“It’s not an easy thing to describe one’s first impression of New Orleans: for while it actually resembles no other city upon the face of the earth, yet it recalls vague memories of a hundred cities. It owns suggestions of towns in Italy, and in Spain, cities in England and in Germany, of seaports in the Mediterranean, and of seaports in the tropics.”- 1877 essay “At the Gate of the Tropics,” Lafcadio Hearn.
And furthermore…
I should know better than going anywhere without my PureDigital video camera (about the size of a pack of cigarettes.)But I do have a rudimentary video camera on my cell phone that records up to 15 seconds.
Here’s the end of a drum solo by a young kid playing with the Treme Brass Band at Ray’s Boom Boom Room on Frenchman Street.
Here’s some clips from the 2007 Big Nine Social and Pleasure Club Second Line, my favorite parade of the year and maybe my favorite event in New Orleans period. (more…)
It’s a game of inches and levees.org has again helped move the ball down the field.
Several months ago, levees.org posted a video to YouTube pointing out an odd relationship between the Army Corps of Engineers and the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).
The ASCE threatened to sue levees.org - a massive tactical blunder which put the issue of the front page of the Times Picayune.
Now the Associated Press is starting to report on the same issue.
“It’s hard to look into the faces of your friends, mothers and fathers. They were fine before the storm, but now, they’re begging for food.” - Randy Millet. St. Bernard Food Pantry.
Second Harvest now distributes TWICE as much food as it did before the levee failures. (more…)
“If you are everywhere, you are nowhere. If you are somewhere, you are everywhere.”
- Rumi
A good collection of videos about life in New Orleans as it’s being lived now:
Click here: http://dnovideo.com/
The artist in this video has been charged by the City of N.O. with 1,100 counts of littering and now faces $50,000 in fines.
An exhibit and art show is set up to help raise funds at the Avenue Pub at 1732 St. Charles Avenue. The show is up until March 29th and is open Monday through Thursday ten to six.
If you’re out of town and want to help, here’s an idea:
Did you miss the Irish Channel St. Patrick’s Day Parade along Magazine Street this year?
If so, you have my deepest sympathies.
The weather was perfect, the crowd cheerful and the parade magnificent. Some short clips that don’t even begin to do the day justice. (more…)
THE MARDI GRAS INDIAN COUNCIL PRESENTS
INDIAN SUNDAY PARADE
Sunday, March 16, 2008 – 1 p.m.
Start: Washington Avenue and LaSalle Street. Down LaSalle to Martin Luther King Blvd. Left on MLK to Galvez. Left on Galvez to Washington Ave. Left on Washington to South Derbigny.
End: Taylor Park, Washington and Galvez
Info courtesy of the Backstreet Museum
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More…on legal observation campaign
Good afternoon all,
Just wondering if anyone wanted to volunteer for the ACLU’s legal observing effort for the Uptown Mardi Gras Indian Super Sunday this Sunday the 16th. Although no longer working for the ACLU, I’m volunteering to help coordinate the effort on Sunday.
If you can, please let me know and send me your name, cellphone number, and availability.
Volunteers will meet at 12:30pm on the corner of Washington and LaSalle on the park side of the street for a brief training. Super Sunday lasts generally till 6:30pm or so. We’d love it if you could stay all day but folks that can help even just for a few hours are welcome.
Thanks in advance for any help. Forward this to anyone who might be interested….
Tory Pegram
504.338.2631
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Why the Indians need defending. The over-the-top campaign of police harassment and brutality took place just three short years ago.
It’s that time of year again.
Last year, I missed it because I got caught in a white-out blizzard in upstate New York. Not only didn’t planes fly, I couldn’t even get my car down the street the snow was falling so thick. (more…)
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