Elevated Histories: Highways and Goodbyeways
July 2nd, 1969, Fifty years ago today the US was losing a war in Vietnam, yet there was celebration because New Orleans won the Second Battle of New Orleans
The Destruction of Public Housing in New Orleans
By Nora Goddard Fraught with problems both real and perceived, public housing is in many ways the last vestige of the WPA era, and may not exist for long. Louisiana legislature passed the Housing Authority Act in 1936, creating HANO (Housing Authority of New Orleans). The Federal Housing Act of 1937 provided for subsidies to…
In Defense Of Oogles
Halloween is just around the corner, and as anyone who lives here knows, it’s time for our neutral grounds, streets, taverns, and parks to be filled with heavily tattooed, filthy, dreadlocked, dog owning, obnoxious, homeless people wearing dark clothes with spikes and patches with band logos often too pointy to read. Many Nola denizens grumble…
Saint Ferdinand Street.
By Georgios Michael Loring Tsangaris Saint Ferdinand, patron saint of sleeping under a bridge. saint of trains crashing into each other on purpose. Saint of bleached crawfish shells in giant puddles after a storm: they could almost be alive again. Saint of purple morning glories engulfing a house that is made of tears. Saint of…