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Doors never closed at this Big Easy bar; Slow response bewilders former FEMA officials; The genesis of gonzo

Updated 12.42 p.m. Doors never closed at this Big Easy bar: Nice Toronto Star report from the French Quarter. Updated 12.00 p.m. Quick links: The Interdictor | wwltv - TV - blog | nola.com - blog | Baton Rouge -...

September 3, 2005 12:42 pm

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News links; computers at Astrodome; updates on musicians, museums, housing, pets, Garden District; 'Fats' Domino OK

By Sheila Lennon

September 2, 2005 10:01 am

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New link for New Orleans webcam stream, WWL-TV stream; tonight's TV disaster coverage

By Sheila Lennon

6:08 p.m. The Interdictor was hard to connect to for awhile, but it's back up with a new url for the streaming webcam at 610 Poydras St. (map) in New Orleans, in addition to the old link which was probably...

September 1, 2005 6:08 pm

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Baton Rouge live TV stream; 'Fats' Domino missing; Live webcam stream from Poydras St., New Orleans

By Sheila Lennon

2:00 p.m. Linked at the Baton Rouge Advocate news site, WGNO and WBRZ in Baton Rouge have joined forces with a live broadcast stream. They interviewed the driver of a bus on its way to Houston, and were told afterwards...

September 1, 2005 2:00 am

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Biloxi paper pleads for help, seeks death toll, asks why Air Force plays basketball as people die; unofficial stories from La.

By Sheila Lennon

The lead story today in the Biloxi Sun Herald is headlined Make life here possible on its homepage. It's a signed editorial. Here it is, in its entirety. They need to get the word out. South Mississippi needs your...

August 31, 2005 6:31 pm

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New Orleans: Communication flatlines, Times-Picayune staff are refugees and... looting or stayin' alive?

By Sheila Lennon

Josh Britton at LSU in Baton Rouge has the scoop on the New Orleans Times-Picayune staff (it also explains why nola.com was so silent today): ...The Times-Picayune, having evacuated New Orleans this morning, has temporarily relocated to the LSU Journalism...

August 31, 2005 3:02 am

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Text messaging, but not voice, works for La. storm bloggers; new Dylan soundtrack is online

By Sheila Lennon

Cellphone communication has broken down in southern Louisiana, but Kaye Trammell, an assistant professor at LSU in Baton Rouge, reports that text messaging seems to be working: Many people are saying in comment section that if you can't get through...

August 30, 2005 6:47 pm

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Facebook.com; hawks, doves share candle-light vigil in Crawford; Maharishi gives up on Britain; yet another Dylan story

By Sheila Lennon

Facebook a hip college hit: BoingBoinger Xeni Jardin in the LA Times (Pouty-mouth poses for narcoleptic dudes): YOU COULD describe Facebook.com as a digital yearbook, or the Internet equivalent of Greek T-shirts on frat brothers. But most dead-tree yearbooks don't...

August 30, 2005 1:26 am

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Last Gulf blogs standing blog up a storm

By Sheila Lennon

Monday, 12.11 p.m. The Irish Trojan and Josh Britton are still blogging up a storm. Kaye Trammel has lost her net connection and is blogging (pithily, and without links) using her Blackberry (superphone). A tree brought down Hattie's Hattiesburg, Miss.,...

August 29, 2005 12:11 pm

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In Crawford, parallel protests under a punishing sun

By Sheila Lennon

Begun Saturday night, updated periodically Sunday. The Lone Star Iconclast reporters have the raw, "what I'm seeing" local stories from Crawford, Texas today: Updates from: 'You Don't Speak For Me, Cindy' Campaign Deborah Mathews reporting for The Iconoclast 4:20 p.m....

August 28, 2005 3:54 pm

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