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Rising Tide 8 at Xavier this Saturday

The activist blogger conference held annually since Hurricane Katrina will be held this coming weekend at Xavier.

The Rising Tide Conference is an annual gathering for everyone who loves New Orleans and is working to bring a better future to all its residents.
Leveraging the power of bloggers and new media, the conference is a launch pad for organization and action. Our day-long program of speakers and presentations is tailored to inform, entertain, enrage and inspire.
We come together to dispel myths, promote facts, highlight progress and regress, discuss ideas, and promote sound policies at all levels. We aim to be a “real life” demonstration of internet activism. Exciting programming announcements are updated regularly, so please check the Schedule page of our website for specific information about this year’s program. This year we are excited to have Retired LT. General Russel L. Honore as our Keynote speaker.

Rising Tide tickets

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Dreamy Weenies

Polish dog with mustard, ketchup, onions and sauerkraut on the corner of Saint Ann and Rampart.

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Tree Inventory underway (again!)

French Quarter Block by Block is a project by community organizer and writer Dar Wolnik to catelogue details and share history for every block of the French Quarter. In 2011, friends and colleagues began to help with her Tree Inventory: mapping trees in the public space of the French Quarter including identification of native or unique trees with the end goal of a paper map and a GPS site of all of the trees. Tree inventories such as these assist neighbors, arborists and planners with new tree planting projects and with city wide tree canopy assessments.
The project was shelved temporarily after the initial identification and will be remapped in 2013. The Quarter is broken into four quadrants on the map and each block will be walked within each quadrant to re-check the initial map and to circle any native or unique trees for later identification.

Tree Inventory underway.

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Habana Outpost secures approval of Vieux Carre Commission

Habana Outpost secures approval of Vieux Carre Commission | NOLA.com.

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Mr. Gregory’s

Mr. Gregory's

New bakery, sandwich and coffee place on Rampart at Saint Ann. Still working on getting all of their equipment in, but it’s already a lovely place to sit and sip. Go on Tuesdays if you want to meet the fabulous artist Lee Kyle, who has just picked up a shift there. Story about them at: http://www.noladefender.com/content/mr-gre45gorys-br1ings-french-take-out-n-rampart

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All on Labor Day weekend-2010

2013 Southern Decadence schedule

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These 2 pictures may be the best way to explain downtown culture. First, one of the venerable second lines Black Men of Labor holding their traditional Labor Day event on St. Claude to North Rampart’s Louis Armstrong Park and back. It marks not only the importance of the virtue of the working man, but also starts the second line season. Started in 1993, this Social Aid and Pleasure club holds tradition dear.
http://www.thebmol.org/site/

The traditions of Southern Decadence weekend are as far removed from BMOL as can be and yet as close as the shared idea of public space reclamation of what the city government (read America) would see as another “outsider” class.

The Southern Decadence Parade is held the same day as BMOL one or two blocks over in the heart of the gay French Quarter area. Southern Decadence history dates back to the early 1970s (when the motley…

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8 years ago, 5 years later, 1 year since.

2005: Katrina/Federal Levee breaks

2010: BP oil spill

2012: Isaac/destruction of levees and chemical spills in Plaquemines Parish.

See other indignities suffered by our little watershed:
Neither too early nor too late

(Anyone still wonder why we drink every day?)