August 2010
51 posts
The storm that keeps killing - Chris Rose, The... →
In post-Katrina New Orleans, despair is the enemy
She had a nice house in Old Metairie, a nice car, a great job, a good man who loved her and a wedding date in October.
A good life.
He was from Atlanta and had moved here to be with her because she is a New Orleans girl and New Orleans girls never live anywhere else and even if they do, they always come back.
That’s just the way it is.
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“So I thought I’d let you know
That these things take forever,
I...”
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Everyone Forever Now — Stoop Sitting, by Will Hoffman & Daniel Mercadante (Everynone)
Yeeaa-es…just relaxing your hands, your arms, your legs. Enjoying my sunshine and chair. Umm I’m not busy, I’m just relaxing. (Tom from New Orleans).
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Ink Tank - At the Southern Sting tattoo shop in... →
Ink Tank At the Southern Sting tattoo shop in Lafourche Parish, the oil disaster means anything but business as usual.
Five Years Later: Hurricane Katrina | USA TODAY →
Then and now USA TODAY photographers traveled from New Orleans to Mobile, Ala., revisiting areas devastated by Katrina. They attempted to duplicate images taken between 2005 and 2007 to show how the landscape has changed. A building disappears and is replaced with a waterfront park. A field of debris, once a neighborhood, now gives life to open expanses of wild grasses and vegetation. Explore the...
Make It Right →
Make It Right builds safe, sustainable and affordable homes for working families. We aim to be a catalyst for change in the building industry in New Orleans and beyond.
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People just ain’t no good
I think...
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Washing Away by J. Delacroix →
New Orleanians are a strong people
We are born into the battle
Been fighting a war that exists not in history books
But in the heads and hearts of its people
We fight quite simply to remain
I have known people to leave
I have heard the outsiders speak of how hard it is to live in a place
Where booze flows so freely
Where happiness and despair ride such a thin line
The difference is...
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Dave Eggers wins American Book Award for... →
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Vinyl Record Day is the First Nonprofit... →
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“Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was...”
– Flannery O’Connor (via georgeanne) 