CenLamar | Est. 2006

  • Orleans Parish GOP Would Rather Endorse Democrats Than A Gay Republican

    Orleans Parish GOP Would Rather Endorse Democrats Than A Gay Republican

    If Drew Ward, a military veteran, non-profit leader, and candidate for New Orleans Council District A, is to make history as the first openly gay Republican elected to public office in the American South, it will be without the support and endorsement of the Orleans Parish Republican Executive Committee. Drew, the only Republican candidate on the entire ballot, was snubbed by the Executive Committee, despite the fact that the Committee endorsed Democrats in every other race. Quoting (bold mine): Ward said that the party’s move comes as a slap in the face. His political positions are moderate, even progressive in some…

  • EXCLUSIVE: Nic Pizzolatto’s Louisiana

    EXCLUSIVE: Nic Pizzolatto’s Louisiana

    When I was in college, my best friend’s brother became famous. Put more precisely, he became famous to people like us: The Atlantic bought and published two of his short stories, and this was, as Vice President Biden would say, “a big fucking deal,” bigger than anything I could have ever imagined for myself. His stories were perfect and beautiful and maddeningly true. I envied him for telling these stories before I had the chance, for being so diligent, so precise, for upsetting the cosmic order of our universe by puncturing through all of it, before I really had a chance,…

  • My New Year’s Resolution: Repairing Broken Vessels

    Four years ago, a well-known attorney and blogger from my hometown began referring to me as a “gimp” on his website. Another local blogger, who was not as well-known and who wrote under a pseudonym, published a series of articles on his website referring to me as “Fetal Freddy.” My name is Frederick Lamar White, Jr., hence “Freddy.” And when I was a teenager, my father died, tragically, after losing control of his car and careening into a couple of pine trees directly across the bayou from our family home. For most of his adult life, despite his tremendous successes,…