Rock ‘n’ Bowl’s post-Katrina move and recovery: Watch the video on CNN.com. New Orleans might have our first white mayor in three decades. Yahoo News has the AP story. Former Saint Deuce McAllister is bringing Nissan to court, claiming it contributed to the failure of his dealership. The Chicago Tribune has the AP story. While [...]
Tag Archives: Barack Obama
New Orleans in the National News
January 12, 2010 – 9:07 am
By Kathleen McCann
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Posted in News
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Also tagged Aaron Broussard, Derrick Tabb, Deuce McAllister, new orleans mayor, Rock 'n' Bowl, Roots of Music
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On the Eve of Katrina’s Anniversary
August 26, 2009 – 8:11 am
Harry Shearer’s keynote address at the Rising Tide bloggers conference Saturday was a sobering one. “We’ve lost the media war,” he said, speaking of New Orleans and the way Katrina’s story has been told. Rather than being a story of the federally neglected protection mechanisms – the floodwalls and the disappearing wetlands – and how their [...]
By Alex Rawls
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Posted in Pop Life
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Also tagged Blogs, Harry Shearer, Hurricane Katrina
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Good Signs
November 6, 2008 – 6:28 am
This morning on NPR, a feature on the expectations for Barack Obama’s presidency included a clip of a woman who said something to the effect of, “He’ll work some magic.” Obviously, expectations like that are dangerous and set him up to fail even when he’s succeeding. Last night, though, I saw a sign of something [...]
Lee Dorsey for President?
October 30, 2008 – 9:43 am
Tano Sokolow has remixed Barack Obama into Lee Dorsey’s “Yes We Can Can” here.
Voodoo Notebook dump: Day One
October 25, 2008 – 8:27 am
At 11 a.m., the Noisician Coalition left the Bingo! Parlour and started its parade around the Voodoo mall. All the instruments are homemade – a tree of mixing bowls of varying sizes, inverted crawfish boilers, a portable Theramin, and a host of wind instruments amplified by megaphones. Sure, musically it’s pounding and a megaphone’s siren [...]
By Alex Rawls
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Posted in Pop Life
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Also tagged Blogs, Stone Temple Pilots, TV on the Radio, Voodoo
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