That’s a Wrap….

Wednesday, 28 July 2010, 11:52 | Category : New Orleans, Television
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HBO closed out the season of “Treme” with a special tribute to producer/writer David Eugene Mills, aka “Undercover Blackman” who passed away at the end of March of this year. Hat tip Camille Mosley-Pasley. Note: “Treme” received two Emmy nominations: Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series and Outstanding Original Music and Lyric for Steve Earle [...]

November 4 and 9: Two Days That Shook the World

Tuesday, 3 November 2009, 21:21 | Category : Barack Obama, History, international affairs, Politics
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Note: This post has been updated. Correction: November 9 is considered the official day of the fall of the Berlin Wall; not November 3 when it was being chipped away. Today and Tomorrow/today November 4 and November 9 mark the anniversaries of two significant events in western history: The election of Barack Obama, the first [...]

Let the Good Times Roll (re-post)

Thursday, 23 October 2008, 11:44 | Category : Culture, Music, New Orleans, Television, The Arts
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Having a bit of a brain melt. I accidentally deleted my post about Undercover Blackman (UBM) blogging from New Orleans. UBM is on the writing team for David Simon’s (creator of “The Wire”) new HBO drama series “Treme” (I haven’t figured out how to add the accent on WordPress yet). “Treme” takes place in the [...]