Firefighters try to control a blaze at a warehouse burning in Central City on Monday evening. (Robert Morris, UptownMessenger.com)
A firefighter works the controls on a ladder truck as part of the effort to contain the blaze at Eagle Insulation. (Robert Morris, UptownMessenger.com)
5325 Perrier Street (Robert Morris, UptownMessenger.com)
The proposed front elevation of the home listed in the demolition application. (via nola.gov)
Pigeontown Steppers president Joseph “Rollin’ Joe” Henry second lines up General Ogden in west Carrollton on Easter Sunday. (Robert Morris, UptownMessenger.com)
The Pigeontown Steppers held their annual Easter second line Sunday through numerous Carrollton neighborhoods.
The Stooges Brass Band plays for the Pigeontown Steppers annual Easter second line on Sunday. (Robert Morris, UptownMessenger.com)
Councilwoman LaToya Cantrell rides in the Krewe of Zulu on Mardi Gras day, 2013. Cantrell says she has been stopped on parade routes and thanked for her efforts to increase enforcement of parade-safety laws. (UptownMessenger.com file photo by Sabree Hill)
New Orleanians could see clearer laws about the placement of ladders, more control over the locations of portable toilets, and more efforts to clear public spaces during and between Mardi Gras parades next year, based on a number of ideas Uptown residents discussed with their City Councilwoman on Saturday afternoon. Continue reading »
Philip Lemon (via opcso.org)
The Pigeontown Steppers and the Stooges Brass Band second line through Carrollton in 2012. (UptownMessenger.com file photo by Sabree Hill)
Green represents the start, yellow are stops along the way and the red marker is at the end. (map via Google.)
A 24-year-old man was fatally Friday evening on LaSalle Street in Central City, authorities said. Continue reading »
Cokie Roberts
Craig Giesecke
One of the main issues faced by any budding restaurant operation can be the most challenging, controversial and oft-criticized or loved aspect of the entire business. It is the pride or bane of the place, often within the same day, and it is the post on which the entire hat of the business rests.
It is, of course, The Menu. Continue reading »
The Alliance Française of New Orleans spring session of French-language classes begins April 8. Continue reading »
Surveillance-camera image of the suspect in a fatal shooting at Washington and Broad. (via NOPD)
Police have released surveillance-camera photos of the alleged gunman in a fatal shooting at Washington and Broad in hopes that the public can help identify him. Continue reading »
The Audubon Riverside Neighborhood Association Easter Egg hunt in 2012. (UptownMessenger.com file photo)
Allan Katz and Danae Columbus
UNO’s tortuous ties to LSU in Baton Rouge have been severed. A new University of New Orleans President is in place. He is Dr. Peter Fos, a 1972 graduate of UNO. The university at the lakefront is now part of the University of Louisiana system which will likely be a more agreeable relationship than the old one with Baton Rouge where the Tiger bosses tended to see UNO as a threat rather than as a promising protégé. Continue reading »
Police officers responding to criminal activity in the River Gardens area with increased patrols found a man wanted on charges related to a shooting in Texas, authorities said. Continue reading »
Lafayette Academy band members led a march against crime through the streets of Broadmoor on Wednesday evening, stopping on Washington Avenue where three people have been killed in the past two years, according to a report by Monica Hernandez of our partners at WWL-TV.
Dreams, climate change, the Mississippi River, American exceptionalism and Shakespeare are all among the topics to be explored starting next week in classes held in various locations along the St. Charles Avenue corridor as part of the Chautauqua New Orleans series. Continue reading »
Eight children, ages 3 to 5, were rescued from a burning shotgun home on Josephine Street on Wednesday morning after one of the boys started the fire by setting fire to a mattress, authorities said. Continue reading »
Lauren Hightower, a former accountant at Lusher Charter School accused of writing herself $25,000 in fraudulent checks, will is likely to face a forgery charge rather than embezzlement or theft since she returned the money immediately upon being questioned about it, NOPD Detective Michael Riley told Tom Gogola of The Lens.
Costco officials expect 5,000 applications for the 200 jobs that their first Louisiana store on South Carrollton Avenue will create when it opens in mid-August, reports Tania Dall of our partners at WWL-TV.
Chad Forest (via NOPD)