As I announced earlier, Anthony Bourdain’s No Reservations show was airing its New Orleans episode this week. I wondered whether it would delve a little deeper than the episode he did in the city with his old show on the Food Network. I’d like to say it didn’t disappoint, but I can’t. It was indeed [...]
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Posted in Katrina, Mardi Gras, New Orleans on Jan 23rd, 2008
Mardi Gras 2006 was the first post-K carnival season. I was of the opinion at the time that the city just was not ready. Way too much of town was uninhabited and uninhabitable; much of the devastation lay in traditional parade areas such as Endymion’s Mid-City route. How would the rest of the world believe [...]
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Posted in Katrina, New Orleans on Aug 29th, 2007
Two years ago today, I spent the day in front of a computer DSL’ed to the internets, which was in front of a TV that went back and forth between CNN and the Weather Channel. I was at my parent’s house near Hot Springs, Arkansas, having arrived there the day before, after fleeing my home [...]
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