A woman was robbed of purse at gunpoint Tuesday evening in the Northwest Carrollton neighborhood, police say. Continue reading »
Sep 262012
Sep 262012
Jean-Paul Villere
In a day and age when both rents seem outta wack (read: way high) but loan rates seem equivalently outta wack (read: historically low), to follow are the pros and cons, or the likely benefits and potential headaches, of landlording.
Personally my journey to becoming a landlord was fairly accidental and organic. My (then fiance but shortly thereafter) wife and I purchased a little single shotgun Uptown in the late 90s only to move out of state within the year. We didn’t want to re-sell so we leased it out, and for 3 years we kept the same tenant which in turn paid our note and then some for miscellaneous upkeep. When we returned to re-occupy the space in 2001, a little while later we felt we kinda missed managing an income producing investment. In short order we made the leap proper and bought a duplex in early 2002, and we’ve been in the business since. So if you wanna be a landlord… Continue reading »
Sep 262012
LaToya Cantrell
Sep 252012
ENCORE Academy moved into its wing of the new Crocker campus on Marengo Street last week. (Robert Morris, UptownMessenger.com)
ENCORE Academy School Leader Terri L. Smith (center) shows a kindergarten classroom to two board members on Monday night. (Robert Morris, UptownMessenger.com)
Sep 252012
Trent Mackey (via opcso.org)
Sep 252012
Stacy Head
Sep 252012
Three teens near the Audubon Park swings on St. Charles Avenue in front of the universities were robbed at gunpoint Monday night by a trio of masked men, police say. Continue reading »
Sep 252012
Investigators examine the body of 18-year-old Jamal Christian where it was found Tuesday morning on the grounds of Mahalia Jackson Elementary on Jackson Avenue. (Robert Morris, UptownMessenger.com)
On Tuesday morning, the third day of searching, the family of Jamal Christian passed through the abandoned 160-year-old United Methodist church on Jackson Avenue, into a vacant lot and across South Robertson Street into the yard of Mahalia Jackson Elementary School. When Christian’s father spotted his 18-year-old son’s body lying underneath the bushes, he threw his cell phone to the ground in despair and groaned, “Oh, Jamal.” Continue reading »
Sep 252012
One man was killed and another injured Monday evening in a shooting that stemmed from an argument inside a west Carrollton home, and two other people showed up at the hospital from bullet wounds apparently sustained in another shooting near South Carrollton and Washington avenues, police said. Continue reading »
Sep 252012
A new rendering of the Tulane Stadium, and how it fits in the neighborhood. (courtesy Tulane University)
Article by Marta Jewson, for UptownMessenger.com
While the interruption of Hurricane Isaac delayed negotiations between the city and Tulane University over an operating agreement for the proposed Uptown football stadium, Audubon Boulevard residents learned Monday night that the wall of the stadium won’t be as high or as close to some of their homes as originally planned. Continue reading »
Sep 242012
The City Council District B candidates — Eric Strachan, LaToya Cantrell, Dana Kaplan and Marlon Horton — enjoy a moment of levity during a candidates’ forum at St. George’s Church on St. Charles Avenue. (Robert Morris, UptownMessenger.com)
Even their short time on the campaign trail has apparently been good to the four relative political newcomers running for the District B seat, as their individual messages came through in distinct focus during a wide-ranging question-and-answer session before the Bouligny Improvement Association on Monday evening. Continue reading »
Sep 242012
The four candidates for City Council District B will participate in a forum at 6 p.m. tonight (Monday, Sept. 24) hosted by the Bouligny Improvement Association and the Louisiana Landmarks Society at St. George’s church, 4600 St. Charles Avenue. Continue reading »
Sep 242012
Two men were shot in separate incidents in Central City and the Lower Garden District over the weekend, and two women were cut in a dispute over card game in the Irish Channel, police said. Continue reading »
Sep 242012
Owen Courreges
The debate over live music continues in New Orleans. The latest volley was lobbed by Kermit Ruffins, New Orleans’ premiere jazz trumpeter, who presumably needs no further introduction. From his Facebook page, Ruffins has announced a meeting this Wednesday to discuss “a plan of [action] to stop the city from taking live entertainment away from small clubs.”
Ruffin’s announcement coincided roughly with three developments: 1) Ruffin’s Mother-In-Law Lounge received its rezoning and permitting for live music; 2) Mimi’s in the Marigny canceled its live music schedule; and, 3) Siberia lounge announced it would be resuming live music in October with obscenely expensive one-shot event permits.
Accordingly, Ruffins is sitting pretty. Everybody else, not so much. Continue reading »
Sep 222012
The floor of the library is bare after being replaced, and furniture remains stacked in the center of the room out of workers’ way Saturday morning at Audubon Charter School’s Carrollton campus main building. (Robert Morris, UptownMessenger.com)
Hurricane Isaac broke a hole through the ceiling of Audubon Charter School’s Carrollton campus main building, flooding the library, and also heavily damaged the roofs of several portable classrooms. Now, school officials hope to have the library repairs finished this coming week and that the roof repairs can be done without costing any more classroom time. Continue reading »
Sep 222012
See below for streaming video of the seventh annual Rising Tide conference.
Please consider a minimum $10 donation to help with the costs of future Rising Tide events.
For a full schedule, see below: Continue reading »
Sep 222012
The Young Men Olympian Junior Benevolent Association will hold its 128th annual second line Sunday, starting at 1 p.m. at the club’s hall on South Liberty and looping around Louisiana Avenue, South Claiborne and Martin Luther King Boulevard, touted by Gambit’s Big Red Cotton as “the biggest, most exciting second line of the season.” See her post at Gambit for turn-by-turn details.
Sep 222012
Craig Giesecke
Last week I had the chance to go out to Tulane to watch a showing of “Nine Lives,” the Paul Sanchez musical production of a Dan Baum book dealing with our part of the world and a particular view of how things were from Hurricane Betsy in 1965 to Katrina, 40 years later. It’s a delightful show, and here’s hoping it is successful as a would-be Broadway production in the coming year or so.
As is often the case when I go see local music (not nearly as often as I’d like), I get to thinking about how much in common our local restaurant operators have with our local musicians. We’re in a city known mainly as a food and art mecca, and we’ve produced a series of folks known worldwide for their expertise and innovation in both arenas. But while such international stars (Lagasse and Neville, Prudhomme and Armstrong, etc.) have their draws, the attraction remains the smaller venues and Who’s Next — who might be doing world-class work in some dive or tiny place. Continue reading »
Sep 212012
As Bricolage Academy works its way through the application process this fall to launch a new charter school next year, its founders are hosting a nationally known education journalist to discuss the education research described in her book “The Good School: How Smart Parents Get Their Children the Education They Deserve.” Continue reading »
Sep 212012
Prep-school students, business people, “uptowner” types, fitness instructors and female motorcyclists dressed in the styles of the early 1990s are among the parts needed for a new Spike Lee joint that will have a casting call from 2 to 7 p.m. Friday afternoon at Ashe Cultural Center, 1724 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., according to a post at the NOLA Black Professionals blog.
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