When it comes to politicians handling taxpayers’ money and conducting the people’s business, there is no substitute for transparency — and no excuse for the lack of it. Some Jefferson Parish politicians are about to learn that lesson the hard way.
The issue arises in the wake of The Times-Picayune’s excellent [...]
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We’re at a point in this incredible Saints’ season that, so long as they keep winning, every game is the biggest game of the year. Right now, every game we’re looking at continues the possibility of a perfect regular season and pretty soon [...]
We are in the height of second line season - the good good parades. Today, Lady Buckjumpers. Next week, Dumaine Street Gang followed by The Big Nine. Last week it was 9 Times - The Kings of the Ninth Ward an ‘nem. There was so much that was working for [...]
25TH ANNIVERSARY PARADE SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2009
Start: Purple Rain. Washington Ave & Saratoga. Up Washington Ave. to S. Liberty. Left on S. Liberty to Freret St. Left on Freret St. to Gen. Taylor. Right on Gen. Taylor. Stop: Silky’s Lounge, Gen. Taylor and Magnolia. Men Buckjumpers 25th Anniversary Tribute. Proceed out [...]
Jeff Baron and Bart Bell have opened their new restaurant Crescent Pie & Sausage Co. (4400 Banks St., 482-2426) next to their Mid-City breakfast and lunch joint Huevos (4408 Bank St., 482-6264).
Plans for the restaurant suffered a most dramatic delay last year when Hurricane Gustav [...]Up told us our heroes mean nothing and change is inevitable and necessary, no matter how brutal. Where the Wild Things Are explored the dimensions of our personalities using unsettling-looking monsters. It’s safe to say kids’ movies in 2009 aren’t just kids’ movies. Thank God.
With Fantastic Mr. Fox, Wes [...]When you think of the first Thanksgiving, what comes to mind? The Plymouth Rock Pilgrims and Native Americans, The Wampanoags, right? Guess again. According to the Smithsonian Institute Encyclopedia, there were numerous thanksgiving festivals held by Europeans long before the Pilgrim’s party in 1621, such as the one in [...]
James Perry’s allegedly foul-mouthed ‘could be saying anything’ campaign ad found its way to Wonkette this afternoon. The snark and potty mouthed crowd that spends its day filling Wonkette comment boxes has embraced his candidacy. Last week, Perry’s campaign manager answered questions from Gambit Editor Kevin [...]
Check out Troy Simon’s short film, which he created as an entry for the U.S. Department of Education’s “I Am What I Learn” video competition. In just two short minutes, Simon, a sophomore at Greater Gentilly High School, tells the story of how he transformed himself from an illiterate [...]
Clay A. Smith
Its hard to look past teams in the NFL. But with a Monday night “Clash of the Titans” that features the undefeated Saints (10-0) and the New England Patriots (the NFL’s version of the Sith, thank me later Star Wars fans) on the horizon, Sunday’s inter divisional varsity [...]
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It’s still early, but considering how the Hornets started the season, it’s hard not to feel good about this team right now. The Hornets made 12-of-17 three-point attemps and snapped the Hawks’ seven-game win streak in their 96–88 win tonight at the Hive.
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Hats off to Cash Money Records founders Ronald “Slim” Williams and Bryan “Birdman” Williams, who along with Lil Wayne and other Cash Money artists will give away more than 1,400 Thanksgiving turkeys and fixings to needy New Orleanians from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m." [...]
NINE TIMES SOCIAL & PLEASURE CLUB and LADY NINE TIMES
TENTH ANNIVERSARY PARADE SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2009 12-4pm
Start: 3436 Louisa Street, Mrs. Gail’s Place. Up Louisa to Pleasure. U-turn on Pleasure to Louisa to Higgins. Left on Higgins to Almonaster. Left on Almonaster. Over the bridge. Up Almonaster to N. [...]
New Orleans orthopedic surgeon Dr. Robert Treuting is teaming up with Our Hearts to Your Soles and Soles4Soulsl to give free foot screenings and shoes to homeless men on Monday, Nov. 23, at Ozanam Inn on Camp Street.
Our Heart to Your Soles is a national campaign to help homeless people [...]
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Chris “The Mayor” Paul won’t be playing in tonight’s Hornets game against the Atlanta Hawks. But that won’t stop him from rocking out his Hornets sports blazer, surfer-dude haircut and awesome combo moves.
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After a sleepy start to the mayor’s race (was it really last January when we started writing about it?), things got off to a $*#ing bang this week with a certain TV spot that captured the city’s attention. That, and more, is in the [...]
