Instead, the trip to the Big Easy marked the beginning of the Stewart era.
Crime is a major problem in the Big Easy, and the police department is under enormous strain.
But, as the Big Easy prepares to host the party-slash-national holiday it does like no other, Super Bowl Sunday, it's worth remembering that life has not yet returned to normal for everyone here.
The scrumptious Cajun cuisine and sweet jazz of New Orleans may make that city seem the perfect place for a fresh start--but the Big Easy is right now the toughest city in the U.S. for finding employment, according to the online job aggregator Indeed.com.
Throw in plucky Louisville and the Big East will be taking over the Big Easy this weekend.
Mercedes-Benz has left no camera angle to chance in its attempt to ensure saturation coverage of its sponsorship of the Super Dome and its embrace of the Big Easy that has included using the city as the location for the Super Bowl ad for the CLA Class.
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Bogies on the 17th and 18th holes saw Els' challenge fade and they could ultimately cost the "Big Easy" a spot at the Masters.
Star sightings have become increasingly commonplace in the Big Easy, from seeing Scarlett Johansson in the grocery story to having A-list neighbours such as Nicolas Cage and Sandra Bullock.
The Big Easy is earning a new nickname - the Hollywood of the South - as it becomes the third biggest centre of film production in the US behind Los Angeles and New York.
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Community celebrations in the city known as the Big Easy have been interrupted by gun violence in the past.
Hotels in the Big Easy are registering rate premiums of roughly 300% for the week leading up to the Super Bowl on Feb. 3 compared with the same week a year earlier, according to Pegasus Solutions, which processes reservations for nearly 100, 000 hotels globally.
In fact, they were shooting in the Big Easy as recently as two weeks ago, enabling them to include the latest developments in the ongoing federal investigations into the New Orleans Police Department.
With the best tax incentives in the U.S. for game makers, the Big Easy has attracted its first big game company with Gameloft, one of the largest mobile game publishers in the world.
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The industry knows the easy big money is to be made selling the dream.
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In the Big Easy, there is no choice of a dozen types of oysters from around the world: there are local gulf oysters, and it is simply a matter of how many you want.
From the start of this Super Bowl XLVII season, Mercedes-Benz has embraced an association with the Big Easy that began in earnest with a naming-rights deal that led to the placing of its iconic star emblem all over the Superdome in 2011 in full knowledge that the 2013 Super Bowl would be played there.
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But the biggest story this week in the Big Easy (as New Orleans is nicknamed), as happens every year, is the remarkable revenue the week-long Super Bowl celebration brings in to the host city, the television networks broadcasting the game, and the National Football League itself.
Because most of the big, easy-access reserves have already been tapped, the average well today is more complicated, takes longer to drill and yields less oil and gas than a decade ago.
The big returns of the 1990s made big stock returns seem easy too easy.
Instead the disaster brought new energy and a sense of purpose to the Big Easy.
But adjusting to the Big Apple wasn't easy at first for the two brothers.
Back in the Big Easy -- it's good to see you all. (Applause.) Thank you.
Unless other politicians are prepared to make some hard, expensive decisions, the Big Easy's future looks chaotic.
For once the Big Easy has earned this excuse to party, coming back to life better than ever.
Ingram heads into the Big Easy without any controversy hanging over his head.
And if there is any city in the US that knows how to celebrate a good thing, it is the Big Easy.
Even though it's called the Big Easy, this proud city and those who call it home, they know something about hardship.
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Should that happen, they may look back wistfully at their time in the Big Easy, wondering how things got so difficult.
We moved on to one of 1964's big toys: the Easy-Bake Oven, a working oven that used a light bulb to cook treats.
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