Shifting State of the City

Just noticed on a parallel internet that the mayor's big "State of the City" address has been moved from the NOCCA campus over to the Mahalia Jackson Theater. The details copied and pasted from what I assume was a press release.

LAST-MINUTE LOCATION CHANGE FOR Mayor Landrieu's "2012 State of the City Address tomorrow at 2:00 PM

Due to an overwhelming response to attend, we are relocating the State of the City speech to the Mahalia Jackson Theatre. Thank you for your interest and we will see you there.

Mayor Landrieu’s State of the City speech

Mahalia Jackson Theatre

May 22, 2012 at 2:00 p.m.

Update: Found the actual press release here.

Meanwhile, here's the latest on the amended  HoZone bill, which Mitch is likely to bring up in tomorrow's speech.

Also, speaking of the Mahalia Jackson Theater, just this past Friday I had my first chance to visit Armstrong Park since it reopened to the public.  I happened on a small wedding ceremony in Congo Square of all places just as it was concluding. None of this has anything to do with anything other than to say that aside from the controversial statuary, it looks pretty nice in there.  Here, I took a quick photo of the lagoon.