Library Chronicles

Another fire. It seems like every day.

I know this has been covered elsewhere but it's important. Congress is well on the way to making it legal for telecom companies to cen...

"Yep, we've got pupae" Invest in repellant now, folks. Do not expect the cute little fishies to save you. Fortunately, Sackett...

Look, despite the fact that D'Brickashaw Ferguson is among the greatest names in the history of... um... nomenclature, the best player i...

Bush is nuts. There is nothing else to say. It stopped being funny a long time ago.

Try not to get shot in the face. via TDP

Thought you'd have time for a breather didn't you? Instead the Mayoral runoff is off to a frantic start as the two remaining candid...

In the midst of a typically clowninsh victory speech last night, the Mayor spewed empty platitudes about his "vision" of various p...

1) Praline Connection's Grilled Chicken Livers with Pepper Jelly Sauce 2) Red Maple's Duck with Cranberry Wild Rice 3) Muriel's ...

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This site does not do municipal endorsements... the horse race is more fun anyway. First two quick observations on last night's WWL deba...

With the 2006 municipal campaign coming into the home stretch, I thought now would be a good time to open nominations for the most memorable...

From today's T-P Jazz and Razz JAZZ All five NEW ORLEANS PUBLIC LIBRARY branches now have free wireless Internet service. The library sy...

Never mind me.. just titling Oyster's post for him.

Your Mayoral Candidates played a twi-night doubleheader yesterday taping a WLAE debate in the morning and staging a live one (and I do mean...

Ashley wants to know.

Go read this. Oyster on the mayoral candidates and race.

"The Midwestern lifestyle is, simply put, a lethal threat to us." Works on so many levels.

The mayoral primary is this Saturday. This means that my favorite TV show, the mayoral debate series, will soon be off the air. Over the p...

Um acutually no they're not. It's on MSNBC.

Check it out, New Orleans. Your alternative weekly does indeed have a pulse. In a staggering upset, the Gambit has decided not to endorse ...

Yesterday I decided not to blow five bucks at the Health and Fitness Expo to rent a CCC timing chip and thus become eligible for a poster. ...

Just go read everything Schroeder has today

Here we go again. NYT: Lenient Rule Set for Rebuilding in New Orleans I'm sorry I must be reading this wrong.. but it looks like FEMA is...

Seymour D Fair is paying attention

* (sorry, Oyster) Tonight's time: 45:57 At this rate I'm never gonna get that poster. It's a bit better than last week howeve...

This was my time over 6.2 miles last week. That's almost six whole minutes off of my personal best and the CCC is this Saturday! I re...

What does this do to resale values? FEMA offers concession to longtime homeowners Shortly after announcing dramatic new changes in store for...

What the hell is going on , indeed.

Billmon (wildly?) speculates on the (ahem) fallout. More to my point, though, I think it's possible that even something as monstrously ...

"The last thing you want to cut is libraries"

Wow via Ashley .. who is in a good mood this morning.. and has a knack for venn diagrams.

Pollard hasn't been to New Orleans since the UTAC tour. It doesn't look like we can expect a post-K visit anytime soon either. Wa...

Here's where we are, people. Dad now believes the military may shoot Bush before he can nuke Iran. We are in a place now where I can ...

Never thought I'd be so happy to see the creepy buckmoth caterpillars. More proof that I'm emotional about everything New Orleans t...

Were they always this frequent?

Early voting begins today.

Daisy emails: "I got my absentee ballot and I must read it to you so you can tell me whom to vote for."

Four years ago the plutocrats of New Orleans seized the opportunity presented to them by a wide open field of mayoral candidates to install ...

All I can do is echo Mr Clio's sentiments. Gavin Mahlie was the star of Tulane's annual Shakespeare festival. Yet another one who ...

If you're uptown today you shouldn't be wanting for things to do. Fete Francaise has moved from Daneel park to the Ecole Bilingue ...

Results just announced on wwl Landrieu: 27% Nagin: 26% Forman: 16% Caveat: Renwick cautioned, though, that because of the high number of ...

It has been one full year since Ricky Prado signed off . And look what's happened to us since then! I still blame the Governor.

Seems they're having trouble keeping up with their own. Maybe they need some advice.

Tiny Revolution encapsulates political debate in the US thusly: Insane Rich: Let's kill everyone and take their money! Non-Insane Rich...

Let's hope that by the time WWL hosts its next mayoral debate, enough people will have told them that their format sucks. Last night...

Insurers Saw Record Gains in Year of Catastrophic Loss

Pelosi: "I find it hard to see any set of facts that would justify striking a police officer.” Hmmm.. maybe I can.

