The Healing Center.

[Ryan Funch]

Anyone had any personal contact with this place, anyone involved with it, or any of the businesses housed in there? I'm just curious.

[werd]

C4 has been doing work with the food co-op, but I don't know much else beyond that. We helped them order their POS and may be doing some development work, but I haven't been involved.

I'm very helpful.

[AndyGibbs]

I went shopping at the co-op once. Couldn't find a thing of pasta for less than $2.50!
Was hoping they'd have a lot of vegan fake meat/cheese stuff, but no dice.
The color of the building makes me feel weird.

[russell]

Robin taught pilates there for a minute and goes to the co-op occasionally.

[Damien]

Here's a trans dude who got bullied and shouted at for not choosing what Healing Center staff had determined for him was the "correct" bathroom
https://twitter.com/#!/docbrite/status/ ... 0073748482

of course, in the wake of the recent multiple murders by NOPD, having a police substation in the "healing center" is an even unfunnier joke than it's always been.

I know some lifestyle lefties liked the "co-op" (note: a consumer "co-op" is VERY DIFFERENT from a worker-owned cooperative). From my study of shitty liberals I have determined that this is not because the opportunity to purchase $9 sacks of wheat flour in a windowless room painted fauvist colors is itself likeable, but rather because within lifestyle leftism, "co-op" is a significant tribal Power Word, like "recumbent," "vintage," "locavore"or "artisanal." Outside of any actual meaning or significance, merely using the word "co-op" connotes sophistication and enlightenment, elevating the speaker's prestige within tribal context. e.g "Where did I buy this Brocolli Raab? oh you know over at the CO-OP..."

Thing is, the CBD Rouse's on Baronne is way bigger and better, has everything the co-op does +1000% more, is open 6am-midnite, doesn't have crazy Mardi-Gras-Zone-on-steroids pricing and isn't painted 7-11 Slurpee colors by a rich white California-imported voodoo priestess.

The dudes who run Istanbul snitched out neighborhood showspaces & speakeasies, forcing their closure, and bullied longtime residents who asked questions, threatening to use their political leverage to have them evicted.

http://lorddavidtruth.blogspot.com/2011 ... aling.html

The yuppies who sit on the sidewalk outside Istanbul are horrible and call the police on neighborhood kids.

[Damien]

also, Pres Kabacoff is a jerk-off

[AndyGibbs]

Damien keeping it real as always!

Thanks for the heads up on that Rouses. They got produce?

[russell]

Yeah it does. It's sort of like a local, cheaper Whole Foods®

[.:.]

In Sallie Ann Glassman's defense I'd just like to state that she's from Maine and not California. Hahahahaha

[Damien]

Not to sound like a stealth marketer for Rouse's (I mean, they union-bust, etc.) but yeah that CBD Rouse's is a five-star undertaking. The whole things is super classy. It is expensive, but not crazy expensive relative to how overpriced quality groceries usually are in the area. In terms of prepared food, their by-the-pound salad bar is a good deal, with fresh shrimp, salmon etc. I go there about as often as I can afford to.

The only thing that made me a little uneasy is that a majority of the other customers look and act more like I would imagine people from Denver or Boulder would. I'm not condemning them, I'm just saying they are not the types of folks I'm used to seeing in New Orleans or St. Bernard. It unnerved me the first couple times I went there and I was sure they thought I was shoplifting or that I wasn't supposed to be there, but all the staff are 100% friendly and reassuringly normal.

/end commercial

[werd]

Not to sound like a stealth marketer for Rouse's (I mean, they union-bust, etc.) but yeah that CBD Rouse's is a five-star undertaking. The whole things is super classy. It is expensive, but not crazy expensive relative to how overpriced quality groceries usually are in the area. In terms of prepared food, their by-the-pound salad bar is a good deal, with fresh shrimp, salmon etc. I go there about as often as I can afford to.

The only thing that made me a little uneasy is that a majority of the other customers look and act more like I would imagine people from Denver or Boulder would. I'm not condemning them, I'm just saying they are not the types of folks I'm used to seeing in New Orleans or St. Bernard. It unnerved me the first couple times I went there and I was sure they thought I was shoplifting or that I wasn't supposed to be there, but all the staff are 100% friendly and reassuringly normal.

/end commercial

Dude I felt the same way the first time I went there! My first reaction was "I feel like I'm in a real city." I'm currently in Austin, The Dream City Of The White Folks, and I can confirm that that Rouses would not be out of place here.

[nolaanarcha]

and there is always the Rouses in da qwatahs with the very charming deli lady!

[nolaanarcha]

I need to quote from a book here for a second so people can get the depth of Pres Kabacoff's blood money:
"The beginning of the teardown
P: we were still young when they started tearing down the projects in New Orleans
D:We didn't really know what was going on.
P:When they tore down the st. thomas, i was thinking, "they better not tear down my hood."
D:the the people from the st. thomas moved into the st. bernard [where D lived], that's when a lot of problems really started in 2002. they wanted to sell their drugs, but the dudes in the st. bernard already had their hustle. that's like trying to stop somebody's money. people aren't gonna let that happen.
P: they came back there with all that stunting and bucking, they didn't come back there chillin. DJ Jubilee messed it up son when he started saying st. ber-thomas in his songs and then people from the st. thomas who moved into our project, started saying that. they were really killing people over that. they were fighting every day. i wasn't happy, but i knew it was gonna happen. and now our hoods are beefing, hard."
(from Beyond the Bricks, a NSP book.)
this is what everyone said would happen when Pres made his millions tearing down st. thomas, selling part of the land to wal-mart and making $55 million off it, and scattering the st. thomas residents around the city. here is the evidence it did in fact happen, from the mouth of 10 year old kids who had to watch it happen.
not figurative blood money. literal blood money.
fuck that bastard.

[eustatic]

i was there the first morning the CBD Rouse's opened--i suppose for my benefit, as I am now a certified CBD yuppie with dental insurance. at 8 in the morning, i popped in for breakfast and lunch and dinner. the cashiers stood at attention in their black collared shirts, arms behind their back, chins up, chests out. two cashiers aggressively approached me and asked if i needed any assistance. weird. for that action, they need to be getting dental insurance.

That ended the second day. I'm glad they don't have to do that anymore, I guess management was somehow thinking the Rouse's was part of the hotel district. I'm also glad they have indian food at the hot bar sometimes.

But shit, Benny Mardi Gras Zone just got knifed in his own store. mad love to that profit-mongering pig who changed his crap depot into a grocery, because there was a need. it was really important. also, they carry chicken feed and local produce. i know it cost$ but i love that stupid place. what other place is open so late? where else do the cashiers strike up unnecessary conversations with you about their gun collections? better than Canseco's. And Robert's, that chickened out and fled to Lakeview

oh, and he stood up and called for an election of the neighborhood association when the iron rail / plan B crap was going down. so, the zone.

[AndyGibbs]

Went to MGZ this morning. It's a scorcher out there today, and just thinking about riding the delivery bike out to the CBD was making me sweat. I paid $16 for a handful of vegetables, couple things of pasta, coconut milk, and a big can of blue runner red beans. It could've been a lot worse. I was glad for their existence today. Jimmy's Grocery in the Bywater, however...I just have a personal vendetta with that fucker.