Scrim escaped rescuers for six months. He was caught last month. Photo: New Orleans City Council
🐾 City Council honored Michelle Cheramie and Zeus' Rescues for their "dedication to capturing Scrim, the terrier mutt and notorious canine runaway of Mid-City." (X)
Scrim was in council chambers — with a tracking device on his collar.
🦒 Audubon Nature Institute picked Michael Sawaya to be its new CEO, replacing Ron Forman who is retiring. Sawaya is the president and CEO of the convention center. (Press release)
🎶 OffBeat magazine is shutting down after 37 years of covering the city's music and culture scene. (The Times-Picayune🔒)
🏢 Council members have begun the process of designating 1031 Canal St. as a historic landmark. It's the site of the Hard Rock Hotel collapse and the 1960 Woolworth lunch counter civil rights sit-in. (Read the motion)
