Humid Beings

If the hornets only played at home, they’d be unstoppable

1266 days ago

- Photograph by Jonathan Bachman - The Hornets 95-91 win against the Miami Heat tonight was notable as much for…

Big Nine and the Battle of the Bands - Old vs New Guard

1266 days ago

ALERT: BS-Free Second Line Report (mostly…) No more second lines this year so fill up on these vids from last…

Another list we don’t have to be embarrassed about topping!

1266 days ago

New Orleans ranks high in yet another national list. This time, The Los Angeles Times reports Priceline.com’s top New Year’s…

…and Mitch replies: En garde!

1266 days ago

Following last night’s John Georges‘ ad lampooning Mitch Landrieu’s mayoral aspirations, Landrieu replies today with an ad taking the opposite…

The latest John Georges ad

1267 days ago

Pow, Mitch Landrieu! Right in the kisser! No “pet the dog” in this one, just a straight-on attack ad with…

New Orleans Scuttlebutt 12-29-09

1267 days ago

by Clay A. Smith Twice in the past four years New Orleans has had to watch as their dreams of…

“Mother Teresa in Eyeblack”: Da Paper gives Tim Tebow an all-time slobberoo

1267 days ago

According to Da Paper this morning, Tim Tebow (maybe you’ve heard of him? young fella from Florida?) makes that dirty…

Pigskin Blossoms

1267 days ago

“Gin Blossoms? I thought that guy committed suicide or something. And you can quote me on that.” I’m fascinated with…

City Hall Closure Threatens Voting Rights

1267 days ago

The Louisiana Justice Institute (LIJ) says that Mayor Nagin’s recent decision to close City Hall on Fridays due to budget…

Uptown Crepe Shop Closes

1267 days ago

Sweet Gals in the Lower Garden District has closed. The casual café first opened in October, serving a breakfast and…

Just what the Saints need: Bobby McCray Arrested for DUI

1267 days ago

- He ended up in handcuffs after being pulled over for speeding on I-10 on the Carrollton overpass. Maybe he…

Mid-City bonfire: Ain’t dere no more

1268 days ago

Photo by Mark Folse You’ve probably already heard that the traditional New Year’s Eve bonfire won’t be lighting up Mid-City…

Your Daily Sugar Bowl Update

1268 days ago

- Amazing photo lifted from Palestra.net - That incredible picture up there is to remind our readers that there are,…

Local writers around the Web

1268 days ago

• The LA Weekly carries a cover interview with Anne Rice, late of the Garden District and now living in…

In case you forgot: Florida’s in town

1269 days ago

- Photo lifted from the UF Library Web site - While the Saints were busy pissing away an otherwise lovely…

Whatever happened to the best team in the NFC?

1269 days ago

- Photograph by Jonathan Bachman - Three weeks ago, all the talk was about the Saints’ potentially undefeated season. Last…

Coming up in Gambit: Year in Review/Mad Men edition

1270 days ago

2009 was the Year of Living Madly. Our elected officials went mad. The public got mad. And everyone was mad…

Top 10 Political Stories of 2009

1271 days ago

There never seems to be a recession in Louisiana political hijinks, as 2009 proved many times over. This was a…

Merry Christmas from TBC Brass Band, Donny Hathaway and Red Cotton

1271 days ago

More Christmas greetings from Sen. David Vitter

1272 days ago

Courtesy of Slate (and our own eagle-eyed Lauren Laborde) comes this Christmas card from the Family Vitter. (Maybe Santa will…

It wouldn’t be a New Orleans story without armed robbery

1272 days ago

- Picture lifted from WWL.com - Just when you thought this whole Saints mania was bringing nothing but positive energy…

A holiday message from Sen. Charlie Melancon

1273 days ago

Earlier today we posted a video Christmas greeting from Sen. David Vitter. Here’s the holiday card from his 2010 Senate…

Water Woes

1273 days ago

While news readers steadily lose access to investigate journalism (writers with resources, time and money for quality reporting), The New…

With Eddie Sapir out of the race, will Greg Sonnier continue?

1273 days ago

Former New Orleans city councilman Eddie Sapir’s abrupt withdrawal this afternoon from the City Council at-large race* raises an interesting…

Milk, cookies and king cake?

1273 days ago

It’s safe to say that a vast majority of shoppers no longer recoil when Christmas trees take root in department…

A holiday message from Sen. David Vitter

1273 days ago

(We’ll update if Sen. Mary Landrieu delivers a YouTube Christmas card to her constituents.)

