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Photographs by Jonathan Bachman
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OK, that headline is a bit misleading, but considering that the Hornets didn’t announce Chris Paul would be playing until 90 minutes or so before tip-off and that attendance at the Hive was just over half-full, it sure seemed [...]
‘Tis the season for that special something between your thighs. Following last month’s inaugural NOLA Bike Bash, this weekend kicks off the city’s first ever Bicycle Film Festival. DJ Musa Alves pumps out the jams for the fest’s preparty at Handsome Willy’s tonight [...] After a brief respite last week (a guy’s gotta eat turkey), the blogged summaries of my misadventures in TV land continue. Stumbling into the WWL studio every Thursday morning feels like the continuation of a dream — and not just because I’m bleary-eyed and usually still half asleep. There’s [...]
Unless you’re a complete punk and a lousy dirtbag, you’ve heard about Gambit’s viewing party for the next episode of A&E’s new hit show Steven Seagal Lawman (”The Finest Program in the History of American Television™” — Gambit).
Our party is this Wednesday, Dec. 9, 8:30-10 pm at Theo’s [...]
“You can look at me like a movie star. Or you can wipe that shit out of your head and say ‘Steven Seagal can save my life.” — Steven Seagal, in the premiere of Lawman
If you didn’t catch last night’s premiere of Steven Seagal: Lawman on [...]
I saw this last night during the 10 pm news and was thoroughly confused (of course, it could’ve just been the video hangover from an hour of Steven Seagal: Lawman, and crank up the Emmys for that, by the way). Anyway, behold the new commercial from the John Georges for [...]
Rob Couhig, who has been aggressively running for mayor without actually declaring his intention to run, made it official tonight with a “Tele-Town Hall” conference call and an official announcement on his newly minted Facebook page, where he laid out his platform:
I will use these four conservative guidelines to make [...]
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In the great halls of the Superdome, there are assembled some of the world’s four greatest heroes, created from the cosmic legends of the universe.
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Superman - The speedy, blond deliverer of justice. So busy he couldn’t possibly hold still for a photo. His original [...]
That’s the question PostSecret founder Frank Warren asks on his blog, and responses come from far and wide. Since 2005, the answers, mailed anonymously on postcards, are posted regularly on his Web site for the world to see, with Warren’s collection landing several book deals.
Last spring, Warren turned [...]
Lolis Eric Elie, former Metro columnist and current reporter for The Times-Picayune, has joined the wave of employees who have chosen to take the paper’s buyout offer. Elie, who has worked at the T-P since 1995, will be leaving at the end of this week.
“I’m [...]
Clay A. Smith
Bob Dylan said it best, with poignant brevity, “…yea these times are a changing.” And yet there are still those, an ardent few (small in numbers but large in temerity), that cling with religious conviction to the antiquated notion that these Saints are some how an aberration. Well even those incredulous [...]After months of waiting, it’s finally coming tonight at 9 pm: Steven Seagal: Lawman, the reality show featuring the martial-arts star as a Jefferson Parish sheriff’s deputy (he’s been doing it for 20 years!) debuts on A&E. Here’s a review from the Chicago Sun-Times, and here’s the extended [...]
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Photograph by Jonathan Bachman
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If this feels like the biggest Saints win in franchise history, well, it’s because it is. A decisive win on Monday Night Football against the team that has set the standard for excellence in the NFL this decade? Yea, for the New [...]
The Louisiana State Museum opens the “Visions of Excellence” photojournalism exhibit Thursday, Dec. 3. It includes 53 winners in a variety of categories spanning national and international news, politics, sports, science and more. The photo above is the New York Times’ Damon Winters’ entry in the [...]
For women trying to get pregnant, it might be a good idea to lay off the Coke, Pepsi, or any other sugar-sweetened cola. Researchers have found that women who drink more than five servings of sugar-sweetened cola per week have an increased risk for developing gestational diabetes. Gestational diabetes mellitus [...]
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Photograph by Greg Rhoades
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Bacchanal will be hosting it’s last night of their “An Adventure Every Day” exhibit with photographs by Greg Rhoades. It was supposed to last just two weeks and now, six months from the exhibition’s launch, it’s finally coming to an end with a [...]
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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Photograph by Jonathan Bachman
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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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Photograph by Jonathan Bachman
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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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“It [...]
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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Photo lifted from Last Angry Fan
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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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Yea, that up there is [...]
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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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, [...]
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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Photograph by Jonathan Bachman
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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 [...]
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
