Orleans

The gulf oil spill put New Orleans through devastation it had not seen since the hurricane.

Mr. Obama got an earful when he met state and parish officials the next day on a visit to Grand Isle, a barrier island south of New Orleans.

In America, Hurricane Katrina turned New Orleans from a stable, wealthy and vibrant city into a wasteland in the space of a few days.

New Orleans is often referred to as "the city that care forgot, " and it has always been a town for those seeking a good time.

New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, his wife and a security guard spent several days in a hospital-like center in Shanghai, China.

PRAGER: No, I'm only trying to understand that in the case of New Orleans, you do feel that God's hand was in it because of a sinful city?

The New Orleans muffuletta is one of the only large American sandwiches not made with a long crusty roll.

It was vintage New Orleans, the little establishment. Overhead fans churned lazily, and the floor had not been cleaned in a hundred years.

"No one walking down St. Charles Street after Katrina could imagine how much the city has come back, " said New Orleans novelist Tom Piazza.

New Orleans was such a strange, glamorous place and Scarlett enjoyed it with the headlong pleasure of a pardoned life prisoner.

French ships, however, were reluctant to call at New Orleans to pick up such cargo because its value did not match its bulk.

Most of New Orleans is flooded with no electricity or drinking water, and its Mayor, Ray Nagin, ordered the total evacuation of the city.

I got to visit Mother twice when my grandmother took me on the train to New Orleans.

New Orleans has something of a holy trinity, says Kenneth Schwartz, dean of Tulane University's architecture school.

Any expectation there has ever been on Ariza to be a primetime player will come to fruition in New Orleans or not at all.

I don't recall what Mother and I did in New Orleans, but Ill never forget what happened one of the times I got on the train to leave.

He grew up in a musical family and used New Orleans tradition as a base from which to develop his own style.

Less than an hour away from the chaotic heart of New Orleans lays a primordial backwater morass known as the Honey Island Swamp.

I had a few more hours in New Orleans, and I enjoyed the city they call the Big Easy like a native son.

Impressive parades are held in many cities of the U. S. like the ones in Seattle, Savannah in Georgia, New Orleans, Syracuse, and Las Vegas.

If you live in New Orleans, you may live as if you are ahead of time, just taking things easy and waiting for the time to catch up with you.

And parts of New Orleans, like the Upper Ninth Ward, are far from recovery.

LESTAT: Anything is possible. But just try it for a week. Come into New Orleans and let me show you some real sport!

Thousands of people have finally been evacuated from the shattered city of New Orleans -- a week after Hurricane Katrina struck.

LOUIS (V. O. ): But there was a hell. No matter where we live, we were in it. We rented rooms on the waterfront of New Orleans.

New Orleans is an international seaport, and people from all over the world come to New Orleans to hear jazz.

he was a slave on board the brig creole , of richmond , bound to new orleans , that great slave mart , with a hundred and four others.

"I thought we should try to be back in time for lunch at Galatoire's, " he said, referring to the legendary New Orleans restaurant.

The first Valentine's Day card was sent by Charles, Duke of Orleans, to his wife while he was imprisoned in the Tower of London.

Inside of a refrigerator deserted by the side of the road. Food already went bad, mold is all over the place. New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

So while all that's going on, we're down in New Orleans and locations around the world.

Authorities are stepping up the pressure on New Orleans residents who have refused to leave the devastated city.

It was just days after Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans when four of the officers responded to a report of police coming under fire.

Several days after Alex made landfall, tar balls started turning up in Lake Pontchartrain, which flanks the northern side of New Orleans.

But it was also during the mint's second tour of duty that women began to find work at the New Orleans Mint.

One of the oldest cities in the United States, New Orleans is known for its multicultural heritage, its music and its cuisine.

The next 40 years constituted the golden age of New Orleans as a great cotton port.

For adults, it may be that Halloween is evolving into a masquerade event like Mardi Gras in New Orleans and Carnival in other countries.

The reason for the name? The team started in New Orleans, one of the birthplaces of jazz, and subsequently moved to Utah.

