Parties are strange affairs. People gathering together for no other purpose than to celebrate life and enjoy each other’s company. What an ephemeral proposition! And…
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Parties are strange affairs. People gathering together for no other purpose than to celebrate life and enjoy each other’s company. What an ephemeral proposition! And…
Here’s Persephone (my daughter) with Persephone (the float): Also pictured: Persephone’s father and grandparents. In fact, this morning we got a tour of the Rex…
Woke up to the sound of screaming. Actually I was already half-awake — I slept sitting up last night cradling the girl to help with…
Carnival may begin on the sixth day of the year, officially, but it doesn’t really feel like Carnival until you see your first parade. That…
I was putting up posters last week for the Beyond Jena forum. I thought to myself, “New Orleans East always gets left out of the…
We are gearing up for the Beyond Jena forum on Saturday. We’ll be closing registration soon, but there is still a little room left, so…
Thanks to my friend Jason Neville for bringing this choice piece of research to my attention: “We put rats in relatively large areas with objects…
A new restaurant has opened on Bienville at N. Rendon, just a couple blocks from our house. Of course Xy and I went to check…
Every year I see further evidence that Dr. King’s legacy is not being honored so much as perverted. I got this spam e-mail last week…
I’m on strike today against violence in all its forms.
Plenty of people are getting back to work and asking each other, “So how was your break?” One of Xy’s fellow teachers answered thusly: He…
There’s nothing I want to do on New Year’s Eve except run around the Christmas-tree bonfire on Orleans Avenue. New Year’s Eve is usually a…
My sleep is interrupted by the peal of a semiautomatic weapon being discharged. Three spurts. Close by. I’m too groggy to check the time but it feels like midnight or two in the morning. Did someone just arrange another funeral? Did someone’s son (or daughter) meet their untimely end? But there’s only silence afterward, no shouts, no sirens. Maybe someone was just firing into the air for the hell of it. I drift back to sleep, uneasy, but too tired to care.
Here’s something I’ve never seen before: It’s snowing in New Orleans. Update: So early this morning as I was taking the girl to school, I…
Here’s a number of Mid-City things on my mind lately: Looks like they’re working to renovate the bar at the corner of Bienville and Rendon.…
I’m passing the mic to Malik Rahim who has sent out the following campaign letter. — B November 19, 2008 Dear friends in the struggle,…
This month’s Harper’s Index contains the following nugget: Year by which New Orleans is expected to be rebuilt, at the current pace: 2028 Their source…
As I’ve mentioned before, we are paying approximately $15/month to a private company to pick up recyclables. I’m not happy about the situation; in my…