New Digital Archive of Hiphop and Bounce Music in New Orleans
...also worked as a promoter, artist manager, and musician within the New Orleans hiphop community since 2008. She is a writer for the popular music website, The Smoking Section, and...
Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins
Review The image on the front cover of New Deal Ruins reverberates prophetically. In March 1972, after only two decades of occupancy, the first of Pruitt-Igoe's thirty-three public housing towers...
Three AM and the Stars Were Out
...not I'll be arriving too late, what's to be done best done with rifle or shotgun, so make driving the good part, turn off my radio, let the dark close...
#209, Long Meter
...our best spices flow abroad To entertain our Saviour God; And faith and love and joy appear, And every grace be active here. From Lloyd, Benjamin,...
Stones and Shadows
...the image in relief, old man with scythe, and the quotation: "Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be." Impossible, grand. The earth is beneath us. The...
Six Yellow Stanzas
...among these creamy freesia women - they all are. They let some men be dark, like the one they call Dark Gable, who could talk that talk the best. The...
Frank Willis
...ate a rat. The summer I was eleven Water- gate was something I watched with my grandmother on TV like the best soap opera but also something she would have...
Ellipsis
...the walls: Mildew, semen, camphor, Oft-handled bills, coin metal, Cornbread breath that whispers and swallows and breathes. One day, as in the best bodice-rippers, the house burned down to the...
Prayer of the Backhanded
...best beatings lack Intention, the mark of the beast. Bring back to life the son Who glories in the sin Of immediacy, calling it love. God, save the man whose...
Category 3 Gentrification: On New Orleans's Population Trends and the Hostility of Internet Commenters
...Campanella, a geographer with Tulane's architecture program, in "Gentrification and its Discontents: Notes from New Orleans." In this article, he ties this migration southward to so-called "revitalization" movements that displace...