By Damian Tatum
The Levee out writer
A team of electrical and civil engineers tasked to investigate the 35-minute power outage that interrupted the globally televised Super Bowl have determined the embarrassing blackout was caused either by a bill dispute with Entergy, sabotage by former Saints defensive coordinator Gregg Williams, or booze.
Doug Thor… Read the rest
By Rudy Matthew Vorkapic
The Levee forgotten writer
More than a week after its opening, New Orleanians finally have been allowed to enter the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum.
Criticized almost universally for leaving the New Orleans residents stranded on the patio outside the museum’s entrance without supplying water, ice or food fro… Read the rest
By Rudy Matthew Vorkapic
The Levee high’falutin media writer
Whatever the long name is of the entity that now publishes what it calls The Times-Picayune, that company is again spearheading what it says is the “newspaper r’evolution” with its debut of “the world’s first three-day-a-week daily newspaper experience.”
Nola.com/The Times P… Read the rest
By Rudy V. Matthew
The Levee stinkhole writer
In the wake of the sinkhole that claimed the life of a Florida man, a New Orleans woman is missing after being swallowed by one of the city’s infamous potholes, police said Saturday.
The unidentified New Orleans woman was pushing a grocery cart apparently to the nearby Rouse’s Supermarket early Satu… Read the rest
By Rudy Matthew Vorkapic
The Levee shots writer
The National Rifle Association reacted to President Obama’s gun safety actions Wednesday by announcing it is replacing its recent demand for armed security officers in every school in the country in favor of arming every kid at every school in America.
“The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is the ab… Read the rest
Sources say Dana Kaplan, the District B City Council candidate running her first campaign, is planning to ask a judge to put off Saturday’s election because she would like more time to lie, mislead and be unethical.
“It’s a New York thing,” Kaplan, a Big Apple native, told The Levee. “What’s the big deal?”
Most re… Read the rest
By Rudy Matthew Vorkapic
The Levee lost writer
Apple’s numerous problems with its new mobile Maps app have turned from annoying and even comical to serious and perhaps deadly as millions of iPhone users have gone missing.
“Thousands upon thousands of cases of missing iPhone users are coming in from all over the world every day,” Interpol Secretary Ge… Read the rest
By Rudy Matthew Vorkapic
The Levee indentured writer
In the wake of Hurricane Isaac, the insurance industry has decided it will no longer play games with special types of deductibles, such as surprise-to-many wind deductibles, and from now on simply and clearly will cover everything except risk.
“People who bought an “All-Risk” homeowners policy … Read the rest
By Jon Bogran
and Al Wrinkle
and Rudy Matthew Vorkapic
The Levee we believe writers
The New Orleans Saints’ journey to a second Super Bowl could not have gotten off to a better start as He today announced His pick to win the 2012-13 Super Bowl.
Saints’ quarterback Drew Brees, just hours before the first NFL preseason game of the 2012-13 season betw… Read the rest
By Jon Bogran
The Levee digital doomsday writer
PALO ALTO, Calif. – Google scientists grimly reported yesterday that the doomsday scenario they have secretly dreaded for years has finally come to pass – Google Earth, the beloved virtual planet allowing users to indulge random, voyeuristic whims, has been obliterated by a massive, 47 megabyte-wide a… Read the rest
By Mike Smith
The Levee former porn star writer
In another step toward a more visibly conservative Louisiana, the state senate recently moved to deny tax credits to producers of pornographic films.
Senate Bill 513 by Sen. A. G. Crowe, R-Slidell, prohibits tax breaks to filmmakers if the film is pornographic.
“I don’t have a definition of pornography,… Read the rest
By Jon Bogran
The Levee dental writer
New York Jets quarterback and Christian football hero, Tim Tebow, famous for his seemingly miraculous ability to defy critics and lead his team to clumsy victories at crucial moments, received the earth-shattering news late last month that, despite all scientif… Read the rest
By Alexa Surinck
The Levee next to Godliness writer
An extremely loose coalition of preservationists, concerned citizens from other states, and incredibly stubborn locals has succeeded in disrupting trash collection in parts of Orleans Parish in an attempt to prevent the removal of dw… Read the rest
By Rudy Matthew Vorkapic
The Levee yes sir Mr. Benson writer
NFL sources have told The Levee that negotiations between Drew Brees and the New Orleans Saints have been stuck at an impasse over team owner Tom Benson’s insistence that the QB rent Benson Tower offices for his charitable foundation.
The state pays Benson high rents for state office space as … Read the rest
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