SPIKE LEE’S NEXT REQUIEM
After visiting New Orleans for the first time in 2007, I bought my own DVD copy of “When the Levees Broke: A Requiem In Four Acts,” Spike Lee’s HBO documentary about the slow emergency and recovery response to the Katrina tragedy. The documentary was one of the few voices at [...]
New Orleans is hot again. I’m not talking about the impeding and insufferable summer heat that is about to descend in 2 or so months, or the high the city’s still riding out from the Saints superbowl win. Shortly after the pilot, HBO greenlighted a second season of Treme (from the makers of [...]
What better time to upload some more video from my “Church Lady Cake” project than the day before Easter. Actually, Johari Rashad is 7th Day Adventist, so she may be rising and shining today. I’m on the other calendar and will make my church appearance tomorrow.
Considering the last two posts, this [...]
New Orleans Saints 31; Indianapolis Colts 17. Super Bowl XLIV (2010)
Amid all the Super Bowl and Mardi Gras madness, there seems to be one story that didn’t get as much attention outside New Orleans: The Mayoral election on Saturday. Yes, Nagin is out (term over) and Mitch Landrieu is in receiving over [...]
Two years ago I packed my video camera and accompanied my friend Johari Rashad and a suitcase of her prized homemade mini pound cakes to New Orleans for my first Mardi Gras ever. Johari was returning to NOLA, her adopted home city, to bring some comfort food to friends she hadn’t seen since before [...]
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 [...]
