Three years later, the Smith family can find before and after photographs of their home along the Williams Gallery walls as part of the Historic New Orleans Collection’s recently opened exhibition, “Katrina +5: Documenting Disaster.”
As it prepares to wrap up its first 10-episode season on June 20, “Treme,” the HBO drama series directed by David Simon (“The Wire”) about musicians rebuilding their lives in post-Katrina New Orleans, has garnered acclaim as one of the most accurate TV representations of the storm’s aftermath.
Ryan Reynolds will play the lead character of the 70-year-old comic series, Hal Jordan, a test pilot charged with defending the universe. Blake Lively, Tim Robbins, Peter Sarsgaard, Angela Bassett and Mark Strong are also in the cast.
22 years later, three episodes of “Frank’s Place” were re-aired for one night only to a sold-out crowd of loyal fans.
The city that played a major role in rock ’n’and roll, jazz and blues — think Armstrong, Bechet, Domino — never quite developed music into an industry. There’s little infrastructure and no large record labels or publishing houses. And, for many musicians, leaving New Orleans is essential to finding success.
Younger generations are not speaking Cajun French and elder Cajuns fear the unique language of their ancestors is dying out.
Brittany Besson, 12, and her cousins spent an hour filling water balloons at a family party in Grand Isle, La.
More than $300 million later, the most recognizable landmark in the state of Louisiana is nearly done with its makeover.
Evidence of Hurricane Katrina lingers across New Orleans through the thousands of abandoned homes still standing nearly five years after the disaster. Homes that have yet to be renovated are running out of time. Without intervention, they will collapse in another three to five years.
One late band doesn’t stop the show from starting. When about 100 New Orleans residents gathered at the St. Charles entrance of Audubon Park — sun blazing — and found the festivities band missing-in-action, they walked to the sounds of their own RaRa chants and carnival radio jams in remembrance of the earthquake in Haiti.
