The Independent Weekly July 28, 2010 - The Independent Weekly

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Battle-Scarred
Wednesday, July 28, 2010 Written by Jeremy Alford As Louisiana businesses and families continue to wage war against hurricanes, the developing fiscal famine and an ungodly amount of oil, Gov. Bobby Jindal has rebranded himself a disaster general. But to what end? ... Read More >>

A Mixed Bag

Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Written by Jeremy Alford

While the value of the state’s energy leases is on the uptick, a planned package of incentives for private investors has been put on hold.

The Louisiana Mineral and Energy Board conducted its first energy lease sale of the fiscal year in July, and the results were bittersweet for both state officials and the oil and gas companies that bid on the publicly held lands...

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A Cajun MC
Wednesday, July 28, 2010 Written by Walter Pierce Louisiana’s interim lieutenant governor could talk me into anything. ... Read More >>

Pooyie 07.28.10

Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Written by The Independent Staff

C’EST BON
When Gov. Bobby Jindal signed a law allowing people to carry concealed handguns — presumably it’s handguns, rifles are hard to conceal...

PAS BON
Could we just set Louisiana’s Republican primary race for U.S. Senate to music and sponsor it by a detergent company?

COUILLON
BP proved on April 20 that it doesn’t do deepwater drilling particularly well, and it’s proven since then that oil spill containment — not to mention
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Boogi Nights

Earl “Boogi” Hebert finds inspiration, and the spirit of his late father, painting through the night on his back porch.

Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Written by Nathan Stubbs

Earl “Boogi” Hebert remembers the day he started painting: March 14, 2006, the day his father, Earl Sr., passed away. Without really knowing why, he took out the old brushes his dad had handed down to him and got to work.

Finds 07.28.10

Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Written by The Independent Staff

SPLISH SPLASH
Eva Schwartz makes me want to get dirty. That’s the best way to appreciate her craftsmanship. Schwartz has a fine nose for combining natural scents, which she captures in unctuous bars of handmade soap.

BIRD IN HAND
The rogue well may be capped on the Gulf floor, but there are still millions of gallons of crude oil bobbing out there off the coast. And that means years of mitigating the disaster.

PERFECT STORM
As we approac

The Pipeline 07.28.10

Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Written by Dege Legg

ASTRONAUT GYPSY ROCK
Take your protein pills and put your helmet on; Baton Rouge’s Gypsy Space Caravan is coming town. If you like your jam with everything thrown in the pot and souffléd around in there, this might be your band. Mixing super collider classical, experimental rock, indie jazz, freeze dried elevator schmaltz, Gore-Tex funk, spaghetti western string theory, and more, Gypsy Space Caravan bring the instrumental party people jam to Artmos...
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Party Girl 07.28.10

Oh, my GAWD! The Joisey girls made quite an entrance at the cast party for Big Brothers Big Sisters’ Murder Mystery Dinner at Cena. With their big-haired bumps and major bling, Snookie lookalike Wendy Whiner and mom Wanda gave the crowing crowd just a little snippet of what “Death of the Nutria Rat Queen” has in store for the audience in August. And, from what Party Girl witnessed, it will be quite a show! Between barbs, guests nibbled on sesame-crusted pork loin, bacon and tomato tarts (h
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