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...Louisiana, the shrinkage is most dramatic. The state has lost 1 million acres of coast--11/2 times the area of Rhode Island--since 1930, nearly half of that vanished land lying between New Orleans and the Gulf. The city proper is estimated to be sinking 3 ft. per century. And while the whole world is struggling with rising sea levels, New Orleans and its environs hurt more than most. The State of Louisiana is estimated to be losing land at the alarming rate of about two acres every hour...
Although I have never lived in New Orleans proper, I have worked and spent much time there, experiencing firsthand the city's glory days during the late 1960s and early 1970s and its depressing decline since then. I remember childhood shopping trips with my parents inside the big, bright, block-long department stores that once lined Canal Street. My parents did their monthly grocery shopping at the cavernous Schwegmann's supermarkets in the city and treated my younger sister and me to movies and a few Mardi Gras parades there. Without us, my mother and father enjoyed frequent weekend excursions...
Whatever the reason, it was the Haircuts’ loss. The San Diego quintet put on a subdued but energetic performance well worth the trek to Boston proper...
...Wave director, one of the people who were inspired by the American movies of the 1940s and 1950s to reinvent cinema. Students in my course, who have seen a sample of my own early camera-work, know that I might have done great things in that field, given the proper funding...
...first step will be identifying what has made these events such a success. Let’s start with the basics: the weather was great, and they had all the food. The former is beyond our control, and the latter should be obvious. Nonetheless, proper planning can guarantee that both are accounted for (and last year’s abysmal Afterparty proves that a rain location should be near the top of any logistical to-do list...