Hurricane for the holidays. New Orleans's Jews brace for Gustav with...

Jerusalem Post;  September 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......leaders in New Orleans are working...crisis of three years ago as Hurricane...Hoffman, who left New Orleans for Israel 27 years ago and is the former rabbi of New Orleans congregation...Just a few years ago, New Orleans was home ...

Still inspired: New Orleans artist brings work to Buffalo to raise...

Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY);  August 24, 2007 ;     643 words ......Dabkowski Aug. 24--In New Orleans, the simple act of...catastrophe unfolds. For New Orleans-based video artist...Helen Hill, a fellow New Orleans video artist and...struck almost two years ago. Now Egan and Buffalo...storm. The program, New Orleans ...

A bad dream made real: nighttime in the city of New Orleans.

The Washington Post;  August 26, 2007 ;     700+ words ...DOWN IN NEW ORLEANS Reflections from a Drowned...California. 346 pp. $21.95Two years ago this week Hurricane Katrina...pulverized, and the city of New Orleans was awash, so devastated...we possibly concentrate on New Orleans? It's still there, though...will be. Already the ...

Failed flood of promises; Bush's inaction leaves New Orleans mired

Chicago Sun-Times;  August 29, 2007 ;     529 words ......dirty when you address New Orleans today. You might be shocked...into the Big Easy two years ago today, wiped out whole...7.6 billion to restore New Orleans' mangled levee system...slowed progress, but two years ago, you said you'd take control...restore order in the ...

Bringing New Orleans to city.

Chattanooga Times/Free Press (Chattanooga, TN);  August 26, 2007 ;     700+ words ......families forced from New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina...streets. Meanwhile, The New Orleans Extension on Long Street...Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, she said. And when her family landed here two years ago after the devastating...missing, opening The New ...

At a distance, but still connected: The New Orleans catastrophe is our...

Charleston Gazette;  September 3, 2005 ;     506 words ...SEVERAL years ago my son visited New Orleans on a junior...have ranked New Orleans at the very...York City four years ago, and all of...I can do for New Orleans, and its what...asked me to do years ago. Ill wait till...

Harrah's to Build 450-Room Hotel Tower in New Orleans.

PR Newswire;  March 3, 2004 ;     387 words ......tower at Harrah's New Orleans Casino. (Logo: http...casino opened five years ago, Harrah's has drawn...of tourists to the New Orleans market, said Anthony...excitement and energy of New Orleans and the French Quarter...throughout the country in New ...

Raking muck in a New Orleans battered but alive

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  May 13, 2007 ;     700+ words ......grandparents always loved New Orleans. One of their most...Lori and I grew up, New Orleans was one of those...the trip about five years ago, and it was all we...When I returned to New Orleans this past spring...the chaos in the New Orleans convention ...

Sailing the heartland: Cruise Lines boost service from New Orleans. (In...

Travel Agent;  December 2, 2002 ;     700+ words ...ORLANDO--Two hundred years ago, the U.S. signed...control of the Port of New Orleans. Today cruise companies...interest in both New Orleans and Galveston is...his clients fly to New Orleans, Wilson sees the...increase. Operating from New Orleans has been ...

Those people who know New Orleans never let it leave their systems

St. Joseph News-Press;  September 4, 2005 ;     562 words ......its best days, New Orleans bore itself with...barely subterranean, New Orleans could never bury...one flood some years ago, waters invaded...clean-up that only New Orleans could manage...nurse who lived in New Orleans at the time. "That...cultures. And ...

New Orleans is wild about Degas

The Boston Globe;  April 25, 1999 ;     700+ words ...NEW ORLEANS -- He lived here...this spring at a New Orleans Museum of Art...visited relatives in New Orleans during the winter...this period, 17 New Orleans scenes will be...stop here four years ago. Gail Feigenbaum...for nearly 40 years. In ...

Insurance and the art that salves New Orleans' psyche

American Agent & Broker;  October 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......first visit to New Orleans since Hurricane...destroyed it two years ago, and I will...few others. New Orleans and I go way...visited it 40 years ago when I hitchhiked...visited the New Orleans museum about 10 years ago, when a display...

In New Orleans, it's `vive la difference!' This is a city that revels in...

The Boston Globe;  January 17, 1997 ;     700+ words ......in an increasingly homogenized America. New Orleans was settled by the French, ruled briefly...In a catastrophe for the Confederacy, New Orleans surrendered to a Union blockade in 1862...heritage that Bethany Bultman describes in "New Orleans," her useful Compass guidebook: ...

It's all about helping when train rolls for New Orleans

Chicago Sun-Times;  December 5, 2005 ;     677 words ......considerably. Normally we would go into New Orleans with much more people." The train leaves...daily at 8 p.m. for its 926-mile trip to New Orleans. The train arrives around 3:30 p.m. the...City. He has been back on the City of New Orleans for three weeks. Amtrak was the ...

THE BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS OPERA

Opera News;  March 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......news is that opera in New Orleans will survive. After...posturing - after all that, New Orleans will only have been...months. The flood damaged New Orleans Opera's production facilities...time to be held at the New Orleans Arena, should raise...possible? The present ...