe its near-death experience was only three years ago.

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The Libertarian Disaster Recovery Fallacy

John McQuaid | Posted 06.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Fema, Hurricane Katrina, Midwest Flooding, Iowa Flooding, Disaster Recovery, Politics News
John McQuaid

As disasters get bigger and more complicated, the role of government in disaster recovery and urban planning will have to grow.

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The Floods: Army Corps Says PR Firms Transform "Babblers" into "Spokespersons"

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 06.23.2008 | Green

Read More: New Orleans, USACE; Army Corpss of Engineering, Public Relations, Iowa, Katrina, Floods, Media Spin, Levees, Green News
Georgianne Nienaber

The Army Corps has known for some time that the levee systems needed restructuring. It appears that rather than improving them, they chose to hire PR firms to help with crisis communications.

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The Fault Is Not In Our Rock Stars, But In Ourselves

Sal Nunziato | Posted 06.22.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: New Orleans, Music Industry, Threadheads, Retail, CD Sales, Alejandro Escovedo, Little Feat, Jason Falkner, The Byrds, Entertainment News
Sal Nunziato

The major labels may have soured the consumer into buying less and caring less, but we didn't need to decide to not buy the thousands of great affordable CDs that were still available.

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ReBuild Your Own New Orleans Garage Band

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 06.21.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: New Orleans, Garage Band, Nomrf, New Orleans Musicians Relief FUnd, New Orleans Charity, Rem, Fender Squier, Dr. John, Entertainment News
Karen Dalton-Beninato

Almost three years post-Katrina, touring musicians are struggling with higher gas prices and can use help staying out on the road. Please join us in getting the next generation of New Orleans musicians started out right.

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Investigate the Levees

John McQuaid | Posted 06.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, John Barry, Hurricane Katrina, Levees, Midwest Flooding, Politics News
John McQuaid

At issue is not merely how some bad designs crept into floodwalls, but why the whole system failed, and what we can learn to prevent it from happening again -- in New Orleans and elsewhere.

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Fear of a $25 Corndog: If the Good Lord's Willing and the Creek Don't Rise

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 06.18.2008 | Living

Read More: New Orleans, Corn Dog, Levees, Army Corps of Engineers, Midwest Flooding, Farm, Barack Obama, Green News, Green, Living News
Karen Dalton-Beninato

As the rivers converge and and the crest moves south, national efforts to shore up our levees ought to look like someone is building the pyramids. The...

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The Benediction of Big Al

Mary Lyon | Posted 06.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Obama Iowa Floods, Al Gore Endorses Obama, Al Gore, Iowa Floods, FEMA Hurricane Katrina, George W. Bush, Democratic Presidential Candidate, Republican Neglect, Republicans, Democrats, Barack Obama, Politics News
Mary Lyon

To this day, I still think Gore is the gold standard. Our country would be light years better off if we'd had Al Gore's steady hand at the wheel for the past seven-and-some years.

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New Orleans: The Corps Gets It Wrong Again, and Charting the Bumps in the Road Home

Harry Shearer | Posted 06.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Road Home, Army Corps of Engineers, Hurricane Katrina, Politics News
Harry Shearer

Two new reports, two more confirmations that New Orleanians are not yet out of the federal woods.

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That You Rumi? A Father's Day Visitation

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 06.14.2008 | Living

Read More: New Orleans, Rumi, Father's Day, Grilled Cheese Jesus, Jesus, Living News
Karen Dalton-Beninato

During my last trip to New Orleans I noticed that a pile of sheets which looked perfectly normal during the day resembled 13th Century Persian poet Rumi once the light changed -- as clear as grilled cheese Jesus.

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Look Out Walmart! Here Come The Threadheads

Sal Nunziato | Posted 06.13.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: New Orleans, Jazz Fest, Threadheads, Walmart, Entertainment News
Sal Nunziato

The New Orleans Jazz Fest may have come and gone, but to a number of diehards known as the Threadheads, the last day of Fest is really just the first day of planning for the following year.

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Source Asks "What is the Real Water Policy of the United States?"

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 06.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Louisiana, Iowa, Watershed, Floods, Aquifer, Cedar Rapids, Army Corps of Engineers, Mary Landrieu, Cedar Falls, Ncmr, Politics News
Georgianne Nienaber

It is easy to blame nature, but what or who is behind a water management policy in the United States that allowed the city of New Orleans to be ruined?

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Kucinich's Articles of Impeachment, with New Orleans Focus

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 06.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Articles of Impeachment, Dennis Kucinich, New Orleans, Politics News
Karen Dalton-Beninato

Monday, Dennis Kucinich was on the floor of the House of Representatives reading 35 Articles of Impeachment against George W. Bush.

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Karl Rove and Katrina

John McQuaid | Posted 06.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Kathleen Blanco, Hurricane Katrina, Karl Rove, Mary Landrieu, George W. Bush, Politics News
John McQuaid

How did a political consultant whose principal skill was tactical come to control the levers of government, something which he clearly neither understood nor cared much about?

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McCain's Attempt to Rebrand in the City the Press Corps Forgot

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 06.04.2008 | Home

Read More: New Orleans, John McCain, Mcain New Orleans, Mclellan, David Gregory, New Hunt Mccain, Mccain, Yellin Clarification, Media Katrina, Jessica Yellin, Media Mccain, Home News
Karen Dalton-Beninato

McCain wasn't concerned when Katrina hit or with infrastructure funding in the years before the disaster. Now he comes to the suburbs and raises funds, not for relief, but for his campaign.

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The Shameful Irony of McCain's New Orleans Speech

Greg Saunders | Posted 06.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina, John McCain, Politics News
Greg Saunders

McCain is in the midst of trying to give voters the impression that he is an agent of change, but when the American people needed him to show some leadership, he failed.

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Seventeen Tired White People In a Room: John McCain Gives the Single Worst Speech In the History of American Politics

John Eskow | Posted 06.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Teleprompter, John McCain, John Mccain Speech, Politics News
John Eskow

McCain's speech was a miscalculation of stunning proportions -- not just by McCain, but by the once-fearsome Republican strategists.

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