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07 Feb 2010 19:12

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Culture: We broke up the Super Bowl twitter feeds for you guys. Enjoy!

  • everything Super Bowl

  • Just the commercials

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07 Feb 2010 10:34

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U.S.: More important to New Orleans residents: Football or politics?

  • 1978 last time New Orleans had a white mayor (Mitch Landrieu won the race last night) source
  • never last time New Orleans had a team in the Super Bowl (the Saints play the Colts later today) source
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26 Jan 2010 20:21

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U.S.: ACORN pest James O’Keefe flies too close to the sun, gets burned

  • He can now be mentioned in the same sentence as Watergate! James O’Keefe, the conservative activist previously best-known for destroying ACORN’s dignity (and working for BigGovernment.com), was arrested for trying to break into Sen. Mary Landrieu’s New Orleans office, along with three others. They were pretending to work with the phone company, which is some serious LOLz and a lot less creative than the pimp/ho getup they used with ACORN. A lot of people have felt schadenfreude in reaction to all this, not the least of which ACORN itself. We just think it’s proof that Tom Green-style tactics like this don’t work in politics. source
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06 Oct 2009 20:46

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U.S.: Brad Pitt’s crack team of architects making things float in NOLA

In the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, Morphosis Architects just came up with a permitted floating home, for when another Hurricane Katrina comes. source
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14 Aug 2009 12:11

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Culture, U.S.: Brad Pitt, from movie star to New Orleans mayor?

Brad Pitt for mayor
  • There’s t-shirts bearing this image already. There’s a history of Pitt doing good things for the city – convincing Frank Gehry to design houses for Hurricane Katrina victims. And there’s (tongue-in-cheek) grassroots support for the dude. He doesn’t seem interested, though. But he seems amused by the idea, though. source
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07 Jun 2009 22:45

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U.S., World: Perhaps NOLA mayor Ray Nagin shouldn’t have gone to China

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