Although I’m proud of Xy for being a good teacher in the public schools, it’s also a source of frustration for both of us. She…
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Although I’m proud of Xy for being a good teacher in the public schools, it’s also a source of frustration for both of us. She…
I took this picture this morning at Jeff Davis and Conti. I think anyone in New Orleans would recognize what this marker means: that’s how…
Yesterday, as I was cooking dinner, I heard the beat of drums outside our house. I recognized that sound immediately and knew what it meant:…
If you walk around my block you will see… Flooded homes. Some have been completely renovated, some are currently being renovated, some have been gutted…
ROX #94, “Hangover Cures,” is finished. The core video was shot in the Quarter about a month before Katrina. Putting it together was a labor…
The most interesting thing Xy and I did over the weekend was to attend the premiere bout of the Big Easy Rollergirls at Mardi Gras…
I know I mentioned this a couple weeks ago, but I thought I’d plug it again because my copy just arrived in the mail. Now…
Michael and I met Dave Coustan (a.k.a. the Earthling) at Finn McCool’s yesterday after work, to talk about Mid-City’s desperate thirst for WiFi. Earthlink is…
I’ll be on the local CBS affiliate, WWL channel 4, sometime this evening, talking about you-know-what.
I was on the local news last night — top of the ten o’clock hour. They pegged it to Nagin’s 100+3 day press conference, citing…
I think I’ll be on the local news tonight (ABC 26 at 9 and 10) with some other Mid-City residents, talking about that corner grocery.…
I just got a call from Sandra “18 Wheeler” Hester! Many New Orleanians have wondered about Sandra’s whereabouts since Katrina. For those outside Orleans Parish,…
I’ve heard of the 9th Ward hipster scene, but I never checked it out until this past Saturday night, when Mr. Quintron and Miss Pussycat…
After my bike was stolen last week, I walked to work and then called the cops from my office. I was told I would need…
I got an e-mail yesterday morning announcing a bold reversal of policy by HUD. They were planning to re-open the shuttered public housing projects and…
I’m quoted in an article by Roy Bragg for the San Antonio Express News.
The Times-Picayune publishes their tenth story about us this morning.
I’m famous at last, quoted in an article on the Village Voice website by Anya Kamenetz, a former New Orleanian. “I’ve lost all sense of…