New Orleans Magazine back issues from March 2008:
SECOND COMING
Mar 01, 2008; ... African and Sicilian immigrants once found a common bond in New Orleans In that they both were poor and social outcasts. The same was true with blacks and the few surviving American Indians. The circumstances triggered a blending of cultures. Black men began to dress like Indians on Mardi Gras ...
LEARNING FROM JAMAICA
Mar 01, 2008; ... According to legend. New Orleans was once saved by Jamaica. It happened in 1814. as a fleet of 50 British warships carrying nearly 6.000 troops, under the direction of General Edward Pakenham, prepared to capture New Orleans. The departure point was a wide natural harbor on the island's western ...
A bark in the park
Mar 01, 2008; ... Man's best friends may soon have their very own slice of the great outdoors in the heart of New Orleans. A new nonprofit, NOLA City Bark, is marshalling support for the city's first official dog park to be established within City Park as a haven for dog owners to bring their pets for some ...
LETTERS
Mar 01, 2008; ... TULANE AND NEWCOMB Ed. Note: The following letter, cut for length, is in response to our Education column, entitled "Newcomb Musings'' which appeared in our January '08 issue. Letters in response to this topic were also published in our February issue. Articles like that written ...
PERSONA: BOB BRECK
Mar 01, 2008; ... On the occasion of his 30th anniversary in local TV Neither rain, nor sleet, nor snow - though maybe a hurricane named Katrlna - can keep Bob Brack from his appointed rounds of forecasting the weather to New Orleanlans. In fact, Brock and anchor John Snell had to be taken off the air and ...
MARQUEE
Mar 01, 2008; ... Our top picks of the month's events A TRIBUTE TO TENNESSEE Legendary playwright Tennessee Williams had a soft spot for New Orleans, and it shows: our city serves as the setting in several of his most famous works. Now New Orleans honors his legacy every year at the Tennessee ...
JAZZ-A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE
Mar 01, 2008; ... LAST SEPTEMBER THE writer Howard Mandel organized a conference at Columbia University - Jazz in the Global Imagination - for some two dozen writers, researchers and radio hosts from Japan, Russia, Western Europe, Mexico, Canada and the U.S. The sheer reach of the project was typical of Mandel, ...
Tales of The Black Ghost
Mar 01, 2008; ... By day, Will Warner Is a counselor at Delgado Community College. But at night, this 42-year-old father of two often assumes the secret Identity of the Black Ghost, a New Orleans superhero on a mission to revive the values of compromise, compassion and nonviolent conflict resolution. That ...
READ & SPIN
Mar 01, 2008; ... To celebrate St. Patrick's Day with the utmost authenticity, the true Celtic reveler will need more than green beer and plastic flowers. Baton Rouge-based band Smithfield Fair celebrates their 20th anniversary with 20 for 20, a collection of - you guessed it - 20 of the group's ...
CRUISE LINES CHART A NEW COURSE
Mar 01, 2008; ... Getting a fix on the health of the local cruise ship industry is, in part, a matter of deciding how far to look ahead - or behind. Glancing back to 2004, for instance, reveals a picture of New Orleans as one of the most robust passenger cruise ports in the country. It's a memory that makes it ...
RESTAURANT INSIDER
Mar 01, 2008; ... As spring approaches, a young man's thoughts turn to ... turn to ... well, it's probably not a good sign that I can't remember what a young man's thoughts are supposed to turn to but at least I have a column for you - what more could you possibly want? I mean, from me, anyway. China ...
DINING AROUND DRYADES
Mar 01, 2008; ... AT FIRST GLANCE, THE leafy, tree-lined stretch of Dryades Street between Soniat Street and Napoleon Avenue appears mostly residential. But scattered around this neighborhood are several good dining destinations. Anchored by Gautreau's at one end and Pascal's Manale at the other, the area has ...
Seeing green
Mar 01, 2008; ... A turn of the wrist may be all it takes to make a major change in the way New Orleans homes impact the environment thanks to a rapidly expanding, hands-on energy efficiency group called Green Light New Orleans. Conceived and led by local roots rock musician Andi Hoffman, Green Light ...
WHAT TO DO ABOUT BATON ROUGE?
Mar 01, 2008; ... WE DETECT A CERTAIN smugness about Baton Rouge toward New Orleans these days. The attitude began during the months after Katrina when the capitol city, to which many New Orleanians fled, briefiy had a larger population than New Orleans. It continues today as we hear about the emerging Interstate ...
CARRYING A TORCH
Mar 01, 2008; ... Crème brûlée and cup custard Once when I was a student at Ole Miss, I traveled with a group of friends to New Orleans for a Sugar Bowl game. We stayed at the home of one friend's parents, who one night graciously wined and dined us at Commander's Palace. I remember the dessert vividly ....
REMEMBER HOWARD JOHNSON'S
Mar 01, 2008; ... Former Orleans Parish School Board member Elliot "Doc" Willard steps briskly out of the Martin Luther King Day parade near City Hall. He joins two other men who are looking up at a hotel on Loyola Avenue. Thirty-five years ago, on Jan. 7, 1973, the high-rise was a Howard ...
JULIA STREET
Mar 01, 2008; ... WITH POYDRAS THE PARROT A MONTHLY PURSUIT OF ANSWERS TO ETERNAL QUESTIONS Dear Julia and Poydras, I visit your city frequently and am writing about the equestrian statues in New Orleans and what, if any, meaning the position of the horses' feet have. For example, the ...
