Archive for August, 2009
Sunday Postscripts
Welcome to Sunday Postscripts which I hope will become a weekly feature here, goddess willing. It’s the one day of the week when I can spend a little more time perusing the blogs and newspapers to catch up on what I missed in the past week and read articles I bookmarked for “later”. The [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 3 so far )Four Years is Enough For Me
Four years ago. That’s what’s been abuzz in New Orleans on the news, radio, twitter.
NPR did a story Thursday that will be published this Sunday in the New York Times Magazine. I tuned in midway through the story, the story about Dr. Pou and the deaths at Baptist Hospital, a story every New Orleanian is [...]
Remembering Katrina
Post Katrina Mardi Gras Warehouse, 2005
Photo by Nikki Page Sothern
Panelist Commentary: Rising Tide 4
I’m so glad Harry Shearer gets it.
He spoke compelling at today’s Rising Tide, poignantly describing the how New Orleans lost the media battle regarding the city’s story of Katrina, the Flood, and recovery. He’s absolutely right, of course. Read any article about New Orleans’ recovery and go to the comments; they are ripe [...]
Another from my archives . . .
Well this sure is an interesting way to live! LOL!
Every day we get up and dressed and head out to find things — today’s item was propane that was less that $50 a bottle. Got it! HOORAY!
Then it’s off to the National Guard distribution center to pick up our rations: MRE’s, water, ice, canned goods, [...]
WOMEN’S EQUALITY DAY FORUM
The public is invited to participate in a
WOMEN’S EQUALITY DAY FORUM
6:30 pm, Wednesday 26 August 2009
Newcomb College Center for Research on Women
Caroline Richardson Hall
62 Newcomb Place, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
Women’s Equality Day, August 26th, celebrates the passage of the 19th
Amendment which granted full voting rights for women in 1920. 2009
marks another historic moment for [...]
As the date approaches – it’s the best I can do
08/29/2005
An Archive
11-Hour Drive Later
And we are not that much further away — about 90 miles WNW of New Orleans at my sister’s house in Baton Rouge – definitely safer than in New Orleans, but people are evacuating out of HERE too – and everythng is boarded up, businesses and stores closed . . . we [...]
One Book One New Orleans Big Event!
Yet another event supporting a local author:
Sara Roahen’s latest book, Gumbo Tales is this years One Book One New Orleans selection and she will be at the Milton H. Latter Library signing books tomorrow, August 26. In honor of the theme of the book, there will be GUMBO TASTINGS!
From the One Book One New [...]
Healthcare Reform Town Hall Tuesday 8/25/09
Supposedly. I received this email regarding same:
*Community Conversation on Healthcare Reform*
*4 Years After Hurricane Katrina * Healthcare Still in Crisis * Our Urgent
Needs for Reform*
*What: * The Community Conversation on Healthcare Reform/ is a citizens’
coalition effort to shed light on both the steps taken by Congress in
response to President Barack Obama’s call for national legislation [...]
Red Tent For The Women Of New Orleans
“The Red Tent experience is such a cathartic event in my life. I will forever be thankful to you for allowing me that opportunity….just to tell my story…my way… in my words!
–participant of Red Tent NOLA at V-Day
Ethan Brown’s “Shake the Devil Off” to be released Sept 1, 2009; Author to be on Political Panel at Rising Tide Conference
In his latest work, Shake the Devil Off, local author Ethan Brown investigates the circumstances behind the post-Katrina murder that shocked New Orleans.
Ethan explains his book as follows:
“Shake the Devil Off chronicles the life of Zackery Bowen, an Iraq war veteran who murdered his girlfriend and then killed himself in New Orleans in [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Louisiana Artist Loren Schwerd Shows at AMMO
1317 Charbonnet St.
Human hair, mixed media
19″ x 23″ x 3.5″
2007
Loren Schwerd weaves mourning portraits out of hair. Her interpretation of the traditional craft serves well to illustrate the sense of loss left in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. A fitting tribute for the upcoming anniversary of the disaster, her work will [...]
Local Artist Miranda Lake’s Latest Show: Reclamation: 360˚
New Orleans artist Miranda Lake is a vital member in the pool of creative New Orleanians. Her work is composed of dreamlike, fantastic images which manage to saw right down to the bone to reveal the rightful sentimentality of the inhabitants of our drowned city and its intoxicating surroundings.
Reconnaissance, 2009
“Storm ravaged homes covered with [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Town Hall Meeting w/ Cm. Cao Thursday, 7PM
Source: Updates from Organizing for America: Louisiana
Via Facebook http://www.facebook.com/inbox/readupdates.php?id=119115794736
Visit Congressman Cao’s Town Hall Meeting this Thursday
New Orleans: We need you to come out!
Your representative, Republican Joseph Cao is holding a town hall meeting. You probably didn’t get invited, but you should be there anyway. Congressman Cao says he wants to hear from “real New Orleans” at [...]
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