The map shows four recent robberies in the Irish Channel, including two near Washington and Chippewa. (via NOPD.com)
May 052012
May 052012
Computer-generated sketch of the suspect in a robbery on Chestnut Street (via NOPD)
May 052012
A Friday night raid on The Hangar nightclub at 1511 S. Rendon by state Alcohol and Tobacco Control agents found 39 minors inside, including a 4-year-old, though none were caught drinking, according to a report by Monica Hernandez of our partners at WWL-TV. A manager told WWL that the young people were there for a wrestling match intended as a family event, but authorities said the bar was warned the match could not be an all-ages event. Continue reading »
May 052012
Craig Giesecke
As this column is published, TBK and I are off on an adventure, albeit a brief one. We’ll be in Pensacola, watching my oldest graduate from college. While this launch was somewhat delayed, it is every bit as wonderful as anticipated and, bursting with pride, it also allows us to indulge ourselves in one of our favorite pastimes.
Junk food. Continue reading »
May 042012
The Freret Market in May will be held a week later than its usual first Saturday of the month to make way for Jazzfest, market organizers said. Continue reading »
May 042012
Amid escalating concerns about dark neighborhood roads creating hideouts for criminals and hazards for drivers, Mayor Mitch Landrieu pledged this week to repair every streetlight in New Orleans by the end of 2012, according to our partners at WWL-TV.
May 042012
The Jane Jacobs Walk, a yearly tradition intended to strengthen neighborhoods through shared, ground-level observation of what makes them work, will return this weekend to three thriving spots in Uptown New Orleans: the Irish Channel and Freret Street on Saturday, and Oak Street on Sunday. Continue reading »
May 042012
Georval Lewis (via NOPD)
Ronald Brooks (via NOPD)
A 17-year-old has been arrested and another teen is wanted by police in the Wednesday afternoon shooting in Hollygrove that apparently caught a 13-year-old student at Benjamin Banneker student in the crossfire, police said. Continue reading »
May 032012
Tulane University President Scott Cowen addresses the New Orleans City Council. (image via nolacitycouncil.com)
An acrimonious presentation by Tulane supporters that included insinuations of corruption and racism did little to derail the New Orleans City Council’s creation Thursday of a new review process for the proposed Tulane football stadium and other major construction projects on university campuses. Continue reading »
May 032012
Composite sketch of suspect in Broadmoor-area armed robberies. (via NOPD)
May 032012
Allan Katz and Danae Columbus
Tulane University is one of New Orleans’ finest institutions, biggest employers and a national leader in education. But the proposed new Green Wave stadium has riled up Tulane’s neighbors like never before.
Also never before has a member of the New Orleans City Council (in this case District A Councilwoman Susan Guidry) challenged Tulane in defense of its neighboring residents, many of whom are deeply concerned about how plans for the proposed new Green Wave stadium will affect them. Continue reading »
May 032012
Tyrone A. Williams (via opcso.org)
May 022012
The International School of Lousiana's Olivier Street campus in Algiers. (Robert Morris, UptownMessenger.com)
May 022012
District A City Councilwoman Susan Guidry will propose a new ordinance Thursday that would require major college campus construction projects — such as the football stadium Tulane plans for its Uptown campus, which has generated significant opposition along Audubon Boulevard — to be reviewed by the City Planning Commission. Tulane has issued a statement in response decrying the idea as “an unnecessary, unfair and discriminatory reaction to complaints from a neighborhood organization that is really focused on Tulane’s planned on-campus football stadium,” and includes opposition from Loyola and Xavier leadership on the grounds that it could delay all manner of construction projects.
For more on the issue, see reporting by Scott Satchfield of our partners at WWL-TV.
May 022012
The governing board of the International School of Louisiana will meet at 6 p.m. tonight (Wednesday, May 2) at its Westbank campus, 502 Olivier Street, for its monthly meeting. Among the discussion topics will be the status of the Camp Street building, progress on the Jefferson Parish expansion and the installation of modular buildings at the Algiers site. Continue reading »
May 022012
Brandon Adams was fatally shot in the Desire neighborhood Friday night, and Christine Marcelin’s body was found Monday morning in New Orleans East. The two 15-year-old students at KIPP Believe College Prep on South Carrollton, were dating, and on Tuesday night their school community held a peace vigil to mourn the young couple, according to reporting by Tania Dall and our partners at WWL-TV.
May 022012
Jean-Paul Villere
I am a recovering hoarder. I just am. I’ve slid back a few times, and rebuilding for years after Katrina I felt to be on par with the path of excess leading to the palace of wisdom. Between cast-off architectural salvage pieces to simply the strewn-about trappings of our daily lives in front of gutted houses, those days weren’t so much a test of will as they were a competition with myself. On a daily basis with my long departed ratty old truck invariably I’d return home each evening with amazing things often more interesting than the day before. Doors. Molding. Bricks. Patio furniture. More doors. Books. Lots of books. Framed art. Sculpture. Or just random boxes filled with ceramics, flatware, or even laserdiscs. Continue reading »
May 022012
As police investigate a fatal shooting at a party at Second and Clara streets in Central City, someone watches from a window over a table with a balloon-pattern tablecloth and a scooter discarded on the sidewalk. (Robert Morris, UptownMessenger.com)
A man was shot to death Tuesday evening in Central City at a party in front of more than a dozen children, police and witnesses said. Continue reading »
May 012012
Ongoing construction at the Crocker Arts and Technology School on Marengo Street in the Milan neighborhood. (Robert Morris, UptownMessenger.com)
Encore Academy, the newest charter school to open in Uptown New Orleans, will spend its first year in the “brand new, state of the art” building under construction for Crocker Arts and Technology School in the Milan neighborhood, officials said Tuesday night. Continue reading »
May 012012
Trebor Blanton (opcso.org)
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