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Mike Ragogna | Posted 06.24.2009 | Entertainment

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Mike Ragogna

You've heard Elvis Costello sing country music before, but not like this. The lad who gave us Almost Blue is quite mature and worldly wise now.

2013 Super Bowl To Be In New Orleans

AP | TIM REYNOLDS | Posted 06.19.2009 | Home


FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — New Orleans is a Super Bowl city again. NFL owners voted Tuesday to play the 2013 Super Bowl in New Orleans, the first ...

Obama to New Orleans: Drop Dead?

Harry Shearer | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics


Harry Shearer

The farther we get into this administration, the clearer it becomes that New Orleans is now enjoying its second consecutive federal administration with a do-nothing approach to helping the city.

The Lost & Found Bin of The Digital Age

Mathew Preprost | Posted 06.13.2009 | Living


Mathew Preprost

IFoundYourCamera.net has proved that a lot of people lose their cameras and many people are willing to help out total strangers in getting their lost items back.

Jason Linkins

Dan Baum, Fired By New Yorker, Recounting His Story On Twitter

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.08.2009 | Media


I enjoy using Twitter, but Dan Baum's Twitter chronicle of his dismissal from The New Yorker reminds me that some stories will always be too big for it.

"Treme": HBO Picks Up Post-Katrina Series From "Wire" Creator

AP | Posted 06.06.2009 | Media


NEW YORK — HBO has given the go-ahead to a new series about New Orleans and its ongoing effort to recover from Hurricane Katrina. It's called "...

Tom Hanks Lends Voice To, Promises Education From, WWII Museum And Documentary

AP | DAVID GERMAIN | Posted 06.05.2009 | Entertainment


LOS ANGELES — Tom Hanks is still on a mission when it comes to World War II. The star of "Saving Private Ryan" is serving as narrator and advis...

Celebrities Hit Auction Block for Human Rights

Jeffrey Buchanan | Posted 06.05.2009 | Entertainment


Jeffrey Buchanan

The online auction will raise funds supporting the RFK Center's vital work around the globe.

The First 100 Days in New Orleans

Harry Shearer | Posted 05.28.2009 | Politics


Harry Shearer

What has Barack Obama meant to the city almost destroyed by federal malfeasance in 2005? The best, and the worst, one can say is that he's lived up to his campaign promises.

Letting Texas Secede

Robbie Gennet | Posted 05.25.2009 | Politics


Robbie Gennet

Governor Rick Perry of Texas brought up the specter of Secession recently and upon polling, a fair amount of Texans and other Americans seem to think Texas seceding from the US would be a good idea.

Earth Day At Your Service: Generation New Orleans

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 07.10.2009 | Green


Karen Dalton-Beninato

New Orleans met the new generation of grass roots volunteers the hard way -- they helped clean up after the largest American environmental disaster since the Dust Bowl and have been pitching in ever since.

Chinese Drywall and the Cost of Truth-Telling

Harry Shearer | Posted 05.11.2009 | Politics


Harry Shearer

As if Formosan termites weren't bad enough (they devour everything, not just wood), now New Orleans is coming to grips with its latest visitor: defective drywall.

Paul Sanchez: Taking Back His Life Through Words & Music

Sal Nunziato | Posted 05.11.2009 | Entertainment


Sal Nunziato

As we approach the fourth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, I often wonder, as I hope millions of others often wonder, how are all those amazing people who lost their homes and their lives?

Taxing THC: Turning Old New York into New New Amsterdam

Warren Holstein | Posted 05.09.2009 | Comedy


Warren Holstein

Bollocks! How is that California, the crossroads of implants, spray tans and superficiality, has a leg up on the Empire State, on the possible legalization and taxation of Cannabis sativa?

New Orleans: Where Did the Money Go?

Harry Shearer | Posted 04.16.2009 | Politics


Harry Shearer

The State of Louisiana has just replaced the previous private contractor, ICF, in charge of the program to renovate or rebuild affordable rental housing in New Orleans.

"I'll Consider It Criminal"

Harry Shearer | Posted 04.13.2009 | Home


Harry Shearer

Here comes confirmation that a money shortage may be inclining the Army Corps of Engineers toward building a technologically inferior solution to New Orleans' Category 3 hurricane protection.

The Monkey's Pawn: Monkey Misery Outshines Human Misery in Louisiana's Delta

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 04.11.2009 | Media


Georgianne Nienaber

While the NYT signals that all is well in Congo because the mountain gorilla is well fed, a woman places her newborn baby on a tattered piece of cloth covering a bed of grass on lava rock.

Generational Theft?

Alan Fein | Posted 04.10.2009 | Business


Alan Fein

The capital projects coming out of the stimulus plan and the Obama budgets are designed to create long-term wealth, and assets that will ensure to the benefit of generations to come.

Obama Using New Orleans As Green Blueprint

The Washington Times | Posted 04.09.2009 | Politics


President Obama's aggressive approach to Gulf Coast recovery has allowed him to put a liberal policy stamp on the region and apply campaign promises t...

Is It too Late for a Sense of Urgency?

Harry Shearer | Posted 04.06.2009 | Home


Harry Shearer

The causes of the erosion in Louisiana are clear. The means to reverse the process are equally well known. All that's missing is... a sense of urgency.

PSFK Talks to NOLA's Dirty Coast

Piers Fawkes | Posted 04.03.2009 | Business


Piers Fawkes

This article originally appeared on PSFK.com. When PSFK found itself at the far end of Magazine Street in New Orleans, we visited one of the creative...

Miami to Memphis -- My Top Ten Insights

Paul Hogarth | Posted 04.02.2009 | Style


Paul Hogarth

10. Graceland is Less Opulent than Expected: The King of Rock 'n' Roll's famous home was surprisingly quite modest.

The Ponderosa Stomp: It's Not "A" Party, It's "The" Party

Sal Nunziato | Posted 04.01.2009 | Entertainment


Sal Nunziato

The Ponderosa Stomp is a gathering of those unsung heroes of rock and roll, soul, blues, funk, rockabilly and more.

National Guard To Pull Out Of New Orleans After 3 1/2 years

AP | MARY FOSTER | Posted 03.30.2009 | Home


NEW ORLEANS — Three and a half years after Hurricane Katrina, the National Guard is pulling the last of its troops out of New Orleans this weeke...

Louisiana's Landrieu Calls for Resignation of FEMA Chief of Staff

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 03.29.2009 | Politics


Georgianne Nienaber

The four-year anniversary of Katrina approaches in August. Life in New Orleans has not returned to pre-storm "normality," despite billions of federal dollars that never seem to reach the ground.