June 2023 Missing in Action If there’s one thing certain in this world, it’s that New Orleans knows how to put on a show. And that includes announcing new municipal employees. On August 8, 2022, flanked... Drew Hawkins
December 2022 2022 Hours to Go After the disaster-laden one-two punch that was 2020 and 2021, this year seemed inclined to ease its foot off the gas pedal a bit—if only because letting us rebuild our lives... Drew Hawkins, Holly Devon, Mary Beth Campbell, Sara Pic, Steven Melendez
September 2022 Cubs the Poet: Poetry Still Matters I’ve always been fascinated by what goes through the mind of an artist while they’re in the process of creation: when instinct and impulse are put on hold to allow for an... Drew Hawkins
June 2022 No Safe Harbor Cruising in his black Chevy Suburban down the flat, mostly empty stretch of Louisiana Highway 23 just past Belle Chasse in Plaquemines Parish, Maynard “Sandy” Sanders slid his... Drew Hawkins
May 2022 Tiny Terrors Nearly a year and a half after a shipping container carrying 55-pound bags of pre-production plastic pellets fell off the container ship CMA CGM Bianca into the Mississippi River,... Drew Hawkins
October 2021 Plugged In In the aftermath of Hurricane Ida, residents in New Orleans banded together to form mutual aid groups that provided food, water, ice, and other essential supplies to their... Drew Hawkins
September 2021 Rough Ride On June 16, 2020, while protests against police brutality in the wake of the murder of George Floyd raged across New Orleans and across the world, about 100 demonstrators took to... Drew Hawkins
