New Orleans Is New, New, New Again

Voters pick US's grimiest places to vacation

(NEWSER) - Turns out the Big Easy might just as easily be the Big Sloppy: New Orleans has topped the list of the 20 dirtiest cities in America, as determined in a recent poll by Travel + Leisure Magazine. Trash, graffiti, quality of tap water, and pollution were all taken into consideration. Without further ado:

1. New Orleans: Voters weren't cutting Nawlins any slack for cleanup after Mardi Gras—or catastrophic weather events in the past decade...

Police consider foul play a possibility

(NEWSER) - Police suspect foul play in the disappearance of a Houston energy executive in New Orleans, though they admit they have little to go on. Douglas Schantz, president of Sequent Energy Management, was last seen in a bar on Bourbon Street around 2am on Friday, the Wall Street Journal reports. He casually left the group of friends he was with and hasn’t been heard from since. He missed his return flight to Houston. More»

Well, usually it's StreetcarCam, but come Carnival season...

(NEWSER) - For all those who can't make it down to New Orleans for Mardi Gras this year, the Times-Picayune has a solution: ParadeCam. Most of the year the camera that films the intersection of Napoleon Street and St. Charles Avenue is called StreetcarCam, but come Fat Tuesday...voila, a remote feed from a popular viewing spot. Click here to view the revelry happening at that location and others: The BourboCam shows the Bourbon Street party beginning at 4pm. More»

From why everyone feels disrespected to who wins

(NEWSER) - If you’re just getting up to speed on Sunday’s Super Bowl between the New Orleans Saints and Indianapolis Colts, Jason Gay has the insider’s guide to America’s “overcooked spectacle” of an homage to ancient Rome:

• The overarching theme is disrespect. The Saints feel it because analysts are picking the Colts to win; the Colts feel it because “America has fallen in hot, slobbery love with the Saints,” Gay writes in the Wall Street Journal .

New Orleans will be pair's only US appearance this year

(NEWSER) - Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel will be making their only US appearance of the year at the New Orleans Jazz Fest this April. Simon has played the festival before, but it's the first time the duo have ever appeared there together, organizers say. They join a lineup that already includes Aretha Franklin and Van Morrison. More»