CenLamar | Est. 2006

What Are You Trying To Say? From today’s Town Talk editorial: “A recent Scripps Howard survey asked people “How many days each week do you get news from a blog on the Internet?” Eighty-eight percent of respondents said they never use blogs to get news. These Web logs — personal diaries and observations posted on easy-to-update Internet Web pages in a process called “blogging” — are, however, gaining in popularity especially among certain demographic groups, the survey found. Well-educated single people, especially those without children, who live in major urban areas or along the high-technology centers of the West Coast…

Upcoming Events: Jacques Roy Question and Answer House of Java, Tomorrow, September 2, 2006, 3PM Open to the Public Monte Montgomary LIVE In Alexandria Spirits, September 8th, 8PM Tickets are on sale now. $15 Monte Montgomery has taken the acoustic guitar beyond anyone’s expectations. With his amazing fretwork, unique combination finger and pick style playing through trailblazing chordal thoroughfares often baffling even the most accomplished players. While Monte remains a huge enigma in the guitar universe, his legendary reputation has spread like wildfire since he appeared on Austin City Limits. In 2004 Monte was named on Guitar Player Magazine’s list…

Fellow Blogger Spanky: Solutions to Alexandria’s Growing Pains (Credit: Spanky, Originally from Cenla Antics) Spanky said… I am sure Jacques will fully and eloquently explain his vision of urban condensation which more than likely parallels what I have been screaming. As Alexandria has grown, areas develop, age, and then blight, leaving in the blighted areas, the lower income folks, and abandoned properties that compound the problems of crime, property devaluation, fire safety, infrastructure maintenance, utilities, and sanitation, as the city cannot just choose to stop providing services in the city limits. We do not have population increase, therefore we are…