Melisa Roberts of the BECA foundation is working on publishing a small New Orleans weekly (print and online) that focuses on progressive, contemporary art + culture in NOLA. Writers and other diverse contributors are key. A launch party for the magazine, ‘contemporary NOLA’, will take place the evening of October 7, 2009, but we don’t have more details on that yet. If you’re interested, please check out melissaroberts.typepad.com, also contemporarynola.com, which is the current Beta version of the contributors pages.