Destination: Louisiana
New Orleans Keeps An Anxious Eye on Hurricane Gustav
by Eva Holland | 08.28.08 | 1:40 PM ET
Although the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina falls tomorrow, residents of New Orleans have another major storm on their minds. Hurricane Gustav, currently hovering around Cuba, is expected to pick up speed over the Gulf and could arrive in southern Louisiana and Mississippi by late Sunday or early Monday.
Email to friend
del.icio.us
Digg
Facebook
Furl
Ma.gnolia
Mixx
Reddit
StumbleUpon
Yahoo! BuzzMuseum of the American Cocktail Opening In New Orleans
by Eva Holland | 07.17.08 | 1:33 PM ET
I don’t know if I can agree with the interviewee in this story who argues that “New Orleans has always been the home of civilized drinking.” I suppose that depends on your definition of “civilized.”
New Orleans Tourism Almost Doubled in 2007
by Michael Yessis | 04.22.08 | 3:29 PM ET
New Orleans welcomed 7.1 million visitors last year, compared to 3.7 million in 2006. Both figures fall short of pre-Katrina levels—10.1 million people traveled to the Crescent City in 2004—but the growth is a great sign for one of the most interesting and historic cities in the U.S. Travelers are returning despite, as the AP puts it, “concerns about violent crime, misgivings about having a good time when people are still rebuilding their lives, and misperceptions that parts of the city are still under water.”
Related on World Hum:
* Do You Know What it Means to Miss New Orleans?
* In New Orleans, A Streetcar Returns
Photo by Michael Yessis.
‘Three Tourists Mugged in the Quarter? No Big Deal.’
by Eva Holland | 01.08.08 | 12:35 PM ET
I’ve been following Sarah Hepola’s Nerve.com column “Crying In Restaurants”—a series of essays about her romantic misadventures, most of which involve (you guessed it) crying in restaurants. The series’ finale has all the humor, insight and almost-uncomfortable honesty as the first five installments—and it’s also a travel story. Hepola writes about her violent mugging in post-Katrina New Orleans, which, amazingly, has a happy ending: the mugging leads her, by way of a friendly detective, a nasty defense lawyer, a couple of NYC-NOLA flights and a whole lot of long-distance phone calls, to an outcome so good she’s no longer (you guessed it again) crying in restaurants.
Photo by David Paul Ohmer via Flickr, (Creative Commons).
In New Orleans, A Streetcar Returns
by Julia Ross | 01.03.08 | 11:31 AM ET
A piece of pre-Katrina New Orleans staged a quiet return last month, to the thrill of storm-weary residents and tourists. The St. Charles Avenue streetcar is once again ferrying passengers from the French Quarter to the Garden District. Reports the New York Times: “The streetcar has represented something else besides the connections through time and space: the city’s living room, a privileged spot for tentative social encounters across lines of race, class and nationality, in a place not otherwise given to them.”
Related on World Hum:
* The Critics: ‘Chasing the Rising Sun’
* Rolf Potts in New Orleans: A Visit to the Lower Ninth Ward
Photo by dbking via Flickr, (Creative Commons).
The Critics: ‘Chasing the Rising Sun’
by Jim Benning | 06.22.07 | 7:19 AM ET
The Los Angeles Times has a review of Chasing the Rising Sun, writer Ted Anthony’s account of his quest to find the origins of the classic folk song, “House of the Rising Sun.” It’s a quest, in part, to learn where and what The House in question was: Brothel? Gambling house? Prison? In addition to being a book about music and history, it’s also about travel.
The New Yorker’s ‘New Orleans Journal’
by Michael Yessis | 02.28.07 | 8:38 AM ET
Dan Baum has been covering New Orleans for The New Yorker since the Katrina disaster, and for the next few months he’s writing a blog of sorts—“scenes from his reporter’s notebook,” according to the intro—about his experiences in the city. His most recent post: A terrific chronicle of a gumbo dinner and a trip to the Ray Avenue Baptist Church with a mechanic he wanted to cultivate as a source.
Related on World Hum:
* Do You Know What it Means to Miss New Orleans?
* Rolf Potts in New Orleans: A Visit to the Lower Ninth Ward
* Tim Cahill and the Blues
The Places We Find Ourselves
by Kristin Van Tassel | 05.31.06 | 6:59 AM ET
Her official title was faculty sponsor. But in the confusion of post-Katrina New Orleans, Kristin Van Tassel realized the slippery nature of the roles we all play.
Rolf Potts in New Orleans: A Visit to the Lower Ninth Ward
by Michael Yessis | 03.14.06 | 12:46 PM ET
Crass as it might seem, Potts writes in his latest Yahoo! column, “disaster tourism” is a time-honored travel tradition. “Thomas Cook started taking British travelers on tours of American Civil War battlefields in 1865; a couple years later, Mark Twain and his cohorts famously toured the war-torn city of Sevastopol (where Twain chided his travel companions for carrying off armfuls of shrapnel as souvenirs),” Potts writes. And a lot of travelers are now heading to the Lower Ninth Ward, the district in New Orleans that took the brunt of the destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina last year.
Do You Know What it Means to Miss New Orleans?
by Kate Hahn | 09.09.05 | 10:20 PM ET
Kate Hahn shares her only souvenir of The Big Easy: the memory of a city that showed her how to let go
- « Prev Page
- Next Page »