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“…I hope I live long enough to work this city up. This city is all about food. Sixty-one years in the kitchen has taught me a lot. We're not put on this good earth for free. You do what you have to do. For me, I guess that means I'll just keep on cooking for as long as I can.”
— Leah Chase, Dooky Chase's Restaurant, quoted in Food Arts, June 2007.
Madison Street, looking from Decatur to Chartres, 7/4/05.
Keeping Track…
This Just In
Idea Bank
A Lucky Dog vendor along the Decatur Street side of Jackson Square, 7/5/05.
Around Town
- Katrina & Recovery, NPR, Ongoing Index
- Nicole Gelinas: The Big Easy Rebuilds, Bottom Up, Dallas Morning News, 5/11/08
- Remaking New Orleans, by Robert Novak, 02/14/08
- Two Years After Katrina, New Orleans Desperately Needs Law and Order, Wall Street Journal, 8/29/07
- New Orleans Church Offers a Reason to Return, Houston Chronicle, 8/26/07
- Neighborhood Touchstones…, New Orleans Times-Picayune, 8/24/07
- After Katrina, a Lonely Homecoming, Washington Post, 8/26/07
Corner of Cabildo Alley and Pirate's Alley, alongside the St. Louis Cathedral, 7/1/05.
Challenges of Architecture
In New Orleans
- Links to House Plans for Post-Katrina Construction
- Architectural Heritage of New Orleans in Peril, Washington Post, 9/18/05
- Architectural Soul of the City at Stake, New Orleans Times-Picayune, 8/27/07
- Bailing Out, Builder Online, 1/1/06
- Brad Pitt Announces New Orleans Design Competition, WWL-TV, 4/20/06
- New Orleans: New Urbanism?, Newhouse News Service, 11/16/05
- New Orleans Reborn: Theme Park vs. Cookie Cutter, New York Times, 10/18/05
- New Orleans Shotgun: Down But Not Out, New York Times, 9/23/05
- New Urbanist Andres Duany Tries to Rebuild New Orleans, Wall Street Journal, 5/3/06
Closely Related: On the Gulf Coast
A cluster of colorful shotgun houses along Bourbon Street, at Gov. Nicholls, 7/1/05.
Challenges of Economics & Infrastructure
- As New Orleans Rebuilds Its Schools, Most Are Now Charter Schools, Christian Science Monitor, 8/04/07
- Battle of New Orleans, The American Spectator, 3/10/06
- French Quarter Loses Allure for Artists, New Orleans CityBusiness, 7/16/06
- Hard Decisions for New Orleans, New York Times, 1/14/06
- Now What? — The Lessons of Katrina, Popular Mechanics, 3/06
- Louisiana Repurchase: Making Uncle Sam the Donald Trump of New Orleans, Wall Street Journal, 2/13/06
- Mayor Nagin: Anyone Can Rebuild, But…, WWL-TV, 1/5/06
- New Orleans Hoping the Good Times Roll, USA Today, 12/11/05
- New Orleans of Future May Stay Half Its Old Size, New York Times, 1/20/07
- New Orleans Recovery Plan Called a Muddle, New Orleans Times-Picayune, 3/6/07
- No Plot, No Plan, New Orleans Times-Picayune, 8/27/06
- Small Business Owners Acknowledge Tough Road Ahead, WWL-TV, 1/3/06
Slidell residents fill sandbags as Tropical Storm Cindy approaches, 7/5/05.
Challenges of the Watery World
- Fix the Pumps Blog
- Last Chance
- Changing Course to Go With the Flow, Washington Post, 9/11/05
- Engineers Offer a New Explanation of How Levees Broke, New York Times, 10/8/05
- Forensic Experts Push for Levee System Overhaul, New Orleans Times-Picayune, 5/23/06
- Gone With the Waters, National Geographic, 10/04
- Loss of New Orleans…Was a Plan, Reason, 9/19/05
- MR-GO Canal May Have Worsened City's Flooding, Washington Post, 9/14/05
- New Orleans: Keeping Its Head Above Water, Houston Chronicle, 12/1/01
- New Orleans Levee Reported Weak in 1990s, NBC News, 9/29/05
- New Orleans ‘Risks Extinction’, BBC News, 2/3/06
- Study Finds Rapid Pre-Katrina Sinking in New Orleans, CNN, 5/31/06
- U.S. Government Faces Massive Suit Over 17th Street Canal Breach, AP, 2/8/06
- Washing Away, New Orleans Times-Picayune, 6/23-27/02
- 1970's Wetlands Controversies Including the Pontchartrain Floodgate Proposal
New Orleans street sleeper, 7/4/05.
