NOLAFugees.com political analyst and handicapper Jack Moss recounts what has certainly been the most interesting mayoral election of the season.
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Vote, Drink Discuss: Election Night at a Local Watering Hole
Where were you on election night? Correspondent Bill Loehfelm took in the results from the behind the safety of a CBD bar, and watched as the hopes and dreams of Landrites everywhere were crushed.
Former Mayoral Candidate and Jeopardy Champ James Arey has already begun planning his bid for the 2010 New Orleans Grade III Mayoral Stakes. And this time he has enlisted the help of some PR visionaries in order to re-tool his image and cast a wider net.
Historian Brinkley Accused of Using Migrant Labor to Write Book
Yet another History professor from UNO has his methods scrutinized.
Tony Danza to Donate D’Angelo Franchise to Worthy Italian Struggling daytime host counters rival Ellen's latest PR attempt with a song, a dance, and a meatball sub.
Landrieu Adjusts City’s Margin for Error to
+/- 2.4% Lieutenant Governor Mitch Landrieu has altered his stump speech to reflect a more optimistic view of New Orleans’ future.
Wild GinSang Music There are two sides to West Virginia. One involves banging oxycontin and drunk driving your truck to the swap meet. The other is all about the sun breaking mist above the New River gorge, mountain laurels, and a return to innocence. A couple of weeks ago, Dave Parker said his pa, Dave Senior was bringin' his ol'lady Connie down to the Big Easy. He said she had a voice like a songbird carrying over the holler, and could they do a gig at Handsome Willy's? You don't know nothin' 'bout old-timey music until you've heard Connie Townsend.
Flowering Jasmine: A Photo Essay Bill Lavender, on public art and protest, political opportunism and his NIMBY neighbors, and the erection of a quasi-public utility in the Bayou St. John.
The Rock Trio God Intended Narcissy plays heavy, spawning fuzzed out riffs that buzz out the space in the veign of Mike Watt, Mudhoney, and all those bands you listened to back in the halcyon Clinton Era. NOLAFugees.com rock girl Erin Haindle takes a trip to One Eyed Jacks in search of the bigmuff sound that is Narcissy.
Hazardous Material Yes, The Hazard County Girls are based out of the post-Apocalypse, and yes, their music is heavier than the pours at The Brother's Three. Heavy, like looking at three feet of doom rising in your front yard while lolling out on Vics and listening to "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath." But when NOLAFugees correspondent Marcus Gilmer met up with them before their May 12 CD release at One Eyed Jack's, he discovered they aren't nearly as serious as their jams.
God Ain't My Co-pilot: A review of United 93 Film Critic Feelicia Brown reviews the latest post-911 cliffhanger.
Servility with a Smile: Is this a Coffee Shop? Brent Badeaux, on the not being a barista in the new order.
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CORRESPONDENCE
The New Morality
In the wake of the storm there's a new morality.