Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Times-Picayune to launch its tabloid product, TP Street, on Monday
Posted by Kevin Allman on Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 9:06 PM
After going to thrice-weekly publication last fall as part of its move to a "digital newsroom" (and later adding a Monday sports tabloid during New Orleans Saints football season and a Saturday "bulldog" edition in the subsequent months), NOLA Media Group announced in April it would return to printing a news product on the days that The Times-Picayune was not printed.
That tabloid print product, which was named "TP Street," was largely greeted with dismay in the newsroom and confusion and derision elsewhere, due in part to publisher Ricky Mathews' spin on the tabloid. Mathews had called TP Street "the latest milestone in our evolution as a multimedia news organization," when it was clear that the move was a retreat to daily printing. TP Street, executives announced, was a response to subscribers' demand for a paper — but, adding to the confusion, TP Street would not be delivered to subscribers, but available only on news racks. (The final version of TP Street will carry The Times-Picayune's familiar "flag," or front-page logo.)
That non-delivery plan, Gambit learned several weeks ago, has also been reconsidered as NOLA Media Group pondered the possibility of returning to daily delivery of a daily print product with the name Times-Picayune, effectively positioning the physical paper where it was a year ago before the "digital transition" — albeit a newspaper with a severely damaged brand and new competition in the form of The Advocate's New Orleans edition.
Amoss' memo to his staff below the jump.
New Orleans Pride Festival 2013 event lineup
Posted by Megan Braden-Perry on Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 7:08 PM
New Orleans Pride Festival 2013 events range from fun dance parties and karaoke nights to solemn relationship blessings and memorial services. Select events are listed below, in chronological order.
Thursday
• Upstairs premiere — 8 p.m., Cafe Istanbul Theatre. The dramatic musical about the fire 40 years ago at the Up Stairs Lounge makes its debut.
• All Hands on Deck open turntable night — 9 p.m. to 3 a.m., Ninth Circle and Voodoo Bar.
• Video request night — 9 p.m., Bourbon Pub & Parade.
Friday
• BINGA — 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., Michael's on the Park. Princesse Stephaney hosts the event where prizes will be won and where proceeds will benefit gay Mardi Gras krewes.
• Love Free or Die screening — 6 p.m., Ashe Cultural Arts Center. The film is a documentary on the first openly gay bishop.
• “True Colors” art exhibit opening reception — 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., UNO St. Claude Gallery. The mixed media exhibit features pieces which communicate the values represented by each color in the Pride flag.
• Pride kick-off party — 7 p.m. to 11 p.m., Boomtown Casino. With a $20 cover, guests get $20 in casino play, food and the chance to meet the stars of Pride Fest 2013.
• Beer Bust — 7 p.m., Rawhide 2010.
• Dance, Bitches, Dance — 7 p.m., Oz. DJs JRB and Tim Pflueger will provide the soundtrack and the Hot Men of Oz will offer the bar dancing.
• New Meat amateur dance contest — 10 p.m.. The Corner Pocket. The winner of this contest, hosted by Lisa Beaumann, will receive a $100 cash prize.
• All Hands on Deck open turntable night — 9 p.m. to 3 a.m., Ninth Circle and Voodoo Bar.
Saturday, Sunday and Monday events are below the jump.
Rare copy of A Confederacy of Dunces sold to UL Lafayette at New York auction
Posted by Kevin Allman on Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 4:26 PM
- COURTESY DA CAPO PRESS
- John Kennedy Toole
The original manuscript of the great 20th-century New Orleans novel A Confederacy of Dunces may never surface, but a rare manuscript copy with handwritten corrections was purchased earlier this month by UL Lafayette, where author John Kennedy Toole taught school in the late 1950s.
From the UL Lafayette Vermilion:
The UL Lafayette Foundation has acquired a rare copy of a manuscript of John Kennedy Toole’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, A Confederacy of Dunces.The Foundation purchased Lot No. 228 at a Sotheby’s auction in New York earlier this month. The acquisition includes a 290-page copy of Toole’s typed manuscript, with handwritten corrections. It also includes photographs of Toole and his friend, Carey Laird. The writer’s mother, Thelma Toole, had given the manuscript to Laird.
No known original manuscript of A Confederacy of Dunces exists.
The hammer price for the items was $25,000, which Sotheby’s had estimated could go for as much as $50,000.
The university is planning a 2014 event to celebrate Toole and Confederacy.
Last year Gambit published a cover story on Confederacy, Toole, and the Toole biography Butterfly in the Typewriter; read it here.
Banh mi tacos and double-decker spring rolls at Pho Bistreaux
Posted by Ian McNulty on Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 8:27 AM
- IAN MCNULTY
- Traditional banh mi fillings inside flour tortillas at Pho Bistreaux
As the number of Vietnamese restaurants continues to grow around New Orleans, some are mixing up the typical script for these casual noodle shops.
At one of the newest entries to the field, Pho Bistreaux, this means turning a banh mi into a taco and wrapping fried, crunchy egg rolls inside fresh spring rolls, for a combo called the NOLA roll.
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
An "elite"? How dare you, sir?
Posted by Kevin Allman on Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 2:41 PM
Gov. Bobby Jindal's "bedwetting," "big-boy pants" op-ed in today's Politico had lots of advice and proscriptions for the national GOP, and certainly got Jindal renewed national attention (though it surely left some amused at Jindal's choice of incontinent metaphor). In the middle of it, Jindal took a sardonic swipe at "the smart guys in Washington," and now one of the D.C. smart guys in the press corps, Ezra Klein of The Washington Post's Wonkblog — is taking a swipe back at the governor:
That’s how the GOP becomes the stupid party: Republican Party elites like Jindal convince Republican Party activists of things that aren’t true.
