Festivities begin Friday night at 7:30 where there will be much carousing and drinking at Buffa's Lounge (1001 Esplanade Ave)
Saturday morning, at the Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center (1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd), the sure-to-be hungover participants swear they will be ready to start at 9:00 AM. The day's activities will include:
- Keynote speaker John Barry, author of Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America and commissioner for the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority - East
- A delicious lunch catered by J'anita's.
- Panel discussions on key aspects of post-flood life in New Orleans. This year's panels will cover education, journalism, and politics and will feature an impressive assembly of activists, bloggers, movers and shakers and... oh just check out the schedule for crying out loud.
I hear nothing but good things about everyone involved in the education and politics discussions but unfortunately the journalism panel could be a bit shaky on account of the asshole they found to moderate it. Still if you can tune that monkey out, the panelists are certainly worth listening to. They will include: (1) Gambit Weekly writer David Winkler-Schmit (BTW don't miss David's cover story in this week's Gambit on the City's mishandling of federal funds designated for local HIV/AIDS clinics), (2) Author, journalist, and blogger Kevin Allman (3) Blogger-journalist-activist-perpetual-candidate-for-Mayor Eli Ackerman of We Could Be Famous... um fame, and (4) WWLTV investigative reporter Lee Zurik.
The problem is that the asshole moderator is insisting upon having these good professionals consider the following three quotations:
A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier. --H.L. Mencken
With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms.
--Hunter S. Thompson
If you have no real knowledge or skill set and you’re lazy and full of shit but you want to make a decent wage, then journalism’s not a bad career option.
--Matt Taibbi
Again... great panelists... crappy moderator... should be a good time anyway.
It's not too late to make up your mind and register today.
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