Videobomber Gets Surprise STD Interview From NOLA Reporter This New Orleans reporter quickly turns the tables on a would-be videobomber with a surprise interview about STDs. Read more More
Hurricane-Ravaged New Orleans Still Has Very Literal Sense of Humor At least some people in New Orleans are holding onto a sense of gallows humor as the tropical storm makes landfall on Katrina anniversary. Read more More
Russell Brand’s Awful Week in Review, Taiwanese Animation Style Facing an arrest warrant for throwing someone’s cell phone through an office window (and for generally being a nuisance), Russell Brand turned himself in to New Orleans authorities and faced the music. Freed on bail, where’d he go next? Read more More
More Trick Than Treat: Halloween Violence Leaves 2 Dead, 13 Injured in New Orleans Drunken Halloween revelry in New Orleans turned into more trick than treat after four separate shooting incidents left two people dead and 13 injured. The Big Easy is not to be trifled with on Halloween. Good thing there wasn’t a full moon last night. Read more More
Tough to Swallow: Orleans Parish Prisoner Commits Suicide By…Toilet Paper? William Goetzee was an inmate at the Orleans Parish jail right up until he committed suicide on Sunday night. The jail’s preliminary investigation found Goetzee “surreptitiously swallowed toilet tissue.” Read more More
There is No R&B. There is Only Frank Ocean. For Larry Harris, Jr., R&B died with Jodeci. It’s all hyper-sexualized raunchiness now. But, as he writes, Frank Ocean is a throwback to the R&B on which he grew up. Added bonus: There is nothing “rapey” about Frank Ocean’s music. Read more More
It’ll Really Be Tough to Top This “Mother of the Year” Candidate from New Orleans A New Orleans mother was charged with leaving her 20-month-old son in a parked car. But it’s not like the kid was totally unsupervised. Sure, her dead friend was in the car, too. Read more More