lots of beater bikes on the streets of New Orleans...
gwadzilla (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
lots of beater bikes on the streets of New Orleans...
gwadzilla (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
lots of beater bikes on the streets of New Orleans...
Ecademy: user blogs (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
I'm thinking of going to this, sounds great....... Have been to New Orleans twice and the place is magic. New Orleans Festival Free Festival at The O2 Celebrating New Orleans Music and Culture on October 24th and 25th 2008 The unmistakable sounds, sights, tastes and styles of New Orleans are set to descend on London later this year when, for two days in October, The O2 will...
Hornets247.com Blog (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
... the Hornets 12 games against contenders, including a stretch of 15 games in only 30 nights, New Orleans handled it with style, going 19-8. So what can the Hornets expect this year? Are there any stretches to be wary of? How do the initial confidence-building weeks look? My analysis of the schedule, by month: October & November (15 games, 6 vs last year's playoff teams) The NBA couldn't have...
Domestic Fuel (Free subscription) | yesterday
New Orleans is getting some biodiesel buses… thanks to some money from the federal government. This press release from Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu says the Federal Emergency Management Agency has given the city the New Orleans Regional Transit Authority (RTA) $44 million to replace… and to upgrade… 204 buses and 31 vans that were destroyed by [...]
NFL GridIron Gab (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Oakland Raiders are hoping a shift at the top of their coaching ranks will pay off as they travel to New Orleans on Sunday to take on the struggling 2-3 New Orleans Saints. Al Davis finally did what he said he was going to do for sometime, and that was fire coach Lane [...]
Beale Street Beat (Free subscription) | yesterday
Bodoglife.com has the New Orleans Saints as seven point favorites over the Oakland Raiders, with the over/under at 47. The Raider Nation sees those numbers and screams, “Never tell me the odds.” Having lived in Las Vegas and played more than my share of football tickets in my time in Sin City, I have to [...]
ken foster (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
I'm bracing for an insanely busy weekend, beginning tonight with the opening of the New Orleans Film Festival. Tonight, I'll be introducing Mike Leigh's new film Happy Go Lucky at Canal Place; tomorrow night, I'll be introducing another British film, How to Be, followed by a Q and A with actor Robert Pattinson via phone and Mike Pearce in the flesh. On Monday at the Prytania, I'll be introducing...
Delta Farm Press RSS Feed (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Dozens of agricultural leaders from throughout Louisiana met recently in New Orleans to discuss ways to help make the state’s agricultural industry competitive in the 21st century.
CJR Daily (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
I like Oxford American. Lots of people say it's the New Yorker of the South, which is to say that some of its elegant, long-form pieces brim with Southern hospitality. The voices are polished, engaging. "Come on in," they seem to say. Well, hurricane season winding down, and so Katrina and New Orleans are out of the headlines again,...
Beale Street Beat (Free subscription) | yesterday
After a tumultuous off-season, preseason, and first quarter of the regular season, the Raiders will begin to show how well they’ve weathered the storm this Sunday. Ironically, they’ll be doing this in a place known best for the costliest and most destructive natural disaster in the history of the United States. The national disaster suffered [...]
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
For a calendar of volunteer opportunities, visit links.sfgate.com/ZEPE. A sampling of organizations seeking volunteers: Habitat for Humanity (504) 861-2077 www.habitat-nola.org volunteer@habitat-nola.org It rebuilds homes throughout New Orleans and undertakes...
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
After weeks of speculation about its arrival, the start of a new coaching era for the Oakland Raiders will begin, at last, on Sunday against the New Orleans Saints at the Louisiana Superdome.
Swimming World Magazine News (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Jason Marsteller NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, October 10. THE University of New Orleans (Division I) claimed a pair of triumphs over Incarnate Word (Division II) in the initial SwimmingWorldMagazine....
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Veteran New Orleans-born jazz giant Donald Harrison is building both the future of his city and an undeniable legacy. Harrison can at any time be found hard at work mentoring the minds of young musicians or darting from city to city on a seemingly endless whirlwind tour of performance dates across the globe. To an arguably greater extent than many of his fellow notable native New Orleanian jazz...
Hell in a Handbasket (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
I wrote about how the city government in New Orleans is now forced to return guns illegally seized during Katrina. Can't find the essay here? That is because I posted it over at The Boyz....