New Orleans

A Sustainable New Orleans Rises After Katrina

nytimes.com | KATIE HOWELL of Greenwire | Posted 08.13.2009 | Green


There is a big push in the Big Easy for dramatically improving energy efficiency in homes and public buildings....

Lessons Not Learned: Forget About Disaster Housing from FEMA

Harry Shearer | Posted 08.08.2009 | Politics


Harry Shearer

If you think of humans as the creatures most capable of learning from past mistakes, the ongoing saga of Hurricane Katrina and the flooding of New Orleans after the federal levees breached should give you some pause.

Harlem Memorializes Michael Jackson at Apollo Theater

Lauri Lyons | Posted 08.06.2009 | New York

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Lauri Lyons

The Apollo Theater's memorial tribute to Michael Jackson might as well have been Mardi Gras in Harlem.

Brad Pitt's Hunky House Designs (Photos)

treehugger.com | Posted 08.06.2009 | Green


Brad Pitt's "Make It Right" Foundation has released a new set of duplex designs for New Orleans, by yet another round of big name architects from arou...

Another Stimulus? Who Needs It? Not New Orleans

Harry Shearer | Posted 08.06.2009 | Politics


Harry Shearer

The Army Corps of Engineers has signed off on a plan the Corps' own staff has critiqued as less effective at preventing flooding than an alternative plan in New Orleans.

Pleading the Fifth: The Palin Constitution Revolution

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 08.05.2009 | Politics


Karen Dalton-Beninato

I don't know what to call it but the Convolution Party aired its brand new platform on the steps of a Land of Lincoln courthouse, some in their Glenn Beck Live Free or Die shirts.

The Fastest Growing Cities In America

CNN Money | Les Christie | Posted 08.01.2009 | Home


The Big Easy is making a big comeback. New Orleans has steadily won back some of the population it lost in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, acco...

Four Steps to Save Publishing, by the Unpublished

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 07.31.2009 | Media


Karen Dalton-Beninato

The collective naval-gazing of reporters and publishers far exceeds the outcry when free downloads upended the music industry and streaming video tanked television ratings, because when a crisis hits the writers it's what we write about.

Has Change Come to the South?

David Parker | Posted 07.23.2009 | Comedy


David Parker

In the French Quarter, bartenders still look like strippers, strippers still look like prostitutes and prostitutes still look like, well, they also look like prostitutes.

Destroying Levees In Louisiana...On Purpose

NYT | Posted 07.23.2009 | Green


In what experts are calling the biggest levee-busting operation ever in North America, the brothers plan to return the muddy river to its ancient floo...

Rumi, Twitter and Iran: In Praise of the Whirling Dervishes

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 07.21.2009 | Media


Karen Dalton-Beninato

The internet is spinning us to a degree that a dervish could love.

Is the Corps of Engineers Astro-Turfing Its Critics?

Harry Shearer | Posted 07.18.2009 | Politics


Harry Shearer

In New Orleans, when the subject is the Corps and its federal overseers, hope is something that was left at the starting gate last November.

Men II Boys: A Documentary For Young Men of Color

Timothy Cooper | Posted 07.13.2009 | Media


Timothy Cooper

Men II Boys is a new film that featuring interviews from BET journalist Jeff Johnson, Congressman Elijah Cummings (D-MD) and Baltimore Ravens Tight End, Daniel Wilcox.

Where Would You Wish To Wake Up Tomorrow?

Huffington Post | Johanna Smith | Posted 07.11.2009 | Living


Fifty People, One Question is a straightforward, but remarkably vivid series of video interviews created by Benjamin Reece and co-produced by Deltree ...

China: Red Rocker Video for a Mayor Fresh Out of Quarantine

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 07.11.2009 | Entertainment


Karen Dalton-Beninato

Now that New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin is cleared to leave Shanghai, here's something to remember his quarantined stopover with: The Red Rockers new wave classic "China" video.

Hightailing Travel With Your Pet

Wendy Diamond | Posted 07.10.2009 | Living


Wendy Diamond

Considering the "ruff" economic climate, you can travel the furry and frugal way! Bone voyage!

William Jefferson Corruption Trial Begins

AP | Posted 07.10.2009 | Politics


ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Jury selection has begun in Virginia in the trial of a former Louisiana congressman charged with taking bribes. A pool of nea...

Never Should Have Built it There -- New York

Harry Shearer | Posted 07.06.2009 | Politics


Harry Shearer

A new report predicts the dire future that may await New York City if a hurricane generates serious storm surge. The proposed solution? A set of barriers ringing the city to protect it from inundation.

New Orleans: Not a City of Whiners

Harry Shearer | Posted 06.25.2009 | Politics


Harry Shearer

When I say that New Orleans' people are the most resilient and self-reliant folks I've ever encountered, I didn't yet have this example at hand.

New Tunes On Monday: Elvis Costello, Marshall Crenshaw, eels, Alex Woodard, and Buckwheat Zydeco

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 "...