New Orleans, LA – David hoover talks about the Tennessee Williams Literary Festival in the French Quarter, Cathy Washington of the Urban League of Greater New Orleans on the 2010 Public School Expo, Food writer Michael Stern chats about The New Orleans Roadfood Festival

New Orleans, LA – Hi, this is Richard McCarthy with the WWNO Farmers Market Minute

By Andre Perry

New Orleans, LA – Andre Perry discusses how high schools need to partner with colleges to better prepare students for college entrance and retention.

By Diane Mack

New Orleans, La. – A stormy sea voyage lies ahead as the New Orleans Opera Association closes it's season with Wagner's The Flying Dutchman.

New Orleans, LA – Tim Williamson from Idea Village on Entrepenuer Week, Filmaker Les Blank at the Ogden, Chef Frank Brightsen on the James Beard fundraiser, and Dave Isay on Story Corp in New Orleans.

By Ian McNulty

New Orleans, LA –

By Eileen Fleming

New Orleans, La. – Mayor Nagin had big plans for the auditorium damaged by Hurricane Katrina. He envisioned a combination of uses for the building, making room for digital media, a culinary academy involving Leah Chase, and other cultural uses.
Here's how he described it last year to supporters gathered at Dooky Chase restaurant:

By Fred Kasten

New Orleans – Today - on "The Sound of Books" with Fred Kasten - conversation with critically-acclaimed, prize-winning young American poet Matthew Dickman - whose latest collection is "All-American Poem"...

To find out more about Matthew Dickman and "All-Amercian Poem" - please click here .

By Ian McNulty

New Orleans, LA – Hurricane Katrina recovery has been a boom time for people doing construction, demolition and renovation work in the New Orleans area, but they aren't the only ones who have seen their workload skyrocket during these past few rebuilding years. The recovery work, and the dramatic influx of Latino immigrant workers it caused, has kept the Workplace Justice Project busier than ever.

By Eileen Fleming

New Orleans, La. – The mayor-elect was asked at a news conference last week about when owners should consider doing more to their property damaged in Hurricane Katrina than boarding up and cutting the grass.
"Now would be good."
Landrieu said he would be asking the Louisiana Recovery Authority to funnel unallocated federal money on clearing blight.
Landrieu takes office in May.