Katrina
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Hurricane Katrina survivor is flooded out of new home in Arkansas: 'I don't think I can take too much more'
After surviving Hurricane Katrina, a woman and her family are back on the road, this time escaping a new disaster: the rising waters of the Arkansas River.
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Chez Conversations at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival
Cleo Wade, Liza Voloshin, Margot, and Mia Moretti, co-founders of chez conversations, the New York based female arts collective, hosted three nights of art and music in New Orleans during the Jazz and Heritage Festival.
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The Beautiful Spirit of New Orleans
As we approach the 10th Anniversary of Katrina, the nation is turning its gaze to the city of New Orleans. Like so many have done in the years following Hurricane Katrina, I recently moved to New Orleans — without a job offer or significant other — simply because I had fallen in love with the city.
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Hero: This Hotel Manager Saved 300 People During Katrina
Hero: This Hotel Manager Saved 300 People During Katrina Yahoo is streaming the Voodoo Music + Arts Experience, a three-day music festival live from New Orleans. This year’s lineup includes artists like Florence & The Machine, deadmau5, Jane’s Addiction, and more. It starts on Friday, October 30 at 4pm ET/1pm PT and you can watch all weekend long at yahoo.com/voodoo When many people think of Hurricane Katrina, they think of New Orleans — but the Big Easy wasn’t the only place devastated by the
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Healing New Orleans: Apothecary Spots in the Creole City
New Orleans has always been a site of healing — even before the French Mississippi Company officially founded the Louisiana city in 1718. 1300 years before Europeans colonized the swampy land, the Mississippi culture, a mound-building Native American civilization, thrived in the bayou, using the herbs of the land for healing rituals linked to the cycles of agriculture. After les Français and los Españoles moved in with their European-trained pharmacists and brought in African slaves who had th
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Model Brittani Bader on Surviving Katrina & Coming to NYC With Only $300
Ten years ago Brittani Bader’s parents put their children in a car with relatives to escape Hurricane Katrina. Despite getting his children to safety, Bader’s father tried to leave the flood zone too late and ended up having to ride out the storm. When Bader and her family were reunited, their joy was quickly replaced by shock when they returned to what was left of their house.
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10 Years Post Katrina, NOLA’s House of Dance & Feathers Dances Back to Life
Yahoo is streaming the Voodoo Music + Arts Experience, a three-day music festival live from New Orleans. This year’s lineup includes artists like Florence & The Machine, deadmau5, Jane’s Addiction, and more. It starts on Friday, October 30 at 4pm ET/1pm PT and you can watch all weekend long at yahoo.com/voodoo Tucked away in the Lower Ninth Ward, just blocks from where the levee broke, is a unique museum, even for New Orleans. Located in a building in the back of 1317 Tupelo Street is the House
