Monday, June 9, 2008
Monday afternoon news wrap
Posted by Kevin Allman on Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 6:55 PM
CNN ON NOLA CRIME: "Crime a Blues Refrain for New Orleans." (It's currently the top story on CNN.com.)...
QB DUI OMG!: Former Saints quarterback Kenny Stabler arrested yesterday for DUI. It's his third...
TAINTED LOVE APPLES: A salmonella outbreak linked to raw tomatoes spreads to 16 states, though Louisiana is spared for the moment. (You know the organizers of this weekend's Creole Tomato Festival have to be plotzing at the public perception and tabloidish-tomatoish headlines, but THERE'S NO DANGER WITH THE CREOLES, PEOPLE)...
BYE, BYE WI-FI: You know that citywide municipal WiFi system? The provider, Earthlink, is getting out of the WiFi game, and the city won't be picking up the ball. This would be a bigger deal if it ever actually, you know, worked....
Local author Greg Herren wins literary award
Posted by Kevin Allman on Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 5:25 PM
New Orleans writer Greg Herren received a Lambda Literary Award last week for his latest novel, Murder in the rue Chartres.
Herren, the author of six New Orleans mysteries including Bourbon Street Blues, Jackson Square Jazz, and Murder in the rue Dauphine, won for Best Men's Mystery. At the time of the book's publication, Publishers Weekly praised it and its author, saying "Herron, a loyal New Orleans resident, paints a brilliant portrait of the recovering city, including insights into its tight-knit gay community."
The Lambda Literary Awards are presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation, which describes itself as "the country’s leading organization for LGBT literature."
Radio wars: Gaudin out at WRNO-FM, in at WIST-AM
Posted by Kevin Allman on Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 4:53 PM
Lorin Gaudin, the host of WRNO-FM’s Sunday morning chow-chat show “All Over Food," has ankled the station for a slot on WIST-AM.
Dan Frazier, WIST’s general manager, confirmed the move this morning. “We’ve got a lot of local stuff on the weekends,” he said, “including America’s first cocktail show, so this is a perfect fit.”
Gaudin’s departure from WRNO is the station’s second high-profile local defection in recent months (following longtime TV/radio personality Andre Trevigne, who left under circumstances that are still unclear) since WRNO transformed its identity in early April from “The New 99.5” to “Rush Radio,” adding a lineup of syndicated talkers that includes Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Glenn Beck.
WIST (the former WTIX-AM) is owned by George H. Buck, proprietor of the Palm Court Jazz Café in the French Quarter. The station is moving from its longtime Metairie location to studios above the Palm Court “in about two weeks,” according to the station’s noontime talker Eric Asher.
“I am extremely enthusiastic about moving to a station with so much local programming and local ownership,” said Gaudin this morning. She would not elaborate on her departure from WRNO.
“All Over Food” makes its debut on WIST July 5, and will be heard on Saturday mornings from 9-11 a.m.
