Banding Collectively | The Lens
College students streamed in steadily, carrying baggage of chips, chilly drinks, and rooster plates from afterschool-runs to 2 nook shops on St. Claude Avenue. They threw open the massive door and headed downstairs to a room with black partitions lined…
Throw Me Somethin’ Mista | The Lens
Throw me somethin’ MistaThrow me my satisfaction in my stepThrow me my ancestors right here, so we will Cha Wa & chat’bout them, then & now Throw me my Motha Mista, alive nicely earlier than age fiftydancin’ complete Doin’ dishes &…
LENS EXCLUSIVE: The governor pops up on Bourbon Avenue
Gov. Jeff Landry paid an unannounced go to to the French Quarter on New Yr’s Day, to be briefed about safety for the upcoming Sugar Bowl and to pay his respects to victims on the one-year anniversary of the truck…
Ten years to justice | The Lens
Tyrone Mitchell, 54, vividly remembers the night time in October 2010 that turned his world the other way up. Wearing blue jean shorts and a crisp white shirt, he and his girlfriend and two of their mates had pulled as…
Residence for the Holidays | The Lens
Inside the bar’s crimson inside, which appears custom-made for a Christmas celebration, The First and Final Cease Bar & Lounge will strike up the D.J. at 5 p.m. tonight and spend the night time enjoying old-school vacation music and serving…
“A Basic Reset” | The Lens
This week on Behind The Lens, a Cameron Parish decide has dominated that state officers violated the Louisiana Structure after they issued a allow for a liquified gasoline export terminal, which has since halted building on the ability. The choice,…
Casting votes for sustainability | The Lens
With New Orleans’s fall elections simply weeks away, I’ve been combing by way of the printed platforms of the individuals operating to function New Orleans’s subsequent mayor, councilmember, and assessor. Throughout the board, most candidates have one thing to say…
No & sure, post-Katrina | The Lens
By definition, a disaster beggars the creativeness. If the disaster is a hurricane, it stirs up nearly as a lot falsehood and fantasy as flotsam and jetsam. Hurricane Katrina—August 29, 2005—was a full-tilt disaster, even after it weakened from a…
Behind The Lens episode 281 half II: ‘Utterly insufficient’
This month marks 20 years because the failing and defective U.S. Military Corps’ levees overwhelmed town of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina hit. That catastrophe left an indelible mark on town, with scars that may nonetheless be seen in some…
We Ain’t Useless But | The Lens
She’s the Queen Metropolis of the South,However she ain’t no southern belle.She’s a bourbon-drinking broadMade exhausting by her battlesIn wars, ailments, and different floods. However at night time her streetlightsAre the twinkles in her eyes—And from the high-riseOn these nights…