(That's from a piece titled "Bobby Jindal is the Republican Party's Problem," which is, I suppose, the sort of thing you'd expect a "smart guy in Washington" to write.)
In Paw-Paw's day, "elite" used to mean "the best" (or the self-selected "best") — but today "elite" is a fighting word. Just six months ago, Jindal was sniping at the "liberal elite and their media water carriers":
Clearly this is a grave insult, and we've got a call in to Jindal's office to see if there will be a reply to this elite glove in the face. If there's one thing politicians of all stripes can agree upon, it's that "elite" is a dirty, filthy word when you're talkin' 'bout a coupla jest-plain-fellas and good ole boys like Jindal and Klein. Certainly Klein's use of it here seems deliberately designed to provoke a reaction.
EDITED TO ADD: And now Alec MacGillis of The New Republic -- another Washington elite -- puts in his two cents on Jindal's latest Politico op-ed.Rep. Walt Leger to seek speakership of state House of Representatives
Posted by Jeremy Alford on Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 1:53 PM
"I will absolutely be a candidate for speaker," he said yesterday after an address to the Baton Rouge Press Club.
Other sources, however, indicate that Leger has also opened himself up to the possibility of running for statewide office in 2015. He's working closely with a communications team and a revamp of his campaign website is said to be in the works.
Steve Gleason responds to the Atlanta shock jocks (who couldn't carry his jock)
Posted by Kevin Allman on Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 12:53 PM
From Team Gleason's Facebook — a letter from Steve Gleason:
Regarding the DJ skit in Atlanta yesterday. I would like to thank the public for their support. 'Defend Team Gleason' now has been officially redefined. Additionally, the DJs have provided genuine apology. Received and accepted. We have all made mistakes in this life. How we learn from our mistakes is the measure of who we are.I think everyone can learn from this event. Its clear to me that, on a national & global scale, ALS is not understood, which is part of why its under funded and largely ignored. In the past 36 hours lots of people have been talking. Lets talk about this... There are zero treatments for ALS. If you take any action as a result of this event, I prefer it to be action to end ALS. See what we are doing to change that @ teamgleason.org. SG
Once again, the universe has reinforced the lesson that in America, you're welcome to say whatever you like, but you don't get to control the consequences.
The universe has also reduced our weekly web poll to yesterday's news, as all the options involved came true at one time or another within 12 hours:
So we've pulled that poll question and have come up with a new one:
How do you feel the city of New Orleans is doing when it comes to noise enforcement laws?
First of two new lakefront restaurants sets sail this week
Posted by Ian McNulty on Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 12:17 PM
- IAN MCNULTY
- The deck at Brisbi's on the lakefront.
The drinks have been flowing for about a week now at Brisbi’s Lakefront Restaurant & Bar, and from its elevated, westerly-facing deck people have been toasting boaters as they return to port after day on Lake Pontchartrain. On Wednesday evening, the kitchen at this new waterfront restaurant will get rolling with regular service.
Brisbi’s is one of two new restaurants along Lakeshore Drive. Finishing touches are underway at the second, Blue Crab Restaurant and Oyster Bar, which is just a short walk up the canal. Blue Crab manager Kent Burgess expects his restaurant to open within the next few weeks.
Both restaurants are elevated on piers, with steps leading to the docks and plenty of windows to take in the lakefront views. At Brisbi’s, there’s a stand-up oyster bar overlooking the harbor and garage doors that can open to connect the dining room to the covered deck outside.
Jindal on GOP: "It’s time to stop the bedwetting"
Posted by Alex Woodward on Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 12:00 PM
Words Gov. Bobby Jindal uses to describe fellow Republicans in today's Politico column: navel gazing, bedwetting, needs to go to counseling.
What Jindal says fellow Republicans should do: "go kick the other guys around" and "hold fast, get smarter, get disciplined, get on offense, and put on your big boy pants."
Jindal's latest tongue-lashing at his GOP peers reminds them to hold on to their conservative values instead of broadcasting their "embarassing ... public professions of feelings of inadequacy."
"Every day it seems another jilted high-placed Republican in Washington is confessing to the voters; 'It’s not you, it’s me…'," he writes. Jindal tells Republicans to focus their attention on "painting a picture for the American public, particularly for young people, of what a free and prosperous American future will look like with smart conservative policies."
He then lists 30 reasons why Americans will "revolt" against the "nanny state" — because the "left" wants the "government to explode," doesn't care about babies, thinks rich people are evil and that people of faith are stupid.
No word on what the strategy for kicking the other guys around includes, however.
Diana Ross to perform at the Saenger Theatre in October
Posted by Megan Braden-Perry on Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 11:43 AM
Diana Ross will grace the Saenger Theatre stage on Oct. 30. Tickets go on sale next Friday at 11 a.m.
Women who are "sexy 20-40" and are looking for a date to the Diana Ross concert might consider contacting this gentleman via Backpage.com. The "55 look younger, black male if it matters" was looking for a date to the Diana Ross concert this past February in Baton Rouge. He has (had?) a girlfriend, but she apparently loves the Zulu Ball more than she loves Diana Ross. That could be a dealbreaker.
There are some embeds of Diana Ross jams below the jump.
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