The other waiter looks brown also…as well as blurry.
Glad the tight social class system is back in place; first things first.

That looks like Mr. B's on Royal. Pre-Katrina ALL the waiters there were black. Last time I was at B's about half (maybe less) were black. The place had such a different vibe.

Jesus, this is just depressing.

I don't get? He is blurry beacuse he was moving.
Doesn't this mean their are enough restaurants open in the city for them to review and more people are travailing to the city.

I lived in New Orleans- a place where Zagat's surveys were mailed to my house, and where the restaurant/dining special editions of the Gambit Weekly were the most coveted of the year.

This is a fabulous development! New Orleanians are doing what they do in every other city in this country- eating out. The fact that there are more new restaurants than ever is a great sign.

While there is still so much work to be done, rest assured, the Times-Picayune will continue to provide coverage to address post-K issues. The past is in the present, and too overwhelmingly obvious to ignore.

*M*
I don’t get? He is blurry beacuse he was moving
I agree

I think what Lauren imight be saying is he's blurry not because he's moving but because he's not the focus (in more ways than one.) In a "good" picture, the point of focus would never be blurry. So, it doesn't matter if you can see him or not because you're not *supposed to see him* since he's a non-entity and he's invisible in the larger, Katrina sense of the word. At this point, New Orleans is not at all about him. It's about rebuilding white comfort.

What J said.

Also - Superstarprincess & *M* new restaurants opening and catering to tourists hardly means the city is in good shape. Tourism based economies are the easiest way to eff up a local economy, especially one that is struggling to get back on its feet after a horrifying disaster like Katrina. People (of a certain skin color in this case) scrambling to get by, getting service jobs to cater to white, rich tourists . . . and none of the money is going into the areas that really need it.

a few months ago I was in the Lower 9th, in NOLA to speak at a conference on Environmental Justice post-Katrina. Damn, I couldn't believe it. 3 years later, and still . . .

Cord was speaking from the perspective of someone who knows a thing or two about photography.

Trust him, they meant to blur him out. The camera that was used to take that pic was certainly able to make the picture clear if that was the intention.

THis is horrible and it makes me sick inside when I think of this NO problem.

Mammoth- The tale of New Orleans is nothing new, only to those who never really ventured beyond the French Quarter before Katrina. I have lived in New Orleans, so I am well aware of the city's service economy, especially after the oil company crisis of the 1980s.

True, a tourism based economy has never ever served lower-income folks well, especially when for most of the time that I lived there only two hotels were unionized. Pre-katrina, low-income housing for New Orleanians was substandard, wages were low, and there was never any real investment in the public education system, all to prevent upward mobility. Not much has changed, except everything is more expensive.

I wish that people would also look beyond the ninth ward too. Many middle-class areas were devastated as well….

My points were based on the psychological impact that it has on the citizens of a devastated city. When people see levels of investment, no matter how small, it makes them feel like their decision to return was worthwhile.

As a New Orleanian, I agree with Superstar princess