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New Orleans Stripper New orleans stripper Continue The poet Wallace Stevens once wrote: Death is the mother of beauty. New Orleans, on the other hand, is busy illustrating the consequence of the fact that almost death produces its own miracles. From the hanging gardens that shimmer on the iron lace balconies in the French quarter to the dozens of first-class restaurants filled with diners, The Big Easy is experiencing a moment of heightened beauty and pleasure. In the two years since Hurricane Katrina, the city's sense of tragedy and fatalism has increased, but as has its dark humour. This humid place at the mouth of the Mississippi still looks and feels like a Franco-African colony under the ferocious subtropical sun, with endless blocks of bright Creole cottages framed by palm wreaths and banana trees. But just take a satirical new weekly called New Orleans Levy and read his mundane motto: We don't hold back anything. The fun, riddled with pain and resilience, is an emotional cocktail too strong for some former residents who have fled to more drought-stricken places. As the out-of-town muttered to his wife recently during a tour of the affected areas, Peoria looks better and better all the time, darling. But others joined the party in this low- powered, hurricane-ridden city founded in 1718 by The King-Baptiste Le Moin, Syeur de Bienville, as a convenient port of the New World. Today it is the fourth largest in the country. Energetic young people are joining the work of Habitat for Humanity and other voluntary institutions. Even more fish dropped anchor. Andreas Duani, the architect of the new urbanism, opened an office here and purchased a cottage in Faubourg Marigny. And in January last year, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt paid $3.5 million for a mansion in the French quarter and were spotted dining everywhere from Antoine (a great heirloom, a reluctant meal, transporting atmosphere) to Angeli on Decatur (pizza-and-sandwich joint, vintage movies). Pitt is also working with Global Green USA to build homeless homes in lower Ninth Ward. What is it that these people can't resist? In New Orleans, we've always had the opportunity to enjoy our own flaws and increase them for the sake of drama and self-entertainment, explains Patrick Dunn, dapper owner of an equally natty French quarter antique shop, Lucullus. Everything we do is, in fact, theatrical - the color of our houses, the color of our people, the color of our language. These things have become even more valuable for us, he continues. We almost lost them and it could all be washed away so far. New Orleans as a lover who you know will leave you. Taxis from Louis Armstrong's New Orleans International Airport to the center of hotels, travelers can get confused because everything looks so normal. It's an illusion, this functional corridor. Eighty percent of the larger New Orleans was flooded the parts look like they were a nuclear bombardment. And it has to be Ignoring the destruction means that there is no fascinating scientific and engineering history unfolding in real time. Isabelle's tours will take you to your hotel in a comfortably chilled van and then, if you like, a tour guide to drop you off at the bar. Truth in advertising: This experience tends to cause cravings for straight-up martinis, as well as the kind of 80-proof hurricanes that come in cups. They say that if a historical conservationist had designed a storm to beat New Orleans, it would have been Katrina, who spared the old neighborhoods embracing the river while sinking similar units built on marshy ground. Because they suffered only wind and rain damage, the French quarter, Faubourg Marigny, Warehouse and Garden areas, and much of Uptown returned to gear. After two years of renovation and countless new roofs, the buildings look glossier than ever. For newcomers, it is necessary to stroll the French quarter, the Old World core of the city, set out in 1722. Visit the most elegant buildings of the 18th and 19th centuries: the Old Monastery of Ursulin, St. Louis Cathedral, Presbyterian, Cabildo. The soap opera lurks in the history of Pontalba Buildings, two rows of red brick apartments with ruffled balconies that flank Jackson Square. In 1848 - after she suffered near-fatal gunshot wounds inflicted by her father-in- law, who wanted her condition - Baroness Michaela de Pontalba financed and helped design these historical beauties, mixing the creole style with the fashionable Greek renaissance flavours captured during her years in France. Those who crave lesser-known sights should head to the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, a striking complex of modern and historic buildings in the Warehouse district. Under the