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, [...]
I thought I had spotted Mike Mills at Molly's last week. Circumstantial evidence here seems to corroborate the story. [...] 
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, [...]
Or dismay, depending on your views: [...] I have not been at this blog forever but something really freaky just happened:
I have been trying to sell Ashley's Rhodes piano for almost a year (on and off). A few people came but nobody could find the cables for it so they did not buy it.
Now - Ashley, as [...]
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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 [...]
Who do you think they're going after now?
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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Photograph by Jonathan Bachman
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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, [...]
Nola.com White Washes Corps' Graft on Garbage-filled Levees
Okay the design is a bit garish but the color scheme is far more genuinely New Orleans than the insulting "Creole blue" [...] 
