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• Pam’s Place

  
  Help Holy Cross — Authority: 125
  Very simply, without Pam Dashiell, the Make It Right Foundation would not be helping Lower 9th Ward families to rebuild their lives and community. In post-Katrina recovery efforts, Pam was a central and galvanizing force, encouraging others and seizing the opportunity to turn a devastated landscape into a model for ...
  1 week ago

• Fazendeville at the Chalmette National Battlefield

  
  What I Saw Riding My Bike Around Today — Authority: 121
  Finally, a free afternoon on a sunny day! I took the Surly out, no particular destination-my most favorite sort of ride. I decided to hit up the delightfully smooth (minus the train tracks at Press St.) St. Claude bike lane. After dodging a number of cars using the lane for its fine double parking opportunities, I ...
  1 week ago

• The Lower 9s Green Building Boom - Part 2

  
  Help Holy Cross — Authority: 125
  More from CNNs iReport on the green building boom underway in the Lower Ninth Ward.
  1 week ago

• NOLA 9th Ward: Musicians Village & Brad Pitt projects

  
  Silenced Majority Portal — Authority: 448
  When we were there recently, we didnt really get time to take the 9th ward tour and rental cars were gone, but here is some information about some things that are going on there. Its pretty easy to see the...
  3 weeks ago

• Pam Dashiell: "You have to do right and live right to get right and be right.”

  
  Help Holy Cross — Authority: 125
  Pam Dashiell inspired and genuinely moved hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives in her work as a community activist. She believed passionately that green, healthy, safe living wasnt for the rich alone. The Lower Ninth Ward, too, could be green. Following Hurricane Katrina and the flood caused by the failure of the ...
  3 weeks ago

• New Orleans Neighborhood Activist Dies

  
  Best Of New Orleans Blog — Authority: 558
  Longtime neighborhood activist Pam Dashiell died this morning. She was the current co-director of the Lower Ninth Ward Center for Sustainable Engagement and Development (CSED), which assists returning residents by helping them acquire building materials as well as training them to rebuild homes that are energy ...
  3 weeks ago

• STS9

  
  Marquee Magazine - Live for Live Music! — Authority: 118
  STS9 drops new album this month and gets set for first-ever acoustic show :: STS9 :: :: June Swaner Concert Hall at DU :: :: December 29 :: :: Wells Fargo Theatre :: December 29 & 30 :: By Timothy Dwenger   Though originally hailing from Georgia, Sound Tribe Sector 9 (aka STS9) has found a second home, ...
  4 weeks ago

• Do the ‘Brad Pitt Houses’ Help New Orleans?

  
  Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — Authority: 741
  Does Brad Pitt’s housing development project in New Orleans’ Katrina-ravished Ninth Ward represent a much-needed boost to the neighborhood, no matter from whence it came? Or do his efforts amount to yet another example of a Hollywood do-gooder’s personal crusade ... (continued) READ THE WHOLE ITEM Related ...
  4 weeks ago

• Brad Pitt-itecture: Point/Counterpoint: New Orleans on Brad Pitts Make It Right

  
  Curbed LA — Authority: 624
  [Image of GRAFT and Morphosis houses via The New York Times ] The New York Times took its Cultured Traveler column to "the Brad Pitt Houses" in New Orleans Lower Ninth Ward this weekend, and the resulting buzz is that some people in the neighborhood are unhappy with the affordable, subsidized houses ...
  4 weeks ago

• Concrete Foundations at Louisa and Law

  
  What I Saw Riding My Bike Around Today — Authority: 121
  It was cool and stormy today, but it’s Bike Bash 2009, so I headed out to take in some events. I was all set to volunteer at RUBARB ’s Bike Rodeo for kids, but they had too many volunteers and not enough work to do. That’s a really, really good problem to have, it seems to me. I left, promising myself to come ...
  5 weeks ago

• Making it right

  
  Jeune Street — Authority: 111
  The posting has been light over the past week because I’ve been attending the African Studies Association conference in New Orleans. The conference itself has been terrific. Highlights have included several excellent papers on China and India in Africa, a fascinating presentation on the global economic crisis by ...
  5 weeks ago

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