NOLA Notes

If you are a New Orleanian, or a ‘Near Orleanian,’ and you watch HBO’s new series, “Treme,” you WILL have an opinion.  Here’s mine, having read no others yet. Knowing it was set three months after Katrina had me going into it with an expectation of not liking it.  We, the citizens of the City, [...]

That is the title of the first “Treme” episode.  The series that starts tonight.  All of New Orleans is hyped about it.  And we hope it doesn’t disappoint us. In my hotel room in Arkansas in the early post-Katrina days, my mind keep playing Louis Armstrong’s song “Do You Know What it Means to Miss [...]