New Orleans I really want to like the new documentary of sorts, called Tchoupitoulas, by the Ross brothers, Bill and Turner, structured around supposedly one long, languid summer night for three young African-American brothers (William, Kentrell and Bryan Zanders) and their pitbull (Buttercup) coming over from the West Bank to get a look at the sights and …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Saving Lives with Subway Gates
New Orleans Big headlines in the New York papers last week about an Indian man being pushed in front of a subway to his death by a mentally deranged woman bent on killing Muslim “terrorists,” no matter how Hindu. I immediately thought of the gates on subway platforms that I saw so recently in Tokyo …
Grading the 3-Day a Week New Orleans Newspaper Experiment
New Orleans Three months have now passed since the New Orleans Times-Picayune made national news with its shocking announcement that they would no longer publish a daily paper, but would put out a print edition only three days per week (Wednesday, Friday, & Sunday), and count on their web page for survival. Shortly thereafter the …