Karen Beninato

The Avett Brothers closed their Jazz Fest show much in the same way the started it—making the crowd go insane. Seth Avett capped the awesome set by running through the crowd on the final song, guitar and all, igniting a frenzy from both security and the first several rows. The rest of the performance on Friday remained on the Samsung Galaxy Stage but was no less tame. "Bouncy" would be the best way to describe the afternoon.

Getting to the grocery store, we pass by a Humvee and under a Blackhawk helicopter. Familiar Katrina sounds, but thankfully no disaster smells. Someone left a houseplant on the ground without its pot. It looks like pot. I’m not taking it home either way. The Food First guy asks me if a gallon and a half of water is enough to hold him over. I tell him it’s probably always best to get more. “If the power goes out, they’ll give us MREs,”— this suggests that after Hurricane Katrina, he stayed.

Karen Dalton Beninato Staircase to nowhere: The columnist woke in March 2016 to find her North Shore home an island. There used to be a popular T-shirt/bumper sticker slogan around town: “New Orleans: Third World and Proud of It.” In abandoning the Paris Climate Accord, President Trump has taken the sentiment nationwide. He has yoked America with Nicaragua and Syria as the lone holdouts against signing the pledge to combat climate change.