Be Nice or Leave
Be Nice or Leave! is a local adage that can be found almost everywhere in New Orleans on signature signs that are popularized by folk artist Dr. Bob. Plain and direct, the saying captures a chronic...
View ArticleHoly Cross Offering Doctorate in Counseling
For the first time in its 96-year history, Our Lady of Holy Cross College will offer a doctoral degree. The program in counseling will start next fall at the college's campus in Algiers. The...
View ArticleMan Fleeing From Police Commits Suicide
A 20-year-old man on the run from New Orleans police officers shot and killed himself this morning in the 3000-block of Sandra Drive in Algiers, the police department said today in a press release....
View ArticleMan Shot Dead in Algiers
A 34-year-old man was shot to death in Algiers earlier this afternoon, the New Orleans Police Department said in a press release issued by Officer Gary Flot this evening. Police say the man was shot at...
View ArticleAs Mississippi River Ferry Service Slowly Disappears, Many Are Searching For...
This story was reported by Della Hasselle of The Lens, and produced by Janaya Williams. The Algiers Ferry was hit with a reduction in hours last week. Ferry riders and small business owners say they’re...
View ArticleYears Of Political Inaction Preceded Latest Cutbacks In Algiers Ferry Service
Considering that the Algiers ferry has been a fixture on the river for years, its demise seemed to come suddenly. The ferry lost its main source of funding, the Crescent City Connection tolls, earlier...
View ArticleAlgiers Electricity Bills Set To Increase
Algiers electricity bills are set to soar. A New Orleans City council committee has approved a resolution to hike the rates by 31 percent over the next four years. The council’s utility advisers...
View ArticleLet Me Clear My Goat: Munching Through An Algiers Park
Many ideas have been suggested for how to handle New Orleans’s pervasive blight problem. Reporter Michael Patrick Welch and his wife Morgana believe the answer is goats. This is the story of how my...
View ArticleNew Orleans Most Talked Of Club: Proudly Westbank, As Other Krewes Relocate...
One of the last West Bank krewes, NOMTOC, parades in Algiers this Saturday, February 14 . The acronym for this this almost 60-year-old mostly African-American krewe stands for New Orleans Most Talked...
View ArticleNew Orleans Police Department detectives hunting a serial tire thief
New Orleans Police Department detectives are hunting a serial tire thief in Algiers. In a surveillance video posted to one of the department’s YouTube channels, the suspect pulls up to 3504 Kabel Drive...
View ArticleIn The Mid-19th Century, Vicious Animal Combat Drew Thousands To Algiers
TriPod goes back to the days when Algiers was a stomping ground for bullfights and other forms of animal combat. It’s a Sunday afternoon. The sun is out, you’ve already gone to church, and you’re not...
View ArticleThe WWII Internment Camp, 'Camp Algiers', Part I
TriPod New Orleans at 300 returns with Part I of a two-part series about a World War II era internment camp in Algiers that held those suspicious of affiliations with axis powers. Listen to Part II...
View Article'Camp Algiers,' New Orleans' Forgotten WWII Internment Camp, Part II
Tripod New Orleans at 300 returns with Part II of its series on Camp Algiers, an internment camp that detained Latin Americans during World War II. Listen to Part I here . A quick refresher from where...
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