RTP-area local music and culture

[Duncan Murrell <dvmurrell AT nc.rr.com>]

Just came from the premiere of Spike Lee's four-hour documentary on  
New Orleans and Katrina, "When the Levees Broke."  I'll reserve my  
comments for later, but I will say that I desperately want you all to  
watch it when it comes on HBO either August 22 or August 23 (check  
your listings, it'll be run over two nights, two hours each). To  
date, there hasn't been a better depiction of the cruelty people have  
experienced down here during and since August 29, 2005. There are  
imperfections, it's overlong, and I've got some quibbles, but I hope  
that as many people as possible see it. It raises the bar for  
everything written/filmed/recorded about New Orleans. When 11,000 New  
Orleanians at the New Orleans Arena get on their feet and cheer a  
film about their city, it's worth seeing.

Remember:  HBO, beginning either August 22 or August 23.

d

p.s. He even got an interview with, and home video of, the  
Mississippi man who told Dick Cheney to go fuck himself. Worth the  
price of admission right there.