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Filmed six months after Hurricane Katrina and its accompanying flood waters hit New Orleans, this film analyzes why the city flooded and asks the question: should the city be rebuilt on the steadily subsiding floodplain. Experts in various fields look at the situation from several points of view.
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New Orleans. Arrogant, carefree Prince Naveen and hardworking waitress Tiana cross paths. Prince Naveen is transformed into a frog by a conniving voodoo magician. Tiana follows suit when she decides to kiss the amphibian royalty. With the help of a trumpet-playing alligator, a Cajun firefly, and an old blind lady who lives in a boat in a tree, Naveen and Tiana must race to break the spell and fulfill their dreams.
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Iconic abodes, inside and out, from across the city. The Crescent City's rich cultural heritage is preserved in its grand houses. This collection of essays and photographs features homes from all over the city, from the French Quarter to the Garden District to River Ridge. It shares the stories of current and former residents and explains how modern designs nurture the spirit of the past. Stunning photographs provide a window into New Orleans's magnificent...
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Long ago during slavery, Faubourg Tremé was home to the largest community of free black people in the Deep South and a hotbed of political ferment. Here black and white, free and enslaved, rich and poor co-habitated, collaborated, and clashed to create much of what defines New Orleans culture up to the present day. Founded as a suburb (or faubourg in French) of the original colonial city, the neighborhood developed during French rule and many families...
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This follow-up to director Spike Lee's documentary, When the levees broke: a requiem in four acts, focuses on the rebuilding efforts in New Orleans, five years after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. Bookending stories of individual heartache and perseverance are two momentous events: the historic 2010 Super Bowl victory by the New Orleans Saints and the disastrous British Petroleum oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
10) Kamp Katrina
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Follows the lives of fourteen people who lived for six months in tents in a woman's backyard in New Orleans, shortly after Hurricane Katrina.
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In Race and Radio: Pioneering Black Broadcasters in New Orleans, Bala James Baptiste traces the history of the integration of radio broadcasting in New Orleans and tells the story of how African American on-air personalities transformed the medium. Analyzing a trove of primary data-including archived manuscripts, articles and display advertisements in newspapers, oral narratives of historical memories, and other accounts of African Americans and radio...
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This is the widely heralded adaptation of the short story by Kate Chopin, the late-19th-century writer whose work is only now receiving the major recognition it deserves. The setting is Kate Chopin's own world-the world of the upper-class Creole society that dominated New Orleans in the 1870s, a world with a strict code of behavior, one of whose strongest tenets required a wife to subordinate her will and her very being to her husband.
16) The red kimona
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A vulnerable young woman, whose blind trust in a man leads her into a New Orleans bordello, endures the hardships of that life, but is eventually driven to murdering her lover. A sympathetic jury acquits her and after a period of hardship she ultimately finds happiness.
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"New Orleans in its golden age of spectacular wickedness gained full stature as a city of sin and gaiety unique on the North American continent. Contributing to that sinful stature were river gamblers, pirates, Creoles, politicians, practitioners of voodoo, and the ladies of Basin Street and Storyville"--Back cover
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"Samuel Charters has been studying and writing about New Orleans music for more than fifty years. A Trumpet around the Corner: The Story of New Orleans Jazz is the first book to tell the entire story of a century of jazz in New Orleans. Although there is still controversy over the racial origins and cultural sources of New Orleans jazz, Charters provides a balanced assessment of the role played by all three of the city's musical lineages - African...
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