There's also the tradition of voodoo, the Haitian magic arts, in New Orleans. And because New Orleans is below sea level, when… — Sam Trammell Copy Share Image
When I was a little kid wanting to play music, it was because of people like Pete Johnson, Huey Smith, Allen Toussaint,… — Dr. John Copy Share Image
When I was in New Orleans, I was in a grocery store and a woman came up to me and she said,… — Kathy Bates Copy Share Image
Exposed! shines a harsh light on the myriad horrors of modern society and reports back from the fearful frontlines with wicked wit… — Jeremy Robert Johnson Copy Share Image
Advance warning of Katrina's path was wrested from mute Nature by meteorological calculations and satellite imagery. God told no one of His… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
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The gateway to freedom...was somewhere close to New Orleans where most Africans were sorted through and sold. I had driven through New… — Chuck Berry Copy Share Image
Al Gore has a hit movie called 'An Inconvenient Truth.' I have an inconvenient truth for him: you're still not the president.… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
You can see that the care he took defiling the beauty he had forced in them was as precise and clean as… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
When we look back at the last years of justice department, some of the most important work that will define its legacy… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
At Carnegie Hall the Preservation Hall Jazz Band showed how easily it could hop from era to era. It could work like… — Jon Pareles Copy Share Image
We've got wars. Imagine having more money, you could buy more beer. Have you been to Dublin in its heyday like in… — Gavin Friday Copy Share Image
I was fortunate that when I was first starting out in New Orleans, I had a remarkable high-school teacher. And she was… — John Cena Copy Share Image
“Every town has ‘THAT house’: the one that once held dark secrets. You know the house… the one no one will purchase?… — James Caskey Copy Share Image
“I cooked with so many of the greats: Tom Colicchio, Eric Ripert, Wylie Dufresne, Grant Achatz. Rick Bayless taught me not one… — Stacey Ballis Copy Share Image
“A humorous treatment of the rigid uniformitarian view came from Mark Twain. Although the shortening of the Mississippi River he referred to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I mean, growing up in New Orleans when you're in seventh and eighth grade and you're into music and you're a dorky… — Steve Zissis Copy Share Image
It's impossible to predict which paintings will last and which won't. In New Orleans I painted on a dilapidated shop in a… — Banksy Copy Share Image
“So,” I demanded, trying to sound confident, “where can we find this trod to New Orleans?” “The frost giant ruins,” Ash replied,… — Julie Kagawa Copy Share Image
Merrie Destefano storms the world of urban fantasy with AFTERLIFE, breathing new life into the vast genre of the undead. Gritty, poignant,… — Tosca Lee Copy Share Image
It is safe to say that almost every person living in New Orleans at the moment Hurricane Katrina struck shared your belief… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Improvisation was the blood and bone of jazz, and in the classic, New Orleans jazz it was collective improvisation in which each… — Russell Lynes Copy Share Image
What's weird is the Hot Boys and the whole New Orleans Cash Money thing had a really big impact on the Bay… — G-Eazy Copy Share Image
I had never been to New Orleans until I got drafted by New Orleans, so just to be able to get to… — Alvin Kamara Copy Share Image
The workman cut to the left, still laying on his horn, and roared around the drunkenly weaving limousine. He invited the driver… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
In New Orleans, people are still influenced by one another. You got these bands that play every week on Frenchmen Street, and… — Trombone Shorty Copy Share Image
“In New Orleans, absurdity is like the humidity. It permeates everything, until you stop noticing it. It connects everything and everyone in… — Michael Reilly Copy Share Image
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It seemed [there are] musical nodes on the planet where cultures meet and mix, sometimes as a result of unfortunate circumstances, like… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
The Society of North American Magic Realists welcomes its newest, most dazzling member, Louis Maistros. His debut novel is a thing of… — Donald Harington Copy Share Image
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“..I began speaking.. First, I took issue with the media's characterization of the post-Katrina New Orleans as resembling the third world as… — Billy Sothern Copy Share Image
When New Orleans was flooded in August 2005, the rising water cut off Memorial Medical Centre, a community hospital that was holding… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
I've always loved Louisiana and particularly New Orleans, and I think a lot of people when they travel there, think they're home… — Scarlett Johansson Copy Share Image
These past years, as we have been recovering and given our city a rebirth, we have been encouraged by our faith, knowledge,… — Cedric Richmond Copy Share Image
“ The classic recipes are goat, lamb, vegetable, and/or chicken biriyani. But when I was in New Orleans, at this restaurant, they… — Amulya Malladi Copy Share Image
“The first thing you notice about New Orleans are the burying grounds - the cemeteries - and they're a cold proposition, one… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
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