The people of New Orleans have our commitment to restore service to pre- hurricane levels as quickly as we can.

Going to college don’t make you from somewhere, any more than a cat born in an over can call itself a biscuit.

I don’t have much family. And if we were related, I’d be pissed off that you have better cheekbones.

All that Anne Rice crap is true, I thought on my way out the door; New Orleans really does have a vampire problem.Besides me, of course.

Whether this delay directly affected the levees that broke in New Orleans is difficult to ascertain.

I would say Randolph’s a horse’s ass, but that would be unfair to the horse.

The resources of the state to date have been on getting the living out of New Orleans. It is changing to recovering those who perished.

We are poised for a strong economic recovery. New Orleans is one of the oldest cities in America. Federal and state activities are in place to design, develop, construct, and enhance protection from flooding. We...

When I see you, Jolie, I see a woman who is far more than she realizes but who will someday grow into her powers. One who is much stronger than those who would trap her...

Since the hurricanes, a lot of new minority businesses that had to evacuate New Orleans have set up offices here. Once they settle here, we want to do everything we can to keep them here.

We are committed to the residents of New Orleans, wherever they are living now.

A second line is in effect a civil rights demonstration. Literally, demonstrating the civil right of the community to assemble in the street for peaceful purposes. Or, more simply, demonstrating the civil right of the...

Good luck with that, Jolie.

I had been a happy normal wife and mother in Orange County until ten years ago, when I was attacked by an evil vampire… and turned into one myself. It’s made my life since gross...

Has your district defended any cases on behalf of the (U.S.) Army Corps of Engineers against claims brought by environmental groups seeking to block or otherwise impede the Corps work on the levees protecting New...

I should like to understand more about the signs on the shirt you wore earlier. What was it: Eat the tail and suck the head?

Louis found me in the rear parlor, the one more distant from the noises of the tourists in the Rue Royale, and with its windows open to the courtyard below. I was in fact looking...

Everyone knows New Orleans was a marginal major league market. More and more, the NFL has come to rely on corporate dollars and New Orleans doesn’t have a very large corporate base.

Then I shall tell you the truthful answers to the questions you asked, about my own intentions and motivations. They are not so simple.”…He cocked an eyebrow and his cobalt eyes took on a playful...

We realize that a percentage of Louisiana voters will vote by absentee ballots. We are committed to the residents of New Orleans, wherever they are living now. It is important that displaced residents understand that...

Those who have not lived in New Orleans have missed an incredible, glorious, vital city–a place with an energy unlike anywhere else in the world, a majority-African American city where resistance to white supremacy has...

Keeping up with him would require running, and there is no dignity in running after any man for any reason, injured or not.

I put the carpetbag on a ledge, and then, hanging upside down by my razor-clawed feet, slept until sunset. A first for me, and actually quite comfortable.Lord help me.

It’s been a total headache, … We had trouble getting officials because the state (LHSAA) ruled New Orleans officials were unacceptable this season because they have not been going to their weekly meetings and they...

I believe he’s been asked to testify today,” I told Lennox, who’d continued to track Truman’s progress through the room. “He’s a member of the historical undead, Truman Capote, the author. He wrote Breakfast at...

In the spring of 1988, I returned to New Orleans, and as soon as I smelled the air, I knew I was home. It was rich, almost sweet, like the scent of jasmine and roses...

Every town has ‘THAT house’: the one that once held dark secrets. You know the house… the one no one will purchase? The one whose walls have seen blood? The one that even birds avoid,...

He pulled out handcuffs and snapped them around my wrists. “Where’s your bag? You didn’t bring your staff?””I have it. It’s hidden.” Charlie was currently tucked inside the leg of my Harry Potter pajama bottoms,...

She had been used to the heat of New Orleans for so many years, and she found La Jolla cold.

Another site of Leftist struggle [other than Detroit] that has parallels to New Orleans: Palestine. From the central role of displacement to the ways in which culture and community serve as tools of resistance, there...

We’d all mourn for a while, but at the end of the day we were a tough lot, and we’d survive.

It seemed some pulp-novel version of a European hub, equal parts Renaissance-age Florence and modern day Paris with a heavy helping of Las Vegas and New York—at least, that was the way she thought of...

Am I right in thinkin’ you’ve maybe been” – he dropped his voice – “the victim of an infamous outrage by the darkies?

I really missed being in New Orleans, but I’m one of the lucky ones.

From my friend, Brig. General Ezell Ware, Jr., CA Nat’l Guard, Dec.Keep on going till you get there, then keep going.

She had understood before she had ever dreamed of a city such as this, where every texture, every color, leapt out at you, where every fragrance was a drug, and the air itself was something...

There is a unique bond between the land and the people in the Crescent City. Everyone here came from somewhere else, the muddy brown current of life prying them loose from their homeland and sweeping...

We walked the length of Jackson Square, stopping to look at the work of a couple of artists who’d set up their sidewalk shops for the day.”Look.” Eugenie stopped in front of an acrylic painting...

There’s been a black spiritual cloud over New Orleans for years.

I didn’t really understand community until I moved to New Orleans.

And something just flew past your window. It was oinking.

A huge section of the U.S. economy is down. It’s as complicated as the rescue efforts in New Orleans; it’s all these different pieces. You have to get electricity restored, find out where your employees...

You’ll be in good hands with the colonel, you’ll see.”The colonel? Okay, I was obviously stuck in a Gone With the Wind theme park. Or maybe a Kentucky Fried Chicken farm.Or I was simply hallucinating…

That’s where the deceased chose to reside and that is where he will be placed.” Kekaju and the Hidden Swamp

Mac Rebennack, better known as Dr. John, once told me that when a brass band plays at a small club back up in one of the neighborhoods, it’s as if the audience–dancing, singing to the...

You can’t fight a war in Iraq that’s costing upwards of $200 billion and rebuild New Orleans and try to deal with all of the other domestic needs that we have and then cut taxes...

the watery graveyard that is New Orleans.

She shook her head. “I can’t believe you got bit and you didn’t even get an orgasm out of it. I guess True Blood isn’t true after all.

God loves New Orleans, He loves Louisiana?this whole Gulf region, God loves you.

Damn. I never should have agreed to this. What is he thinking? Here we are in a piece of crap pickup truck on our way to sit outside of a supermarket to kidnap this girl....