Wearing an orange jumpsuit and shackles, 19-year-old Akein Scott, the man suspected of opening fire on a Mother’s Day second-line parade in New Orleans and injuring 20 people, appeared in court today before a judge who set his bond at $10 million. Magistrate Judge Gerard Hansen gave Scott $500,000 bond on each of the 20 [...]
19 Injured at New Orleans Second Line Parade on Mother’s Day
May 13, 2013 | Posted by
A joyous New Orleans tradition, the second-line parade, was marred on Mother’s Day when gunmen randomly opened fire on a crowd of several hundred revelers, injuring at least 19 people, including two children, according to police. While most of the injuries weren’t life-threatening, a man and a woman were reported to be in surgery last [...]
David Simon, Creator of ‘Treme’ and ‘The Wire,’ Calls TV ‘Unwatchable’
September 23, 2012 | Posted by
“The Wire” creator David Simon recently sat down with Salon for an interview and, according to him, television is barely tolerable anymore. “This sounds really snobbish and I don’t mean it because it’s not like I don’t watch TV, but I find a lot of it to be unwatchable, because I don’t see it as [...]
Emerging Jazz Star Jonathan Baptiste: A Gumbo of Style, Passion and Performance
August 21, 2012 | Posted by
This summer, emerging jazz wunderkind Jonathan Batiste made his big screen debut with Spike Lee’s Red Hook Summer, following a recurring role on HBO’s Treme. The native of Kenner, Louisiana (also home to Wynton Marsalis) has been carving his path in the music industry since childhood and now draws sold-out crowds to venues including New [...]
