New Orleans Gets Ready to Celebrate 'Sinkhole de Mayo'

Doing a Seth Rogen-Jonah Hill comedy proud.

Remember that dinner table conversation in the 2013 comedy hit This Is the End, when Jonah Hill responds to Seth Rogen talking about the proliferation of sinkholes around the world with the exclamation “Sinkhole de Mayo!”? Well, this Thursday, that notion will come to life in the Crescent City.

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Melinda Norris, life and culture editor for the Times-Picayune, touched base with co-organizer Carson Rapose. By day a financial analyst for Capital One, Rapose has decided to make the best of the cratering, which appeared April 29 and sits across from the Harrah’s Casino:

“We try to put on events like this through the year but this has by far gotten the most publicity.”

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