When it comes to summer in New Orleans, I feel a lot like Goldilocks.
Now calm down people. I’m not talking about donning a blonde wig and sleeping in a row of bears’ beds.
I haven’t done that in years.
What I AM talking about is air conditioning. Specifically, finding the right temperature for your home during those looooooong summer months when New Orleans turns into one big oven.
View from the top of the newly expanded bridge. The gray steel is the expansion.
Credit Frank Relle
The newly expanded Huey P. Long Bridge maintains its two train lines down the middle of the span, and has expanded lanes for cars and trucks, widened to 11 feet. This Sunday pedestrians will get a unique chance to walk across the bridge.
Credit Frank Relle
The bridge can now accomodate modern, bigger vehicles.
Credit WWNO
A worker paints the underside of the bridge.
Credit WWNO
Painting supplies get organized for the final touches.
This Sunday is a big day in the history of a Louisiana landmark. The Huey P. Long Bridge is scheduled to re-open, with three wider lanes of car traffic on each side, and two rail lines running down the middle.
As we all know, June marks the official start of hurricane season. In today's Northshore Focus, George Bonnett looks at two important support services that are on call in St. Tammany Parish this season.
The "Northshore Focus" on WWNO is made possible with support from The Northshore Community Foundation.
Erin Greenwald spent five years translating and editing her latest book, available in conjunction with an exhibit at the Historic New Orleans Collection.
In 2004, the Historic New Orleans Collection acquired a remarkable document written by Marc-Antoine Caillot a 21-year-old French adventurer who came to New Orleans almost 300 years ago. This travelogue, one of the most significant finds of its kind, has been translated into English and is now in print as a book.
On Notes from New Orleans Sharon Litwin talks to historian Erin Greenwald about this amazing and amusing documentation of life in French Colonial New Orleans.
In the wide-ranging effort to reform the New Orleans criminal justice system, this new nonprofit works for more equal access to expungements of criminal records to help people get jobs and move on after release.
It’s summertime, the kids are out of school, and Hollywood is, once again, following the money.
“Right now you can literally go see Fast and Furious 6 at practically any theater in the city, said John Desplas, artistic director for the New Orleans Film Society, “and it’s starting in 20 minutes on one of the 20 screens.”
On Friday NOCCA, the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, celebrates with music, guest speakers, a second line and more. The occasion? Plessy Day.
That name should bring to mind history class, and the landmark 1890s Supreme Court case Plessy versus Ferguson, in which the court upheld racial segregation and "separate but equal" as a legal standard.
The New Orleans Saints pre-season starts August 25 when they take on the Houston Texans. But for football fanatics who just can’t wait that long, don’t fret — there is another team in town.
It is two minutes to game time. The players are amped up, suited up and huddled around their coach for one last pep talk before heading to the field. But this team probably isn’t what usually comes to mind when people think of professional football.
Maurice Cox, the former Mayor of Charlottesville, Virginia, has helped move the Tulane City Center from its origin on Tulane's campus into a new space on OC Haley Blvd.
While many of us are aware of Tulane University’s well regarded School of Architecture, fewer know about TulaneCityCenterand its outreach projects into the community.
Sharon Litwin talks with Maurice Cox, its recently appointed new director about the Center’s plans for New Orleans.