auspices of philanthropist and collector Roger Ogden, the country's largest collection of Southern art is located here. Aim for a sunset visit, so you can wander to the rooftop terrace of Stephen Goldring Hall and take in the picture the perfect view of the Crescent City bridge connection and the giddy urban feel that is rare in this flat, horizontal city. Ogden's newest gem is the beautiful Renaissance Romanesque Library of 1889, designed by legendary architect Henry Hobson Richardson. Closed since the 1930s, it was recently reopened in the middle of a renovation curator tired of waiting for perfection. If the art gallery looks skeletal, consider it part of the zeitgeist. In the stunning oak rotunda, the sun's ramparts illuminate the tails of the rafters, the ends of which are carved into the delicate heads of griffins, a little like the paws of Viking ships. Magazine Street, a exuberant shopping district that winds along the river for six miles, runs from liquor boutiques to wine bars. Trendy antiques, clothing and home furnishings stores sit next to modest like Edward's shoe service, his facade adorned with mardi gras beads, Spanish Spanish Spanish wooden lasts, and signs that may someday be hung as folk art: I will HEEL YOU. I'LL SAVE YOUR SOLE. I'LL EVEN PAINT FOR YOU. Next door to shoe renovations, Katie Be, of the swanky Rhode Island School of Hail Design, sells beautiful, artist-made jewelry in the store that bears her name. Nearby, in Bush Antiques, sophisticated shoppers wander through dim rooms, casually arranged with French, English and Italian objects, awash with carefree patina. And deeper into Uptown, posh bohemian women snap cool Indian cotton and indie label designer clothes at Pied Nu, which also stocks glamorous jewelry, bedding, accessories and furniture. After this effort, a lazy lunch followed by a lingering dinner de rigueur. Restaurants are a major part of life in New Orleans. I almost cried when I first went back to Gautreau's, says writer-director Robert Harling as he polishes from the 2003 Dominus Cabernet Sauvignon and Lemon Cream Brulee. The man who put the words in Dolly Parton's mouth in Steel Magnolia is a big fan of this classic hideaway, revived after Katrina's overhaul with an impressive trompe l'oeil mural featuring heaving silk. Local table aristocrats jumping around it look just as relieved as the children, whose favorite playground has finally been unlocked. Almost all the chefs of the first line of the city returned to their ovens. If you didn't have a festive fountain in Galatuar or an elegant meal in Bayonne in the French quarter, no matter how much you indulge. The same goes for the Commander's Palace, the tower fantasy opposite the cemetery in the Garden District. At warehouse district in August, the tireless chef John Resch cultivated a power scene fueled by lush, French-inspired cuisine, whimsical service and the 2006 James Beard Foundation award. Nearby, in Cochon, an urbane location that opened after a storm, 2007 Beard laureate Donald Link deftly offers a deliciously exquisite version of Cajun fare he grew up on-crayfish pies, chicken liver with jelly peppers, and juicy roasted pigs. In Lilette, a bistro with vanilla-colored leather cabin flags of old Thunderbird seats, John Harris woos fans with white truffle-parmesan toast served with wild mushrooms and brains, as well as what might be the best fried chicken in these parts. In New Orleans, it always helps if you're a person with a range, so after dinner with high flyers and mannered natives, head raffish music clubs. Night after night, local musicians fill the stages, a surprising number of them focused on three effervescent blocks of French Street, down the river from the French quarter. Many work a wealthy New Orleans idiom, which is part of the great language of jazz. In a burnt-out dark corner called d.b.a., the favorite singer by John Butte pours his voice, overcast with gospel and jazz, over the grateful crowd. It's his usual Saturday night concert, and and one on this one. He then slips into a peculiar rendition of Louisiana's 1927 ballad, Randy Newman's ballad Recounting the Great Mississippi Flood 80 years ago, leaving nearly one million people homeless. The river went up all day / The river rose all night / Some people got lost during the flood / Some people left in order. Listeners bow their heads. There are screams, a goose bump in my throat. At one point, the singer turned the bar into a church. Next door at Snug Harbor, the city's main jazz club, clarinetist Dr. Michael White and his original Liberty Jazz Band embroider the air with frisky Kid Ory in Muskrat Ramble. Doctors, hipsters and young couples huddled over tiny cocktail tables look like a happy surprise.
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