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Thanks to the businesses that have supported us

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It’s hard to believe that it’s only been nine weeks since the boom was lowered at The Times-Picayune and about six weeks since the launch of dashTHIRTYdash. A few people have asked for a complete list of the businesses that have lent their support to the fund thus far, so please find that list below, in alphabetical order. To all 18 of you to-date: thanks so much for your support – it means a great deal to many of the hundreds of employees, freelancers and contractors who are losing their jobs or significant portions of their income because of the changes coming to the newspaper:

The Avenue Pub, 1732 St. Charles Ave., New Orleans  
The Brylski Company, 3418 Coliseum St,, New Orleans  
Contemporary Arts Center of New Orleans, 900 Camp St.  
T-P alumnus Chuck Cook, now news content advisor for student media at The University of Southern Mississippi  
Crescent Crown Distributing  
Euclid Records, 3401 Chartres St.  
Gambit
Howlin’ Wolf New Orleans, 907 Peters St.  
LaPetite Grocery Restaurant and Bar, 4238 Magazine St., New Orleans  
Mia’s Balcony, 1622 St. Charles Ave., New Orleans
Mignon Faget, 3801 Magazine St., New Orleans; Canal Place, First Level, New Orleans; Lakeside Shopping Center, Metairie  
NOLA Brewing Co.  
N’Tini’s Steaks and Martinis, 2891 Highway 190, Mandeville  
Plum, 5430 Magazine St., New Orleans  
Ralph Brennan Restaurant Group (Red Fish Grill, Jazz Kitchen®, Ralph’s on the Park, café b, café NOMA and Heritage Grill)  
Rio Mar Seafood, 800 South Peters St., New Orleans  
RockNBowl, 3000 S. Carrollton Ave., New Orleans
Slim Goodies Diner, 3322 Magazine St., New Orleans  
Wohl & Co. (Kit Wohl)  

Euclid Records hosts Sunday, July 8 benefit for dashTHIRTYdash

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Offbeat (Thematically, not Musically) Record Store Offers Free Beer (as Long as it Lasts) and 30% of Sales to Fund to Assist Newspaper Employees and Contractors Set to Lose Jobs

Euclid Records, 3401 Chartres St. in Bywater, which specializes “in used and new vinyl with a healthy dose of used CDs and plenty of odd,” is hosting a benefit Sunday, July 8 for dashTHIRTYdash. Thirty percent of the store’s receipts during its hours of noon to 6 p.m. will go to the fund.

In addition to beautiful music and “free beer while it lasts; folks are encouraged to bring their own,” store manager James Weber will raffle off a “record player,” with all proceeds from the $1-a-ticket raffle will go directly to dashTHIRTYdash.

“We’re 2,200 square feet of boss vinyl (new and used), with a healthy dose of quality used CDs and a fluctuating cassette supply,” according to the store’s Facebook page. “We host in-store performances and meet-n-greets, will talk with you for extended lengths regarding just about any culture you’d care to ramble about, generally have the digs on hip shows occurring around town, can sometimes introduce you to musicians, and will most certainly listen to your band’s demo tape.” Not to mention being the record store of choice for celebs like former “House” star, actor Hugh Laurie.

“Whew! How does that sound?” James asks.

Amazing, James, and as charmingly, eccentrically New Orleans as it gets.

Euclid Records, 3201 Chartres St., Bywater, New Orleans

dashTHIRTYdash is the newly created fund to financially assist Times-Picayune employees and contractors slated to lose their jobs or a significant portion of their income Sept. 30 as the newspaper abandons daily publication. A number of local restaurants and businesses – ranging from the Ralph Brennan Restaurant Group to jeweler Mignon Faget – have created either special products or menu offerings or hosted events, all with some portion of proceeds going to the fund.

Individuals, companies or organizations wishing to donate to dashTHIRTYdash may send checks payable to the Contemporary Arts Center, but in the memo line of the check, please write DashThirtyDash Fund. Checks should be mailed to the Contemporary Arts Center, c/o Glenn W. Gruber, Associate Director/CFO, 900 Camp St. New Orleans, LA 70130. Again, contributions are tax-deductible. Fund organizers also are working on online credit card and/or PayPal donation options.

New Orleans-areas restaurants, bars or other businesses interested in hosting benefits for dashTHIRTYdash or donating proceeds from sales of products or services should contact Times-Picayune alumna Rebecca Theim at phone number or email address below.

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About dashTHIRTYdash

dashTHIRTYdash is a fund to financially assist employees and contractors of The Times-Picayune slated to lose their jobs or a significant portion of their income Sept. 30 as the newspaper abandons daily publication. The Contemporary Arts Center of New Orleans is serving as the fund’s fiscal agent, which makes dashTHIRTYdash contributions tax-deductible. The fund also is benefiting from the professional expertise of CAC’s Accounting Services Program, which serves New Orleans-area non-profits.

