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- [|Wikipedia]
 * New Orleans** is a major port and the largest city and metropolitan area in the state of Louisiana. The city is named after the Duke of Orleans, who reigned as Regent for Louis XV from 1715 to 1723, as it was established by French colonists and strongly influenced by their European culture.

Headlines
[] [|jean_lafitte_park.html] [|french-quarter-festival-reveals-stacked-lineup] - [|@offbeatmagazine] [|10 years after Katrina, The Lens and PolitiFact check up on Obama's campaign promises - The Lens] [|New Orleans Museums Reckon With Recovery] [|New Orleans: The Crescent and the Shadow - BBC4] [] []

Flickr Groups
[|New Orleans] [|New Orleans Photography]

Tourism Portals
[] [] [|@NewOrleans] [|@NewOrleansCVB] [|@StayLocal]

The [|New Orleans Convention and Visitors Bureau] is the official resource for convention and tourism inquiries in the Big Easy. [|@NewOrleansCVB]

Government
http://www.nola.gov - [|@MayorLandrieu] http://www.nola.gov/mayor/press-releases http://www.nola.gov/mayor/press-releases/2014/20140422-tourism-numbers

News
[|The Times-Picayune] http://thelensnola.org - [|@TheLensNOLA]

Recommended Listening
[] [|Bourbon Street: a history] - Ersatz and phony or noble and vital. Richard Campanella serves up a spicy analysis of the world's "most disorganised street". [|LNL in New Orleans]

Recommended Viewing
[]

City Parks
[] - [|@NOLACityPark]

[|Jean Lafitte National Historical Park]

The six sites of Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve are scattered through south Louisiana, from the bayous to the prairies. [|Facebook] [|@JeanLafitteNPS]

Transportation
L Armstrong Airport

Elsewhere on the Web
http://www.bestofneworleans.com http://fixthepumps.blogspot.com [] [] [|Five Years After Katrina: "New Orleans is Blossoming Again"] American Red Cross: Southeast Louisiana Chapter Common Ground Relief Rebuilding Together New Orleans Make It Right NOLA Make It Right Foundation Preservation Resource Center Broadmoor Improvement Association Gulf Coast Recovery LEVEES.ORG New Orleans Film Society Louisiana Water Environmental Organization Baton Rouge Audubon Society Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana Louisiana Environmental Action Network Louisiana Audubon Council [|Outbounding]

book stores
http://www.octaviabooks.com 513 Octavia Street (corner of Laurel) [|@octaviabooks]

Movies
[|a-locals-take-on-the-now-online-hurricane-katrina-documentary-the-big-uneasy]

Twitter
[|@nolacampanella] [|@NewOrleans] [|@NOLACityPark] [|@StayLocal] [|@TheLensNOLA] [|@octaviabooks]

Wikipedia
[|New_Orleans] [|Ivor_van_Heerden] [|2005_levee_failures_in_Greater_New_Orleans]

Buzzword Bingo
Food, Music and Party - French Corner - Jackson Square - Katrina

Questions

 * 1) usalocaltravel Q: Who are the top local walking guides in New Orleans?
 * 2) usalocaltravel Q: What are the recommended docs and apps for exploring New Orleans?

[|TCBHOA Hangout]
[|@alastairmck]

This week Travel Coffee Break focuses attention on one of the USA's most unique, historic, charismatic (and recently unlucky), cities - New Orleans. [|Event link]; Host: +[|Alastair McKenzie]

+[|Mike Young], may live in the Netherlands now, but his roots are in South Louisiana, so this is very much his territory, and he's preparing one of his excellent guidebook presentations on what to do, see, eat and enjoy in New Orleans. Mike's website: http://neworleanseasytravelguide.com

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