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CNN Heroes: New Orleans Kids Plant 'Roots Of Music'

Huffington Post | Tam Vo | Posted 11.10.2009 | Impact

Read More: New Orleans, Roots of Music, Tutoring, After-School Programs, Music Education, Music Nonprofit, CNN Heroes, Derrick Tabb, Marching Bands, Impact News

After Hurricane Katrina, many schools stopped offering music programs due to budget cuts. New Orleans native Derrick Tabb keeps students off the stree...

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Opera Comes to Duane Park

Alex Geana | Posted 11.10.2009 | New York

Read More: Theater, Duane Park, Opera, New Orleans, Dinner Theater, New York News
Alex Geana

During the beginning of the last century New Orleans was the center of the opera universe. Duane Park drew inspiration from there for their new Thursday night series, Theatre d'Orleans.

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Flood Insurance: The Flip Side of Katrina

Harry Shearer | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Fema, Flood Zone Maps, Los Angeles, Politics News
Harry Shearer

FEMA discovered that something they thought was a levee in the 1970s turned out to be a raised railroad track, triggering the redefinition of the neighboring streets as flood zone.

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Out of the Mouths of Corps Managers...

Harry Shearer | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Army Corps of Engineers, Politics News
Harry Shearer

New Orleanians are right to worry about what the Corps of Engineers is doing in the "rebuilding" of the levee-floodwall system.

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10 Pix from 11th Voodoo Music Experience

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 11.04.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Michael Jackson, Kiss, New Orleans, George Clinton, Voodoo Music Experience, Rehage, Entertainment News
Karen Dalton-Beninato

The Voodoo Music Experience just wrapped its 11th year, and volume-wise it goes to 11 (to borrow a phrase from Spinal Tap).

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New Orleans: The Corps Defends the Future

Harry Shearer | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Army Corps of Engineers, Ninth Ward, Hurricane Katrina, Politics News
Harry Shearer

I'm preparing to make a documentary film on the causes of the flooding of New Orleans, and so I decided to attend one of the community outreach meetings the Corps of Engineers holds.

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FDA to ban sale of raw oysters from Gulf of Mexico

AP | CAIN BURDEAU | Posted 10.27.2009 | Home

Read More: Vibrio Vulnificus, New Orleans, P, Gulf of Mexico, Fda, Oysters, Food, Food Safety, Oyster Ban, Bacteria, Oyster, Shellfish, Home News

NEW ORLEANS — Federal officials plan to ban sales of raw oysters harvested from the Gulf of Mexico unless the shellfish are treated to destroy p...

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An Endless -- and Escalating -- War at Home, Part II

Wayne Trujillo | Posted 10.26.2009 | Denver

Read More: New Orleans, Inner-City Neighborhoods, Five Points, Poverty, Latino, Drugs, Black, Highland, Denver, African American Culture, Gentrification, Denver News
Wayne Trujillo

After gentrification the problems populating inner-city neighborhoods like Five Points aren't solved. They just relocate.

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US Army Corps can't stop floods in New Orleans

Paul Brown | Posted 10.24.2009 | Green

Read More: New Orleans, Floods, Levees, Louisiana, Army Corps of Engineers, Green News
Paul Brown

Lt. General Robert Van Antwerp, Chief of the US Army Corps of Engineers would not answer my question "Should New Orleans be abandoned?" But the Gene...

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If It's Art, Must It Be Pornography?

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 10.23.2009 | Books

Read More: Women, Children, Books, Writing, Media, Sexual Abuse, Strip Clubs, Pornography, Amazon.com, New Yourk Times, Art, Boston Globe, Reviews, Times Picayune, Eve Ensler, Strippers, Andre Dubus, Book Reviews, New Orleans, Army Corps of Engineers, Vagina Monologues, Books News
Georgianne Nienaber

I'm all for freedom expression even when it comes to veiled pornography, but I don't want to be tricked into buying it for God's sake.

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...And Then He Got Fired

Paul Brown | Posted 10.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Floods, Environment, Effects of Climate Change, New Orleans, Van Heerden, Mississippi, Hurricane Katrina, Climate Change, Green News
Paul Brown

Two Christian religious leaders combined yesterday to warn that time was running out for the life of the planet.

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Should New Orleans Retreat Inland?

Paul Brown | Posted 10.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Rivers, New Orleans, Climate Change, Memphis, Copenhagen 2009, Green News
Paul Brown

A symposium this week is part of a wider discussion about climate change and particularly threats to coastal cities like London and New York. The aim is to send a forceful message to politicians.

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Screw the FEMA Trailer: Will Green Houses Save The Gulf?

Katherine Gustafson | Posted 10.20.2009 | Green

Read More: New Orleans, Katherine Gustafson, Green Architecture, New Orleans-Louisiana, BeauSoleil House, Washington DC, Solar Decathalon, Green Living, Green Energy, Green News
Katherine Gustafson

In the wake of Hurricanes Rita and Katrina, a team of college students hatched an ambitious idea: to design an energy-efficient, hurricane-proof and Cajun-style house for the future of the Gulf Coast.

