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Paving the way for the rest of the world -- from bluegrass to hip-hop, country to surf rock -- cities around the country are famous for putting new music on the map.
A number of Louisianans attended, and the theme of resilience or withstanding adversity didn't sit well with some of them, who said the state had suffered unnecessarily from oil-and-gas greed and the mistakes of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. What exactly upset attendees from Louisiana?
In moving toward privatization and free-market ideology, the New Orleans school system has become in many ways much less accountable and less democratic.
The lessons on how to manage differences are many: level the playing field, respect everyone's background and what they bring to the table, value the varied ways of knowing that lead to creative solutions to life's most challenging problems.
It is a brave urban planner who will advocate relocation, for few displaced individuals take kindly to being uprooted, even if they know they will likely face further crippling blows from nature if they fail to move to a more secure address.
On a summery Sunday afternoon in Beverly Hills, I was suddenly thrust into the watery bayou swamps of southern Louisiana, and engrossed in a story, and a world, which has not left my thoughts since for even a moment.
Who hasn't ducked into a hotel to make use of a clean public restroom while on vacation?
The mercury is making a run for it, and it's tempting to spend your free time in New Orleans touring a hotel pool. But summertime options for entertai...
We've selected seven spots from around the U.S. that will offer you that much needed break and a unique experience to boot.
During the New Orleans Times Picayune shrinking print debate, I visited with a newsprint connoisseur today. My mother-in-law, a lifelong New Orleans resident.
It's been 12 years since I promised my mother I would go to college. No one in my family has a college degree, so it's up to me to be the voice of encouragement and experience for the next generation.
On the first day of Hurricane Season, June 1, a certain unease creeps into the city of New Orleans.
Where have all the advertisers gone? In New Orleans, as elsewhere, classified advertising has moved online. That onetime cash cow ain't givin milk no more. But another dominant advertising segment has suffered a different fate.
"Big" Willie Robinson, founder and president of the International and National Brotherhood of Street Racers, died this past Saturday. He was 69.
Here's my take on where print and web journalism seem to be headed, for what it's worth.
Few bands today embody the Crescent City sound and lifestyle as wholly as Dirty Dozen Brass Band.
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