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New Orleans Gets <em>Wired</em>: David Simon Turns His Sights on the Big Easy
New Orleans Gets <em>Wired</em>: David Simon Turns His Sights on the Big Easy
On a late spring day in the early 1990s, a Baltimore Sun reporter named David Simon wandered into the now-defunct Funky Butt jazz club on North Rampart Street in New Orleans, where Bo Dollis & the Wild Magnolias were burning through a scorching set of percussive funk.“From the outside, ...
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New Orleans Gets Wired: David Simon Turns His Sights on the Big Easy
Oh No They Didn't! — ... girlfriend. On her first visit to the set, she got an unwelcome jolt back to the devastation of late 2005. “As I turned the corner, I said, ‘Why are the waterlines still on the homes?’ I got a headache, stomach pains and my chest was hurting. That’s how real it was…I relived it all over again,” she says. “David’s going to shine his light on us and put that fire under the city that we need. New Orleans needs this show.” Source Sounds interesting and Simon is one of the best so yay!!

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