A noted political science professor at the University of Louisiana-Monroe — in the heart of U.S. Sen. David Vitter’s north Louisiana stronghold — has penned a scathing criticism of Vitter’s fast-and-loose treatment of the facts surrounding various issues (particularly health care reform) in his desperate attempt to win re-election after [...]
After endless months of tedium, the New Orleans mayor’s race took off like a bat out of Beelzebub last week. Attorney James Perry, who had campaigned in the shadows of better-known candidates for months, slam-dunked his more experienced opponents at a candidate forum last Wednesday morning. Later that same day, [...]
Serve your friends and family a Thanksgiving meal without the stress of cooking — and help Second Harvest Food Bank at the same time with Toulouse Gourmet’s (3811 Toulouse St., 488-4466; www.toulousegourmet.com) Everything But the Bird program. The menu includes dozens of customary Southern holiday dishes, including several types of dressing, [...]
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New Orleans continues to amaze me. Already riding a buzz from an exciting NBA game and a few post-game drinks last night, my intrepid photographer and I went to Le Bon Temps to catch the Soul Rebels last night. We caught them just as they finished their [...]
The advocacy thrust of this Sunday’s third annual New Orleans Po-boy Preservation Festival is pretty obvious. The festival motto is “Save Our Sandwich,” and the word “preservation” is written into its very name. From its start in 2007, the festival founders [...]
The New York Times‘ Deborah Solomon (who’s drawn her own questions for her questioning style), sits down for a Q&A with Rep. Anh “Joseph” Cao in this Sunday’s Times Magazine. Naturally, his health-care vote is top of the agenda. A couple (actually, three) highlights:
A first-term congressman from New [...]
Gambit walks the red carpet at the Blind Side premier.
The Prytania Theater
Thursday, November 19
A few celeb snap shots from last night’s event.
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In the course of eight days, the Hornets have gone from being humiliated by the Suns by 20 points in Phoenix to winning 110-103 with a brand new coach and scheme in New Orleans. Energy. Motion. Fluidity. It’s been a long [...]
Who’s your mayor? Who’s your next mayor? Right now you probably have no idea. So go ahead, bookmark their campaign Web sites and watch their positions develop … or follow them on Twitter where you can ask them important (or impertinent) questions. The list:
Web sites:
Rob Couhig: none
John Georges: http://georgesformayor.com
On Aug. 29, 2009, I had my photo taken. Zack Smith, chronicling the faces at Carrollton Station that evening, set up a makeshift photobooth — a “portrait lightbox,” as he called it, and framed two shots: one normal, the other “whatever.” Smith, a noted photographer, [...] Paulsen to Bonaparte: “The jig is up!” You won’t find it online, but at the end of this week’s morning missive, WWL-TV’s esteemed senior anchor (Hi Eric!) admitted he, um, actually reads these things:
“So, lots of stuff going on this weekend. You can read about it in Gambit, [...]
Watch it. Then read as the Times-Pic’s Frank Donze explains mayoral candidate James Perry’s new campaign ad. Take it away, Mr. Donze:
“Political insiders and career politicians…” an offscreen narrator intones as silhouettes of men and women appear on screen, depicting the announced mayoral contenders. “Lining up to be our [...]
Six declared New Orleans mayoral candidates – John Georges, Troy Henry, Leslie Jacobs, Ed Murray, James Perry, and Nadine Ramsey – and one undeclared candidate, Rob Couhig, spoke this morning at a forum hosted by the Afterschool Partnership, a group dedicated to providing services to local children during the [...]
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Once upon a time, I used to scour the internets and local chain pharmacies to find the most ludicrous Saints-related merchandise. I was never disappointed, and hopefully neither were you, dear reader. In any case, with the holiday season fast-approaching, I’ve decided to resurrect this [...]
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The Los Angeles Clippers are not a very good basketball team. Part of what makes good teams good is the ability to consistently beat the not-very-good teams. The Hornets have already done away with the Clippers twice this season and, if [...]
Anthony Bourdain, role model for a generation of bad-boy (and wannabe bad-boy) chefs. Garrison Keillor, the rumpled personification of folksy humor. And David Sedaris, one of the funniest people on earth. They’re all coming to the Mahalia Jackson Theater next year as the inaugural wordsmiths of the New Orleans [...]
The Louisiana Commission on Streamlining Government approved a recommendation today, requiring an independent study to evaluate the overall plan for the proposed LSU/VA medical centers in Mid-City. A source from within the commission says that the study will look at all of the options for the medical centers, including [...]
