Monthly Archives: January 2017

Nostaglia in New Orleans?

Posted on January 6, 2017 by David Brussat

A decade has passed since New Orleans began to rebuild its flooded neighborhoods after Hurricane Katrina. About all anyone beyond the Crescent City has heard of are the goofy new houses of Make It Right, an organization formed by movie … Continue reading →

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London in 25 hard minutes

Posted on January 4, 2017 by David Brussat

By hard I mean compared with the soft gray focus of the video in my last post, “Fifty soft minutes in Paris.” This is the Rick Steves tour of Britain’s capital. Steves’s voice is mellow enough, and the photography, unlike … Continue reading →

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Fifty soft minutes in Paris

Posted on January 3, 2017 by David Brussat

Here is Paris, silent, with street noises and children noises, just shots of the City of Light for nearly an hour. Almost a little vacation there. No bad music, no irksome narrator, in any tongue. Just sit back and relax, … Continue reading →

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Passages and lessons, 2016

Posted on January 1, 2017 by David Brussat

The passages referred to in the title of this post are from Home Free, a 1977 novel by Dan Wakefield, who earlier had written Going All the Way about the “free” lifestyle embraced by many in the late ’60s early … Continue reading →

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