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I couldn’t take in anymore. Having hair in the summer heat just sucks. Plus, I was no longer looking my usual devilishly attractive self.
So on the way home for lunch today, I stopped at Hair Ideas, Inc., newly reopened.
Thus endeth the protest.

Quite an operation they’ve got there. Two barbers, several stylists, a nice waiting area. [...]

Yesterday, the District Attorney dropped the charges against the suspect in a quintuple murder because the witness had disappeared. Today, the NOPD located the witness.

All eyes are on Senator David Vitter now. But I can’t possibly top the coverage provided by Your Right Hand Thief. Check it out.
All eyes are on Vitter, but let us not forget: Six months ago today we marched on City Hall and demanded our government authorities do their jobs better.
So, you might wonder, where [...]

Round about this time last year, I wrote about a certain development in our lives. Many people took that as an announcement of sorts, though I didn’t think of it that way. I soon learned that such announcements are generally not made until after the first trimester, because bad things can happen.
And a bad thing [...]

“I want to make sure that when you’re firing your bullets because you’re dissatisfied you fire them at the right folks.” — The Honorable C. Ray Nagin

In April I looked out my window and saw three white kids pushing a white car. They stopped just down the street from our house. I thought to myself, “Oh, they’re having car trouble.” An hour later I noticed they were gone but the car was still there, and it dawned on me: That car’s [...]

Congratulations to my parents who both scored medals at the 2007 Senior Games.

Ray & Ruth Everson, Mooresville, competed in the Summer National Senior Games in Louisville, KY. Everson’s events included the 1500 meter track race walk in 9:31 earning him a Bronze medal in the 70-74 age group. Two days later he contested the 5K [...]

Over the past week I’ve found myself obsessively reading up on Dominica, an island nation in the Caribbean. I don’t know why, exactly, but I have been fantasizing about visiting or even moving there, and the more I learn the more attractive it seems.

photo by stevenhouse
I’m not alone. Yesterday, USA Today ran a story [...]

The neighbors across the street did it real big for Independence Day: a tent, two grills, and two pools for the kiddies.

The party had a nice “neighborhood” feel. You would hardly guess that the blue house is still uninhabitable from the flood of 2005, or that the red house (a fourplex) is in such sad [...]

I remember when I was a child I loved fireworks. This seems to be a universal trait among children. But as an adult I’ve come to realize I just don’t give a damn about fireworks. Pretty colors, boom boom, yawn. I wonder why kids like fireworks so much, and why I feel so disconnected from [...]

A short while ago, Mid-City got a grant from Mercy Corps to do community outreach. As part of that effort, we decided to make our monthly community meeting for June into a BBQ. They say free food is the way to bring people out. We hoped such an event would bring out some new faces, [...]

A new phrase has been added to my vocabulary: nolle prosequi, Latin for “unwilling to pursue.”
The District Attorney said nolle prosequi about David Bonds’ case last week. Bonds was accused of killing Dinerral Shavers. I never knew Dinerral, but I was disturbed by news of his murder, which I wrote about in December.
The official line [...]