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Cochon is GREAT!

no_heather — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 21:58:19 +0000

Today’s dining section in the New York Times has an article that names Cochon as one of the top ten restaraunts in the country. I’ve been recommending it to visitor’s ever since it opened – I guess it will be a bit more crowded now. Congratulations Cochon!

what a pair

no_heather — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:29:08 +0000

You can read the article about the new crime-fighting equipment that the NOPD got their hands on or you can just keep looking at this picture. Whatever.

king cake

no_heather — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 21:58:50 +0000

Last year I was endorsing the King Cakes from Sam’s Club, but this year I am going with Rouses. The cake is moist but still fully-baked and has great flavor. Plus, the cost is a lot lower than many bakeries will offer.

sloppy joes

no_heather — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 17:33:51 +0000

I plan on throwing a party soon and serving sloppy joe’s for dinner. What goes well with sloppy joe’s? Any ideas for accompaniments?

The Hornets

no_heather — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 18:52:19 +0000

I went to a Hornets game last night and the turnout was pretty meager. I’m not really a basketball fan, but I like to go to a couple of games a year because it is always really fun and it isn’t very much money, either. You can get tickets for as low as $10 a game. Here is their remaining schedule for the season – I encourage people to go – there is a lot of entertainment if basketball isn’t your thing!

Remember to look both ways!

no_heather — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 15:49:59 +0000

Starting on November 11 the streetcar will run to Napolean Avenue. That is about 3 more miles of working streetcar line! I know that a lot of us, including myself, have gotten so accustomed to St. Charles without a streetcar that we really need to to be vigilant of the neutral ground. There is an article about all of this here from the T-P.

Saints + Second Harvest food drive

no_heather — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 15:58:39 +0000

The Saints are kicking off their annual Second Harvest Food Drive tonight at the Winn Dixie across from their training complex on Airline Drive from 5-7. You can donate canned goods, meet Saints players, listen to a jazz band and meet some Saintsations. This could be a great chance to meet your favorite player! (I’m not trying to turn this site into a Saints blog but the Saints website isn’t too great at highlighting events like these for the community).

You can read more about it here at neworleanssaints.com.

Yeah you right!

no_heather — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:32:33 +0000

What a great game last night! Here is a picture from neworleanssaints.com of DT Hollis Thomas dropping Hasselbeck for a first quarter sack.

one-time rental assistance

no_heather — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 18:46:10 +0000

The Recovery Corps’ Household Establishment Fund (HEF) program offers residents who were impacted by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita currently living in Calcasieu, Cameron, Jefferson or Orleans parish one-time assistance for rental deposits and payments, utility deposits and the purchase of furniture or appliances such as a bed, stove, washer, dryer and/or refrigerator.

Beginning October 15, 2007, hurricane-impacted residents can call 1-800-333-3104 to determine eligibility and schedule an appointment.

Check out this website for more info: http://www.recoverycorps.org

more on the Jena six

no_heather — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 19:37:30 +0000

I really like this article in the Financial Times today about the Jena six - the author captures my personal opinion about the matter pretty well. Read the whole thing here or just read the last two paragraphs below:

“Civil rights groups have been demonstrating in solidarity, accusing the town, the state and the country as a whole of allowing a racist system of justice to persist. The issue arose in the first place, they say, because of white bigotry. As events unfolded and escalated, white offenders were treated mildly, they argue, while black offenders faced all the punitive savagery that America’s criminal justice system is capable of. Shamefully, the facts appear to bear this out.

The black youths appear to have committed a nasty assault. This was more than a schoolyard brawl, and could have ended in serious injury. It warranted police intervention. The young men need to be punished and should command no respect. Campaigners who hold up the “Jena Six” as something close to heroes, as some do, are not helping the cause of racial equality. Nor was Jesse Jackson, when he characterised Barack Obama’s measured and sensible comments on the issue as “talking like a white man” – a racist provocation of another kind. But none of this diminishes the scandal of the wider circumstances: first, the school’s apparent tolerance of bigotry, and then the authorities’ zeal to punish blacks, though not the white racists who provoked them, to the fullest extent of the law. The president’s “sadness” is a sadly inadequate response.”