Mardi Gras revelers pack hopeful New Orleans
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NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana  - 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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Mardi Gras costumes were sparse but so were the crowds Tuesday as the annual extravaganza of parades and parties arrived earlier than usual because of a quirk in the calendar.
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Two recently announced projects for downtown New Orleans stand out as the first truly creative attempts to foster the cityâs resurrection.
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Colorful parades rolled through New Orleans on Tuesday as thousands of revelers turned out to celebrate Mardi Gras in the city still scarred by Hurricane Katrina.
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NEW ORLEANS -- New Orleans may have half the population it did before Hurricane Katrina, but the cash-strapped city still loves a party. To help pay for Mardi Gras, it's trying a new money source: text-messaged donations.
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Wearing beaded sunglasses with feathers, 83-year-old Lorraine&#13;&#10;McCaslin waved a green handkerchief as she danced in New Orleans'&#13;&#10;Woldenberg Park, ushering in what she says is her favorite time of year&#13;&#10; -  Mardi Gras
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Carnival season in New Orleans is the prime time to see all the crazy people. Just add their dogs to the mix, as they did Sunday, and it becomes the annual Krewe of Barkus parade.
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Tucked inside a $14.4 billion blueprint for the rebuilding of New Orleans is a proposal for a Hurricane Katrina monument on a grand, "Homeric" scale, like the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.
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NEW ORLEANS -- Marquise Hill had a lot of fans -- in life, not just football.
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The ravages of Katrina are still evident everywhere you turn. But there is reason for optimism in New Orleans. A city that once laughed at its colorful and inept political culture has found its civic pride.
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Come back to New Orleans and have a good time. That was the message the Saints' emotional homecoming in a rollicking, refurbished Louisiana Superdome gave the world, a tourism official said Tuesday.
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The cash-strapped city, which has borrowed heavily to continue operating after Hurricane Katrina, is turning to text-messaged donations in an effort to defray the costs of Mardi Gras, its premier cultural event.
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Despite slow progress in rebuilding some neighborhoods, New Orleans' population is nearing 300,000, or about 65 percent of its pre-Hurricane Katrina size, according to a new report.
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NEW ORLEANS -- Crowds were sparse and Mardi Gras costumes even sparser on Tuesday, with only a few people coming out before dawn to save spaces from which to watch what amounts to a day-long parade of parades - 11 of them, one after the other.
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New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin  predicted on Tuesday that the city's population, which has been  slow to recover after thousands were driven out by Hurricane  Katrina, would rebound strongly by the end of the year.
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The New Orleans Jazz &amp; Heritage Festival will go on, say organizers, despite losses of &#36;800,000 to &#36;900,000 on this year's event.
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New Orleans' Superdome stadium hosts its first game since Hurricane Katrina victims found refuge there last year.