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Hurricane Ida—More Trauma For Louisiana
More trauma to Louisiana and New Orleans—on top of the COVID crisis—was laid on the backs of Louisiana last week with Hurricane Ida.
Hurricane Katrina Chronicles
To commemorate the hurricane that almost destroyed New Orleans, we present a collection of OffBeat ‘s Hurricane Katrina Chronicles articles we’ve run over the years. All of these stories are […]
KATRINA CHRONICLES: A FIRST-PERSON ACCOUNT
A survivor of Hurricane Katrina’s awful aftermath tells her family story of being marooned in a flooded New Orleans, their trek through flooded streets, their ordeal on the Interstate waiting for rescue, and their final trip to Houston.
Hurricane Katrina is Coming…Back
Hurricane Katrina is coming…back. Everywhere I look, everything I read, everything I hear is about Katrina and how New Orleans has “come back” in the 10 years since the Federal […]
A nice relaxing weekend–not.
It was going to be a nice, relaxing weekend. In fact, I had even scheduled a (much-needed) massage for myself on Saturday morning. But when I drove to keep my […]
Is It Already Too Late?
Hurricane Isaac was a massive, slow moving storm that did tremendous damage, destroyed entire towns and caused numerous fatalities. It was “only” a category 1 hurricane, yet it created a […]
Amanda Schurr joins OffBeat
Am wishing you, in advance, a happy Katrina Day. It’s been seven years to the day when we were almost wiped off the face of the earth by that lovely […]
C. Ray Nagin Makes the Rounds
Yesterday, former Mayor Ray Nagin was on television promoting his book, Katrina’s Secrets, which was self-published through CreateSpace, as Jon Stewart noticed on The Daily Show. Nagin did this, he […]
Treme Blog: Lolis Eric Elie Returns …
…to opinion writing with “Fact and Fiction in Treme,” the debut post in HBO’s new Inside Treme blog. For those of us who’ve been covering Treme since the start, the […]
Atrocity Exhibition
The conference portion of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s American Music Masters tribute to Fats Domino and Dave Bartholomew just concluded. The day included interviews with Bartholomew, musicians […]