The designation “-30-” historically was added by journalists to the end of their reports to indicate “end of story.” But on June 12, 2012, -30- took on a new meaning in New Orleans, as Times-Picayune staffers used it on Facebook and other social media to simply yet powerfully signal that they were among the roughly 200 staffers who will lose their jobs as the 175-year-old, Pulitzer Prize-winning paper pivots to primarily digital distribution.

dashTHIRTYdash is inspired by the post-Katrina “Friends of The Times-Picayune,” which was created in 2005 by four newspaper alumnae. That fund assisted employees across the newspaper who lost their homes or suffered serious financial losses after the storm.

dashTHIRTYdash is on the Internet at http://www.dashthirtydash.org, on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/Dash30DashNOLA and on Twitter at http://twitter.com/Dash30DashNOLA.

FOR MORE INFORMATION: Rebecca Theim (Times-Picayune alumna, 1988-94), 702-622-8154 (cell), rebecca at rebeccatheim dot com.

In today’s Times-Picayune: New Orleanians support soon-to-be laid-off T-P employees by eating, drinking

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Today’s Times-Picayune reports on dashTHIRTYdash and the community’s continuing support of a daily newspaper and of T-P employees who will lose their jobs as the paper abandons daily print publication after Sept. 30. The story is on the metro section front of today’s print edition. Choice excerpts are below or read the entire story on NOLA.com by clicking here.

Slim Goodies owner Kappa Horn shows off envelopes with additional donations given by her diner’s patrons to support laid-off Times-Picayune employees. Horn is one of many local business owners supporting dashTHIRTYdasy. Photo by Eliot Kamenitz, The Times-Picayune

Local writer Michael Tisserand showed up as a gesture of 

support, as well as for the sweet potato pancakes with pecans.

“I love New Orleans, and I don’t want to see New Orleans be the first major city without a daily paper,” he said. Tisserand said [Kappa] Horn’s effort was “very inspiring,” and “reminds me why I love New Orleans.” [Kappa owns Slim Goodies Diner, which Sunday hosted a  well-attended benefit for dashTHIRTYdash.]

Polly Watts, owner of The Avenue Pub, said her business’

involvement was a way to let the soon-to-be-unemployed know that “someone gives a damn and that we are grateful for what they have done, and that we will miss them.” She said she saw the company more as a public service, even a “public utility, ” as much as it was a business. [Polly hosted a very successful fundraiser for dashTHIRTYdash on Thursday, June 28.]

“It’s a big part of the fabric of the city, ” she said. Whether or not you read the newspaper, Watts said, “you will feel its absence.”

Tisserand said he felt he had a relationship with the newspaper’s writers. “Through the bylines and the kinds of stories they write, ” he said, “you feel like they are part of the family.”

Over the past several weeks, the Ralph Brennan Restaurant Group also has donated a percentage of sales from specially created cocktails.

In addition to eating and drinking, accessorizing has also become a popular means of showing solidarity.

Jewelry designer Mignon Faget has launched a Times-Picayune stud pin, donating 10 percent of sales to the fund. And this week, the Uptown gift shop Plum will donate 20 percent of its sales on 20 New Orleans-themed items to the fund.

Sheila Grissett, who worked for The Times-Picayune for 26 years before leaving just over a year ago, said she bought six Mignon Faget pins. She also bought six “Save The Picayune” T-shirts and was looking to buy eight or 10 of the dashTHIRTYdash T-shirts sold at Thursday’s pub crawl.

“There was a way to do this without gutting the newsroom and uprooting so many lives, ” Grissett said. “Our message is that we are not going to forget what was done.”

Getting news online, Christine Cozic, Grissett’s tablemate, said, is “not the same as sitting with breakfast and a cup of coffee and relaxing with the paper. People stare at computers all day.”

Horn said she expects the effort to grow. “The city knows the value of coming together, ” she said. “This city will fight to the death for something they believe in, something that is essentially New Orleans. The Times-Picayune is essentially New Orleans.”

Avenue Pub raises more than $2,800 for dashTHIRTYdash Tuesday night

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Polly Watts, owner of The Avenue Pub, just wrote a check to dashTHIRTYdash for $2,811.70 – the take from her venue ALONE at tonight’s Lower Garden District pub crawl fundraiser benefiting dashTHIRTYdash. (Thank you, Polly!)

The Avenue Pub, at 1732 St. Charles Ave., is one of three St. Charles Avenue restaurants and nightspots in the Lower Garden District that joined with NOLA Brewing to host the pub crawl. It donated 100% of all liquor, beer and wine sales between 6-9 PM to the fund.

