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re: NYT article on New Orleans - holy hell
Posted on 3/7/14 at 9:32 am to Sampson
Posted on 3/7/14 at 9:32 am to Sampson
Fallout from KaleGate. LINK
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This whole article would be infuriating if it wasn't so laughable. Ms. Goodman could have done herself a big favor and, instead of basing her entire article on a few anecdotes from a bunch of artists and bohemian transplants, she could have looked at actual data about New Orleans' post-Katrina resurgence. She could have talked to any number of software engineers, teachers, entrepreneurs, civil engineers, doctors or people from any one of the industries that have made New Orleans America's fastest-growing city and asked them about their experiences with the city's rich cultural heritage.
But no, instead she focuses on the notion that all the transplants here are a bunch of artists and bohemians struggling to find some kale and worrying that other artists and bohemians will co-opt our authenticity.
This post was edited on 3/7/14 at 9:34 am
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Posted on 3/7/14 at 9:48 am to BottomlandBrew
Jarvis DeBerry also has a few words for the NYT
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The New York Times published a piece about transplants to New Orleans today that's rather embarrassing -- for that publication, not for New Orleans. The writer, Lizzy Goodman, lets people who are admittedly new to New Orleans go on and on about what life is really like here. One of the people she interviews, actress Tara Elders, says, "New Orleans is not cosmopolitan. There's no kale here."
Southerner that I am, I have about three greens in my regular rotation: turnip, mustard and collard. But just recently my wife thought we should try something new, and what do you know? It was kale. She didn't go out of the city to buy it either, she bought it at one of the local groceries. But just in case my personal anecdote isn't convincing, I called the produce manager at the Rouses on Carrollton Avenue. He said that the store has kale in the bag, kale by the bunch and even organically grown kale.
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