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Tag Archives: Dan Baum

As Long As There’s Love and Delight.

07-Jun-14

purchase Lyrica from canada From Arcadian Books I headed for Jazzfest, well-armed with sunblock and big cowboy hat. Jazzfest is the last of the great New Orleans festivals, and it ushers in the hot weather. I’ve never been in New Orleans in the summer, but a friend from the city, who is not given to exaggeration, said simply of […]

Dan Baum’s Nine Lives.

07-Mar-09

Dan Baum came to New Orleans two days after Hurricane Katrina as a reporter for The New Yorker. The encounter changed his life, and New Orleans became one of his fascinations, for good and ill, as with most fascinations. As he says, “I think part of my being ejected from The New Yorker was that […]

New Orleans in a nutshell.

06-Mar-09

“Long before the storm, New Orleans was by almost any metric the worst city in the United States – the deepest poverty, the most murders, the worst schools, the sickest economy, the most corrupt and brutal cops.  Yet a poll conducted a few weeks before the storm found that more New Orleanians – regardless of […]

City of David.

02-Mar-09

As I write this, it’s the last hour of March First, Saint David’s Day.  The feast is named after a Welsh man, but the feast was appropriated by Saint David’s School (where I taught in years past) as the feast of King David.  The Western Church typically does not call Old Testament figures “saints” nor […]