Tuesday, July 1, 2008
NOAH's Lark
Posted by David Winkler-Schmit on Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 9:58 PM
Sources at City Hall say that a nonprofit organization tasked by the city in March ’07 to remediate homes for elderly and low-income hasn’t lived up to its end of the bargain. Many of the homes listed by the New Orleans Affordable Homeownership (NOAH http://www.noahinc.org/) as “remediated” belong to limited liability corporations, not private homeowners, and don’t appear to have been remediated. The NOAH application for remediation asks applicants to certify they are the owner/occupants of the home they are requesting assistance for.
THE HAPPENING in Theaters--THE SIGNAL on DVD
Posted by admin on Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 4:25 AM
Both M. Night Shyamalan’s The Happening and Atlanta filmmakers Jacob Gentry, Dan Bush, and David Bruckner’s The Signal deal with a group of people under siege by an apocalyptic case of the psychotics. One of the film’s signal sends humans into a suicidal mode, while the other film’s signal sends them into a killing mode. In The Happening, it is discovered that the signal being transmitted is organic and the humans’ one way to survive is through technology; in essence, the ability to contact one another through television and radios. In The Signal, radios and televisions are the messengers of the deadly signal and one of the central characters claims he was spared the whole psychosis of this signal by the sunlight; thus, making nature a helpful aspect in The Signal.
