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Jazz Poetry for Hire on the Streets of New Orleans

A couple of nights every week, Eric Carter sits at the top of New Orleans' Frenchman Street with a typewriter. The legendary music street is famous for jazz, but he's practicing another kind of improvisational expression. "Poetry," his sign reads. "Your topic, your price." Give Carter a word, and he'll tap out a poem for...

Will New Orleans Regain Its Lost Children?

When Tim Scanlan graduates from Holy Cross high school in New Orleans this spring, two-thirds of his classmates who started seventh grade with him two weeks before Hurricane Katrina hit won't be there. The storm scattered them to new homes in different cities. Scanlan lost his best friend, childhood pals and his wrestling...

Will Mardi Gras Revelers Feast on Gulf Seafood?

NEW ORLEANS -- As the Mardi Gras season descends over the city, the folks in the seafood business are holding their breath to see whether the tourists will, once again, dig fervently into the city's spread of fish, oysters, shrimp and crabs. "We don't know yet. ... We'll have to see what happens," said Mickey Harrison,...

Hard Census Count Helps New Orleans Move Forward

The changes to New Orleans became visible almost as soon as the floodwaters from Hurricane Katrina receded in 2005, but having a real count today from the release of 2010 census data will enable the city's leaders to know what's actually going on in the post-Katrina world for the first time. New Orleans lost 140,845...

Jury Convicts 3 Officers in Post-Katrina Death

NEW ORLEANS (Dec. 9) -- A former New Orleans police officer was convicted Thursday of fatally shooting a man in Hurricane Katrina's aftermath and another officer was convicted of burning the man's body in a case that exposed one of the ugliest chapters in the police department's troubled history. A federal jury also...

Hurricane Katrina News From the Web

05/22/12 Closer eye on levees after Katrina: Sandy Rosenthal... Source: NOLA.com - New Orleans LA After Hurricane Katrina exposed design and construction flaws in levees protecting the New Orleans region, Congress responded by passing the first-ever country-wide levee safety legislation, which may affect the 55 percent of the nation's population protected by levees.