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12/30/11
So, some stuff happened this year. Some of it was good. Some of it was bad. A lot of it was weird. Most of it was some combination of those three. Here at MyNewOrleans.com, we like to think we draw a pretty good bead on what's what, but every so often, we like your feedback. Hence this experiment.
We've put together a year in pictures for your viewing pleasure. Some of the images in the slideshow come from our archives, but more of them come from you, our readers. It had been our intention - OK, my intention - to give you all some music along with the pictures, but as it turns out, two weeks during the holidays wasn't enough time for me to procure licensing permission. (It's something we'll keep in mind for next year.)
Without further ado,...
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12/23/11
And other things you might not know about the holidays
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12/16/11
It's almost the New Year, so here at MyNewOrleans.com we're going to put together a photo slideshow, set to some appropriate music, of the last year. But we don't trust ourselves to tell the full story of 12 whole months. We want you to tell it, through the photos you've taken over the last 52 weeks.
We're looking for 50-75 images total, capturing the best, worst and funniest of the last 365 days in New Orleans. Winning submissions will receive a photo credit on our website and, of course, our heartfelt congratulations.
The rules:
•No nudity. Sorry folks, we're a family publi...er, website. Keep it SFW, please.
•No more than five images per submission.
•Please use .jpg as your file...
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12/09/11
Print is Dead: Long Live Print
I’m going to interrupt my usual broadcast on the local literature/film/mutant-killer-lizard scene for a brief meditation:
A few thousand years ago, a fellow with a knack for telling stories – who may have been blind, a captive or, in fact, several different people – paced around campfires and town squares, mumbling about heroes named Odysseus and Achilles, one-eyed monsters, sea creatures and jealous gods. Eventually, somebody figured out that his kids might get a kick out of these yarns and they became written (instead of oral) history. Now, you can read the epic poems in their entirety – in any language – without even leaving your house.
The transcription of Homer’s epics ran more...
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12/02/11
Carolyn Perry discusses her new book, on being trapped in Memorial Hospital during Hurricane Katrina
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Alex Gecan (it's a hard "c") is a Yankee and a carpetbagger. Despite these failings, he wisely moved to New Orleans in 2002. In 2008, he joined Renaissance Publishing as a humble intern. Since then, he has covered state politics and elections for The Trentonian in New Jersey, local news and events for The Brooklyn Ink in New York and penned a bevy of freelance articles. He eventually came full circle to rejoin Renaissance as Web Editor.