The 2nd is drawn as a black-majority district. It covers most of New Orleans and a few suburbs on the west bank of the Mississippi.

Dallas has a few trade chips needed for a Chris Paul and at the end of the day it may not be quite what New Orleans would want.

Even in New Orleans, all anyone was talking about on Saturday was that epic opener between the Spurs and Suns.

Although New Orleans has a 7-footer of its own in Tyson Chandler , the matchup against the 7-6 Yao did not go well for the Hornets' center.

New Orleans has been shrinking since the 1960s, but slowly, so nearly all of the loss can be chalked up to Katrina.

Ronald Madison, the mentally disabled man the police killed, was a member of a respected middle-class New Orleans family.

Images of New Orleans spread around the world, but east of the Louisiana border, much of the Mississippi coast was also wiped out.

The additional fact that New Orleans has upper-class and middle-class black populations has been a significant factor in such projects.

So I packed my stuff and moved into a noisy, violent housing project in an African-American neighborhood in New Orleans.

In the summer of 1957 and again after Christmas that year, I took my first trips out of Arkansas since going to New Orleans to see Mother.

And a few weeks later, I was in New Orleans, and this beautiful, spiritual friend told me she wanted to do a healing for me.

Almost a fifth of New Orleans households now live below the federal poverty line ($22, 000 a year for a family of four).

When Clarence Adams applied to be a counselor at a New Orleans homeless shelter 16 years ago, he knew very little about homelessness.

Thus it appears that the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well.

To foster a sense of community at work, his business unit has raised relief funds for a creative-arts public school in New Orleans.

Others weren't as lucky. Thousands of families had to move out of hotel rooms in New Orleans after government funds ran out.

Hurricane Gustav is just a day away from a possible major hit on New Orleans.

And for the next 12 months, mesh networks were the only wireless that was happening in New Orleans.

Still, New Orleans' players were happy to hear that the trade fell through, hoping he will solidify the team's front line down the stretch.

Yes, the nickname for New Orleans is Crescent City, due to its downtown location along a particularly deep bend of the Mississippi River.

It was a day of silence and somber speeches in New Orleans two years after Hurricane Katrina struck.

On the list of infrastructure that was drawn up in 2000, at the top of the priority was New Orleans levees.

Richard Scruggs, born and grew up in the vicinity of New Orleans, was a famous lawyer.

For instance, Bryant demanded the ball in the low post when the New Orleans Hornets put smallish guard Bobby Jackson on him Wednesday.

And when he came back to New Orleans he knew that federal authorities had launched eight active civil-rights probes into the department.

It's hard to think that someone so young could have led an army. This particular battle took place in Orleans.

In her first starring role, Monica portrayed a young woman whose ordered life is turned upside down by a New Orleans blues musician.

To date, eleven members of my Cabinet have visited the Gulf Coast, and I'm looking forward to going to New Orleans later this year.

Hurricane Katrina flooded Herman Leonard's home and studio in New Orleans, destroying thousands of his prints.

New Orleans would be lost to the sea, much of southern Florida and Bangladesh and most of the Netherlands.

New Orleans, there were calls for low-lying areas not to be rebuilt, but instead left as a natural buffer against floods.

Every year thousands of bands and fans travel to the southern state of Louisiana for the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.

This desire, and hunger, made me arrive in New Orleans in an instant, like a flash vanishing at the end of horizon.

U. S. forces led by Gen. Andrew Jackson defeated the British in the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812.

homework 1. Hurricane Gustav is just a day away from a possible major hit on New Orleans.

I visited the families who wanted to see me, and I founded a victims support group in New Orleans.

The American Economic Association meetings, however, have been held in New Orleans, which has a few casinos.

Officials also found tar balls Monday in one of two passes that connect Lake Pontchartrain, by New Orleans, with the Gulf of Mexico.

New Orleans is in the built-up to Fat Tuesday when celebrations peak ahead of Ash Thursday.

The first true Valentine card was sent in 1415 by Charles, duke of Orleans, to his wife.

