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Happy Mardi Gras
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No, the title of this post isn’t ’cause anything else happened to my 97% healed ankle, although it looks like one of my tenants cracked a bone when watching parades the Friday night before Mardi Gras....
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Endangered Cookbook
It was published in early 2010 and hailed as a beautifully illustrated fount of oyster recipes and a “sublime tribute to an institution and product that helps define and enhance New Orleans culture.” I...
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Discomfort Tours
Living any place has its ups and downs. Living here has its slings and arrows as well, and I’m not just talking about the murder rate. I speak of the role nearly every New Orleanian who has friends and...
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Upstaged
Leave it to Loki to do some introductory ball busting with that cheerleader picture. There’s one of him out there somewhere and his is *much* uglier. Having said that I’m glad to be doing some NOLA...
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No Ho-Zone For Now
Anyone with a pulse in NOLA has surely heard about the so-called Hospitality Zone that’s been proposed for the Quarter, Marigny and Treme. The tourism industry doesn’t want to be bothered with...
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Quorum Quibbling
Councilmembers Hedgehog-Morrell and Johnson (he’s such a dull hack that I haven’t nicknamed him yet) continue their boycott of council meetings. They ducked a special soiree today called by her...
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Take It Back
Since I am a Twitter addict, I caught David Carr’s tweet of his Media Decoder blog post on the Times-Picayune‘s massive downsizing and found myself filled with dread. The downsizing itself was not...
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The New Orleans Education Version of “Flag Decal”
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgRVNjsuycQ It wasn’t intentional, the education reference, but it ended up in OffBeat magazine’s recap of this past year’s JazzFest: “It turns out showing up for morning...
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Hack-a-doodle-doo
I don’t usually criticize politicians for being political but Mayor Landrieu is fond of telling us that he’s a “reformer” who believes in “transparency.” That means that he’s held to a higher standard...
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Lab Rats
That’s what New Orleanians are to the powers that be: lab rats. It started with the charterization of the school system and attack upon the teachers unions in Orleans Parish. Now it’s spread to our...
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Livestream Rising Tide
Watch the Rising Tide conference live all day, with our own Loki as MC! The post Livestream Rising Tide by Loki appeared first on HumidCity.
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Zack Kopplin of Repeal Creationism.com at Rising Tide 7
I was able to catch up with an amazing young man at Rising Tide last weekend, Zack Koppelin. As a high school senior he became one of the few voices of reason in Lousiana on the subject of education....
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Nobody is indispensable
I haven’t posted here in a while but when someone gets their comeuppance, the old schadenfreude kicks in and I gotta post. It did yesterday: US Attorney Jim Letten packed up his mustache, drum kit, and...
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Her James
Nearly four years ago, a young boy by the name of Jeremy Galmon was shot and killed after a second line had passed by, a casualty of people using bullets to settle arguments. The fundraising for...
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Wild Bill is a Glasshole
Wild Bill Dykes, perfect name for a performer during Decadence weekend isn’t it? But to those who know this demented soul it is a whole different story. Bill is a manic comedian inn the best vein –...
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VooDoo Live
Our main coverage of VooDoo Fest is going out real time using our Twitter (@HumidCity) and Loki’s Google Plus Profile ( https://plus.google.com/+GeorgeEWilliamsIV ). This is our first experiment in...
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Shiver, Jackie, Shiver
I originally had not planned to cover the upcoming municipal elections. Watching Mayor Small Stuff waltz to victory ain’t my idea of a good time. But the qualifying period has warmed the cockles of my...
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Why A Duck?
The post title comes from a classic bit of dialogue between Groucho and Chico Marx in Cocoanuts. Chico was a master of malaprops, chaos, and confusion and there’s been a lot of that in the Phil...
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Miscast?
This Christmassy image has been making the rounds the last few days. It’s an official, non-photoshopped thing from local law enforcement. I take issue with the casting: if there’s any public official...
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Tabby Thomas, R.I.P.
I went to LSU in the 1980’s and hated most things about Baton Rouge. One of my favorite places there was Tabby’s Blues Box. It was a funky, sweaty, smokey hole in the wall in downtown Red Stick that...
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Artist of New Orleans
Brent Houzenga: Muralist, Street Abstract Artist. When asked for a quote he responded, “Live with purpose passionately.” The post Artist of New Orleans by Anthony Posey appeared first on HumidCity.
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Artist of New Orleans 3
Patrick Ainsworth, Concert Photographer/Photojournalist. When asked about his...
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Saints 2014|09
Rob Ryan did the unexpected and simplified the defense and the results were spectacular! Four sacks and two interceptions? That’s the D we want to see! Offensively, the Championship Saints were back in...
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