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New Orleans under threat from misconceptions

Looking toward the end of the year and 2011, there are two major challenges facing the city of New Orleans, the misconception created by the oil spill and the massive budget deficit that needs to be filled at a time when the city is still recovering from the devastation of Katrina in 2005.

New Orleans is a city famous for many things, as the setting of A Streetcar Named Desire, as the host city of the famous Mardi Gras, which is one of the most visited events in America, as a major hub for jazz and blues musicians and as the most celebrated city of the American South. Read more

No U.S. city celebrates indulgence like New Orleans. And often you can smell it, the unmistakable scent of last night's party on Bourbon Street.

In New Orleans, the food has more spice and more calories, the music is funkier and ends later, and the local characters are a little more colorful. In what other U.S. city would a voodoo priestess be buried next to the mayor's family? Or funerals be celebrated with a jazz band and a street dance?

These excesses and peculiarities will enchant anyone with a penchant for the romantic, the spiritual, the beautiful or the unusual.

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