International School hopes to partner with Jefferson Parish for new language-immersion campus

 Posted by at 6:03 pm  schools, state government
Jun 282011
 

An ISL student circles answers in a Spanish language workbook. (Sabree Hill, UptownMessenger.com)

The International School of Louisiana plans to approach the Jefferson Parish School Board next week about the possibility of opening a new language-immersion campus, based on the strong interest in foreign-language education recently demonstrated by parents there.

Jefferson Parish officials had planned this spring to cut the language-immersion programs operating at a handful of campuses to stave off next year’s budget shortfall, but earlier this month decided to restore the program for one year. School board members there have since expressed some interest in creating a single full-immersion charter school in the parish, which creates an opportunity for ISL to partner with them, said ISL Head of School Sean Wilson on Tuesday evening. Continue reading »

“When the evening is over, it’s over:” Coulis chef remembered

 Posted by at 7:52 am  business, food and drink
Jun 282011
 

James Leeming, who died Sunday, opened Coulis on Prytania after decades spent in celebrated New Orleans restaurants, including Commander’s Palace and others.

“He’d cajole and encourage and joke and give me the freedom to make mistakes,” recalls Craig Giesecke of J’anitas, who worked with Leeming at Dick and Jenny’s immediately after Hurricane Katrina. “He taught me to trust my instincts and to go off-road if it got us to where we needed to be.”

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Pastors beseech Uptown: March against crime, or at least come outside

 Posted by at 12:26 am  church, city government, crime, events, neighborhood groups, public safety
Jun 282011
 

The NOPD Second District’s monthly march against crime is set for 6 p.m. Tuesday (June 28) in the Freret neighborhood, and this time, the police are hoping for a little help from some new friends.

Building on an idea from the “Cops, Clergy and Community” meeting earlier this month, the police are seeking not only a strong turnout for the march itself from neighborhoods across Uptown, but they also hope the night of the march can become a catalyst for better neighborhood integration. If you don’t attend the march itself, then the coalition of pastors and officers ask that you spend that same hour, from 6 to 7 p.m., on your own front porch or in your front yard, getting to know your neighbors. Continue reading »

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International School board to consider plans for coming year

 Posted by at 11:23 pm  schools
Jun 272011
 

The governing board of the International School of Louisiana will meet Tuesday evening to receive updates on continuing projects such as the Westbank campus renovation and to consider broader expansion plans over the coming year, according to the agenda. The meeting will be held at 6 p.m. Tuesday (June 28) at the Eastbank campus at 1400 Camp Street.

Board of new French charter school to meet

 Posted by at 12:58 pm  schools
Jun 272011
 

The Lycée Français de la Nouvelle Orléans, a new French-immersion charter school in Uptown New Orleans, will meet at 6 p.m. tonight (Monday, June 27) at 5401 South Claiborne Avenue for updates on hiring employees, the school building, and other issues, according to the agenda.

Owen Courrèges: Preserving a legacy

 Posted by at 5:30 am  blight and demolition, city government, opinion
Jun 272011
 

Owen Courrèges

When I first moved to New Orleans, I lived in one side of a shotgun double on Conery Street in the Garden District. Every now and again, a small, sweet dog named “Charlie” would escape from the Favrot house nearby on Prytania, and my wife and I would manage to catch and return him. That’s how I came to meet, in passing, the late Thomas Favrot. Continue reading »

Uptown Swingers’ “last second line of the season” rolls Sunday through Freret, Milan, Central City

 Posted by at 12:33 pm  events, neighborhood groups
Jun 252011
 

Billed by street-culture diva Big Red Cotton as the “last second line of the season,” the Uptown Swingers will roll through Freret, Milan and Central City starting at 1 p.m. Sunday.

For turn-by-turn directions and video from 2010, see Cotton’s post at Gambit’s bestofneworleans.com.

Fundraising party to benefit Freret neighborhood summer camp

 Posted by at 12:23 pm  arts, books and music, events, good works
Jun 252011
 

A scene from the Freret Neighborhood Center's annual Halloween party. (Sabree Hill, UptownMessenger.com)

The Freret Neighborhood Center, the organizing force behind many of the anti-crime, anti-blight and community-building efforts in the Freret and Milan neighborhood, is holding a benefit party from 6 to 10 p.m. today (June 25) to raise money for field trips, food and art supplies for their summer camp for area kids. Continue reading »

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‘Indifference’ marks Brownie’s return to New Orleans

 Posted by at 11:38 pm  events, politics, recovery
Jun 242011
 

Former FEMA director Michael Brown speaks to a handful of New Orleanians and journalists Friday afternoon at the Garden District Book Shop. (Robert Morris, UptownMessenger.com)

So much for the pitchforks. Nobody even bothered to bake a banana cream pie.

It was difficult to know what to expect from a Friday evening book signing in Uptown New Orleans by former FEMA director Michael Brown, who resigned only weeks after Hurricane Katrina made him a national whipping boy for governmental ineptitude.

“I want to commend Michael for putting himself in the line of fire,” Garden District Book Shop proprietor Britton Trice said in his introduction, noting that Brown’s appearance in New Orleans brought an unusual element of controversy. “It’s not too often we get complaints about events we host.”

The firing line Friday night, however, was fairly thin. Not counting the seven journalists in the audience or the bookstore’s staff, the total crowd of people not being paid to be there numbered about 10 people, including two children and one man in a shirt that read “FEMA sucks.” Continue reading »

FEMA’s “Brownie” returns to Uptown New Orleans for book signings

 Posted by at 12:27 pm  events, politics
Jun 242011
 

Michael Brown, director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency until a few days after Hurricane Katrina, will visit two Uptown bookstores this weekend to explain what a “heck of a job” he actually did until his resignation less than a month after the storm. He wrote a book about the experience, “Deadly Indifference,” which he’ll be signing at 6 p.m. Friday at Garden District Books (2727 Prytania Street) and again at 3 p.m. Saturday at Maple Street Books (7523 Maple Street).

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Christy Lorio: Interior decorating, and why I’m no good at it

 Posted by at 5:30 am  opinion
Jun 242011
 

Christy Lorio

I remember stumbling upon a quote once that said if you are a fashion person then you can’t be an interior design person. Well, I certainly prove whoever said that right. I’m pretty much immersed in fashion all day long. I work with clothes at my full time job, come home and write about them for my fashion blog and do the same for freelance work that I pick up on the side. Just from osmosis alone I’d like to think that I do a pretty good job dressing myself. If only I could take an issue of Elle Decor and do the same for my (lack of) interior design prowess. Continue reading »

Federal charges filed against man accused of recording summer campers undressing

 Posted by at 12:50 pm  crime, public safety
Jun 222011
 

William Lovejoy (via NOPD)

William Lovejoy, 54, faces a minimum of 15 years in prison if convicted on federal child-pornography charges filed by U.S. Attorney Jim Letten, multiple media outlets are reporting. Lovejoy was arrested last week on charges of recording cell-phone video of young boys changing out of their swimming suits in the locker room of a summer camp at Tulane’s Riley Center.

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