residents hold daily silent vigil and take a knee for Floyd
Colette Delacroix kneels down outside her Gentilly home along with her neighbors every night. (Photo by Frankie Prijatel)
By: Frankie Prijatel | WVUE FOX 8 News
If you drive down S. Carrollton past Oak street at 6 p.m., you’ll see families and neighbors kneeling together on the neutral ground. Signs resonate with sentiments from recent protests, reading “I can’t breathe” and “Black Lives Matter.”
Residents of the neighborhood gather every night in silent vigil to remember the almost nine minutes Officer Chauvin knelt on George Floyd’s neck.
Similar small kneel-downs have started in Abita Springs and beyond the state of Louisiana but it began in a small Gentilly neighborhood.
Art comes to life through puppetry at the Mid-City Library
Four-year-old Reese Caldwell (far right) and two-year-old sister Cameron visit the Mid-City Library Wednesday (July 26) as eight teen counselors from the Ogden Museum of Southern Art summer program perform skits inspired by pieces of artwork found in the museum.(Photo by Frankie Prijatel, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune)
By: Frankie Prijatel | NOLA.com
Over a dozen pairs of eyes watched as colorful puppets made from recycled materials such as plastic bottles, fabric and sticks, recited stories of ruthless alligators, a sneaky but lonely raccoon, mother nature, and the rivalry between sisters vying for a prince.
Teen counselors from the Ogden Museum of Southern Art's summer program performed these puppet skits at the Mid-City Library Wednesday (July 26) to a delighted audience of neighborhood children.
High-schoolers from the Orleans and Jefferson parishes apply each year to the Ogden program and spend weeks in intensive writing, art history and puppetry technique classes to bring southern art to life for their campers and audiences around the city with the puppet shows.
The teens observe pieces at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art's "Profligate Beauty" collection, write and storyboard skits, and then improvise with their handmade puppets around a basic outline for each show...
Beachbody hosts sunrise Coach Summit outside the Superdome
Beachbody enthusiasts gather for the 2017 Beachbody Super Workout Coach Summit hosted near the Superdome in downtown New Orleans, Saturday July 15, 2017. (Photo by Frankie Prijatel, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune)
By: Frankie Prijatel | NOLA.com
"I can! I will! I must," yelled Sagi Kalev, 46, into a crowd of over 20,000 Beachbody enthusiasts who had gathered in downtown New Orleans near the Mercedes-Benz Superdome early Saturday morning (July 15) for a "sunrise super workout."
The crowd repeated his phrase while jogging in place.
The Coach Summit is hosted by Beachbody every year, and challenges participants to master high intensity cardio, jump training and mixed martial arts under the guidance of seven celebrity fitness trainers.
The program is centered around increasing fitness as well as mental health. Kalev, a Desert Storm veteran from Tel Aviv, Israel, said he has been fighting to achieve his goals since being a teenager.
"I had a single mom who didn't want me to be a bodybuilder," Kalev said Saturday in an interview after his fitness set...