We don’t yet have totals from the other two venues – Mia’s Balcony, 1622 St. Charles Ave., which is donating 10% of food sales for the entire day, plus 100% of NOLA Brewery beer sales; and The Irish House restaurant, 1432 St. Charles Ave., which is donating 100% of NOLA Brewery beer sales from 6-9 PM.

NOLA Brewing donated all of its branded tap beers to the event. Crescent Crown Distributing also is assisting with the evening.

Triple header Thursday for dashTHIRTYdash

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Three St. Charles Avenue Restaurants and Bars Band Together to Host Pub Crawl Fundraiser to Assist Newspaper Employees and Contractors Set to Lose Jobs

NEW ORLEANS, Thursday, June 28, 2012 – Three St. Charles Avenue restaurants and nightspots in the Lower Garden District and NOLA Brewing are banding together today to host a pub crawl benefiting dashTHIRTYdash. Participating venues include:

  •  Mia’s Balcony, 1622 St. Charles Ave. The restaurant will donate 10% of food sales for the entire day, plus 100% of NOLA Brewery beer sales to the fund.
  •  The Irish House restaurant, 1432 St. Charles Ave., will donate 100% of NOLA Brewery beer sales from 6-9 PM to the fund.

NOLA Brewing is donating all of its branded tap beers to the event. Crescent Crown Distributing also is assisting with the evening.

Times-Picayune alumnus Chuck Cook, now news content advisor for student media at The University of Southern Mississippi, will be selling dashTHIRTYdash t-shirts to benefit the fund during the evening. Prices are $15 for civilians, $5 with a Times-Picayune employee ID.

Then, on Sunday, July 1, Slim Goodies Diner, 3322 Magazine St. also in the Lower Garden District, will contribute 20% of its receipts to the fund. Hours are 6 AM to 3 PM.

dashTHIRTYdash is the newly created fund to financially assist Times-Picayune employees and contractors slated to lose their jobs or a significant portion of their income Sept. 30 as the newspaper abandons daily publication. A number of local restaurants and businesses – ranging from the Ralph Brennan Restaurant Group to jeweler Mignon Faget – have created either special products or menu offerings or hosted events, all with some portion of proceeds going to the fund.

Individuals, companies or organizations wishing to donate to dashTHIRTYdash may send checks payable to the Contemporary Arts Center, but in the memo line of the check, please write DashThirtyDash Fund. Checks should be mailed to the Contemporary Arts Center, c/o Glenn W. Gruber, Associate Director/CFO, 900 Camp St. New Orleans, LA 70130. Again, contributions are tax-deductible. Fund organizers also are working on online credit card and/or PayPal donation options.

New Orleans-areas restaurants, bars or other businesses interested in hosting benefits for dashTHIRTYdash or donating proceeds from sales of products or services should contact Times-Picayune alumna Rebecca Theim at phone number or email address below.

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About dashTHIRTYdash

dashTHIRTYdash is a fund to financially assist employees and contractors of The Times-Picayune slated to lose their jobs or a significant portion of their income Sept. 30 as the newspaper abandons daily publication. The Contemporary Arts Center of New Orleans is serving as the fund’s fiscal agent, which makes dashTHIRTYdash contributions tax-deductible. The fund also is benefiting from the professional expertise of CAC’s Accounting Services Program, which serves New Orleans-area non-profits.

The designation “-30-” historically was added by journalists to the end of their reports to indicate “end of story.” But on June 12, 2012, -30- took on a new meaning in New Orleans, as Times-Picayune staffers used it on Facebook and other social media to simply yet powerfully signal that they were among the roughly 200 staffers who will lose their jobs as the 175-year-old, Pulitzer Prize-winning paper pivots to primarily digital distribution.

dashTHIRTYdash is inspired by the post-Katrina “Friends of The Times-Picayune,” which was created in 2005 by four newspaper alumnae. That fund assisted employees across the newspaper who lost their homes or suffered serious financial losses after the storm.

dashTHIRTYdash is on the Internet at http://www.dashthirtydash.org, on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/Dash30DashNOLA and on Twitter at http://twitter.com/Dash30DashNOLA.

FOR MORE INFORMATION: Rebecca Theim (Times-Picayune alumna, 1988-94), 702-622-8154 (cell), rebecca at rebeccatheim dot com.

New Orleans’ Gambit gives dashTHIRTYdash “bouquet”

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Gambit, New Orleans’ alternative weekly, and the only media outlet that’s truly covered what’s going on with The Times-Picayune (although The New York Times‘ David Carr has given Gambit Editor Kevin Allman a run for his money) awarded dashTHIRTYdash a bouquet in its “Bouquets & Brickbats” feature this week. The bouquet is specifically tied to Thursday’s St. Charles Avenue pub crawl benefiting the fund.