Bywater

Love NOLA: When bullets came to my street

Brett Will Taylor (photo by Jason Kruppa)

Was it four shots? Eight? Ten? I’m not sure. It all happened so fast … and so terrifyingly, paralyzingly slow. There was a gunfight outside my house yesterday afternoon. Not gunfire. A gunfight. At 3 p.m. on a [...]

Twenty(something) Questions: Who am I?

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After you graduate college, time seems to speed up to dog years. Each year is worth what feels like 2,555 days of growth spurts, face plants, career changes, breakups, and breakdowns. It’s filled with constant reevaluation of who [...]

A geographer creates a stir with an essay on gentrification

An illustration with Ricchard Campanella's essay in New Geography contains a map of post-Katrina gentrification 'hot spots.'

To hear Sharon Litwin's interview with Richard Campenella on WWNO radio, click here. Richard Campanella is a professor in the Tulane School of Architecture ... but he doesn’t build structures. Rather, he's a geographer and mapping scientist whose [...]

Robots take to the streets of the Bywater

'I've been taking things apart my whole life,' says Gilley.  'I love to tinker and kind of make garbage look good.' (Photos by Linda Friedman)

With a “Robots…march!!” the Robot Parade was underway Sunday in the Bywater. The parade is an outgrowth of kinetic art collective show series Automata, said event by organizer and sculptor H. Cole Wiley, 23. As he explains: "This [...]

The Vie Side: timeless literature, hurricane farewell, and robot parades

Robot Parade

THURSDAY-SATURDAY / Read on: The Words and Music Festival presented by the Pirate’s Alley Faulkner society began Wednesday and continues through Sunday. The theme is Literature Out of Time and the event features local and international guests. It’s [...]

There’s a new Main Street in town

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A lot’s happening on Main Street these days. Which street is that you ask? Canal? Bourbon? Magazine? Nope. We’re talking about St. Claude, a street that many may not consider worthy of that title. But that’s all changing [...]