Is it a crime to be incompetent? Stupid? Wasteful of taxpayers money? If it is, then a whole lot of FEMA people should be heading to jail. But it’s not. It doesn’t seem that anyone really cares. Is anyone writing a book about what a train wreck FEMA is? Is anyone...
FoodMusicJustice Archive
About The FoodMusicJustice Project
In the dark years after the failure of the US Army Corps of Engineers levees (don’t call it Katrina), Jazz on the Tube produced a few hundred short articles in support of New Orleans. We also shot a lot of original video.
Unfortunately, hackers destroyed most of this site while we were focused on other matters and much of this priceless archival work was lost.
We’re in the process of trying to reconstruct it, a laborious and expensive process.
What we have been able to salvage so far were notes about our “Manchester Loves New Orleans” Project. The goal was to stimulate musical and artistic exchanges between the UK’s hippest music city and New Orleans.
The two cities have strong historical connections. If you throw Liverpool into the mix, the case can be made that modern pop music was invented by a collaboration between these two places.
– Ken McCarthy
FoodMusicJustice
Faubourg Treme: The untold story of New Orleans
Just got back from a community screening of “Faubourg Treme: The untold story of New Orleans.” I expected it to be good. It was great. The film brought the old Treme back to life and demonstrated that not only was in the birthplace of jazz (80% of the art forms...
God Bless the NBA All Stars
The NBA did it right. They didn’t just come to New Orleans to play a game, they rolled up their sleeves and helped out in various ways. One thing they did was put some of the city’s music all-stars in the spotlight: the Rebirth Brass Band, Harry Connick Jr., Kermit...
The nations looks at New Orleans
There’s probably nothing more important to New Orleans’ survival than getting its story told accurately and completely to the rest of the country and world. The University of New Orleans has rendered an important service by showing how dramatically “off” most people’s...
Formaldehyde in FEMA trailers – again
Can someone explain this to me? We reported on formaldehyde in FEMA trailers on July 21, 2007. It’s now February 14, 2008 almost seven months later and FEMA is only just admitting the problem. The people most likely to be in these trailers are the elderly, the...
