A Conversation with the Nation...
I don’t often mix this blog up with my work, but today is one of those rare exceptions. I recently moderated a panel with four...
read moreMignon’s got a gun
New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu has joined forces with Spike Lee for one of those futile “end the violence” PR...
read moreRequiem for the Picayune: the ...
Cross-posted at First Draft: The estimable Jason Berry aka Ashe Dambala filmed the Rising Tide conference for the second year in a...
read moreOil and Water – A Rising...
Oil and Water from Jason Berry on Vimeo. On August 29, 2012, South Louisiana underwent a sobering exercise in deja vu when Hurricane...
read moreZack Kopplin of Repeal Creatio...
I was able to catch up with an amazing young man at Rising Tide last weekend, Zack Koppelin. As a high school senior he became one of...
read moreLivestream Rising Tide
Watch the Rising Tide conference live all day, with our own Loki as MC!
read moreWhere Were You Hiding (When th...
Folks, don’t face the future fearing embarrassing questions from your children, like, “Daddy, did you see Marques Colston...
read moreRISING TIDE 7
I’ve stepped back from the day-to-day organizing tasks of the Rising Tide Conference this year. But I *will* be moderating a...
read morePrison Capital of the World
Louisiana’s incarceration rate is the highest in the United States, which makes it the highest on the planet – nearly...
read moreSean Up (And Get CRUNK!)
OK Saints Fans, it’s YOUR turn to play head coach. Roger Goodell has banned Sean Payton for the year, but he can’t ban...
read moreWell, That Didn’t Work… ...
Don’t believe the “cutting edge trendsetter” hype you hear. The Newhouse Gang is using the Death of Print meme to...
read moreHack-a-doodle-doo
I don’t usually criticize politicians for being political but Mayor Landrieu is fond of telling us that he’s a...
read moreThe New Orleans Education Vers...
It wasn’t intentional, the education reference, but it ended up in OffBeat magazine’s recap of this past year’s...
read moreTake It Back
Since I am a Twitter addict, I caught David Carr’s tweet of his Media Decoder blog post on the Times-Picayune’s massive...
read moreWho needs a daily paper?
I just posted this at First Draft and don’t feel like tidying it up for local consumption. I’d rather just let ‘er...
read moreQuorum Quibbling
Councilmembers Hedgehog-Morrell and Johnson (he’s such a dull hack that I haven’t nicknamed him yet) continue their boycott of...
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