Feature Photo: Early "red cars" on Canal Street | CanalStreetCar (dot com) @CanalStreetCar →
Single-truck operation on Canal Street. The green streetcars on the left are Ford, Bacon & Davis cars operated by the New Orleans & Carrollton Railroad Company. The red-yellow streetcar near the…
Feds to remove temporary cap from Gulf well | volunteertv.com →
The federal government says it will start work Monday to remove the temporary cap keeping oil from gushing out of BP’s blown-out Gulf well so that it can raise a key piece of equipment from the…
Stars Who Stayed the Course Rebuilding New Orleans | FOXnews.com →
Brad Pitt and Harry Connick, Jr. (Reuters/AP)
Soon after Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast area in August 2005, dozens of Hollywood stars immediately pledged support.
Julia Roberts, Jamie Foxx…
The state of working musicians in New Orleans: 'Half the gigs ... and the work pays less' | @PopHiss Pop & Hiss | Los Angeles Times →
According to the third annual State of the New Orleans Music Community Report, there are 50% fewer gigs in the Crescent City than there were before the storm, and it has been that way for the last…
Video Essay: Trip Down Katrina Battered Highway | AP News →
90 on 90: All along Highway 90 on the Gulf coast, many are still reeling from Hurricane Katrina. (Aug. 25) visit nola411.com for New Orleans and Gulf Coast news clippings.
Gallery: Lakeview in the Katrina flood, and five years after (32 photos) | nola.com →
Times-Picayune art critic Doug MacCash and NOLA.com editor James O’Byrne retrace the steps of their Aug. 29, 2005, bike ride into Katrina’s devastating flood… Lakeview in the Katrina flood, and…
Project Breathes New Life Into Pontchartrain Park | WDSU →
Five years after Hurricane Katrina, there are signs of new life in Gentilly, where new homes are going up as part of the Pontchartrain Park Community Development Project. The project is spearheaded…
Law & Disorder - an online investigation into questionable shootings by the NOPD in wake of Katrina | PBS.org →
Broadcast premiere Wednesday, August 25, 2010 Behind the enduring images of heroic rescues undertaken by the New Orleans Police Department in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, there is another…
NOPD Cops Got Orders Authorizing Shooting of Looters | ProPublica →
Alex Brandon/The Times-PicayuneNew Orleans Police Lt. Dwayne Scheuermann aims his gun on the Claiborne Overpass in New Orleans on Sept. 1, 2005.
In the chaotic days after Hurricane Katrina, an order…
