Picking Up the Pieces in New Orleans
April 7, 2009 at 3:04 PM |
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David Simon (the man behind “The Wire”) is in New Orleans filming “Treme,” a show about New Orleans musicians “picking up the pieces” after Hurricane Katrina.
Simon told David Carr at the New York Times that “Treme” is “a show about why New Orleans matters.” If HBO picks up “Treme” for a full season, cameras will return (after hurricane season) to capture what Simon calls the “under-chronicled” neighborhoods and communities. And who better to do that than the man who brought us a TV show about another great neglected American city, Baltimore?
Carmen said on April 07, 2009 at 11:12 pm
Recently NBA All Star Chris Paul launched a Call To Action Campaign in which he distributed Hurricane Preparedness Kits to families in the NOLA community. He is encouraging business, individulas and his supporters to log on to his website to pledge to donate a 4 Survival To Go emergency kit before the June 1st, 2009 start of Hurricane season.