It’s been abundantly clear to all of us over the last ten months that New Orleans is at extreme risk. The city is still here,…
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It’s been abundantly clear to all of us over the last ten months that New Orleans is at extreme risk. The city is still here,…
I do hope all of you NOLA bloggers will be there at the Geek Dinner next Friday.
For our ten month update, I turn the helm over to Xy. Also posted to YouTube, or you can download the 5 MB QuickTime movie,…
I had breakfast with Arthur Hardy this morning! Yes, the Arthur Hardy. Michael and I met him at Betsy’s Pancake House to discuss how Mid-City…
Xy and I are taking a short (and much needed) vacation, just 36 hours at a top secret condo location in the Quarter. Oops, it’s…
This past weekend felt like a watershed for my neighborhood, but it also left me feeling overwhelmed. Our Mid-City recovery planning meeting with Clifton James…
Los Angeles has them. Atlanta has them. Even Missoula, Montana has them. I’m talking about Neighborhood Councils. In Atlanta they call ’em Neighborhood Planning Units.…
A few months ago I helped some students at Indiana University who were working on a short documentary titled “From New Orleans to the Midwest.”…
A reader named Shana sent me the following query: i’ve been reading your blog for awhile. i adore new orleans and about two weeks before…
My parents are here for an absurdly short visit. Yesterday I gave them the Mandatory Misery Tour. First we drove to Lakeview. Then to Gentilly.…
Check out this rather grim installment of PRI’s Open Source Radio, “New Orleans: Dead and Gone?” They called me and talked to me and almost…
The folks at Minnie’s Catfish Corner figured out that I was the guy who posted about them to the MCNO website, and so they gave…
I’m going to try to articulate a few ideas knocking around in my head about the recovery of Mid-City.
Remember, the City Council’s planning process is now underway, and the common wisdom seems to be that if we don’t participate, we’ll be flattened.
Also, please realize that I don’t consider myself any kind of expert in urban planning or the like. I’m quite naïve in these matters. I’m just a concerned resident of Mid-City worried that if we don’t articulate a vision and a plan, someone else will, and it may not represent out best interests.
Well, this sucks. Scientists report that parts of New Orleans are sinking “four or five times faster than the rest of the city,” at a…
Here’s a short (two minute) video for the nine month mark. I uploaded it to both Vimeo and YouTube, so take your pick. The YouTube…
Somehow over the course of the last month or so, my frame of mind has slipped from tightly-bridled optimism to vague worry, mild stress and…
Best news I heard yesterday: People are finally starting to move into the trailer site a block from our house. The trailers have been sitting…
The Second Annual Lafitte Corridor Rail Hike was a screaming success! On Sunday, May 21st, eighteen of us hiked about three miles from Armstrong Park…
I’m disappointed by the spin of this article in City Business —laf the headline in particular. “Film studio under fire”? C’mon. No one is criticizing…
My take on Mayor Nagin’s re-election? I can’t say it half as well as da po’ boy already did.