Bywater residents celebrate recent debut of multi-service Health Center on St. Claude Avenue. Photo by Alexei Kazantsev, used by permission. By Michael T. Martin, The Lens contributing opinion writer | With the opening of the Healing Center and the possibility of extending streetcar service all the way to Poland Avenue, it’s time to accord the […]
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Interview: St. Roch art impresario holds forth from Tasmania on the wreckage left behind
By Ariella Cohen, The Lens staff writer | Kirsha Kaechele now lives in Tasmania. In the years after Hurricane Katrina, Kirsha Kaechele made a name for herself as a kind of art world impresario. The city’s cultural elite flocked to soirees where they consumed fine food and edgy, disaster-inspired art — all this in St. […]
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The Public Cost of Eviction
The tenant skipped out before the end of the month. New Orleans landlord Donald Vallee wasn’t too surprised. He’d seen it before — and in post-Katrina, recession-era New Orleans, he’d seen it quite frequently. This time around, the tenant left behind a $643 per-month three-bedroom, 1,400-square-foot townhouse in eastern New Orleans. “It was a reasonable […]