New Orleans News

Carriers did not want aircraft sitting around overnight when conditions could deteriorate because of Ida Monday, November 9, 2009 Tropical Storm Ida is prompting some flight cancellations at the New Orleans airport.

In 1986 LILLIAN was honoured by her city with the official title of 'Musical Ambassador' which had not been bestowed on a New Orleans musician since the world famous Louis Armstrong.

Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 09:00 PM Crystal Ballroom Portland, OR Ticketmaster BIO: In their fourteen years together as a band, celebrated Los Angeles culture-mashers Ozomatli have gone from being hometown heroes to being named U.S. State Department Cultural Ambassadors.

Veteran bluesman Jon Shain might traverse rural pockets in his tradition-rooted sojourns, but he's a mighty sophisticated tour guide.

Nicholas Payton has to be on the short list of the finest living jazz trumpeters.

"Look, a new day has begun." With those words from the show's best-loved song, "Memory," Grizabella the Glamour Cat, and all of her jumping Jellicle colleagues, brought the touring Broadway spectacle back to New Orleans for the first time in what seems to have been now and forever.

At a party last Sunday at the Dakota, for which club owner Lowell Pickett flew in New Orleans clarinetist Evan Christopher , we got a sneak peek of the plans for the club's 25th anniversary year.

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew inaugurated the 8th "Religion, Science and the Environment Symposium", which focuses on the Mississippi River, on Thursday in New Orleans.

This week, we've got three video clips featuring trumpeter Nicholas Payton , who will be in St.

Forget Method acting, forget in-depth role research, forget any of that fancy-dancy stuff they teach you in acting school.

WYNTON MARSALIS: The blues. It runs through all American music. Somebody bending the note.

Frontier Airlines today announced it will begin daily nonstop service from its hub at Denver International Airport to both Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport and Louisville International Airport .

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I , the spiritual leader of 250 million Orthodox Christians worldwide, opens a meeting today of environmental scientists, business leaders and public officials in New Orleans to discuss the environmental challenges facing both the area and the Mississippi River.

What does the Miami Marine Stadium have in common with such famous landmarks as Machu Picchu and the Old City of Jerusalem? All three have made it on the World Monument Fund's watch list for 2010 of monument's threatened by neglect or overdevelopment for 2010.

President Obama participates in a town hall meeting Thursday at the University of New Orleans.

President Barack Obama took off from Louis Armstrong International Airport this afternoon, completing a whirlwind tour of a New Orleans school and conducting a town hall meeting in his first visit here since becoming president nine months ago.

In his first presidential visit to this city, Barack Obama praised the resiliency of residents in rebuilding their flood-wrecked homes and promised to continue flowing federal dollars to the effort.

President Barack Obama is greeted by, from left, Louisiana Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu, Sen.

Barack Obama made his first presidential visit to New Orleans on Thursday seeking to reassure residents of his commitment to the city's recovery four years after the Bush administration's botched response to Hurricane Katrina.

The New York Times on Wednesday offered an article about local reactions to President Barack Obama's visit Thursday to New Orleans.