We try to hustle them, try to bustle them, try to cuss them. The cops want someone to bust down on Orleans Avenue.

In good times and bad, New Orleans has always had a talent for living for the moment.

Prosecutors say the contact, Tai Shen Kuo of New Orleans, Louisiana, turned the information over to a Chinese national, Yu Xin Kang.

The Navy said the collision ruptured the New Orleans' fuel tank and caused a spillage of 25000 gallons of diesel fuel.

You got to send a message that the streets of New Orleans are safe.

For the last twenty years the station of the Orleans railway has stood beside the old faubourg and distracted it, as it does to-day.

In New Orleans, Obama's independent oil spill commission held its first hearings on the impacts of the spill and of the drilling ban.

its good we won this and got to 10 in a row, because we are getting crushed by new orleans and chris paul tomorrow.

A third could connect Memphis and San Francisco. And a fourth could be far to the south, connecting New Orleans and San Diego.

Even with an 11-5 record, the New Orleans Saints finished as runner-up in the much stronger NFC South Division.

But thanks to you, thanks to the great people of this great city, New Orleans is blossoming again.

Along the way they visit a 'commune' and 'freak out' in a New Orleans cemetery.

Results are to be presented Tuesday at the American College of Cardiology's annual meeting in New Orleans.

A proposal to honor the New Orleans cocktail known as the Sazerac has gone down the drain.

Katrina's torrential rains and a massive storm surge proved too much for the decades-old levee system in New Orleans.

It is expected to form the basis of a set of reforms that will be imposed on New Orleans and enforced by a federal judge.

In the last 20 years of the 19th century, therefore, New Orleans made limited, though steady, progress.

And yet New Orleans has undoubtedly recovered its essence.

A mass evacuation of New Orleans is on, with officials telling residents to leave.

Werner Torkanowsky was born in Germany and is now the conductor of the New Orleans Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra.

Within 15 years of the opening, New York was the busiest port in America, moving more than Boston, Baltimore and New Orleans combined.

Whether you want to travel to relax or join in spirited partying, New Orleans offers the tourist the best of both worlds.

New Orleans will not always have a steady supply of such teachers, willing to work 70-hour weeks for low wages.

New Orleans' mayor suspends reopening parts of the hurricane-ravaged city as Tropical Storm Rita threatens a new round of flooding.

Soon restaurants and stores all over New Orleans began calling their sandwiches "poor boys" (often pronounced po' boys).

The chances of such a storm hitting New Orleans in any given year are slight, but the danger is growing.

Cases of robbery with violence are taking place in New Orleans .

Mobile, Alabama, as well as New Orleans (just above the Soyuz spacecraft in front of it) show up well in this shot taken from the Cupola.

One of the recent quarantined air passengers was New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin , reported the Associated Press.

Levee improvements are going on at the moment, but until they are finished New Orleans is vulnerable.

Across New Orleans' devastated neighborhoods, there is widespread sentiment that the city and its victims have been forgotten.

New Orleans is an affront to nature, and nature isn't shy about reminding New Orleans of it.

There was the nun from New Orleans who seemed gentle and uninvolved with the harsh world.

No matter what this unique American city is called, New Orleans has something for everyone.

Hurricane Isaac caused serious flooding in rural communities outside New Orleans, forcing thousands of residents to evacuate.

But New Orleans jazz has always had a particularly warm spot in my heart and it has given me great moments of pleasure over the years.

The New Orleans Museum of Art is a public museum with a variety of collections, notably in decorative arts and photography.

Murders in New Orleans usually revolve around the drug trade, and the victims are usually poor blacks.

As ever, New Orleans relies heavily on tourism, with its low-paying jobs and vulnerability to economic downturns.

One of the events was the battle of New Orleans.

When New Orleans was struck by Hurricane Katrina, China immediately decided to offer assistance.

Over the past two years, we've been building upon that and are making progress as a franchise in New Orleans.

You can then enjoy the best of New Orleans's night life with as many as one million other party revelers!

Tyson Chandler, Left Ankle: Well, a toe kept him out of Oklahoma City, but his gimpy ankle might keep New Orleans out of the second round.

