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Back in April, I traveled to New Orleans for the first time to meet up with my best friend, a Tulane alum. For years, she had boasted about the wonder of the city. Finally seeing it with my own eyes, I was struck by the thought that less than three years ago Hurricane Katrina had caused the death of

New Orleans was struggling to prepare for Sunday’s Saints game in the Superdome, as hospitality services — and power — trickled back late in the week in the wake of Hurricane Gustav. As of Thursday afternoon, 66% of Orleans Parish was still without power and many of downtown’s major hotels — including

It’s all systems go for both the New Orleans Saints and Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who will open their respective 2008 seasons with a key NFC South clash Sunday at the Superdome. This showdown between division rivals had been in jeopardy of being moved to another location due to Hurricane Gustav’s arrival on the Gulf Coast earlier this week.

The New Orleans Saints enter Sundays game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers not knowing if their defense has improved from their dismal performance in 2007, but it will take only 60 minutes to tell Coach Payton, the NFL, and Saints Fans every were the answer. On paper the Saints have improved in every area but one, the secondary.

ABC reports: "On August 28, just a day before the third Katrina anniversary, Banksy set his artistic sights on New Orleans and painted politically-themed works throughout the city."

D and I drove out to St. Charles Parish this afternoon to run some errands.  I-10W was pretty clear traffic- and weather-wise until the tail of Gustav unleashed some localized rain on us.  On our way back home, we took River Road back all the way to the Carrollton neighborhood and then through Uptown

SomaCow Media is proud to present Say... Anything. Brought to you this week by Cafe' Du Monde where Kari will be next week...we'll miss her! But can't wait to hear her hurricane (the drink, not the ones about to pound us) induced phone call! My shout out this week comes to us from Maggie from Girls Night In Radio.

Hurricane Season 2008: All the Way to Tennessee September 4th, 2008 by James Michael Blaine I’m from Louisiana but I don’t call it home. These hills have won my heart, I’m a Tennessee boy. I was called into New Orleans a few days after Hurricane Katrina, debriefing work for a corporation there.

My office never lost electricity. Nor internet. So I am here now getting drunk off of typing with two hands instead of two thumbs and able to check things that require internet. Like Entergy’s outage map. And applying for FEMA. Overall we are fine. Still no electricity (Day Four).

I’m back and doing pretty darn well. I needed some time for myself to just deal with various things and kind of keep my head above water. I have a notorious pattern of not dealing with shit and then have a psychotic spaz-out, so I took some time out to just deal with shit.