New Orleans Police Chief Ronal Serpas fires 3 officers O’Hern was arrested in January for illegally discharging his weapon last December in a downtown rooftop parking lot. Investigators determined he fired his weapon without cause in the middle of the day inside the Hilton New Orleans Riverside hotel at 2 Poydras St. Police said O’Hern…
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The Ecotone of Saturday Night and Sunday Morning on the Square…
Remnants of the previous night bleed through on Jackson Square Sunday morning… Images by Stuart South.
Don’t Believe the Hype
From the comments on this Yella post… Seriously, it’s not like are the Niners or something. We are one damn game out. We have won one diviosn game and lost one. Next week we have another one. And I am going to say right here and right now that I think we will win this…
Rules of the Road Follow Up: ‘Ripping up Decatur Street’
I touched briefly in my post yesterday about the sanctimonious, arrogant and hypocritical behavior of many bicyclists around town. It was a bit of an abstract concept and really hard to prove in any sort of way but I wanted to suggest that the bicyclists themselves often put themselves in as much danger as careless…
Rules of the Road
Biking in New Orleans might be less of an uphill battle these days I am very much in favor of bike lanes and bike safety here in New Orleans. And the bicyclists should lead the way. I used to bike to work. It was the best thing I ever did for myself. I worked in…
‘Redneck Riviera’
What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Neil Postman – Amusing Ourselves to Death The area south of Highway 98, North of the Gulf, East of Highway 59…
PRINTS!
Former HANO chief financial officer who stole nearly $1 million gets 46-month sentence This article has some awesome quotes… Baum continued: “The court should know that, after paying the restitution, this defendant is left poor. His home in Florida has been foreclosed; the property in South Carolina is going back to the bank since he…
Marinetraffic.com
This site is pretty cool. It has real time locations of ship traffic around the world but of course the best part for us is the action in the Port of New Orleans. I see that Ferry traffic just ended. The Creole Queen, Natchez and all the ferries are on there. I am also watching…
Obama Doesn’t Read American Zombie
I am in a daiquiri shop by Jackson Square watching the blood-pressure increasing performance of the Saints vs. the Panthers when all of the sudden this commercial runs… And I was all like whaaaaat? When the November mudslinging commences, how much is going to get on Obama?
Wild Tchoupitoulas Wal-Mart
This post was preceded by a rather lengthy thread of Facebook postings on Louis Maistros page that was titled, “Louis Maistros has noticed the rules that apply in a fight to the death in Thunderdome are the same rules that apply while shopping at the Super Walmart on Tchoupitoulas St.” The colloquial thread has been…