Livingston was to pursue a purchase of New Orleans, but he was rebuffed by the French.

Famous New Orleans chefs have come up with recipes for cooking nutria, but that's done nothing to control the pest.

Born into a middle-class New Orleans family in 1952, Isaacson seemed to live a charmed life.

Destroyed truck by the side of the road. New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

New Orleans has played its last five games without Chris Paul, who remains sidelined indefinitely with a sprained left ankle.

I got through the Arkansas interviews and was off to New Orleans for the finals.

and young people across this country to drop what they were doing and come to the aid of a flooded New Orleans.

Five New Orleans police officers have been convicted over the Hurricane Katrina bridge shootings.

He plans to stay with his brother in Cleveland for a short time but is considering a move to either Cincinnati or New Orleans.

IN SEPTEMBER one of New Orleans's most dangerous men was convicted of second-degree murder and jailed for life.

This Mardi Gras pageant was the exclusive possession of New Orleans until recently.

Even before Katrina, a third of all schoolchildren in New Orleans were in private or schools, compared with a national average of 11%.

But if he continues to play a erratic as he has the past three games against New Orleans, Dallas and Houston, it may be time for change.

Built on a strategic location halfway between Memphis and New Orleans, Vicksburg became an important stronghold during the Civil War.

WHEN Ronal Serpas took the post of New Orleans police chief in May, he walked into a colossal mess.

Today, the United States has filed the civil lawsuit in the United States District Court in New Orleans against nine defendants.

In March, Sandra adopted a baby boy from New Orleans and is now a single parent to son Louis Bardo Bullock.

Also unlike New Orleans, a significant part of the global economy still lies in the path of this hurricane.

I'll take you to New Orleans for the most expensive honeymoon. . . my ill-gotten gains can buy.

Permanent structures enhancing this area are the New Orleans Convention and Exhibition Center and the International Pavilion.

The cultural life of New Orleans is a synthesis of contributions by both whites and blacks.

Here's a tricky question for you: what do New Orleans funerals, coffee shops, and elevators all have in common?

"We expect a great atmosphere in New Orleans for this year's All-Star festivities, " said Oleg Ushakov, Commentator for NTV Russia.

I'm coming to New Orleans tomorrow to tell you in person. OK?

In New Orleans, Carnival is called Mardi Gras, and lasts for three weeks.

I was sorry to hear that your house was seriously damaged in the flooding caused by the hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.

A robe for my sister who lives in New Orleans. He had no sister, of course, or any living family that he acknowledged.

But this year's annual meeting of the American Economic Association (AEA) in New Orleans afforded little shelter.

This time, the patsy was the New Orleans Hornets, the sixth sub-. 500 team the Lakershave faced in their past seven games.

Because Goodrich signed with the New Orleans Jazz as a veteran free agent, the Jazz had to compensate the Lakers.

He arrived in New Orleans without a penny in his pocket only to find that there were no boats for South America.

During the Katrina disaster, when New Orleans was flooded, the Zetas described this as a pole shift preview.

1803 - In New Orleans, Spanish representatives officially transfer Louisiana Territory to a French representative.

Jonathan Orleans, a lawyer for the volleyball players, thinks the decision could eventually help cheerleading become an official sport.

FEMA came under withering criticism for its slow and poorly co-ordinated response to Katrina, particularly to the flooding of New Orleans.

We'd travel 90 miles an hour to New Orleans, only stopping for cigarettes, coffee and gasoline, and of course, roadkill.

THE Democrats' new hope, Barack Obama, was in New Orleans this week, urging America not to forget the place.

Five years after Katrina, New Orleans is a mixed picture, with signs of progress as well as stories of heartbreaking struggles.

Through a process of gradual consolidation, New Orleans now has only one major daily, the Times-Picayune.

New Orleans is the birthplace of jazz and is host to a world-famous Mardi Gras celebration.

One of the performers is the Heritage Hall Jazz Band from New Orleans, Louisiana.

