No clean up has begun. The 90-second intro combines a theme song performed by New Orleans jazz singer John Boutté with a mix of evocative video and still images in both black-and-white and colour, depicting the impact of Katrina as well as aspects of the city’s musical and social culture. But it also manifests itself in the narrative through the absence of public authority which, in the series, takes an ectoplasmic form. This exchange illustrates the National Guard’s lack of knowledge about local laws pertaining to drinking behaviors in public and their intimidating methods of applying order. She is especially interested in television narrative analyses and reception studies. As the scene unfolds, there is debris strewn everywhere, left where the storm put it. In this scene, Delmond tells his father he had to cancel his gig in Boston. , consulted November 3, 2011. It refers to the opinions of professor and blogger Ashley Morris, who represents the voice of the city. 36The relationship between Toni and LaDonna expresses the total breakdown of the prison system in New Orleans as Toni tries to cut through the red tape and find LaDonna’s younger brother Daymo, wrongly arrested prior to the storm and evacuated from Orleans Parish Prison (OPP) to another parish prison. With Creighton, all he does is complain about the same things: the lack of attention to New Orleans, how he’s uninspired to finish his book and why his city is such a great place to live despite the impact of Hurricane Katrina. I'd like to echo BrenyB -- excellent analysis. When I clicked on the Blogger link it was so dusty that I had to wear a mask and knock down six spiders and their cob... It’s been a good weekend so far. 27Albert later presses a city council member, Ron Singleton, about the closing of the project since neither Katrina nor the subsequent flood seriously damaged the complex. 35 Chris Rose, 1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina, New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2007, p. 105. Visit your state election office website to find out if you can vote by mail. In a scene from episode 3, the Chief accompanies Lorenzo, one of the Indians, and son of a close friend, to inspect his family home in the lower 9th Ward, decribed by a Washington Post columnist as, “the poorest of neighborhoods43.”. There was, a few episodes back, flashes of an overprotective father that highlighted a different side of him but, other than that, I can’t think of many scenarios where we are introduced to a different layer of Creighton Bernette the man.