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The more Hurricane Katrina zeroed in on his hometown in late August four years ago, the wider Lionel Smith's eyes grew in a Houston hotel room. “We were watching it on the news, and that's when we knew how serious it was,” Smith said. “We knew we weren't...
Tags: Lionel Smith, Katrina, College Station, Hurricane Katrina, Smith Magazine, Atlantic hurricane season, New Orleans
Studios, a masked woman is seen staring down two police officers guarding a blockaded road that is elevated above a neighborhood now engulfed in water. The gritty art style and somber setting immediately set the tone and prepare the reader for a tale...
Tags: Nola Thomas, Chris Gorak, Italy, Nola, Down, Hurricane Katrina
Katrina Kaif has denied reports of her turning producer with a remake of French film "A la folie...pas du tout" and said she is happy with the way her acting career is shaping up. "I have no clue from where these rumours originate...There were reports...
Tags: Katrina Kaif, Ranbir Kapoor, India, New Delhi, Hurricane Katrina, De Dana Dan, films, Katrina, Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani, Entertainment Culture
Every year in the River Parishes, Thanksgiving weekend kicks off the beginning of a longtime tradition of building bonfires along the Mississippi River levee to light the way for Papa Noel on Christmas Eve. But Papa Noel may have to find his own way if...
Tags: New Orleans, Mississippi, Christmas bonfires, Bonfire, Fire, Levee, Preparations for Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Betsy, United States Army Corps of Engineers, Geotechnical engineering, Disaster Accident
The recent ruling here by a federal judge confirmed what victims of Hurricane Katrina have been arguing the past four years: the catastrophic floods in 2005 were a manmade disaster, not a natural phenomenon. The landmark ruling blames negligence by the...
Tags: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, Garret Graves, coastal restoration, Louisiana, hurricanes katrina, federal government, Members of the Louisiana House of Representatives, Stanwood Duval, Mary Landrieu, Environment, United States Army Corps of Engineers, Atlantic hurricane season, Disaster Accident
Have you seen graffiti that’s kind of sweet (even if it is against the law)?
Tags: New Orleans, Atlantic hurricane season, Hurricane Katrina
She was performing in a production of “Dreamgirls” when auditions were announced for the movie “Ray,” the biography of Ray Charles, which was being shot in New Orleans. The movie company was looking for African-American singers to play the Raelettes,...
Tags: Rene� Wilson, Nevada City, Grass Valley, New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina, Dreamgirls, The Raelettes, films, Polders, Entertainment Culture
Several Louisiana lawmakers expressed their displeasure about how it’s run, but a legislative budget committee finally agreed to let the Recovery School District move ahead with $163 million in repairs to hurricane-damaged schools in New Orleans. The...
Tags: schools district, D-New Orleans, New Orleans, New Orleans Public Schools, Hurricane Katrina, Education in Philadelphia, Paul Vallas, Recovery School District, Education
Everyone’s family was gone, their social networks were gone,” Ms. Hero, 48, a New Orleans native, said of the sudden devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. “Your life is up in the air.” Ms. Hero’s life will always be divided into before the...
Tags: Katrina, Ms. Hero, New Orleans, Catholic Charities Brooklyn, real estate, Park Slope Brooklyn, Atlantic hurricane season, Hurricane Katrina, Human Interest
November 19, 2009 November 19, 2009 Slowly, about half the population of St. Bernard Parish has returned to the area since Hurricane Katrina...And this has sparked a battle over low income housing and race.
Tags: St. Bernard Parish, David Jarrell, hurricane katrina, rental property, Keith Buras, Katrina, housing projects, New Orleans, Buras-Triumph Louisiana, Emergency Communities, Greater New Orleans, St. Bernard Parish Louisiana, Social Issues