Uptown residents in the Audubon and Carrollton neighborhoods can hear Tuesday night the long-range plans for nearby school campuses, when the Recovery School District holds a public hearing on its facility plan for residents of City Council District A.
The meeting will be tomorrow at 6pm at Langston Hughes School, 3919 Trafalgar Street. A similar meeting will be held for District B residents next week, January 12, at 6pm at Andrew Wilson School, 3617 General Pershing Street.
As the Saints make their way through the postseason, we want to know the best places in Uptown New Orleans to cheer them on. Continue reading »
Saints fans Victoria Draye, Britny Hester, Tim Roling, Trey Hester and Shellie Kee watch the third quarter of the Saints vs. Tampa Bay Buccaneers game at the Bulldog on Magazine St. Sunday afternoon. The Saints lost 23-13. (Sabree Hill, UptownMessenger.com)
The Perfect Gentlemen second line will pass through Central City and up Louisiana Avenue on Sunday on its trek across the city, according to Red Cotton.
Jayna Morgan and the Sazerac Sunrise Jazz Band perform at the New Orleans Dance Renaissance Masquerade Ball New Years Eve night. (Sabree Hill, UptownMessenger.com)
The threat of vicious weather did little to deter Uptown New Orleans from celebrating New Year’s Eve in high style, from the avante-garde “Last Masquerade Ball” at the Eiffel Society, to the retro-themed “Dance Renaissance Masquerade Ball” at Vintage Uptown or classic Big Easy sound of the Soul Rebels Brass Band at Le Bon Temps Roule.
Aerial dancer Niki Frisky drops from the ceiling with a ball at midnight at the Last Masquerade Ball at Eiffel Society New Year's Eve night. (Sabree Hill, UptownMessenger.com)
The Soul Rebels Brass Band perform at Le Bon Temps Roule New Years Eve night. (Sabree Hill, UptownMessenger.com)
Zacharia Smith, 11, blows a noise maker at noon to celebrate the new year. (Sabree Hill, UptownMessenger.com)
A tornado watch is in effect until 7 p.m. Friday for the shaded areas. (National Weather Service)
Potentially violent weather – including tornadoes, hail and street flooding – could help usher in 2011 in New Orleans, weather officials said Friday morning. Continue reading »
A carriage carrying the body of rapper Renetta 'Magnolia Shorty' Lowe leaves the 5th Baptist Church Thursday afternoon. (Sabree Hill, UptownMessenger.com)
Slain rapper Renetta ‘Magnolia Shorty’ Lowe was laid to rest Thursday in a funeral service and second line attended by thousands, including musical luminaries Lil Wayne and Bryan “Birdman” Williams, founder of Cash Money Records.
Lil Wayne and Bryan "Birdman" Williams, founder of Cash Money Records, at Renetta 'Magnolia Shorty' Lowe's funeral. 'Magnolia Shorty' and Ms. Tee, Trishell Williams, were the first women signed to Cash Money Records.(Sabree Hill, UptownMessenger.com)
All dressed up but still deciding where to go? Ring in the New Year at a wealth of parties, concerts, balls, and all-night soirees taking place across Uptown tomorrow night.
When you’re making your New Years Eve plans don’t forget to include Tracey’s. Tracey’s, right on the bus line in the Irish Channel, will be hosting a New Years Eve party starting at 9 p.m.
Because of the holidays, the International School of Louisiana’s board meeting scheduled for tonight will be postponed until 6 p.m. Jan. 5, school administrators said. The board meets at the ISL campus, 1400 Camp St.
Attendees at Henry's Uptown Bar enjoy red beans and rice during the Saints game Monday night. Henry's first opened in 1900. (Sabree Hill, UptownMessenger.com)
Security-camera image of a man who allegedly burglarized the Agora Galleries on Magazine Street. (via NOPD)
An armed robbery and a shooting were reported about a block apart in the Irish Channel on subsequent days last week, but investigators say the two gun crimes were almost certainly committed by different people.
In a separate case, police are also searching for an unusually deliberate Christmastime burglar. Continue reading »
New Orleans is experiencing another bout of low water pressure, this time because of as-yet-unspecified problems at the Carrollton station, the city said.
Pressure at the station is beginning to return, according to an email alert from the city of New Orleans, and Algiers is the only area of the city unaffected.
There has been no word yet whether water quality was affected.
A new studio for Romney Pilates is under construction on Magazine Street. (Photo by Sabree Hill, UptownMessenger.com)
A meeting of Magazine Street-area neighbors concerned about the construction of a new Pilates studio has been postponed temporarily, an organizer said Wednesday morning.
Canine Culture manager Shannon Kottemann high-fives a pit bull inside the store at the Sula Foundation holiday gathering. Pit bull owners had a chance to finish holiday shopping while mingling with other pit bulll owners. Holiday carols with a twist such as "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Pit Bull" were sung at the event. The Sula Foundation is dedicated to fostering responsible pit bull ownership through low-cost veterinary clinics, free spay/neuter, education and advocacy. (Sabree Hill, UptownMessenger.com)
Renowned New Orleans metal sculptor Arthur Silverman at a book signing for SILVERMAN: The Art Works of Dr. Arthur Silverman, at Octavia Books Tuesday afternoon. Since the mid-eighties Dr. Silverman has made over 400 metal sculptures that range from a matter of inches to 60 feet in height. Across the United States, he is represented in five national museums. Dr. Silverman has 48 public pieces of art in New Orleans; more then any other artist. (Sabree Hill, UptownMessenger.com)
The resurfacing project will take place in three subsequent stages: Calliope to St. Andrew (from January to Mardi Gras), from there to Napoleon (which will last into the summer) and from Napoleon to Nashville.
For more details on the project itself, see reporting by R. Stephanie Bruno in The Times-Picayune. For reaction from Magazine Street business owners, see a report by Paul Murphy of WWL.
A man was fatally shot on Louisiana Avenue Parkway early Sunday morning, police said.
The man was found lying in the street with a gunshot wound to the chest about 3:20 a.m. in the 3000 block of Louisiana Avenue Parkway, the first block on the lake side of Claiborne Avenue, police said. Paramedics pronounced the man dead at the scene, according to a news release from the NOPD Second District. Continue reading »
Two separate armed robbers in separate Uptown neighborhoods each appears to have struck a second time, continuing a two-week pattern of holdups into a second weekend, police said. Continue reading »