Next year: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic The Grapes of Wrath

1274 days ago

Our man in the Capitol, Jeremy Alford, just passed along this press release from the office of Rep. Charlie Melancon,…

Because second-guessing is what we do here…

1274 days ago

- Photograph by Jonathan Bachman - I thought we might as well take a second look at my cover story…

One more thing about the financial bail out…

1274 days ago

I enjoyed this just for the absurdity of it. Apparently the force that drives markets is sort of like the…

New Orleans Sports Scuttlebutt 12-22-09

1274 days ago

by Clay A. Smith Well it was practically the same plot, minus the storybook ending. For fifteen consecutive weeks the…

The Saints aren’t perfect, but they’re still a very good team

1277 days ago

- Photograph by Jonathan Bachman - Perfection is hard, there’s a reason that only one team in NFL history has…

Voices of the Big Easy after Saints game performance Saturday night November 19th

1277 days ago

The Voices of the Big Easy will be celebrating Christmas and a big Saints win over the Dallas Cowboys on…

Coming up in this week’s Gambit: A picture’s worth a thousand words edition

1277 days ago

Big Nine Social Aid & Pleasure Club Second Line Sunday 12-4pm

1277 days ago

BIG NINE, LOWER 9TH WARD DIVAS, LOWER 9 STEPPERS ANNUAL PARADE SUNDAY, DECEMBER 20, 2009 NOON-4pm Start: 2734 St. Ferdinand…

NOLA.com’s Video Department strikes again

1277 days ago

- I’m not sure what it is about perfectly excellent journalists producing questionable online videos, but NOLA.com seems like a…

Pillow Talk

1278 days ago

Scott Walker: Believer in the Power of the Pillow. Those who follow our Twitter feed know about the awesome mojo…

The Picture Man

1278 days ago

New Orleans has ‘The Pie Man’, ‘The Special Man’, ‘The Beer Man’, and now… ‘The Picture Man’. And like all…

John Georges addresses the MitchTheMayor video …

1278 days ago

…and again denies his campaign’s involvement. To see the video — taken at last night’s EngageNOLA “Meet the Candidate” event…

We’re going to ELECTIONLAND

1278 days ago

Welcome to Electionland — Gambit’s citizen-driven project giving you direct (virtual) access to all the players in the Feb. 6…

Louisiana: Fat and Happy

1278 days ago

Louisiana has long been an enemy of lists. This past year was no different: Louisiana placed eighth on Trust for…

The “Mitch The Mayor” video

1279 days ago

At the request of Liz Reyes from the John Georges campaign — who never saw the now-infamous “Mitch The Mayor”…

John Georges on Mitchgate: “I had nothing to do with it”

1279 days ago

Calling it “cyber dirty tricks,” mayoral candidate John Georges denied any knowledge of MitchTheMayor.com, the anti-Mitch Landrieu Web site that…

John Georges campaign behind “Mitch the Mayor”?

1279 days ago

That “Mitch The Mayor” parody Web site we wrote about earlier today? The one that was wiped off the Internet…

3-Day Weekend: Dec. 18-20

1279 days ago

How do you start some smack in the WWL-TV studio? Just ask them which Christmas film is the G.O.A.T. The…

Shocking: ESPN.com runs a well-written essay about the Saints and New Orleans

1279 days ago

If you haven’t check it out already, do yourself a favor and read Wright Thompson’s essay, “Saints the soul of…

Times-Pic Publishes Juvenile’s Name: Ethical?

1279 days ago

If you were startled to see the 14-year-old murder suspect’s name published in today’s The Times-Picayune, surrounding the murder of…

James Booker

1279 days ago

It’s James Carroll Booker III’s birthday today. He would have been 70. (He died on Nov. 8, 1983.) The enigmatic…

Virtual mud in the mayor’s race

1279 days ago

Seen this? It’s a Web site called Mitch The Mayor (not to be confused with Mitch Landrieu’s actual Web site,…

Saints go prime time?

1279 days ago

Walt Pierce of The Independent (our Cajun cousin paper in Lafayette) found this nugget. Seems there’s a possibility that the…

Leslie Jacobs quits Mayor’s Race

1279 days ago

src=”http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t136/GambitWeekly/Leslie_Jacobs_0005.jpg” width=”425″ height=”640″ />[/caption] In her campaign commercials Leslie Jacobs promised that as mayor she would solve the city’s crime…