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Not The Best of New Orleans

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I love reading The Gambit, but every year I avoid the arrival of the Best of N.O. issue because most of the categories sound like tourists voted on them. I’m guessing the readers who actually vote must be university students or yuppies who are new to the city. It’s the only reason I can come [...]

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Rising Tide 5 Review

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This past weekend, for the fifth year since Hurricane Katrina, the New Orleans Bloggers once again gathered for our annual Rising Tide conference where we discussed political, social, and cultural issues facing our city. The nature of young urban intellectual movements is to gravitate toward a certain type of thinking. I never go to things [...]

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Katrina, I’m Over You Bitch

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I started to write part 2 of my last post on Hurricane Katrina, but then I realized I had zero interest in rehashing that bullshit yet again. I’m over it. Now this doesn’t mean I’m going to forget what happened, or that the scars I have and fears I carry will ever disappear. But I’ve [...]

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Katrina Flashbacks, Part I: My FBI Day

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For the people who went through Katrina, the memories of the week before the storm seem to be burned in our brains. We remember every tiny detail. It’s probably because even in the chaotic days after, it was already obvious that everything we did before, everything we knew before, would never be the same. I [...]

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Red Dress Crawling

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We did the Nola Red Dress Run again this weekend, but this year it was more of a pub crawl/street parade than a hash run. It was still great fun, just different fun. Definitely did not feel very hash-like. Q and I both do the regular Hash House Harriers runs with Voodoo H3 and NOH3, [...]

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Dow’na Road

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This month is the 5 year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. So the ‘reflecting’ posts are to be expected. I’ll be moving on to other happier subjects in September. This week the Times Picayune is running a four part series about Delacroix, a small town in eastern St Bernard that is almost extinct. When I was [...]

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Et Tu TIME? Has BP Oilspill Damage Been Exaggerated?

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It appears TIME Magazine thinks that as long as the environment is okay, fuck the PEOPLE… “The obnoxious anti-environmentalist Rush Limbaugh has been a rare voice arguing that the spill — he calls it “the leak” — is anything less than an ecological calamity, scoffing at the avalanche of end-is-nigh eco-hype. Well, Limbaugh has a [...]

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NOPD Corruption Makes ‘The Economist’

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The Economist did a story on the NOPD today, mainly about the Danziger and Glover cases, but also about the culture of corruption at NOPD in general: “The cases—in which 16 officers have been charged so far—are shocking for their brutality and their strong whiff of institutionalised racism. They also expose deep corruption in the [...]

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The Broken Piece

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“All of this has happened before, and it will all happen again.” -Peter Pan Every now and then I grow restless and panicky about living here. I usually brush it off as normal for living in a place that’s a crime ridden, hurricane attracting, oil soaked roller-coaster of drama. But last night the real reason [...]

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Eyes Wide Hoping

Politics & Issues
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When New Orleans mayor Mitch Landrieu started to speak at his State Of The City address yesterday, I was expecting a typical “recap and rah rah” speech. Instead I sat frozen in awe, listening to the condition of our city – the one Ray Nagin never told us about.Seriously, wtf did Nagin DO all day [...]

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