Levees in New Orleans are expected to hold, though the storm's surge could still flood the city as water over tops levees.

zoe ran down to the gardeners , he having cooked a mess of cabbage soup in case madame should not dine at orleans before her arrival.

New Orleans police are asking for the public's help in finding a man suspected of shooting four people on Bourbon Street.

and is third on the Top list of Carnivals , following the famous carnivals in Rio and New Orleans.

Pitt looks like quite the family man taking his two young daughters for a walk in the sunshine in the French Quarter of New Orleans.

"It's really a game-changer, " said Chris Bonura, spokesman for the Port of New Orleans, referring to the canal expansion.

As cleanup operations got underway, many questions arose about how New Orleans would be rebuilt.

Back home down in Georgia to New Orleans.

there're still too many New Orleans folks who haven't been able to come home.

Here in New Orleans' Jackson Square, the strains of Sweet Georgia Brown accompany just about the most popular yet unlikely man in town.

"Botero is an artist that uses his distinctive style to comment on all facets of human life, " said New Orleans Museum of Art Director E.

But for a city that is one of America's proudest, the confirmation that New Orleans' profile is ever-shrinking may hurt the most.

Today, Pitt's Make It Right Foundation continues to build new homes for displaced residents of New Orleans.

IT WAS a steamy afternoon in the Upper Ninth Ward of New Orleans.

The fortunes of New Orleans have always been tied to the river, but the river can also pose a threat.

New Orleans Blend, Community's coffee and chicory blend, is available in grocery stores and is brewed in the coffeehouses.

The Sonics are the first NBA franchise to relocate since the Hornets left Charlotte for New Orleans in 2002.

That says to me they have a great shot at edging out one of those teams, likely New Orleans.

In New Orleans back in 2005, attention was focused on Hurricane Katrina and the mayhem it brought to the city.

Ogilvie was probably back in New Orleans and being interrogated.

Closing river traffic at New Orleans might have a severe impact on the country's economy.

New Orleans then began a rebuilding process that picked up speed with the drafting of Paul out of Wake Forest in the summer of 2005.

"the quaint streets of New Orleans, that most foreign of American cities" (Winston Churchill).

He heard the name used by men who worked at a racetrack in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Because of all the chaos that descended on New Orleans, the acts of heroism often took the form of mini-rebellions against the bureaucracy.

Born and raised in New Orleans La, USA, Craig Tracy has always been an artist.

A baby Kemp's Ridley sea turtle awaits veterinary care at the Audubon Centre for the research of endangered species in New Orleans.

They were forty-one miles from the gates of New Orleans, which they hoped to conquer in two days' time.

New Orleans police brass assigned the investigation to a detective they knew would deliver the result they wanted.

the land around New Orleans is extremely low-lying (the city is actually below sea level! ) and was at that time nothing more than a swamp.

New Orleans hosts the United States' most notorious Mardi Gras festivities.

New Orleans is the site of the Louisiana Superdome, one of the world's largest sports arenas.

His body was carried from New Orleans to Philadelphia, and nearly every platform on the trip was met by a memorial delegation.

The former mayor of New Orleans in office when hurricane Katrina nearly destroyed the city has been indicted on corruption charges.

I've also been very involved in the New Orleans reconstruction efforts, so major system failures are nothing new to me.

You order a New Orleans poor boy "dressed" if you want lettuce, tomato, and mayonnaise or "undressed" if you want it plain.

The home of jazz music, New Orleans is a blend of the Spanish and French culture with influences from Afro-American and the Carribbean.

Meanwhile, New Orleans residents are understandably annoyed over their city being enveloped by the smell of fuel.

with miners in Montana, longshoremen with grappling hooks in their belts and New Orleans pimps sporting pearl-handled pistols.

The six major American ports affected are Baltimore , Miami , New Jersey, New Orleans, New York, and Philadelphia .

But New Orleans serves up countless variations of the basic gumbo recipe, from classic Creole style to pungent Cajun.

Chris Paul, New Orleans Hornets: CP3. This guy is amazing. There is no question that he deserves to be here.

