The Lycée Français de la Nouvelle Orléans nominating committee will interview proposed nominees for the school’s board of directors today (Tuesday), Wednesday and Thursday, the school announced. Continue reading »
Apr 022013
Apr 022013
An 18-year-old man was shot to death Monday night near the corner of Eagle and Birch in west Carrollton, authorities said. Continue reading »
Apr 022013
jewel bush
Dear armchair activist,
The root of the word activism is “act.”
If you are not doing something in a tangible, meaningful way, to impact social, political, economic or cultural change, then you are not an activist. Advocate, perhaps. Activist, you are not.
If the extent of your “activism” is regurgitating factoids, trolling online discussion forums, retweeting commentary by intellectuals on Twitter or reposting, sharing and liking stories on Facebook, then you are not an activist. Agitator, maybe. Activist, you are not.
Continue reading »
Apr 022013
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)
Apr 012013
5325 Perrier Street (Robert Morris, UptownMessenger.com)
The proposed front elevation of the home listed in the demolition application. (via nola.gov)
Apr 012013
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)
Mar 302013
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 »
Mar 302013
Philip Lemon (via opcso.org)
Mar 302013
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.)
Mar 302013
A 24-year-old man was fatally Friday evening on LaSalle Street in Central City, authorities said. Continue reading »
Mar 292013
Cokie Roberts
Mar 292013
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 »
Mar 292013
The Alliance Française of New Orleans spring session of French-language classes begins April 8. Continue reading »
Mar 282013
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 »
Mar 282013
The Audubon Riverside Neighborhood Association Easter Egg hunt in 2012. (UptownMessenger.com file photo)
Mar 282013
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 »
Mar 282013
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 »
Mar 282013
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.
Mar 282013
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 »
Mar 282013
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 »
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