Showdown looming for New Orleans' post-Katrina Internet system

Every year at "spring forward" time I get a little nervous. I've never been comfortable just handing an hour over to the gove...

Poppy Brite's Reasons we are not Ok

Earthlink moves in. This afternoon I spoke to Donald Berryman, the President of our Municipal Networks, to get a sense of where this stands ...

N.O. recovery could take 25 years says Bush's adviser Powell added: "It's been a bottom-up process and it's complex." ...

Sign on the counter at Rue de La Course. Free Wireless Internett!! No Myspace!! (That means you, dork!) Earlier discussion of this issue.

Levee restoration price doubles WASHINGTON -- The cost of restoring levee protection in the New Orleans area to pre-Hurricane Katrina levels...

Change this law: But the reality is that most people buying homes in the New Orleans area right now will end up with the unattractive option...

You can't go around forcing people to do unnecessary stuff just because you are incompetent. "We want all 225,000 people to get out...

Matt Taibbi's (best political writer around) piece on Abramoff.

LSU 70, Texas 60, OT The portly but nimble player known as ``Big Baby'' scored 26 points, including the decisive shot in overtime, ...

Apparently the silent partner was W's "friend."

Tigers play like crap.. still manage to beat Duke. Wake up call is coming, however. Unscientific Poll of the Day Take the poll Free Poll by ...

"Crash" is a white-supremacist movie

Bell South is about to shut down the city's free wi-fi project before it even gets started in earnest. Now telecommunication lobbyists...

Can you believe we are approaching 18 years of this?

Are earmarked to receive help from Barbara Bush . Um.. I can't.. even.. just go read the links.

Ok, T-P. I am still waiting to get my Food section back. Today's small collection of chicken salad recipes just ain't cutting it.

Only in this city would we put up with this kind of hackery. A smarmy middle-aged gossip columnist who happened to live in New Orleans duri...

Volunteers throw thousands in storm damage evidence to the curb

Myth 1: The best way to help the library is by donating books. Massive book donations from individuals, while well intentioned signs of su...

Actually, I stayed in and watched the LSU game. Luckily there is first-hand reportage available.

Your library staff is appropriately decked out in red today. Scenes from last weekend's Irish Channel parade

Saints release Aaron Brooks. New Orleans loses legendary literacy advocate.

My first love roller-coasterwise

As many of you know the Saints have a new quarterback... one whose shoulder is so badly damaged that he doesn't expect to be able to thr...

She's back and she's doing serious damage to good taste.

WASHINGTON -- The White House has rejected hurricane disaster-recovery loans at a higher rate than any other administration in the last 15 ...

This strikes me as an unusual ruling as well. The New Orleans ballot ( much like the obituary page ) has a long tradition of featuring ecc...

Ashley is handing them out here. It's a great post. Go read it. But keep in mind, I just wanted a pretense for linking to this Juvenile...

Saints sign Drew Brees to six-year deal Unscientific Poll of the Day: Take the poll Free Poll by Blog Flux

Medical school. Doctors are pricks.

Sorry about that, kid. Here we see Rudolph and Mr. Rudolph enjoying their Mardi Gras morning while houligans make mischief in the background

T-P front page. Findings by an Army Corps of Engineers-sponsored panel that the collapse of the 17th Street Canal floodwall during Hurrican...

This is just disgusting . I really don't need to add anything to Ian's remarks.

March 13, 2006 — - In a remarkable speech over the weekend, Secretary of Health and Human Services Michael Leavitt recommended that America...

This morning's T-P has a good piece on the from-the-ground-up recovery planning going on through many of New Orleans's neighborhood...

Did he choke on a pretzel? For the record, I think it's a mistake for the Saints to sign Drew Brees .. we'll see.. I could be wrong....

My Space is exceedingly gay. Just sayin'

Benefit of being a major convention destination: Professional associations like ALA want to come here. This brings attention to the plight...

Remember 2004 when we had a chance to get rid of these people? Where was Matthews with his "sources" then?

.. that this site has been up for over a year now! A Librarian's Guide to Etiquette

Tan, rested, and nutty. Butler out of jail, compares herself to civil rights heroes

Daisy bows to public pressure.

People actually showed up to support these jokers. Why? They aren't coming back. Buy Saints tickets. They are an essential element ...

Cleo wants to get off

Heh "You've got a pile of stuff here" in "your country"

I'm not sure how many folks treated themselves to a viewing of last night's mayoral debate but if you were one of them you may recog...

Pete Fountain thinks he "might have been depressed"

Excellent excellent excellent I'm so glad it's once again spectator sports season in LA. Oh and speaking of which... is it too earl...

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