Tonight, Harry Shearer will premiere his new documentary, The Big Uneasy, which goes inside the Army Corps of Engineers to look at the levee failures that led to the post-Katrina flooding. The show tonight at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art is sold out, but it will also be shown Monday at 4:45 and 9:30 [...]
Tag Archives: Levees
Post-Traumatic
August 25, 2010 – 2:56 pm
Satellite view of “The Big One” Yesterday afternoon I was waiting for an appointment in an office, and a woman who was sitting next to me was complaining to her friend: “I am so sick of hearing about Katrina. All those people who are still trying to get into their houses should have moved back [...]
Harry Shearer
December 1, 2009 – 12:01 am
It’s easy for New Orleanians to be skeptical under the best of circumstances, and even more so where celebrities are concerned, but Harry Shearer and Judith Owen don’t just have a condo here; they’re connected to the city. Owen records here, and Shearer is outspoken in his criticism of the government— Bush and Obama administrations—in [...]
December 2009 Letters
December 1, 2009 – 12:01 am
NOLA BIBLE My wife and I live in Baltimore and have been coming to Jazz Fest since ’93. Absolutely love it and we make it most years. Fell in love with NOLA music and food as a result but we limited ourselves to our once-a-year trip. Well, in November, 2007 a NOLA friend gave me [...]
