Arts, Briefly: Wonder Returning to New Orleans
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Stevie Wonder, right, will perform at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival after an absence of 35 years, The Associated Press reported. On May 2 Mr. Wonder is scheduled to headline the second weekend of this yearâs event, along with Billy Joel, Sheryl Crow and Tim McGraw. The festival will be held from April 25 to April 27, and from May 1 to May 4. Headlining the festivalâs opening day are Ms. Crow, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss. Also scheduled to perform are Dr. John, Al Green, Elvis Costello and Allen Toussaint. Performers on the second weekend include Randy Newman, Widespread Panic, Aaron Neville and Santana. The event, with more than 1,000 musicians, is held at a racetrack where 11 stages and tents are set up. This year features a particularly strong lineup of female jazz singers, including Patti Austin, Cassandra Wilson, Dianne Reeves, Diana Krall and Ruby Wilson.
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Next week brings the return of the famous Leonid meteor shower, a meteor display that over the past several years has brought great anticipation and excitement to sky watchers around the world.
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Million-dollar Antebellum beauties are up for grabs in New Orleans' history-rich part of town.
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Don Giovanni and the Big Top are returning to Turkmenistan.
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Ticket sales have been far from spectacular, but Ivan Neville says performing at the same Hurricane Katrina anniversary concert Tuesday night as Stevie Wonder is going to be incredible no matter how many people are there.
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By Kristi Dyes  kdyes@@dailyherald.com  During a night on the town last fall at a local restaurant, Lynn Bruesewitz struck up a conversation with a stranger.  The man was a musician from Louisiana who had experienced first- hand the devastating impact of Hurricane Katrina.
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A modest archaeological museum in Aidone, Sicily, is heralding the return of two sixth-century B.C. marble sculptures.
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ARABI, La. -- Honie Bauer was the first to move back.
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NEW ORLEANS, Florida  - Mardi Gras revelers packed New Orleans on Saturday as large crowds turned out to watch parades and fill the French Quarter in what many viewed as another step in the long recovery from Hurricane Katrina.
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Drawings, photographs and sculptures on display at the New Orleans Museum of Art are good indicators of how children are coping with the trauma of Hurricane Katrina.
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NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 29 -- President Bush marked the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina by trying to reassure the people of the Gulf Coast that they are not forgotten, declaring that "the town is coming back" at an appearance Wednesday in the devastated Lower Ninth Ward.
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Carnival revelers streamed into the city Saturday &#151; and Mardi Gras organizers hoped to throw such a fantastic party that visitors would vow to return to this tourist-dependent city again.
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New Orleans will host the 2008 NBA All-Star Game, the league announced Monday, providing a boost to a beleaguered city still recovering from the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
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Service has returned to the historic St. Charles streetcar line in New Orleans, but there are far fewer riders than before Hurricane Katrina.
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Stevie Wonder has not performed at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival in 35 years, and has never headlined the event. Organizers want to change that this year.
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Vivica Genaux, an international star, particularly in the early-music world, is making her return to New York opera.
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Spike Lee plans to return to New Orleans for HBO to follow up the stories told in last year's four-hour documentary about the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina.