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.

Life as a remainder

Ok, I admit it. I sleep with a 10-year-old boy every night. Or at least I have up until now. That is not the reason my partner may well be

By Jim Gabour

/ 13 Sep 2006

Hell hath no fury: Katrina's weight

New Orleans a year after Katrina remains a city of multiple distresses and defiant hope , reports Jim Gabour. The destruction laid upon New Orleans in the wake of hurricane Katrina

By Jim Gabour

/ 28 Aug 2006

Insecticide

You might not have ever even known your home was infested. Then, one early morning you find yourself stumbling home after a long night of music, leaving the parade sounds

By Jim Gabour

/ 20 Aug 2006

The big heat

Yes, the heat in New Orleans is life-stifling, and we've still over two months of it to weather, along with the possibility of other meteorological intrusion. Walking into

By Jim Gabour

/ 9 Jul 2006

My neighbourhood was surrounded today. By the same Humvees, troops and large-calibre machine guns that surround villages in Iraq and Afghanistan. Roadblocks were put in position across streets, and men

By Jim Gabour

/ 22 Jun 2006

Frozen assets: letter from New Orleans

Modern American political history is defined by petty criminals. My mother and I normally find ourselves on the same side of political debates, but we love each other enough to

By Jim Gabour

/ 5 Jun 2006

The choice is not choice

The language of the southern United States is one of polite obfuscation. It is often hard to get to the point of a conversation with all the personal inquiries, compliments

By Jim Gabour

/ 18 May 2006

An electoral storm in New Orleans

The small envelope, dated mid-September 2005, arrived at my New Orleans mailbox on the morning of 12 April 2006. Seven months after it was mailed. The city's elections,

By Jim Gabour

/ 20 Apr 2006

The deliveryman's story

He brought two chairs and a tale. A week ago we reluctantly discarded two sofas and three rugs which, even after repeated steam cleaning and saturation with deodorisers, still carried

By Jim Gabour

/ 27 Mar 2006

Out of order

I am eating aspirins and soaking in hot salt baths. I am recovering, not from the festivities of the New Orleans Mardi Gras but because, after six months, there has

By Jim Gabour

/ 21 Mar 2006

New Orleans ode to carnival

I have never used political correctness as an inhibitor of things I find amusing. Over my long years I have found much rough fodder for laughter, and over these last

By Jim Gabour

/ 28 Feb 2006

A New Orleans diary

New Orleans, for residents who survived and stayed after hurricane Katrina, presents a daily struggle for sustainable life and dignity. As a leaked congressional report condemns the Bush administration'

By Jim Gabour

/ 13 Feb 2006