Robert Morris
Over the last two years, as Uptown Messenger has grown, readers from other parts of New Orleans often ask me when we’re going to expand into their neighborhoods — with those calls coming most frequently from Mid-City.
Today, I’m happy to announce that we are doing just that as I introduce MidCityMessenger.com, which will cover Mid-City crime, local government, business, schools, neighborhood groups and events. Continue reading »
Megan Braden-Perry, creator of Gambit’s Public Transit Tuesdays column, was kind enough to invite Robert Morris of Uptown Messenger along this week for her exploration of the South Claiborne route, and together we discovered that the new building behind the former Tharp-Sontheimer funeral home is part of a new home for seniors, constructed unit-by-unit as the largest prefabricated building in the state, the architect told us. Claiborne tends to be a quick, no-nonsense bus route, so the journey featured few of the characters Braden-Perry often encounters, but did include sharing some memories at Forstall Art Supplies, plenty of food talk and a vicious caterpillar attack.
The continents are drifting. The icebergs are melting. And as the Times-Picayune cuts its newsroom and its circulation schedule in half after 175 proud years, it feels as though we’re a little closer to the end of the world. Continue reading »
In an effort to encourage a thriving online news culture in New Orleans, Uptown Messenger has joined with three other Internet-based news rooms — NOLA Defender, the Lens and My Spilt Milk — to form the New Orleans Digital News Alliance. Continue reading »
An Advertiser Bulletin published Tuesday included an incorrect phone number for Shared Housing of New Orleans. The correct phone number is 896-2575.
We’ve received a number of emails from readers lately who have had trouble loading UptownMessenger.com with the Firefox brower. We apologize for the inconvenience, but there is an easy temporary fix. Continue reading »
Jack Davis — a former newspaper journalist at the Times-Picayune Publishing Co., the Chicago Tribune and elsewhere — writes in Gambit that as the daily newspaper makes an unpopular decision to reduce print publication to three times a week, New Orleans will become a hotbed for new forms of journalism, and cites UptownMessenger.com among the “rapidly maturing experimenters in the market,” “attracting an audience with good reporting on urban design, education, culture and crime Uptown.”
Do you think Uptown Messenger columnist Owen Courreges is sometimes a little wordy? Apparently, so do the makers of the 150-year-old Merriam-Webster dictionary. Continue reading »
It was brought to our attention this week that commenting has been inadvertently disabled on several recent articles. This appears to have been the result of a technical problem, and comments have been reopened on the articles in question. Continue reading »
"Joyeux Noel," a painting by folk artist Simon Hardeveld, hangs in his studio on Jackson Avenue just off Magazine Street. (via the kind permission of the artist)
By the request of our readers, UptownMessenger.com has recently added a new section for free local classified ads and open forums for announcements and other conversations. Continue reading »
Saints fever on St. Charles
We’ll be photographing a Saints-watching party tonight, but we want to go where the readers of UptownMessenger.com are. Leave us your suggestions in the comments below, and hopefully we’ll see you there.
Welcome to UptownMessenger.com, which will offer a more detailed, comprehensive look at the news and events of Uptown New Orleans than can currently be found anywhere else.
Our site is currently in an “alpha” release for a few final weeks as we continue to test its features and functionality. During this time, we will be posting news to the site, but the reporting will not reflect either the depth or the frequency that is to come.
Later this month, we will move to a “beta” release, which will see an increase in reporting while we test additional features. Finally, on Sept. 1, we will complete our initial site development and begin concentrating all our energy on serving the Uptown community.
Thanks again for stopping by. Please feel free to leave any suggestions in the comments below.