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"between 3 and 7 in the afternoon (PST) and click on Listen Live. (They'll make you fill out a form, but it's nothing and worth it.) It's a call in-show hosted by a pair of chicory-steeped who-dats named Deke Bellavia and "Pal" Al Nassar. For four hours a day, they buck up a devastated city, giving practical advice -- "Sha, you best make sure all your circuit breakers is thrown when they come round to turn on your power" -- listen to people going bugshit about bureaucracy -- "I told that FEMA lady, 'Hon, I got a contractor fixin' to take OFF my new roof if you don't get the check over here soon'" -- and give the latest news about the city and state governments tripping all over each other."via v zars
They're passionate and local in a really fucked-up locale.
---for example: a call from a honeysuckle-toned woman the hosts called Miss Margaret. She'd obviously lost everything, but was full of sweet southern optimism. Seems her earlier calls to the show had caught the attention of Life (or, as she called it, Life's) Magazine and they've done a story on her that's coming out soon. She was thrilled and convinced that "help is on the way" for the people who live on her street. "I know it's true because you keep getting calls from people who say, 'I'm coming to New Orleans next month and I'm going to go to Constance Street to see Miss Margaret. And now it's going to get bigger." (I guess word's gotten out on the internet stream.)
Deke: Miss Margaret, I'm going to be in the city all day tomorrow and I want to find you and have a rich coffee with you.
Margaret: Love to, Brother Deke, but you know I don't have my kitchen
back. I'm going to have to make it for you instantly.
Deke: I'll take it however you got it, dawlin'.
CVI painting stretchers
Philip Johnson is gone, but not forgotten. A slick sales campaign by real estate marketing firm The Sunshine Group tells us that the Urban Glass House, a vestige of the final projects designed by the late, renowned architect, is rising as we speak in a fast-changing urban industrial outpost at the western edge of SoHo and just north of Tribeca.
The neat marketing package belies a convoluted backstory: First, this isn’t the building Johnson intended as his last legacy (in fact, it is more of a tribute design than one of his own.) Second, the man who dreamed up the project and hired Johnson’s firm-restaurateur-turned-developer Nino Vendome, who after 9/11 turned his nearby restaurant into a home-away-from-home for thousands of rescue and recovery workers at Ground Zero-has all but vanished from the project as well.
endless boogie
Get down and greeezy with NYC's kings of choogle, together since 1997 but just getting around to releasing studio stuff this year. Their live shows have been sporadic for the fact that they only play gigs when specifically asked to, though recently they've frequently whipped local audiences into a frenzy with their heavy jams supporting assorted Dungen shows. Live, the guitarists trade off invocations of Tony McPhee, Peter Green, Zoot Horn Rollo, Lobby Lloyd, and Ron Asheton, and if you don't know who some of those guys are, don't worry too much about it. Endless Boogie are here to deliver rock salvation. Lineup: Grease Control (Drums), Memories From Reno (Bass), Top Dollar (Vocal, Guitar), the Governor (Guitar). Upcoming live gigs: December 17th at Kyber Pass in Philly (with Boogie Witch), December 18th in Baltimore at Talking Head Club (with Mighty Flashlight and Arboretum). Current LPs Volume 1 and Volume 2 on the Mound Duel label, try www.fusetronsound.com. Today's live selections: Executive Focus/Aztec Boogie/Way Uptown/Boogie #23/Rattleshake/New Green Bo/Rollin' and Tumblin'. Thanks to the band and OCDJ, watch out for future stuff on No Quarter label. 1:03:14 - 2:45:28 (Real | MP3)described by brian as one part can and one part canned heat - thats a 1:42:14 long (rockin good) show!
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via zoller
Building Category 5 protection, however, is proving to be an astronomically expensive and technically complex proposition. It would involve far more than just higher levees: there would have to be extensive changes to the city's system of drainage canals and pumps, environmental restoration on a vast scale to replenish buffering wetlands and barrier islands, and even sea gates far out of town near the Gulf of Mexico.
The cost estimates are still fuzzy, but the work would easily cost more than $32 billion, state officials say, and could take decades to complete.