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01/27/12
Constance Adler began composing the vignettes that would ultimately form My Bayou: New Orleans Through the Eyes of a Lover in 2004. This was before two of the seminal events in the story—the literal whirlwind of Hurricane Katrina and the emotional maelstrom of her divorce from the “Yoga King of New Orleans”—and, as such, the narrative becomes a journey that the reader takes along with her.
Adler delves into vodou (vodoun? voodoo? she explains the etymology better than I can in her book), recalls the bitter fury of wearing a back brace as a child, meditates on the connections between humans and animals and humans and other humans, chats with death, gets mugged, crosses the country and ends up back on the banks of Bayou St. John.
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01/20/12
This week, for a special companion edition of our Friday blogs, Eve Kidd Crawford and I decided to open up a hornets' nest for you all to try and close: The issue of children and Facebook. I concede that I am fighting well above my experiential weight; not only is Eve a parent (whereas I am not), she is also fiercely protective as such. And yet, it was I who came down on the side of arguing against children using Facebook and their parents’ posting pictures of them on it.
My first contention is the most obvious. One teen’s innocent fun could be some stranger’s aphrodisiac. That statement alone needs no qualification; everybody’s into something,...
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01/13/12
In early November, Premier Event Management—captained by Bill Burke, the godfather of Big Easy multisport events—announced that the IronMan 70.3 New Orleans (IMNOLA) and 5150 New Orleans races would be held on the same day in late April for the 2012 season. This would have meant that local tri-jacks had to choose between the long-course (1.2-mile swim, 56-mile bicycle ride and 13.1-mile run) and international-distance (1.5K or 0.9-mile swim, 40K or 25-plus-mile ride and 10K or 6-plus-mile run) races for their home games.
IMNOLA draws athletes from all over the globe; IronMan-sanctioned long-course races are rare, and “destination races” rarer still. Ditto 5150 New Orleans; as Burke rightfully asserted, there are no other 5150-series races in the...
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01/06/12
Now write us some more books, please
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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.
