Think it was mere chance that got Minneapolis a mention in President Obama’s address to Congress? It turns out that the select occasions in the past when Minnesota’s biggest city turned up in presidential addresses have always been during…
Two weeks before Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, Kimberly Rivers Roberts bought a cheap video camera to record family events and, if she captured anything good, say a police beating, sell it to a news crew. But as Carl Deal, a director of the new documentary Trouble the Water, tells MnIndy, she soon found herself recording her own harrowing experiences trying to survive one of the country’s most tragic disasters. Her footage shot before, during and after Katrinais now a pivotal part of Deal’s documentary, which is screening at Minneapolis’ Lagoon Cinema. Listen as Deal and executive producer Danny Glover discuss a film that’s less about extreme weather than extreme poverty.
“Do we have any Republicans in the audience?” asked Trouble the Water co-director Carl Deal at a screening this morning in the Landmark Center of St. Paul, across the street from the RNC. There was hardly a…
As Gustav bears down on the Louisiana coast, let’s pause to remember how John McCain and George W. Bush spent McCain’s 69th birthday on August 29, 2005, the day that Katrina struck Louisiana and the Gulf Coast. Image…
Three years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast, forever changed the city of New Orleans and exposed federal emergency management as grossly negligent, another storm is currently on track to make landfall in Louisiana in the midst of…
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