Oct 26th, 2011 at 5:00PM:
People have been talking about New Orleans differently since Hurricane Katrina. No matter how the city's name slips into conversation, the disaster named Katrina is typically addressed and typically, it must be. Anyone who knows NOLA will vouch for the tremendous damage caused by this storm and the circumstances surrounding it. But many people who know NOLA will also confess: the city still has ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Photo of the day: New Orleans after Katrina
Oct 26th, 2011 at 5:00PM:
People have been talking about New Orleans differently since Hurricane Katrina. No matter how the city's name slips into conversation, the disaster named Katrina is typically addressed and typically, it must be. Anyone who knows NOLA will vouch for the tremendous damage caused by this storm and the circumstances surrounding it. But many people who know NOLA will also confess: the city still has ...Civil War secret message decoded
Dec 26th, 2010 at 9:30AM:
A coded message sent to the beleaguered Confederate commander of Vicksburg has been cracked, the BBC reports.
The Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond has had the message in its collection for more than a century. It had never tried to decipher the code of seemingly random letters until this year, when they sent it off to retired CIA codebreaker David Gaddy. While Gaddy is trained to ...Katrina exhibit opens in New Orleans
Oct 31st, 2010 at 11:00AM: It was the most catastrophic event in New Orleans history. Hurricane Katrina destroyed large swathes of the city and left hundreds of thousands homeless. Now the Louisiana State Museum has opened an exhibit chronicling the natural disasters that have visited New Orleans, culminating in the most recent and worst.
Living with Hurricanes: Katrina and Beyond, a 6,700 square-foot multimedia ...Choice Hotels offers music downloads to support charity and new artists
Aug 30th, 2010 at 3:00PM: It feels good to give back, and when hotels get in on the giving we make a point to salute them.
Choice Hotels International, Inc. announced the launch of Choice Hotels Music – a new music initiative that brings new artists in front of millions of consumers and helps drive donations to non-profit organizations. Here's how it works:
Choice Hotels will produce the original music and ...Hyatt Regency to reopen New Orleans hotel
Jul 9th, 2010 at 12:30PM: The Hyatt Regency New Orleans closed its doors after the devastating effects of Hurricane Katrina, but five years later the hotel is poised for a grand reopening.
The New Orleans Hyatt was a familiar fixture during the city's coverage of Katrina. The hotel, located near the Louisiana Superdome, suffered from water and wind damage after the hurricane. In 2007, was purchased by Poydras Properties ...See the financial crisis on this unusual Wall Street tour
Apr 28th, 2009 at 5:00PM: It's rare that you get a guided tour through still unfolding carnage. Imagine walking through Aceh right after the tsunami or New Orleans while the rains from Katrina still fell. Lower Manhattan's financial crisis tour doesn't involve as much bad weather or physical danger, but it does give you the chance to learn about the most profound financial disaster in decades in the place where it all ..."Tent City" in New Orleans does, in fact, exist
Feb 11th, 2008 at 12:30PM: When Democratic presidential nominee hopeful John Edwards dropped out of the race late last month, he stood in front of his supporters in New Orleans and talked about an unfortunate site he witnessed on the way into town. "We passed, under a bridge that carried the interstate," he said, "where 100-200 homeless Americans sleep every night." In response, everyone's favorite hatemonger, Bill ...Blogging New Orleans Remembers Katrina
Aug 29th, 2007 at 1:23PM: Today -- on the second anniversary of hurricane Katrina -- our sister site Blogging New Orleans is hosting a day-long blogothon with posts every hour detailing the ongoing rebuilding process. New Orleans has always been like a second home to me. I've been visiting the Big Easy at least once a year every year since 2000, and the devastating floods that ripped apart the city two years ago remain a ...High Demand for Katrina "Disaster Tour"
Aug 21st, 2007 at 9:00AM: A tour of post-Katrina New Orleans is dark tourism at its best. Tours of the devastation began just a month after the levees broke, and two years later the demand is still high. The Associated Press reports that while many major downtown hotels remain closed, business is hopping for tour companies. Disaster tours once made up 99% of Isabelle Cossart's "Tours by Isabelle's" business. That number ...Jazz in Nawlins for the Katrina Anniversary
Aug 28th, 2006 at 12:07PM: Jazz Times Magazine has an article on some of the Katrina anniversary events taking place today and tomorrow. Should tickets still be available for the event tomorrow evening it looks as though trumpeter Wynton Marsalis will be performing live. Having joined forces with Mayor C. Ray Nagin, Marsalis, a United Nations Messenger of Peace organized the three day event and concert aims to build and ...New Orleans & Katrina Revisited: A Photo Gallery
Aug 28th, 2006 at 8:20AM: Tomorrow marks the one-year anniversary of one of the costliest not to mention deadliest storms to hit U.S. landfall -- Hurricane Katrina. To prepare for the occasion last Friday USA Today featured a photo gallery and fairly detailed report on the state of tourism affairs in the grand ole' city. This being the first summer since the storm hit last year business owners are said to be down 60% ...Blogging New Orleans!
May 24th, 2006 at 10:36PM: How sooo out of the loop I feel these days trying to get more Americans to walk and exercise! Perhaps I missed a memo that went out, but where and when did our sister site, Blogging New Orleans come around? Seriously? I was scrolling down just to see what has been happening on sister sites across the board when I discovered one I never knew existed!
Anyhow, Blogging New Orleans looks quite ...