The Mississippi River Gulf Outlet (at right) merges with the Gulf Intra coastal Water way just east of New Orleans .

The Houston Rockets and New Orleans Hornets have been two of the NBA's hottest teams recently.

Now the surge is continuing south toward the Gulf of Mexico, where New Orleans is bracing for its own crest around May 23.

On January seventh, the two top college football teams will play in New Orleans for the national championship.

Behind its extended solar panels, some 360 kilometers below, are the recognizable city lights of New Orleans.

North (left) of New Orleans, a line of lights tracing central US highway I55 connects to Jackson, Mississippi and Memphis, Tennessee.

Recent visitors to courts in Chicago, Los Angeles, and New Orleans have included delegations from Liberia, Brazil, and Albania.

Around 10, 000 public housing residents in New Orleans have been unable to return to their apartments because of storm damage. The U. S.

Frank experienced for himself the discrimination that was present in his picture of New Orleans.

Although you defeated both Phoenix and New Orleans, how challenging were both of those series?

Local officials in New Orleans are preparing to take control of the nation's premier flood control structure.

Obama said for many, New Orleans has become a symbol of failed government since the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

Opening a channel, the Morganza spillway, is meant to relieve pressure on the levees protecting the cities of Baton Rouge and New Orleans.

Hurricane Gustav is sending water rushing up and over New Orleans' Industrial Canal's floodwall .

He also serves as associate professor of dermatologic surgery at Louisiana State University Medical Center in New Orleans.

How we play against New Orleans tomorrow should give us a good indication of where we really are as a team.

then, and now, it's a special project, that compares New Orleans right after Katrina hit how the city looks 5 years later.

The Union fleet of Admiral David Farragut was able to capture New Orleans in April 1862.

The jazz collection is displayed in the Old U. S. Mint. Each spring the city puts on the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.

The band has been playing traditional New Orleans jazz around the world for almost thirty-five years.

The drink has its origins in Louisiana, where it was recently made the official cocktail of New Orleans.

This image was taken shortly after high waters breached New Orleans' levees and flooded the city in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

Interestingly enough, there are projects for restoration of the soil occurring in New Orleans and as a result of Hurricane Katrina.

The question hangs heavily over the city: will Christchurch prove a San Francisco, or a New Orleans?

Reformers had been fretting over New Orleans schools for years.

In Louisiana, engineers are working to keep floodwaters away from two big cities -- New Orleans and Baton Rouge.

Tzu Chi volunteers from Arlington and Dallas are helping to prepare a refugee shelter for Hurricane Gustav evacuees in New Orleans.

The companies outlined their plans at a public meeting held in New Orleans on August 4th by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management.

He has saved basketball in New Orleans, passing Steve Nash and Jason Kidd as the best point guard on the planet.

Jackson was referring to New Orleans owner George Shinn, who has the public-address announcer read a prayer before every home game.

That was a practical, if coldhearted, calculus in a city like New Orleans.

What's the weather like in New Orleans at this time of the year?

Jobs that rebuild our crumbling roads, bridges and levees and dams, so that the tragedies of New Orleans and Minneapolis never happen again.

The New Orleans Police Department told me in 2008 that they knew absolutely nothing about Glover's demise.

The controversy points to a broader factor that may have helped in New Orleans.

Remaining schedule: Probable losses remain in road games against New Orleans and Phoenix but the others look very winnable .

There is a tendency to think that disasters might happen in Bangladesh, but they would not happen in New Orleans or New York.

Working in that community in New Orleans soon led me to Louisiana's death row.

BY ANY measure, the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) has been going through a rough patch.

At Fitness Revolution in Orleans, Massachusetts, the gym in which I train, these sessions are nothing short of remarkable.

Madonna is also supporting Obama, but she got booed in New Orleans for voicing her opinion.

It describes the gentle, slow andeasygoingeasy-going way of life in New Orleans.

But times were different then, I was a man at that age: the master of a large plantation just south of New Orleans.

President Bush accompanied President Calderon to the opening of Mexico's newest consulate here in New Orleans.