Challenges of Human Character
- Big Easy Rocked, but Didn't Roll, Telegraph, 9/6/05
- City Councilman Oliver Thomas Expected to Plead Guilty, New Orleans Times-Picayune, 8/12/07
- Divided, Corrupt Past Haunts Big Easy, MarketWatch, 12/28/05
- Don't Blame Only Feds, New York Daily News, 9/7/05
- Hallmark of the Underclass, Wall Street Journal, 10/2/05
- Leviathan in Louisiana, Newsweek, 9/12/05
- Louisiana's Political Culture Influenced by Shady Past, Shreveport Times, 3/1/07
- New Orleans Corrupt ‘Down to the Bone,’ Former Pol Charges, CNS, 10/17/05
- News of New Orleans' Broken Criminal System Spreads Across the Country, WWL-TV, 2/5/07
- Residents Push to Rid N.O. Levee Boards of Politics, USA Today, 12/22/05
- Transvestite gang pesters Magazine Street, New Orleans CityBusiness, 6/26/06
- Unnatural Disaster, The Intellectual Activist, 9/2/05
- Swamp of Corruption, The Wall Street Journal, 9/26/05
Cafe du Monde, Decatur Street, 7/4/05.
Questions of History and Culture
- Big Easy's Musicians Move Their Acts to Austin, Washington Post, 11/29/05
- Charleston: A Sister City Flourishes, New Orleans Times-Picayune, 12/14/05
- Doomed Cities: The Heart of New Orleans, National Review, 9/1/05
- New Orleans' Future, Wall Street Journal, 9/4/05
- New Orleans' Troubled Renaissance, Christian Science Monitor, 11/3/05
- Past U.S. Disasters Suggest New Orleans Will Recover, Wall Street Journal, 9/1/05
- Recapturing the City's Flavor Is Not a Given, Houston Chronicle, 9/4/05
- Resettlement After the Disaster: Take a Cue from the Past, NewsMax, 9/1/05
- Sad Truth: Cities Aren't Forever, Washington Post, 9/11/05
- What It Means to Miss New Orleans, New York Times, 9/4/05
Commander's Palace, Washington Avenue at Coliseum Street, 7/4/05.
Overviews
- MYTHS of Hurricane Katrina, from Reason, August 2007:
- Lack of Federal Money
- “New Orleans” and “the Gulf Coast” Are Synonymous
- Lack of Leadership
- From NBC Visit, Feb. 6, 2007:
- Big Questions About the Big Easy, Business Week, 9/12/05
- Death of An American City, New York Times, 12/13/05
- Delicate Balance Is Undone in a Flash, New York Times, 9/4/05
- How Do They Rebuild a City?, Chicago Tribune, 9/4/05
- How to Rebuild a Great City, Tech Central Station, 9/12/05
- In Harm's Way, Hartford Courant, 9/4/05
- Lessons Not Learned Before Katrina Hit, The American Thinker, 9/8/05
- Love in the Ruins, Weekly Standard, 9/26/05
- Muddle-Headed Thinking on the Future of New Orleans, American Thinker, 9/24/05
- The New New Orleans, a Land of Opportunity, Wall Street Journal, 1/12/06
- New Orleans: A Geopolitical Prize , Stratfor, 9/1/05
- Night and Day in New Orleans, Washington Post, 11/28/05
- Notes from Under Water, Weekly Standard, 9/19/05
- Ozymandian Despair in New Orleans Wasteland, Times (UK), 9/10/05
- PM's Katrina Investigation, Popular Mechanics, 12/14/05
- Power to the Victims of New Orleans, Guardian, 9/9/05
- Renaissance of New Orleans Still Only a Possibility, VOA News, 11/25/05
- Should We Even Rebuild New Orleans?, Chicago Tribune, 9/13/05
- Waiting for John Wayne, The American Thinker, 9/10/05
From the Diaspora
And on the Mississippi Gulf Coast
Notes
- Photographs and editing are by Henry H. Mitchell.
- Research assistance is provided by P. L. Anderson, Jr., Suzanne J. Gill, Henry Hurt, David C. Kelly, Adrian McGrath, David L. Mitchell, Patricia B. Mitchell, Sarah E. Mitchell, Chris Smith, Francis Taylor, and S. Dail Yeatts.
This guide to New Orleans and its NewOrleansRenaissance.com portal are sponsored by Mitchells Publications.
Copyright © 2005–2008 Patricia B. Mitchell.
