Jim Gabour

Jim Gabour is a film producer, writer and director, whose work focuses primarily on music and the diversity of cultures. His New Orleans novel Unimportant People is available via Kindle.

BP spill: what the locals are doing

The ruined Louisiana marshes remain off limits, but locals gather at a fund-raiser in New Orleans’ Vaughan’s Bar and work out what they can do, as the oil spreads ever eastwards

By Jim Gabour

/ 8 Jul 2010

Soul food

The oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico is poisoning more than the region’s sea life, finds Jim Gabour

By Jim Gabour

/ 2 Jul 2010

Oysters Rockefeller

The threat to a unique New Orleans culinary tradition is one measure of the Gulf of Mexico tragedy, says Jim Gabour.

By Jim Gabour

/ 16 Jun 2010

Paradise

A pristine nursery on the Florida coast awaits the plumes of oil headed in its direction. Jim Gabour reports, waits and fears.

By Jim Gabour

/ 8 Jun 2010

Pollution

The great oil-spill approaching the Louisiana coast raises echoes of Katrina and fears of a livelihood lost forever, writes Jim Gabour in New Orleans.

By Jim Gabour

/ 4 May 2010

New Orleans's sub-heavenly host

I was looking at the sky the other night around 10pm, finally able to get outside an air-conditioned environment as the 104-degree (40ºC) noontime temperature cooled enough to make that

By Jim Gabour

/ 29 Jun 2009

The plague spin of New Orleans

Here it is, Influenza A, H1N1, swine flu, whatever you want to call it. It's an old and recurring situation. Once again people are getting ill, and some

By Jim Gabour

/ 5 May 2009

The redemption game

Ahn "Joseph" Cao, a Republican who represents the state of Louisiana, is the first elected politician of Vietnamese origin in the United States's House of Representatives.

By Jim Gabour

/ 20 Feb 2009

Three regular guys

Until the autumn of 2008 a political gambler would have been given major odds by any bookie in America against a major change in national and world government emerging from

By Jim Gabour

/ 8 Jan 2009

Living the American movie

5:30am The time-change from daylight to standard time just happened this past weekend, and my body has not yet adjusted to the difference. I am instantly wide awake, the

By Jim Gabour

/ 3 Nov 2008

Nine-inch nails in the White House

I've been dealing with visual imagery in one way or another since producing, directing and hosting my first television series that started in 1978. It was a local

By Jim Gabour

/ 31 Oct 2008

Loot

"We've an emergency. Call me back as soon as you get this." There was a serious-sounding message on my cellphone's voice mail as I

By Jim Gabour

/ 8 Oct 2008