In a video for the Gulf Restoration Network, Dr. John sits in the yard of his New Orleans home. "I like sitting here," he says, "and I hate having to evacuate to some place I don't feel like being." The good doctor says he has the cure and explains how the group wants to remind the oil companies in south Louisiana that the wetlands are vital to life down here. The group intends to fly a plane over this year's New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, where Shell Oil is a major sponsor, with a banner that reads "Shell - hear the music. Fix the coast U broke." At $1,000 an hour to keep the plane in the air, the group is looking for contributions and hopes to get its message out to the 375,000 Jazz Fest attendees and, more importantly, to Shell.
... written by What would a Monkey do? , April 15, 2009 - 03:02 am
I wonder if the plane is using Shell gas?
... written by Nibor Yam , April 15, 2009 - 02:39 pm
What would a Monkey do? Write a comment like the one above. The Monkey thinks that because people use gas means they have no grounds to criticize some of the actions of the oil industry. Of course in South Louisiana oil is king and kings can do whatever they want.
... written by fleurdelis , April 16, 2009 - 02:38 pm
You have that all wrong. Your King is in Washington DC...complain to his highness and don't forget to bow down before him!!
... written by bubba bowie , April 16, 2009 - 10:30 pm
Dr. John is brain damaged. His ad for charity hospital was pathetic. The only thing he'll accomplish with our out of town visitors is to convince them that we're a bunch of stoned losers.
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There will soon be a whole lot of shakin’ going on at Benny’s Sportshack Supplement Depot, a new concept by Opelousas native Benny Nele. Located at 2002 Johnston St., the supplement shop, smoothie bar and café, featuring hot off the press paninis and wraps, plans to open in late May.
Philip deMahy Sr., a once respected New Iberia ad exec, was sentenced May 2 to spend the next two years (he faced up to 100 years) in a state penitentiary after state and federal investigators found dozens of images depicting children engaged in lewd sexual acts on his personal computer.
This year’s Cool Town issue is all about people who are not native to South Louisiana but made a conscious decision to be here, to be among us, to participate in our culture and contribute to it.
A shelved ordinance transferring $200,000 from a northside drainage project to a south Lafayette development may not break any laws, but it stinks to high heaven.
An effort to restore a shuttered dancehall and document other vacant or razed honky-tonks could serve as a model for saving an endangered species of entertainment.
Lafayette’s gene pool has been host to a long line of eccentric characters who have blurred the lines between crazy, genius, disturbed and curiously entertaining.
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