#OTD (Aug 18) in 1939, #NewOrleans racketeer Carlos #Marcello is released from federal prison after serving a sentence for marijuana-related violations.

#MafiaHistory #Histodons @mafiahistory

New Orleans Reflected - The Green Eye - by Martin Podt

https://500px.com/photo/1095765490/new-orleans-reflected-the-green-eye-by-martin-podt

via sweetd3lights

@photography
#photography
#NewOrleans

#Democratic leaders in #NewOrleans are preparing to legalize real-time #surveillance with #cameras that process #facialrecognition tech.

#Civilliberties groups are pressing the alarm: #Louisiana has new laws that require #localities comply with #ICE, & they say this new #tech could feed into that.

https://boltsmag.org/new-orleans-live-facial-recognition-and-immigation/

A lovely day, a lovely evening. #NOLA

Mayor LaToya Cantrell indicted after federal corruption probe https://www.wwno.org/politics/2025-08-15/federal-grand-jury-indicts-new-orleans-mayor-latoya-cantrell-after-long-corruption-probe #NewOrleans #Louisiana

New Orleans may be about to become the first U.S. city with a program that uses facial recognition technology to surveil people in real time. City officials are voting next Thursday on the ordinance covering this, which they say explicitly states that data cannot be used for immigration enforcement. Critics say that those protections are not strong enough to withstand state or federal pressure, particularly under a new law that establishes criminal penalties for law enforcement officials that decline ICE requests for cooperation. Here's the full story from @bolts.

https://flip.it/Es8494

Brandan Odums has painted in New Orleans’ forgotten places, driven by the city’s difficult experience during Hurricane Katrina and its struggle to rebuild. #art #painting #NewOrleans

https://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/2025/0814/new-orleans-art-studiobe?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Culture @culture-csmonitor

Zion Williamson gets 2nd triple-double in 2 weeks in Pelicans’ win over Clippers https://www.rawchili.com/nba/232056/ #Basketball #cars #classifieds #homes #jobs #Local #NBA #NewOrleans #NewOrleansPelicans #NewOrleans #NewOrleansPelicans #News #Pelicans #radio #SaltLake #Sports #television #traffic #Utah #weather

Today someone picked one of my canvas prints over on my Etsy. I have been quietly adding them as I have time. The one on the black background happens to be my copy of the same print they picked.

You can find the current canvas offerings on Etsy (US) here:

https://marktisdaleart.etsy.com?search_query=canvas+print

And many more on my Pixels which is worldwide:

https://pixels.markonart.com/shop/canvas+prints

Ruth’s Creole Kitchen brings New Orleans recipes to OKC https://www.diningandcooking.com/2232651/ruths-creole-kitchen-brings-new-orleans-recipes-to-okc/ #EmerilLagasse #FrenchQuarter #HurricaneKatrina #NewOrleans #OklahomaCity #RecipeTopics #Recipes #RubenCarey #Ruth'sCreoleKitchen

Making Services Public

#canada #water #electricity #us #usa #democracy #tiktok #cdnpoli #eu #socialjustice #environment #humanrights #remunicipalization #resistance #public #health @socialsciences @blackmastodon @BLKNewsNow @environment #indigenous #municipal #government #public #health #ClimateAction #california #montreal #vancouver #neworleans #detroit #michigan #virginia #washington #seattle #socialism #classwar #antifascism

#NewOrleans #photography #BlackHistory

'He has captured tens of thousands of vivid moments of Black joy, fashion, and community from the heart of its street corners, Black clubs, and legendary second lines.'

https://capitalbnews.org/polo-silk-black-new-orleans-photos-pre-katrina/

New Orleans, 1986.

I was living in DC and working too much. A dear friend died of HIV-related peumonia. I knew if I didn't get away, I'd crack. Fortunately, I could.

New Orleans was a fortuitous trip. Took the Pentax 1000 a friend gave me for Christmas, bought a ton of Tri-X film and came back with a couple dozen exposed rolls. The first pictures I took with intention.

For a month, New Orleans-raised, multiple time Grammy-winning artist PJ Morton traveled across four African countries, South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana and Egypt, for his album, "Cape Town to Cairo".

Smoke and Mirrors
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFFbsziji4k

“I’ve been told so many things about Africa. Seeing for myself broke many of those narratives that I was told. I realized that perceptions usually depend on who is telling the story,” Morton says of the new single.