BY ALLEN M. JOHNSON JR.
“If you are coming to steal, there will be no deal!” promises mayoral candidate and former state judge Nadine Ramsey in her campaign literature, promising a “no tolerance attitude for corruption” if she is elected mayor of New Orleans. So how does Ramsey respond to [...]
In his bid to reclaim the Distirct A seat on the New Orleans City Council, former Councilman Jay Batt will have at least two opponents in the Feb. 6 primary — one a fellow Republican and one a Democrat. The Republican is Virginia Blanque, a businesswoman who also has worked [...]
Clay A. Smith
If you believe that there’s such a thing as a moral victory, than what would you classify Sundays’ inexplicable “dramedy of errors” in St. Louis as? The Saints pulled out the victory, thanks to some much needed heroics from Courtney Roby and everyone’s surrogate fall guy, Reggie Bush-but [...]
If we charged a committee of experts with the task of picking the absolute worst time of year to hold a citywide election in New Orleans, they could not possibly pick a more ill suited time for choosing a new mayor and City Council than the schedule we already follow.
Not [...]
PARADE ROUTE:
Start: Foxx III Lounge, 3801 Washington Avenue. Out Rocheblade St. to Toleadano St. Left on Toledano to S. Claiborne Ave. Right on Claiborne. Stop: Jazzy Daiquiri Shop. Out Louisiana to Louisiana and Carondelet.Stop: L Reuxs. Out Carondelet to Washington Ave. Left turn on Washington.
Stop: Purple Rain. Down Washington to LaSalle. [...]
Word of advice: If you’re gonna let someone hitch on to the tail of your star, you better assess whether or not they can steal your shine cause that’s just what happened to Sudan when the Versatile Ladies of Style took to the streets. Sudan is the headliner of this [...]
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Anyone who expected the Hornets to play like a completely different team tonight after Byron Scott was fired as head coach was sadly dissapointed (and, frankly, has unrealistic expectations). The Hornets lost to the Portland Trailblazers 86–78 in front of a listless 14,742 [...]
In which Paulsen reveals his intense love for The Wizard of Oz — there’s a panorama of Dorothy and friends in his game room — and Disney animated films. Oh, was that stuff off the record? I never could get that straight. (Point: Bonaparte.)
MUSIC Hip-Hop For HopeStarting in January, local agencies that assist with housing for people with HIV/AIDS will be reimbursed from the city much earlier for their services. As detailed earlier this month in the Gambit (”Funding for AIDS Services Delayed”), the process for paying these organizations is notoriously slow, with payments often [...]
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The Hornets are 3–6 and flying under the radar because of the Saints’ superb season but that won’t stop the Bees from making headlines. According to many sources, Byron Scott has been fired after New Orleans’ abysmal 124–104 [...]
Sources within and outside The Times-Picayune told Gambit today that the paper’s most visible columnist, Chris Rose, intends to take the paper’s latest round of buyouts, but may continue as a contributor to the paper’s Living section.
Reached by phone, Rose would neither confirm nor deny the reports, nor would he [...]
Last week belonged to the Saturn Bar. This week, the House of Blues is the place to pitch a tent for quality twofer concerts. The mini music festival began yesterday with Son Volt and Peter Bruntnell. It crests tonight (8:30 p.m.; tickets $12.50) with Elvis Perkins [...]
Lee Zurik, the investigative reporter who departed WWL-TV Nov. 5, was introduced to his new coworkers in the WVUE-TV newsroom today, concluding what was perhaps the worst-kept secret in local media: Zurik was leaving the city’s top-rated news station for the local Fox affiliate, where the news division [...]
The pop rock band Herrington won Gambit’s Breaking the Band contest and will perform at Republic New Orleans on Thursday. (Doors open at 7 p.m. Free admission.) For a band profile and to hear the song voted No. 1 by Gambit readers, go here.
By Clay A. Smith
The Saints are a franchise best 8-0 and sit alone atop the NFC. But for three consecutive weeks New Orleans has spotted their opponents substantial leads, only to erase them in the waning moments of the game. They fell behind by twenty-one against the Dolphins and their [...]
Alejandro de los Rios, alex woodward, Kevin Allman, Will Coviello, David Winkler-Schmit, Red Cotton, Kandace Power Graves, Clancy DuBos, Noah Bonaparte Pais, Ian McNulty, Guest, Kyla Boutte