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Giants-Saints: Drew Brees Destroys G-Men Defense

AP | BRETT MARTEL | Posted 10.19.2009 | New York

Read More: Drew Brees, New Orleans, Reggie Bush, National Football League, New Orleans Saints, New York Giants, Drew Bees Saints, New York, New Orleans Saints Undefeated, Giants Score, New York News

NEW ORLEANS — Who dat knew them Saints were this good? Drew Brees torched the Giants' league-leading defense, swarming Saints defenders ruined ...

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An Exercise in Slow-Motion Urgency

Harry Shearer | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, New-Orleans-Coastal-Restoration, Politics News
Harry Shearer

Never too late to start up. There is, in line with this spirit of urgency, a "new" White House working group on issues of coastal restoration in Mississippi and Louisiana. Warp speed, baby.

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Obama Asked "Why Do People Hate You?" By Fourth Grader (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Video, Town Hall, Obama Town Hall, Terence Scott, Barack Obama, Why Do People Hate You Obama, Obama Why Do People Hate You, Politics News

At a town hall meeting in New Orleans Thursday, fourth-grader Terrence Scott earnestly asked the question that has probably been on many people's mind...

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Obama in New Orleans: Been and Gone and Got It Wrong

Harry Shearer | Posted 10.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, President Obama, Politics News
Harry Shearer

For those of us looking for even the semblance of substance in President Obama's Town Hall meeting in New Orleans, frankly, he could have saved the jet fuel.

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Liveblogging Obama's Speech with New Orleans Ready for its Closeup

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 10.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Katrina, New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina, Barack Obama, President Obama, Bobby Jindal, Bobby Jindal Booed, Politics News
Karen Dalton-Beninato

CNN and MSNBC are spending much of today focused on the 60,000 abandoned homes, the levees only one third of the way into readiness for a 100-year flood and more than 100,000 former residents not in New Orleans.

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Obama New Orleans Trip: President's First Visit

AP | EILEEN SULLIVAN | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Katrina, Obama New Orleans Trip, New Orleans, Obama Hurricane Katrina, Obama in New Orleans, Obama New Orleans, Obama New Orleans Visit, Obama to New Orleans, Politics News

NEW ORLEANS — Insisting he's "just getting started," President Barack Obama defended his administration Thursday against complaints from some re...

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New Orleans: What's Been Done, What's on the To-Do List

Harry Shearer | Posted 10.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, President Obama's Visit, Obama New Orleans, New Orleans Recovery, Harry Shearer on New Orleans, New Orleans-Louisiana, Hurricane Katrina, Rebuilding New Orleans, Politics News
Harry Shearer

In New Orleans, there have been notable steps forward in arts, education and entrepreneurship since Katrina. The bad news is that the "temporary" pumps installed for future floods do not, and cannot work.

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Obama In New Orleans: Rebuilding Still In Progress

Huffington Post | Jonathan Daniel Harris | Posted 10.15.2009 | Impact

Read More: Obama New Orleans, Barack Obama San Francisco, New Orleans, Barack Obama, Harry Shearer on New Orleans, Impact News

President Obama visited New Orleans Thursday morning for the first time in his presidency. His appearance focuses attention on a city that's still reb...

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Obama's Visits -- Compare the Length of the Stays

Harry Shearer | Posted 10.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, President Obama, Obama Visits New Orleans, San Francisco, Hurricane Katrina, Barack Obama, Politics News
Harry Shearer

President Obama spends four whole hours tomorrow in New Orleans, and then 16 hours in San Francisco. They must have experienced a hell of a federal disaster there.

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New Orleans, Music, Vampires and Me

Michael Cerveris | Posted 10.14.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: New Orleans, Music, New Orleans-Louisiana, Entertainment News
Michael Cerveris

I know firsthand how music can be the connective tissue in a community, and how here in New Orleans, it is a positive force for young people at an impressionable (and risky) point in their lives.

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Beth Butler Fired By ACORN; Director Of Louisiana ACORN Is Companion Of Founder Wade Rathke

The Times-Picayune | Gordon Russell | Posted 10.13.2009 | Home

Read More: New Orleans, Beth Butler, Katrina Recovery, Who Is Beth Butler, Louisiana ACORN, Wade Rathke, Attorney General, Obama Itinerary, Obama Comments, Land, Obama, Real Estate, Acorn, Louisiana AG, Hurricane Katrina, Bertha Lewis, Embezzlement, Home News

Beth Butler, the longtime executive director of Lousiana ACORN, was terminated by the organization's national leadership Monday amid a power struggle ...

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Bring the Nobel Peace Prize Home to New Orleans

Stacy Parker Aab | Posted 10.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina Deceased Victims List, Levees.org, Nobel Peace Prize, Obama Nobel Peace Prize, Sandy Rosenthal, President Obama, Politics News
Stacy Parker Aab

The president can bring the peace prize home early if he announces the creation of an 8/29 Commission to investigate Hurricane Katrina.

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