Friday, February 12, 2010
Chris Rose joins Gambit
Posted by Kevin Allman on Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 5:38 PM
Watching the Mayor’s race and Saints season from the sidelines was killing me. For the first time in a long time, I didn’t have a soapbox from which to rant and rail, holler and wail.As days turned to weeks turned to months, I realized that if I didn’t find a forum from which to throw tomatoes at the world, I was going to end up standing next to that guy down on Canal Street who wears the rainbow umbrella hat and clutches a megaphone through which he opines to any who will listen — and all who won’t — on the mysteries of Faith and Justice. I could already hear people whispering as they walked by: “Wow, look where Rose ended up.”....
— Chris Rose
The Huffington Post called him “the Crescent City’s bard.”
Anthony Bourdain called him “a hard-bitten, supposedly cynical professional journalist.”
And now Gambit calls Chris Rose — columnist, comedian, raconteur — the paper’s newest contributing writer.
Rose’s first essay will appear as the cover story in the Feb. 16 issue of Gambit and on its Web site, Blog of New Orleans. Thereafter, his column will appear weekly alongside the paper’s other award-winning columnists: Clancy DuBos, Jeremy Alford and the pseudonymous Blake Pontchartrain.
New Orleanians got to know Rose through his 25-year tenure at The Times-Picayune, but it was after Hurricane Katrina that his columns became widely read nationally. A collection of those columns, 1 Dead in Attic, earned him a nomination for a Pulitzer Prize in Journalism.
Gambit publisher Margo DuBos said, “Chris is a gifted writer whose train of thought connects with the reader on a near-religious basis, and Gambit is thrilled to have him join our group of talented writers.”
Here's a look at Chris' first day on the job:
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Looking forward to seeing the results, but please don't disparage Umbrella Hat Man... he & Harry Goldgar are two of our city's greats.
Congratulations to Chris Rose for finding a suitable soapbox at Gambit, where he can throw fruit and perhaps occasionally endure some return fire. Looking forward to the column.
Hot Damn! Ashley Morris called him "a douchebag." and Chris responded with one of the best tributes I read: http://blog.nola.com/chrisrose/2008/04/paying_respect_to_ashley_morri.html I can't wait to see what Chris Rose can do in a venue of this caliber. Kevin Allman, since you have become Editior, Gambit has become Badder and Badder. I mean Bad like Jesse James... Bad to the MFKn Bone, Capital B Bad. And that is such a good thing.
For the record, I think it was Jeffrey at Library Chronicles who used the "douchebag" moniker.
Thanks, Oh Oyacle. I was going on Rose's article. I thought I remembered him calling Rose a douch, but then again, I was just getting into Ashley's blogging at that time. It seems so long ago that I met him at the RT2 Buffa's thingy. Seems like such a long time ago. Goddamn it.
