Recently added articles from New Orleans Magazine:
LETTERS
Aug 01, 2008; Anonymous ... NINE CHURCHES Re: "Farewell to St. Henry's," Local Color column by George Gurtner. June 2008 issue. Thanks for a wonderful recap of life in St. Henry's parish. Although I've been a member of St. Henry's for just under 15 years, it truly feels like I've belonged here my entire ...
MARQUEE
Aug 01, 2008; Ravits, Sarah ... Our top picks of the month's events WHITE LINENS AND DIRTY LAUNDRY It's hot out there, and staying cool by wearing white is the thing to do during the summer. On Aug. 2, the annual Whitney White Linen Night, presented by the New Orleans Arts District, will welcome more than ...
RIDING A GOSPEL TRAIN
Aug 01, 2008; Berry, Jason ... YEARS AGO, A BLUES researcher told me, with an expression of mingled horror and bafflement, that vocalist Little Brother Montgomery lost a bag of letters by Louis Armstrong that he'd been carrying around. This was in Chicago in the 1960s. He lost that bag on a city bus. I never learned why he ...
READ & SPIN
Aug 01, 2008; Stuart, Leigh Ann ... The Tremé Brass Band has long celebrated an urban heritage rich in music, performance, jazz funerals and second-line, even winning the Arts National Heritage Fellowship Award In 2006 from the National Endowment for the Arts. The band's newest release New Orleans Music!, just recorded on the ...
Introducing: Bio-Bus
Aug 01, 2008; McNulty, Ian ... The first in a new wave of transit buses are hitting city streets this month and a new look isn't the only change. All the new buses are equipped to run on bio-diesel fuel, a cleaner-burning diesel fuel made from natural, renewable sources such as vegetable oils. "It's an environmental ...
NEW IN MID-CITY
Aug 01, 2008; Laborde, Errol ... 3 places to enjoy THERE IS A PRACTICAL reason why Mid-City is called by that name. As the story goes, in the early days of the neighborhood's development Hibernia Bank decided to open a branch on the corner of Canal Street and North Carrollton Avenue. One little problem was that the bank ...
BEHIND EVERY DOCTOR
Aug 01, 2008; Laborde, Errol ... During my father's last days, I was using a phone near the hospital's nurses' station when I noticed a young nurse talking to another patient's family members. The conversation wasn't going well. The family was upset. Moments later the family left and the young nurse sat there alone ...
SAVE THE CHURCHES
Aug 01, 2008; Anonymous ... BEING THE SHEPHERD OF the Archdiocese of New Orleans is no doubt a tough job. Much of the flock has strayed, both geographically and spiritually, and many of the churches and buildings remain damaged from Hurricane Katrina, some standing in areas where parishes barely exist anymore ... All of ...
JULIA STREET
Aug 01, 2008; Street, Julia ... WITH POYDRAS THE PARROT A MONTHLY PURSUIT OF ANSWERS TO ETERNAL QUESTIONS Hey there Julia and Poydras, I was driving with my parents down Banks Street in Mid-City. We passed 3701 Banks St., which is now Finn McCool's. I remember it used to be Joe's 19th Hole. My parents ...
Post-disaster economy bucks national trend
Aug 01, 2008; McNulty, Ian ... As the New Orleans area approaches the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, one picture of the city Is emerging as a community with fewer people but who make more money and have an easier time finding Jobs than before the disaster, according to an economic analysis conducted recently by the ...
MOMENT OF TRUTH
Aug 01, 2008; Noyes, Mary ... Ed. Note: With this issue we continue our Baghdad Dispatch column, now written by two authors; Marine Capt. Mary Noyes, an attorney, and Marine Maj. Meredith Brown, an Iraqi Women's Engagement officer. Their respective columns will appear in alternate months. Noues moved to New Orleans in 2006; ...
SUMMER SALADS
Aug 01, 2008; Curry, Dale ... Dog days mean salad days at my house - air-conditioning, swimming and salads. That's how August in New Orleans should play out. Early residents of this steamy city, with no cold air or pools to cool off with, must have enjoyed their salads. "The Creoles have always been famous for the ...
Court of Two Sisters' Chef Penedo
Aug 01, 2008; Ravits, Sarah ... DINING Executive Chef Chad Penedo of the Court of Two Sisters is a New Orleans native who's been with the restaurant for over a year. Penedo says that when he started at the restaurant he read "every old menu that this place has," and decided to bring back some old classics such as Trout ...
Paula's Story
Aug 01, 2008; Breck, Bob ... A tragic loss has made a TV meteorologist aware of medical storm clouds It wasn't supposed to end this way: a teacher at the pinnacle of her career, a mother approaching "grandchildren time," a wife secure in 32 years of marriage. She was taken from her students, her children, her ...
Building their own hospital
Aug 01, 2008; Russell, Judi ... Local docs specialize in breast surgery More than 180,000 women in the U.S. will face a diagnosis of breast cancer this year the American Cancer Society estimates. Each case will be unique, but doctors who treat the disease say most of these women have one wish in common: to get through ...
NOLA BY THE NUMBERS
Aug 01, 2008; Stuart, Leigh Ann ... 25 Percent of our nation's petrochemicals produced in Louisiana. 1714 Year Louis Antoine Juchereau de St. Denis founded Fort St. Jean Baptiste des Natchitoches, the first permanent European settlement in Louisiana. 1,800,000 Approximate number of migratory ...
HEALTH BEAT
Aug 01, 2008; Stuart, Leigh Ann ... * A story published June 30 on HewSclentlst.com reports that scientists at Sangamo BloSciences, a biotechnology company in Duarte, Calif., have made a remarkable leap forward with AIDS/HIV research, having successfully created HlV-resistant mice. Scientists discovered that by sabotaging ...
Art at the Alley
Aug 01, 2008; Ravits, Sarah ... ART Dutch Alley is an artist co-op that offers a variety of art including photography, jewelry, hats, costumes, accessories, paintings, wood carvings and more. "It was designed to be an artists' venue where visitors would meet the artists and see them at work," explains artist ...
Furniture from salvaged cypress
Aug 01, 2008; Anonymous ... SHOPPING Furniture designer and crafter Jeremy Shatz is helping the rebuilding effort In his own way. Not only do his creations help those who may have lost furniture in Hurricane Katrlna, but his crafts happen to be made exclusively from salvaged old growth cypress and red pine. He says ...
RESTAURANT INSIDER
Aug 01, 2008; Peyton, Robert ... Ah, August ... Traditionally a time when restaurants live or die by local patronage. If you can brave the heat, why not visit a restaurant you haven't visited In a while? By the time you read this, Rambla may very well have opened In the International House Hotel (221 Camp St.). Designed ...