Jean-Paul Villere
I lost a new client the other day, but I didn’t know it at the time. I had gotten a voicemail from a blocked call. Generally I don’t answer blocked calls for obvious reasons of the brazen telemarketer or opinion pollster, so I let it go to voicemail. Continue reading »
The apartment complex at State and Tchoupitoulas, photographed in August. (Robert Morris, UptownMessenger.com)
The effort to “Keep Tchoup Residential” (as the yard signs say) will get a public hearing next week, when one Uptown neighborhood group plans to ask for land-use rules that will prevent a large apartment complex from undergoing any sort of commercial transformation. Continue reading »
Police leave a home on the 600 block of Peniston St. after searching for an armed robbery suspect underneath, inside and behind the home late Monday afternoon. (Sabree Hill, UptownMessenger.com)
Sedrick Simms (via opcso.org)
Neighbors react to a shooting in December in front of James Weldon Johnson Elementary School in the west Carrollton neighborhood. (Sabree Hill, UptownMessenger.com)
Editor’s note: We had originally intended to do a listing of “most popular” posts on UptownMessenger.com in 2011, but in the process decided that a focus on the most important stories of the year in Uptown New Orleans would be more substantive. What follows is our assessment of the stories we’ve covered over the past year that continue to matter the most, with some commentary explaining our thinking. And, for anyone curious, those “most popular” posts are included at bottom as well. Thank you to everyone who read us in 2011, and we look forward to another year. Continue reading »
Owen Courreges
In a few places around the city, some citizen with a flair for the dramatic has pasted up posters featuring black-and-white photographs of traffic cameras emblazoned with the word “OPPRESSION.” Given the news that continues to come out about New Orleans’ “safety camera” program, these posters appear more accurate with each passing day. Continue reading »
Revelers welcome 2012 on the levee in Algiers. (Sabree Hill, UptownMessenger.com)
Water gushes out of a hole in the ground on the side of Nashville Avenue after a car crashed into a hydrant there, witnesses said. (Robert Morris, UptownMessenger.com)
A car careening down Nashville Avenue on Saturday afternoon narrowly missed a group of people standing on the sidewalk and uprooted a fire hydrant before crashing into a parked car, witnesses said. Continue reading »
An image of Mariah Woods from a vigil held in January in her memory. (UptownMessenger.com file photo by Sabree Hill)
Daria Youngblood suffered brain injuries and broken bones in the January crash that killed Mariah Woods when a suspect in a drug case fleeing police ran into the car the two women were sitting in on Milan Street. The officer, Justin Ferris, was fired in September for allegedly disregarding traffic rules, violating NOPD chase policy and lying about his actions afterward — and now Youngblood has filed suit against the city, Ferris and his supervisor, Sgt. Ron Dassel, seeking damages for her injuries, according to a report by Kyle Barnett in the legal journal louisianarecord.com.
The camera on Henry Clay Avenue at Coliseum issued 40,000 tickets this year, and the camera on Jackson Avenue at Chestnut issued 25,000 — both overlooking 25-mph zones “where drivers tend to think the speed limit is higher — often for good reason,” reports Gordon Russell of The Times-Picayune.
Benjamin Morris
New Year’s resolutions are as entertaining as the parties in which we make them. There’s an art form to them, however, in that they can effectively be broken down into three main categories: those you make to keep, those you make for the sport of it, and my favorite of all, those you make with full awareness that your vow will last only until Mardi Gras, or if you’re having a particularly good time, the arrival of the Phunny Phorty Phellows. A few years ago, however, I finally found one that stuck.
I resolved to run for fifty percent fewer trains.
With the New Year in full swing and festival season – Mardi Gras, French Quarter Fest, and Jazz Fest –just around the corner, there’s no better way to show how much you love New Orleans than with a NOLA Til Ya Die Survival Pack. Full of everything you could possibly need in NOLA – from dog tags to bottle openers –the Survival Pack is the perfect gift for you or someone else! Keep reading for more details of what’s inside, AND a 10% discount code.
Perfect Gentlemen Social Aid and Pleasure Club president Travis Lyons will be the lone member of his club Sunday to roll from Canal Street through Central City and into Broadmoor, but with the support of the TBC Brass Band, Lyons plans to carry the day in style, reports Gambit’s Red Cotton. Continue reading »
Audubon Charter School's Broadway campus.
Since OccupyNOLA’s eviction from Duncan Plaza earlier this month, a small group of protesters have been camping on a lot near the Guste housing development in Central City. Nadra Enzi, also known as Capt Black, who has served as a liaison of sorts between protesters and police, alerted media Friday morning that the group has been served an eviction notice, and Gambit’s Charles Maldonado has confirmed with the city and NOPD that the lot is private property and the group will be ordered to move.
Update: The lot has been evicted, Maldonado reports.
Here’s the health and fitness secret that no one in the fitness industry wants to admit – it all works, at least temporarily. That is to say that any fitness program, which is adequately designed, will work initially. However, the reason people continue to make the same resolutions about improving their health and fitness year after year is that adequately designed isn’t enough. Initially is not enough. Meaningful positive change requires focused and consistent effort. This combination gets results. EDGE is simply about getting results. We don’t do adequate. We don’t do initial. We constantly strive to provide the best program possible.
The Eiffel Society's 2010 New Year's Eve party. (UptownMessenger.com file photo by Sabree Hill)
In a city known as one of the best in the country to celebrate New Year’s Eve, Uptown New Orleans has several offerings of its own. Continue reading »
(Images courtesy of LiaMolly)
If you’ve ever browsed the popular national women’s clothing store Anthropologie you may have stumbled upon LiaMolly, a knitwear company based in Uptown New Orleans. Having 20 years of experience working for large companies and start ups alike, Seema Sudan has been designing under the successful and profitable LiaMolly label for the past four years. Continue reading »
A Central City man walking home was struck on the back of his head and robbed of his wallet early Thursday morning near the door to his home on Josephine Street, police said. 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 »
With ample space next year in the new St. Francis of Assisi campus on State Street, Lycee Francais may add higher grades more quickly than it had expected. (Sabree Hill, UptownMessenger.com)