And there was plenty of praise for the city, pictures of players helping build houses and other charity photo-ops, and sincere shout-outs to the rest of the world for caring, during the bacchanal weekend known as the NBA All-Star Game.Īll of it added up to more iterations of the New Orleans-is-coming-back story that has become a staple both of news coverage in general and travel industry hype in particular. Barack Obama claimed three-fourths of the local vote in the Louisiana primary, part of his post-Super Tuesday winning streak. Mardi Gras, the third since Hurricane Katrina, came early with each passing year the visiting media seems less and less in awe that New Orleans actually got it together to throw a big party, again. The year 2008 started out busy in the Big Easy.
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