His memories of the old Orleans school system, pre-Katrina, were completely negative, and one thing stood out in his mind.
In the classroom, Feinberg is relentless in her efforts to make up for years lost in the old Orleans school system, and the months of instruction lost to the storm.
It is striking here that no one ever says they want their old New Orleans back.
For Gress, it's an update of how horns intertwine in old New Orleans jazz.
He says the air around his old New Orleans house still carries the stench left by post-hurricane floods.
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Those seeking a taste of old New Orleans, as well as the amenities of a larger hotel, could hardly do better than the Maison Orleans.
After Hurricane Katrina forced it to close in 2005, the hotel reopened in 2009, completely renovated with a long walnut bar, elegant tile floor and white coat-wearing wait staff, nodding to the former opulence of old New Orleans.
The old New Orleans had some of the highest poverty and murder rates in the country, and so well before Hurricane Katrina was ever a blip on the radar screen, Pres Kabakoff was wrestling with how to make his hometown more liveable and attractive.
Renovation is not quite accurate - after being devastated by Hurricane Katrina, the 30-year old Hyatt Regency New Orleans basically needed to be rebuilt.
Brian (Baby) Williams, a 28-year-old rap star from New Orleans, is obsessed with Burberry .
Brian (Baby) Williams, a 28-year-old rap star from New Orleans, Louisiana, is obsessed with Burberry.
Only 37 years old, he has represented Orleans Parish in the state legislature since 2000.
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Recovery School District spokeswoman Siona LaFrance says most job applicants taught New Orleans kids before in the old locally controlled system, but some of them don't even qualify for interviews now.
That's when New Orleans will turn 300 years old, or if you start over and count time forward from the storm -- as so many in this region were forced to do -- it will be in its 13th year of renewal.
It may be crowded and chaotic, but to 48-year-old Teddy Griffin(ph) of New Orleans, his new home in San Antonio is fine.
Even the businesses lining the perimeter are the same: Panther City Firearms, the old Putt-Putt course, a New Orleans-themed strip club and the Ace check-cashing emporium directly behind the 17th tee.
Her son, 22-year-old Quentin, was somewhere at the sprawling New Orleans convention center amid thousands of desperate people who were stranded after Hurricane Katrina.
When Nancy took her older son, 24-year-old Ryan Lanza, to see a concert in New Orleans, Adam didn't join them.
One of them was a 23-year-old musician who can't afford to stay in New Orleans unless - if it weren't for Habitat because the rent's gotten so high.
But with recent stories of destruction and death still echoing in New Orleans, fewer tourists are coming here to hear these old ghost stories.
But I think there's New Orleans fatigue, not - and it's become old news and I think that's sad and I think maybe we need to bring some of the issues about the rebuilding of New Orleans back into the news, and I think violence - senseless violence like this has become part and parcel of how it goes down in New Orleans, sadly.
She's selling the homes of old friends who've decided they've had enough of New Orleans.
Two days before that, the 6-foot-3 28-year-old was sitting on his couch, watching the Giants get pasted by the New Orleans Saints.
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It was 57 years ago that Jerome Smith, then 10 years old, removed the screen that acted as a barrier between white and black passengers on a New Orleans streetcar.
Tianlang Guan, the 14-year-old sensation at last week's Masters, tees it up again Thursday at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans.
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The 37-year-old Indian-American is often mentioned as a possible running-mate, but the McCain campaign scrubbed the New Orleans trip and said the Jindal meeting will be rescheduled.
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