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*Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin has pleaded not guilty to charges he accepted bribes, free trips and other gratuities in exchange for helping contractors secure millions of dollars in work for the city. U.S. Magistrate Sally Shushan set Nagin’s bond at $100,000 during his arraignment Wednesday on charges that include bribery, wire fraud and [...]
*Co-creator David Simon will get his wish to finish his New Orleans-based series “Treme” in four seasons… well, 3.5 seasons. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] During a screening for the show’s production staff last night in New Orleans on the eve of the show’s third season premiere on Sunday, Simon announced that the post-Hurricane Katrina [...]
*Where were you when Hurricane Katrina happened? Can you remember the morning those planes crashed into the towers? So many people followed these events on television because our hearts went out to those who were directly affected, but many of us held our breath waiting to see if the news anchors would release a grisly [...]
*Lionel Batiste, the vocalist, bass drummer and assistant leader of the Treme Brass Band, has died, reports the Associated Press. He was 81. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] Batiste often appeared on the HBO series “Treme.” He was the slim guy with the big drum in the band, one of the acts regularly featured on [...]
*Five former New Orleans police officers were sentenced Wednesday to prison terms ranging from six to 65 years for their roles in fatal shootings of unarmed residents on a bridge after Hurricane Katrina. Kenneth Bowen, Robert Gisevius, Anthony Villavaso and Robert Faulcon were convicted of firearms charges in the shootings. Retired Sgt. Arthur “Archie” Kaufman, [...]
*Brad Pitt has recruited Rihanna, Kanye West, Snoop Dogg and Spike Lee among others to appear at a charity gala he’s holding in New Orleans to benefit his post-Hurricane Katrina cause, the Make It Right foundation. The shindig, co-hosted by New Orleans native Ellen DeGeneres, will be held Saturday at the Hyatt Regency on Saturday. [...]
*Celebs will flock to New Orleans on March 10 for Brad Pitt’s Make It Right charity event, which will raise funds to build sustainable, affordable homes for New Orleans’ families who lost everything to Hurricane Katrina. Pitt and Ellen DeGeneres will host the event, which will feature performances by Rihanna, Sheryl Crow, the Neville Brothers [...]
*A federal jury this morning convicted five current or former police officers in the deadly shootings on a New Orleans bridge after Hurricane Katrina. All five officers were convicted of charges stemming from the cover-up of the shootings. The four who had been charged with civil rights violations in the shootings were convicted on all [...]
*In the wake of Sunday’s season finale of HBO’s “Treme,” the show and one of its characters have been given extraordinary props by two separate media outlets. Below, The Hollywood Reporter’s Tim Goodman, in his piece “How ‘Treme’ Found Greatness In Ordinary People And Counterintuitive Storytelling,” tries to pinpoint the exact ingredients that make this [...]
*It’s been a little while since we’ve seen veteran actor Denzel Washington in anything on the big screen. But there’s a possibility he’ll appear in Will Smith’s telling of the events surrounding Hurricane Katrina. Titled “The American Can,” the film tells the story of heroic John Keller who saved several elderly residents during the disaster. [...]
*Ludacris is supporting a campaign to help libraries in Louisiana re-stock their shelves as they continue to rebuild in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Many of the public institutions in the city of New Orleans were destroyed in the 2005 disaster and are still unable to replenish supplies six years later. Ludacris has joined forces [...]
*The producers of the HBO series “Treme,” which follows life in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, are fighting to stop the demolition of a row of homes the city says are in danger of collapsing. The homes became a symbol of post-Katrina in New Orleans when they were featured as the backdrop of a poster [...]
*Oprah Winfrey and Bill T. Jones were honored along with three others with the Kennedy Center Honors Sunday in Washington. Country singer Merle Haggard, Broadway composer Jerry Herman and Winfrey’s idol Paul McCartney were also among the honorees saluted during a ceremony that included the president and first lady Michelle Obama. Julia Roberts opened the [...]
*Usmagazine.com is reporting that Kanye West took another swipe at Taylor Swift during a surprise performance of his new album at NYC’s Bowery Ballroom around 1 a.m. Wednesday. The 33-year-old rapper, who famously hijacked Taylor’s acceptance speech at the 2009 Video Music Awards, seemed to suggest that the 20-year-old country star used the VMA incident [...]
*The grandmother of an 8-year-old boy who’s mom claims he was fathered by Lil Wayne says a recent court order demanding a paternity test would’ve been done much sooner, but was delayed by Hurricane Katrina. After the boy’s birth in 2002, his family “tried multiple times to get a paternity test” against Wayne only to [...]
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