New Orleans: Two Years Later

August 29, 2007

NEW ORLEANS : TWO YEARS LATER

Old city revels in a new spirit of innovation

It's difficult to nail down the last time this antique city was considered cutting edge.

August 27, 2007

A day in New Orleans

Los Angeles Times reporter Richard Fausset guides you on a day in the life of his former hometown, from daybreak to closing time, with diary entries that capture the faces and voices of a battered city that lives nonetheless by the defiant credo of its Mardi Gras Indian troupes: "We won't bow down."

August 25, 2007

After Katrina, hope and despair coexist

The middle-class homeowners who gathered here on a recent weeknight call themselves the Gentilly Civic Improvement Assn. It's an unexceptional name -- one that belies the epic challenges they face.