Weekly Address and Just A Closer Walk With Thee

New Orleans Daily Photo: Bench and tree on the shores of Lake Ponchartrain near Mandeville...

Chuck Todd writes that while it may have been a tough week for the Obama Administration, it still passed a piece of major legislation. And that all the evidence shows that it will learn and press forward...

Todd and Nate Silver (FiveThirtyEight.com) both think that Obama -- not Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, or David Obey -- must be the one in front of the cameras when it comes to promoting legislation. I agree...

The Classic Maiden features a photo tribute to Barbara Stanwyck. No one deserves a photo tribute more than the erstwhile Ruby Catherine Stevens, who appeared in more than a hundred films and TV shows between 1927 and 1986...

The Criterion Collection. Citizen K. put in a request for One-Eyed Jacks, the only film directed by Marlon Brando. The version out there now has been butchered and is of such poor quality that it makes Monterey Bay look like a cesspool...

The New Yorker's David Denby agrees with Citizen K. that this year's Oscar field is notably thin...

Eating in and around New Orleans: The ten best places for crawfish. If you haven't eaten crawfish, you haven't lived. They're in season, so this is the perfect time get yer butt down to NOLA! (Of course, when isn't a perfect time to do that?)...

Yesterday's Friday's Choice was so awesome that it deserves an encore. If you thought he was great yesterday, what until you watch Glen David Andrews and the Mount Zion Baptist Church choir of New Orleans perform "Just A Closer Walk With Thee."