SHOTS FOR TRAVEL
Mar 01, 2008; ... "In June I'm going on a mission trip to Nicaragua. About 40 of us from school will be visiting orphanages and building houses. We will be in a really rural area with malaria and all sorts of things," says Jamantha Karlin, a sophomore at the Uptown Academy of the Sacred Heart. Community ...
Vancouver Island
Mar 01, 2008; ... A different type of vacation I used to believe that New Orleans was the only place where a person could confidently purchase seafood at a gas station. But after a trip to Vancouver Island, I can't say this anymore. When my wife and I arrived in Buckley Bay, we discovered that the ...
HEALTHBEAT
Mar 01, 2008; ... Ochsner Video Link * Ochsner Health System has announced the release of a series of online video-casts called "Ochsner Healthllnks" that will be available on their Web site, www.ochsner.org. The three- to five-minute-long videos are intended to educate and inform patients on subjects ...
Amazing art and fancy furnishings
Mar 01, 2008; ... ART "Dealers and decorators rely on us to provide them with a wide range of Interesting items that they can buy for resale," says Tessa Steinkamp, vice president of New Orleans Auction St. Charles Gallery. The business, which began in 1991, specializes in fine 19th and 20th century ...
Nashville: Visiting for a song
Mar 01, 2008; ... Earl Scruggs was standing on the stage of Nashville's Ryman auditorium. At 84, he's a little frail but still able to play his famous three-fingered banjo style. Two of Scruggs' sons, both members of the band, grinned as their dad leaned into the microphone, pointed to a seat in the second row ...
7 things to know about the Alabama Gulf Coast since the hurricane
Mar 01, 2008; ... 1. When they speak of "the hurricane" throughout the beach towns of Gulf Shores and Orange Beach they're probably not talking about Katrina but Ivan, the storm that flirted with New Orleans in September 2004, before heading east and practically leveling the Alabama coast. 2. Recovery ...
Escaping stress at Bamboo Apothecary
Mar 01, 2008; ... SHOPPPING Like the New Orleans Hornets, Bamboo Apothecary started in Charlotte, N.C. but has now found its niche in the Crescent City. Jill Painter, who halls from a long line of entrepreneurs, opened her store seeking to combine creativity with her sales and management skills. In March ...
LAST CALL
Mar 01, 2008; ... Putting the Irish in coffee The clouds surrounding history have finally parted and "The Truth" can now be told. Despite what you may have heard after visits to the Buena Vista in San Francisco, Irish Coffee was not invented in the City by the Bay. Actually, Irish Coffee came from ...
SCHOOLYARD BRAWL
Mar 01, 2008; ... Conflict among the charter schools The infighting that marked education decisions for Orleans Parish schools before Katrina hasn't disappeared; it has shifted. The new power struggle is between the Orleans Parish School Board and its charters and, to a lesser extent, the Recovery ...
We'll drink to travel
Mar 01, 2008; ... 10 destinations and a recommended bar for each The Fates have been kind to us. Oh sure, Nature hasn't been so great lately, the Saints were a bit of a disappointment and while promises of "smooth streets soon" are hanging out there, so far all we've seen is a Pothole Killer ...
BIAGGIO MONTALBANO
Mar 01, 2008; ... The home of the Roma Sandwich Biaggio Montalbano was a passionate man. He was devoutly religious and practiced his religion publicly. And, he was equally devoted to food: serving, preparing and selling a remarkable sandwich on round Italian bread, the loaf named the muffuletta. He called ...
Condo mania Is there room for more?
Mar 01, 2008; ... Thinking of buying or selling a condominium? Here's the good news: New Orleans is not Miami. A January report on the Miami-Dade County condominium market declared that the area "is experiencing the worst condominium boom-bust cycle in Florida since 1975." A preponderance of "speculative ...
NOPD SWAT
Mar 01, 2008; ... Sometimes even the police need help. When they do, they don't call 9-1-1. They call SWAT. By Chuck Hustmyre "Something bad is going to happen, either today or tomorrow," Lt. Dwayne Scheuermann said. "I can promise you that." Scheuermann is a deputy commander of the New (Means Police ...
WORLDWIDE WORRIES
Mar 01, 2008; ... There ain't no Modine Gunch porn site on the Internet. And if there is one, it has nothing to do with me. And if it does have something to do with me, I didn't do it on purpose. I got to explain. I ain't no computer genius like them hackers you hear ...
DAVID SEPULVEDA
Mar 01, 2008; ... The Line Dance King Word on the street is, if Jerry Springer ever wants to give it a second go-round on Dancing With the Stars, his people will get in touch with Dave Sepulveda's people to set up a few lessons first. Recalling Springer's herky-jerky, out of breath performance on ...
THE LONGEST CROSSING
Mar 01, 2008; ... When the trip was planned. I had no idea that the Saints would even make the playoffs, much less host a home game. But airfares were paid and reservations were made so the trip, in January 2007, went on. My strategy was that once we arrived at the Guanahani Resort on the French Caribbean ...
HOME BREW
Mar 01, 2008; ... HERITAGE AND HISTORY COMBINE IN NEW ORLEANS COFFEE CUPS Things looked grim for New Orleans in the first weeks after Hurricane Katrina and the levee failures, with large areas of the city still flooded and virtually all of its residents displaced. But amid the city's agony, a harbinger of ...