Welcome to Big Apple Blog Festival (BABF), a representative roundup of this week’s posts by NYC bloggers.
Not all Katrina-related …

• NYgirl … “Too many of the stories on Katrina have focused on the worst aspects of humanity. While there are villains a plenty, there are also many heroes. Rescue workers, National Guardsman, & ordinary people doing extraordinary things. Here are the links to their stories. If you have a story you’d like to add to this post, please add your link to the Haloscan comment section.” …
• As I Please has some practical requests from a friend in St. Landry Parish, in Opelousas, LA … “basically, anything you and I would by at Walgreen’s for personal upkeep. These things are rarely thought of. The best way to purchase this kind of stuff is to actually in travel size so that individual packets can be given to people, and they don’t have to share.” …
• AlarmingNews reminds us that TODAY (Sunday, September 5, 2005) is the last day of the Barneys Warehouse Sale … 255 W. 17th Street
• Right Moon? is cleaning out the closet … and donating 50% to The Salvation Army …
• jewschool said “The trauma in New Orleans is very personal, as my family lives there – or I suppose I should say, lived there.”
• Gotham Gal had a pig roast … with pics …
• NewYorkology says “The New York City jazz community is organizing a week-long fundraiser beginning Sept. 11 to raise funds to help the hurricane relief efforts in New Orleans.”
• A Brooklyn Life, in “funny cat websites” … links to stuff on my cat … here’s our favorite … but where’s the link to tubcat? …
• dailyheights.com has a list of one-liners generated by the arrest of Dan Hoyt, allegedly the subway onanist caught on cellphone camera … “(Really Bad) Subway Lewdness One-Liners”
• manhattan transfer is traveling and has “Pictures from Wyoming” … take me home country road … actually, Chug is from Colorado, not Wyoming …
• forgotten NY has a new page on Queens Boulevard … “Blvd. of Death” …
• Asymmetrical Information gives a lesson on basic economics … “In praise of price gouging” …
• a small victory is collecting school supplies for the Kids of Katrina …
• Letters from NYC has a great roundup … “Disaster Relief Information for Victims and their Friends”
• insignificant thoughts donated some photos to the Katrina Relief Auction / Photos for Charity on flickr
• Now What?, in “ Lord of the Flies II: Escape From New Orleans” … links to Survival of New Orleans blog … which in turn has links to lots of New Orleans pics …
• Yanksfan vs. Soxfan … Priorities: “Baseball is about the last thing on most of our minds right now, and with good reason. Over this holiday weekend we will be taking a break from baseball blogging, and we wish everyone out there a happy and safe Labor Day. For those in distress, we offer our sincerest thoughts and hopes. If you are an a position to do so and feel so inclined (and as YF linked to yesterday), please give here (the wonderful organization “Architecture for Humanity”) to help the victims of the hurricane.”
• mister snitch! has a post with lots o’ links to video and pics of Katrina damage …
• Clareified, to all the pleas for sending money to Katrina victims … says, “let me take this opportunity to just.say.no.” … and adds, “And if there are places in or near the affected area that have clothes, food and housing, but refuse to give them to the victims of this disaster unless they cough up my lotto money, then I definitely don’t want my money supporting those businesses. In fact, the nation should collectively be boycotting any and all of those establishments.” … uh, OK …
• The Apiary has started a comedy clubs for hurricane relief thread … “Come out to see the city’s finest and most upstanding comics while doing your part to help the hundreds of thousands of people whose lives have been irrevocably devastated. Here is a list of upcoming benefits” …
• Kesher Talk on New Orleans … “one cannot help thinking that the failure of local government to have someone in place of the calibre of a Rudi Giuliani to hold down the fort until the big guns could arrive has quite a lot to do with what we are seeing. It makes the difference between a successful disaster and one that is entirely disastrous.” … and also has a good roundup of sites covering the disaster …
• Brain Terminal talks about the music industry … “For years, the recording industry has resisted the notion that its current business model is obsolete in the era of music-as-files. Even though the iPod and other MP3 players have effectively separated music from its physical medium, the industry itself has done little to embrace the mechanism that more and more people prefer for their music enjoyment. Instead, they’ve been busy suing teenagers who download music illegally and trying to prop up an outmoded distribution model. Music no longer needs to be trapped in circles of plastic, but the music business is so paralyzed by panic that they’re ignoring what customers want.” …
• A Guy In New York has his weekly roundup of NYC restaurant reviews in “This Week in Reviews – September 2, 2005” …
• Laren at Gothamist tells us how to dine for $5 … “Eating for Five Big Ones” … we love Vietnamese sandwiches (Banh Mi) …
• Theater of My Mind took a pic of a colorful sign for Maxie’s Delicatessen … but the reviews of the food aren’t so hot … [MenuPages | Citysearch]
• Corante New York has a report about a program that will provide a laptop to every school child in NYC’s Region 10 public schools … “Bridging the digital divide with free Apple and Dell laptops for Manhattan school kids” …
• Alarming News is organizing a NY blogger bash for sometime in early September.

Listed on the ÜberCarnival page and in Carnival News.
If you have a NYC blog and want to see something in the next BABF, send us a short write up and a permalink to aguyinnewyork [at] gmail … see you next week …