Best Of New Orleans Blog

At first glance, nothing seems amiss in this photo. Wizards forward Antawn Jamison with 20 kids he bought tickets for through his “A Better Tomorrow” foundation. Many players all over the league buy tickets to home games for kids.

But take a closer look at the background and see that those are the lower-bowl seats inside the Hornets Arena. This photo was taken at Monday night’s Hornets-Wizards game at the Hive. Turns out that Jamison, though he played his high school ball in North Carolina, was born in Shreveport, La. (more…)

Has anyone else noticed the similarities in the two characters Morgan Freeman portrays in his most recent DVD releases, Feast of Love and Gone Baby Gone? These two films could not be more different in all aspects.

Feast of Love, directed by Robert Benton, is about eight couples who grapple with the different levels of love. Morgan Freeman plays Harry, a professor who has taken a leave from the University to deal with the grief of losing his son to a drug overdose. Gone Baby Gone is the tale of a Boston community torn apart by a missing child. In this film, directed by Ben Affleck and starring little brother Casey, Freeman plays a police officer who heads a special unit which deals with missing children. (more…)

Here’s my opening disclaimer: I’m not a fan of talk radio, or talk television and it doesn’t matter to me whose side the talking head, cheerleader is on — I don’t listen to Limbaugh and I didn’t tune into Al Franken when his show was available to local listeners. That said, I do occasionally check out one of these shows to see if I’m actually missing something.

Friday night, I flipped the channel to Glenn Beck and within minutes, he convinced me I’m safe in my ignorance.

Joining Beck in the studio was Jonah Goldberg, author of the book Liberal Fascism. Beck and Goldberg cozied up to each other and spent the first five minutes or so agreeing that liberals are the true fascists. But Goldberg wouldn’t go so low as to call them Nazis; he just compared the two as often as he could.

One comparison Goldberg brought out as an example of Hillary Clinton’s fascism was how she wanted to put commonsense baby videos — how to burp a baby, how to make a baby comfortable etc…— in doctors’ offices, hospitals and in the department of motor vehicles. All right, I’ve spent some time at the DMV and baby videos can’t make it any better, but how is airing these videos in medical offices a bad thing? It can’t be any worse than the soap operas or Jerry Springer. (more…)

by Sam Winston

The Washington Post profiles Katrina Evacuees and their influence on the upcoming Texas Primary.

No one knows how many evacuees have registered to vote in Texas or how many will show up at the state’s odd mix of primary and caucuses next week, but in interviews across this sprawling city almost everyone indicated an enormous desire to participate — adding an unknown and potentially pivotal element in a race that polls show is deadlocked between Sens. Barack Obama (Ill.) and Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.). (more…)