Posted in New Orleans, Signs of the Apocalypse, People & Voices on Sep 3rd, 2007 No Comments »
I don’t remember the five stages of grief . . . in fact, Google tells me that some experts dismiss them as psycho-babble. But I know how it starts.
At first, you scream.
Yesterday afternoon, 22-year-old Chris Sanders was in our front yard, chatting with my kids. He was like a brother to Amanda, and a […]
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 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 […]
Posted in General, New Orleans, People & Voices, dawnsinger, technorati on Sep 7th, 2006 No Comments »
Just for a pleasant break from my post-Katrina sob story, thought I'd share this slideshow from the annual powwow of the Houma Nation outside, well, Houma.
The music is the Tsalagi Morning Song, which is out of place, of course, but this was an intertribal affair. And the women sang it over my Choctaw father as […]
Posted in New Orleans, Media, Signs of the Apocalypse, People & Voices, dawnsinger, technorati, Katrina, Hurricane on Aug 3rd, 2006 No Comments »
There is a specter hanging over Web 2.0 - the presence, or the decay, of net neutrality. Proponents of laws guaranteeing net neutrality fear that the current free-speech, affordable access to the entire internet will be lost as the big communications companies that own the bandwidth pipelines begin to filter out business rivals' sites, crack […]