7.30.2009

Our Latest and Greatest

Our webmaestro Varg has the revamped official Rising Tide website up and at 'em!

RT organizer and blogger Mark Folse provides the scoop on the panel he's putting together:
I am working with NOLA Slate on a panel on the state of New Orleans culture, with panelists who will speak on the state of parading, food and music culture in the city in Year Four after the Federal Flood. Speaking on parading culture will be Edward Buckner of The Porch Seventh Ward Culture Organization and the Original Big 7 Social Aid and Pleasure Club Our food panelist will be Susan Tucker, editor of New Orleans Cuisine: Fourteen Signature Dishes and Their Histories. Our music panelist will be Bruce Raeburn of the Hogan Jazz Archive and author of New Orleans Style and the Writing of American Jazz History.
I myself am not without news:
After all this time, the results of a recent study have linked the stresses of post-federal flood life - including the scanty access to hospitals, pharmacies, and treatment by health care professionals - to a greater incidence of heart attacks in area residents...

The health care panel at this year's Rising Tide conference will explore this sad fact of post 8-29 living, as well as many other related subjects. Moderated by public health Ph.D. candidate and local blogger Holly Scheib, the participants will be: Cecile Tebo, crisis unit coordinator for the NOPD and one of New Orleans magazine's Top Ten Female Achievers; Dr Elmore Rigamer, medical director of Catholic Charities; and Sean Fitzmorris, local EMT and administrator of New Orleans EMTs Sound Off!
Keynoter Harry Shearer contributes to TPM Cafe and gets his Derek Smalls on for The Daily Show...

...and we are greatly encouraged by those who have registered and proclaimed their intention to attend. Looking forward to seeing you all.

Get registered before the cost rises on August 12th.



2 comments:

  1. Hey, if I make it to RT, I'll be staying a couple of doors down from Ms. Cecile!

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  2. Holly's moderating a healthcare panel? Awesome!

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