Library Chronicles

For those of you who were wondering what would happen to Bobby Jindal if he didn't get assumed up into a Mitt Romney Administration befo...

(Getting caught up.  This has been sitting in draft since the Carnival-Superbowl interruption.) This is a sort of point-counterpoint piece...

And yet another Mardi Gras day fades away like the hazy dream they all seem to be.  Of course the rain wasn't a problem.  Of course Re...

Okay not really. Proteus's theme this year was "Unseen Carnival In New Orleans." Their floats paid homage to the so-called ...

Carnival tends to consume everything especially at my place where I'll be straightening the house and chopping vegetables tonight for to...

Might be able to squeeze the day parades in Sunday. Gonna try anyway. Sunday, February 10, 2013 Okeanos, Mid-City and Thoth are all pla...

Still not sure Ronal Serpas gets it.  Serpas on Thursday said there is little his officers can do to prevent every person on a parade ro...

Owing to the gracious hospitality of Adrastos and Dr. A, I had an opportunity to hang around near the beginning of the Uptown parade route a...

Living a block off of the parade route during Carnival can be a blessing but it can also be a curse.  As the season begins to reach its clim...

Especially people who have no or infrequent internet access.  I, myself, have internets out the wazoo but I still pay all my bills via mail....

Everyone, a quick round of applause for Councilwoman Cantrell . February 5, 2013 Chief Ronal Serpas New Orleans Police Department 715 ...

Emergency officials thought maybe the Occupy kids were to blame for the power outage because... this is the sort of thing emergency officia...

Dude is not afraid to just keep on talking.  At one time, the theory was that maybe this whole series of federal prosecutions was ultimate...

Sounds like a pretty sweet deal to me.  Line 'em up all over Carondelet and Prytania Streets . During the parades, more trucks will be...

Whoever it is, I'm sure the solution will be a new surcharge on everybody's light bill next year . Early this afternoon, Entergy ...

As we've discussed numerous times here, New Orleans is naturally a near-perfect biking city. At least during the non-crap weather part o...

Something minor in a piece of surge protection equipment as far as I understand.  But why? Nobody seems to be saying, exactly. Although Russ...

So glad to be wrong about the way that game turned out.  Congratulations to the Ravens.  Now the Niners can't talk, the Falcons can'...

The 49ers are terrible.  Their fans are terrible . Their defensive backs are terrible people .  If you grew up in New Orleans in the 80s t...

Like most of New Orleans you probably just watched CBS's NOLA infomercial that ran this morning ahead of its Super Bowl coverage. The pi...

I'm sure all of New Orleans has read this one by now. Here it is anyway. You will be relieved to know that many of your City Council rep...

Spent yesterday afternoon tooling around the Super Bowl excesses in the Quarter. Woldenberg Park is set up in the style of a kind of mini Fr...

This is a somewhat annoying interview with Wendell Pierce where he says "best practices" a bunch of times and even sort buys into ...

Not sure why Disqus isn't working on this site right now.  I've been trying to get a handle on the spam coming from Blogger. That mi...

The city wants out of the NOPD consent decree . Mayor Mitch Landrieu was a strong proponent for the 492-point agreement from its introduc...

Depending on your definition of "economic restoration" it's possible that "Pot 1" is too big in the first place. T...

A "Charter School Teacher" comments under a Lens story about United Teachers of New Orleans's efforts to organize a scattere...

Related to the law enforcement story cited below, there are still plenty cases of prostitution going on in Louisiana where the feds are wil...

It's a busy and festive time  in New Orleans but I've yet to see the first indication that there will be any DUI checkpoints this we...

This New York Times feature on King Cakes (and other local confections) is pretty good though not perfect. Kevin Allman picks out the most a...

Interesting post by Dambala on this covering a lot of background on a nearly 100 year old land trust that is getting ready to expire.  At fi...

NOLA Media Group prints what looks like a response to James Gill from a Jindal PR flack in a space where one would expect to see an editoria...

It's a big responsibility being " the Arthur Hardy for a new generation ." But don't worry. There's a complete re-cap ...

The same question I asked yesterday can be applied today to this . So why is (Armstrong) park closed for a full week’s time for a one-nig...

Actually this is from earlier in the week but I missed it. Found it again via Aswell via Oyster .  It's from a Jindal primer by Dakini...

Knew it was coming. Here is a taste of the glory. A list of sentences from Super Bowl Week articles employing terrible New Orleans cliches

I wonder if John Georges thinks he is buying the internet for his children . That's not why he wants into newspapers, he said. He is ...

Gambit 's Charles Maldonado gives us one more look at the NFL "Clean Zone" policy and how other host cities have implemented...

Uptown Messenger:   “Our biggest question is, ‘Where did the water go?’” said emergency-response meteorologist Tim Erickson during a rece...

Mitch Landrieu : "This streetcar line is not just a red box on a rail going to nowhere" Of course not. We're pretty sure it...