Posted in dawnsinger on Nov 29th, 2007 No Comments »
I am making a post, because I can.
Unfortunately the idea of a po’ boy festival never materialized in food-crazy New Orleans until a couple of weeks ago, so my wife and I were thrilled to attend the first annual Po’ Boy Preservation Festival on November 18. The fest to “save our sandwich” was held […]
Posted in New Orleans, Media, Signs of the Apocalypse, Weather, dawnsinger, Katrina, Hurricane on Aug 29th, 2007 No Comments »
NOLA Video: Hurricane Hunters fly into Hurricane Dean>
Photo Gallery: Hunting Hurricane Dean
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KATRINA DAY, Aug. 29, 2007 - It hardly seems that two years have gone by since Katrina crushed us. The city is still numb and battered. Our new pioneers work feverishly and defiantly to keep from sliding into a dark whirlpool of melancholy. […]
Posted in General, New Orleans, Media, Signs of the Apocalypse, People & Voices, Weather, dawnsinger, technorati, Katrina, Hurricane, Writing & Journalism Resources on Mar 15th, 2007 No Comments »
This video is compiled from audioblogs and video coming into and leaving from New Orleans on Aug. 28-30, 2005, and photos from me, my colleagues and citizen journalists before, during and after the disaster. The music is the Tragically Hip’s “New Orleans is Sinking,” which was my mental background music that day, and “Orphans of […]
Posted in General, New Orleans, Media, Signs of the Apocalypse, dawnsinger, technorati, Katrina, Crime & Terror on Jan 6th, 2007 Comments Off
Today is Twelfth Night . . . Epiphany . . . the first day of Mardi Gras (or Carnival, to the purists).
There’s an almost obscene irony in the air today, in this city whose mystique derives from historic juxtapositions of deep miseries and joys.
On Friday, two items illustrate this perfectly.
From MSNBC, commenting on the numbing […]
Posted in New Orleans, Media, People & Voices, dawnsinger, technorati, Katrina, Politics, NOLA Rising on Nov 8th, 2006 No Comments »
11/8/2006 - 4 a.m.
I’m up much further into the wee hours than I’d intended to be. But my one chore - the last mile to go before I sleep - is to respond to a question posed by my internet journalism colleague Chris Lyden and his staff from Radio Open Source.
The election: Was […]
Posted in General, New Orleans, People & Voices, dawnsinger, technorati, Katrina, Hurricane, NOLA Rising on Oct 15th, 2006 No Comments »
Theresa Andersson talks about her return to New Orleans and her devotion to finding deeper roots.
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Posted in New Orleans, Media, People & Voices, dawnsinger, technorati, Katrina, NOLA Rising on Sep 25th, 2006 No Comments »
Phoning this one in . . . from outside the Superdome on the afternoon of the Saints’ homecoming.
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Posted in General, New Orleans, Signs of the Apocalypse, People & Voices, dawnsinger, technorati, Katrina, Hurricane, Crime & Terror, Politics on Sep 15th, 2006 No Comments »
Mayor Clarence “Ray Nagin” took to the stand this week to defend his administration against accusations from all quarters that he has no plan for New Orleans. The bottom line from all quarters is that Ray is still a deer in headlights. Planning to appoint a committee to develop a plan. And […]
Posted in General, New Orleans, Media, People & Voices, dawnsinger, technorati, Crime & Terror, Politics on Sep 13th, 2006 No Comments »
As the body count piles up, the Orleans Parish District Attorney’s office seems intent on punishing defendants by inaction, rather than by proving its cases in court. Horror stories about untried defendants languishing in jail, and being released after serving more time behind bars than a conviction would have earned are becoming commonplace under […]
Posted in General, New Orleans, Religion & Faith, People & Voices, dawnsinger, technorati on Sep 11th, 2006 Comments Off
As the golden hour gives way to dusk this evening, I visit with the only casualty of Sept. 11, 2001 that I know. I kneel at his feet and say a prayer over his grave. Hozho na'as glih. Hozho na'as glih. In beauty, it is done.
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Spc. Robert L. duSang was killed in Iraq a little over two […]