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		<title>A Week in Haiti</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Sep 2010 04:47:34 +0000</pubDate>
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It&#8217;s probably not the first time it&#8217;s been said, but it&#8217;s the first thing you need to know: Haiti will either steal or break your heart.  Or both.  If it steals your heart, you may find yourself trying to figure out ways to get back to find it again.  You&#8217;ll keep remembering moments of magic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy 5th Anniversary&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 05:49:51 +0000</pubDate>
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New Orleans, 2010: Ressurection from chris bickford on Vimeo.
Today (or yesterday, by the time I finish writing this) marks the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina&#8217;s landfall on to the shores of the American Gulf Coast.  What happened on that day, and on the days and weeks and months and years following, revealed a nasty underside [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Prayer for the Seas</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 06:03:16 +0000</pubDate>
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It&#8217;s been a ridiculously long time since I have posted; apologies to all who may actually have been following what I&#8217;ve been doing.  April 20 changed everything in the Gulf of Mexico region, and since then I&#8217;ve been back and forth from the Outer Banks to New Orleans several times, trying to keep my business [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jazz Funeral #2</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 00:23:16 +0000</pubDate>
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Last Saturday morning, upon the invitation of a friend, we attended the funeral for Bernard &#8220;Bunchy&#8221; Johnson at Trinity Episcopal Church on Jackson Avenue.  Bunchy was a native New Orleanian and well-known in R&#38;B music circles for his accomplished drumming and his &#8220;light up the world&#8221; smile.   He performed with the likes of Aaron Neville, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>@ the Spotted Cat</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 23:07:29 +0000</pubDate>
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Last Wednesday I was hanging out at Café Negril watching a pretty blonde lass with a wicked right hand playing bouzouki and singing some great celtic songs, taking the wind out of my previous rant about there being no Irish music in New Orleans.  I hung around for a few tunes, hoping to hit her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;If God is Willing and da Creek Don&#8217;t Rise&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:51:54 +0000</pubDate>
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Spike Lee is back, with more tales from the ravaged Gulf Coast.
His documentary &#8220;When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts&#8220; aired in 2006 on HBO and remains to this day one of the most thorough, personal, and powerful records of how Hurricane Katrina directly impacted the lives of the people of New Orleans.   [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m Seein&#8217; Green!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 19:17:37 +0000</pubDate>
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St. Patrick&#8217;s Day, New Orleans
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I tell ye, the Irish never get their due.  Here in New Orleans, it&#8217;s all about the French, the Spanish, the Creoles, the Haitians, the Senegambians and Congolese, and the &#8220;Americans&#8221;&#8211;by which they mean the Protestant folk who come down from Virginia and Carolina and &#8220;Kaintuck&#8221; after the Louisiana Purchase and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jazz Funeral</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 05:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
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The photo above was taken at a funeral procession for Lawrence Robert, a longtime member of the Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club, outside the Zulu club house on Broad Street in Mid-City.   Robert died a few days before Mardi Gras.  He was 76 years old.   He reigned as King Zulu in the year of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Lower Ninth</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisbickford.com/wp/2010/03/15/the-lower-ninth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 05:53:26 +0000</pubDate>
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Louisiana, 2010
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It was a horrible place to build a city.  Malaria-ridden swamps, unbearably humid summers, ground so soft you could barely sink a post into it without it keeling over; prone to flooding from the Mississippi and storm surges from Gulf Coast hurricanes.  A network of bayous, delta sludge, and barrier islands so complex and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mad for the Dance</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisbickford.com/wp/2010/03/11/mad-for-the-dance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:46:03 +0000</pubDate>
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Mimi&#8217;s, Friday Night
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In 1812, Amos Stoddard wrote that Louisianans &#8220;are particularly attached to the exercise of dancing, and they carry it to an incredible excess&#8221;.  Reid Mitchell, quoting Stoddard in his book All on a Mardi Gras Day, writes, &#8220;According to Stoddard, balls lasted from early evening to early morning, and the irrepressible, apparently inexhaustible [...]]]></description>
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