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This week in Food: Find out what happened to Manuel's Hot Tamales

by Judy Walker, Food editor, The Times-Picayune

Thursday August 28, 2008, 10:24 AM

Thom Scott / Times-Picayune ArchiveIn this week's Food pages, find out what happened to the Manuel's Hot Tamales family.• Search the recipe archive• 'Recipe Swap' forum• Cookbook reviews• Latest food news

Three years after Katrina, Manuel's Hot Tamales is a legendary business still stuck in post-storm limbo. The history of it's founder and the company are online exclusively at NOLA.com.

Marcelle Bienvenu shares cooking tips, recipes and memories of the late Eula Mae Dore, who lived on Avery Island and cooked there all her life.

In Exchange Alley, readers provide and receive recipes for red gravy -- also known as tomato gravy or tomato sauce -- a nice cool cucumber and mint soup, and a perfect take-along dessert, Blueberry carry cake.

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New Orleans rapper Lil Wayne announced as musical performer on 'Saturday Night Live' season-opener

by Dave Walker, TV columnist, The Times-Picayune

Thursday August 28, 2008, 8:55 AM

John Bazemore / AP PhotoCheck out Lil Wayne on SNL on Saturday, August 30.

NBC's "Saturday Night Live" announced Wednesday (August 27) that chart-topping New Orleans hip-hop superstar Lil Wayne will be the musical guest on the show's 34th season premiere Sept. 13.

Olympian Michael Phelps will host.

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'Disaster Movie' a case of disastrous timing

by Mike Scott, Movie writer, The Times-Picayune

Thursday August 28, 2008, 8:37 AM

Crista Flanagan riffs on 'Juno' in 'Disaster Movie,' opening Friday (Aug. 29) -- which also happens to be the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.

Around these Katrina-scarred parts, Aug. 29 is still -- and will be for some time -- a black-armband kind of day.

For Lionsgate studios, however, Aug. 29 isn't quite as sacred. For them, the third anniversary of the day the levees were breached and New Orleans slipped under is something on the order of perfect timing: a ripped-from-the-headlines release date for the big-screen, low-concept spoof "Disaster Movie."

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'Hittin' the Town' for Thursday, August 21, 2008

by Keith Marszalek, NOLA.com

Wednesday August 27, 2008, 11:50 PM

Mos Def plays Tipitina's Thursday, August 28, 2008.

Mos Def headlines "Black for August" and another Ponderosa Stomp veteran sits in at the Ogden.

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'Faubourg Treme' documentary comes back home

by Mike Scott, Movie writer, The Times-Picayune

Wednesday August 27, 2008, 11:18 AM

Paul, Henry and Peter Broyard pose for a photo two laborers outside a Treme building, approx late 1880/early 1890's, in a photo from the documentary 'Faubourg Treme: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans.'

The last time local viewers got a chance to see the documentary "Faubourg Treme: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans," it had just finished playing at the 2007 New Orleans Film Festival.

Now, several months later -- and after screening at the Tribeca Film Festival and collecting awards at a few other film festivals -- "Faubourg Treme" is coming back to where it all started, for three free local screenings commemorating the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.

"Treme" will air on PBS in February, but you can't catch it at the local multiplex. Here's where you can catch it:

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Here comes Gustav and don't forget the beer

by Keith I. Marszalek, NOLA.com

Wednesday August 27, 2008, 9:59 AM

With Hurricane Gustav days away from smiting some poor harbor along the Gulf Coast, preparations have begun around the Big Easy and plans have been placed in motion:

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Three years later, poems are still putting the impact of Hurricane Katrina into words

by Susan Larson, Book editor, The Times-Picayune

Wednesday August 27, 2008, 8:04 AM

From the 2006 benefit anthology "Hurricane Blues," edited by Philip C. Kolin and Susan Swartwout

Listen to Codrescu, Boutte, Ivan Neville and the New Orleans Klezmer Allstars read from "Jealous Witness: Poems" »

Poetry lends itself to all occasions, happy and sad, everyday and rare. It offers a multitude of forms -- the exquisite slenderness of a haiku, the sprawling pages of an epic, the rigor of a sonnet, the bouncing rhyme, the grace of free verse -- but every word is the result of a careful choice.

Poets writing in response to Hurricane Katrina and the flood in New Orleans have risen to that terrible muse in virtually every way imaginable -- some with humor, most with deep seriousness, all with a sense of responsibility. From the 2006 benefit anthology "Hurricane Blues," edited by Philip C. Kolin and Susan Swartwout, to impassioned small-press efforts such as "Katrina-Ku," published by the New Orleans Haiku Society in 2006, to Dave Brinks' "Caveat Onus," an intricate, three-part epic published over several months in 2006, the waves of poetry are still hitting this shore.

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