New architecture in an old city: Is resurgent New Orleans losing its soul?
The author argues for architecture that honors the beauty of the city in which it stands.
Category: Opinion
Perspectives and reflections that challenge, question, and inspire. This category features thought-provoking essays and commentary from writers, community members, and photographers offering insight into the issues, ideas, and experiences that shape New Orleans and beyond.
Grow Dat’s City Park farm yields an unexpected crop: good jobs for youth
At Grow Dat, our mission is to nurture a diverse group of young leaders through the meaningful work of growing food.
Hard work brings homelessness in New Orleans below pre-Katrina levels
Unity of Greater New Orleans has set a huge goal for the year ahead.
Just when we need it most, Nola.com’s commentgate archive is in disarray
These omissions and mysteries are more than just a nuisance to Commentgate obsessives.
Is Frenchmen still cool — or just a Bourbon Street for hipsters?
The ultra-hip have concluded that Frenchmen Street is already too well-known to confer “underground” cred.
Google ruling seeks fine line between privacy and the public’s right to know
How do you “start over” when anyone who googles your name knows you were once a coke-fueled maniac dressed in, say, a chicken outfit?
Unlearning Katrina’s lesson: Bills would again make levee board a governor’s plaything
Citizens for 1 Greater New Orleans urges legislators to stand with your constituents and vote against SB 553.
Jindal dances around the truth, disguising anti-gay bigotry as freedom of speech
Instead of veiling it with code words, Jindal should own his gender discrimination. File some lawsuits, settle the constitutional question, already!
BP revisited: ‘Safer than ever’ may not be safe at all when it comes to offshore rigs
Journalists who buy into Big Oil's talking points would have us believe BP-style spills are a thing of the past.
Holy Cross condo plan: Are we already abandoning post-Katrina reforms?
The community senses that its input, including a 74-page argument to uphold currently legal height limits, is losing ground to an overblown development scheme.
