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Posts Tagged ‘New Orleans’

“This Here’s My Minority Report…”

Spike Lee’s When The Levees Broke was on HBO over the weekend and it just didn’t click.  Since I’d never seen it, I played it when I got off work Saturday and the dates finally registered.  Saturday marked the fourth anniversary of the tragic natural disaster. 
August 31st, 2009 | GENERAL, SMOKE BREAK | Read More

“Talk That Stuff and Roll With It…”

A couple of years ago when “Party Like A Rockstar” came out, my friend and I discussed the song’s lasting power. He’s a DJ so he was explaining to me the reaction he’d seen to the song at different parties: “Yea, people go crazy for it. But it’s a phase. It’s not a classic like ‘Back...
July 18th, 2009 | AUDIO, GENERAL, LOOSIES, MUSIC, STRAY SHOTS, VIDEO | Read More

“Cops Keep Firing…”

Now all you hypocrites, witness they injustice… Whether you innocent or did the crime… 22-year-old Adolph Grimes III  was killed early last Thursday in New Orleans in a police shootout was wounded 14 times, with 12 of the bullets hitting him in the back of his body, New Orleans Parish Coroner...
January 11th, 2009 | AUDIO, GENERAL, MUSIC, NOTABLE QUOTABLES, SMOKE BREAK, TV/Movies | Read More