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New Orleans, LA – Soledad O'Brien of CNN talked with WWNO's Paul Maassen about her book and documentary series, Latino in America, during her recent visit to New Orleans.

By Diane Mack

New Orleans, La. – Philadelphia native Mary Elizabeth Williams sings the title role as the New Orleans Opera Association opens the 2009-2010 season with Puccini's Tosca.

By Ian McNulty

New Orleans, LA –

Cheese plates are nothing new in fine dining circles, but there's something different about them at many New Orleans restaurants these days.

By Eileen Fleming

New Orleans, LA – CNN's Soledad O'Brien, New Orleans Opera Association - Tosca, Louisiana Children's Museum & Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz

By Eileen Fleming

By Eileen Fleming

By Eileen Fleming

By Fred Kasten

New Orleans – Crescent City writer Nevada Barr is known - and widely admired - for her best-selling Anna Pigeon mystery series - but in her latest novel - "13 1/2" - she steps out of the series to deliver a stand-alone psychological thriller set largely in post-Katrina New Orleans. WWNO's Fred Kasten has more...

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New Orleans, LA – Who would have thought that without the Society of Jesus, we'd probably not be enjoying satsumas in Greater New Orleans? Let me explain, when the Jesuits arrived here at the start of the 18th century, they also brought with them citrus plants from Asia - including the iconic, loose skinned, seedless tangerine from Satsuma in Japan us locals adore - the Satsuma. Jesuits planted orchards along the banks of the Mississippi River - a practice that continues in Plaquemines Parish (and near Jesuit Bend).