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It's Mardi Gras! And no one does Mardi Gras like New Orleans! Here are some photos and a few choice blog entries from Mardi Gras 2005 in The Big Easy:

8:00pm Going Back to New Orleans UPN/KCOP - Music icon Deacon John Moore documents the unique culture of the Big Easy. 9:00pm Against the Tide: The Battle for New Orleans CNBC - The business side of the New Orleans recovery effort. 10:00pm Still Waiting: Life After Katrina PBS/KOCE An African American/Creole family returns to New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina, hoping to hold on to their bayou culture. 10:00pm DIY to the Rescue: Katrina Rebuild...

LAist is on the road and we're currently in the dirrrty South. Right in the middle of the touristy area of New Orelans we found ourselves outside a Tower Records. Tower, as you know, is going out of business, which only adds insult to injury for its New Orleans store, whose employees have been brutally affected by Katrina. Strangely, when we told them that we were from LA they asked us about Amoeba, which...

Donald Sterling is proving that he's still determined to shed his label for being cheap. Yesterday he re-signed his (almost) 37-yr old point guard Sam Cassell for two more years at $6.5 mil a year, and then he nearly doubled Phoenix's offer to Tim Thomas, who will probably be the Clippers' 6th man.

LAist looks back fondly on that sleepy morning a few years back when we reluctantly rolled out of bed and sat down to a breakfast made for us by celebrated chef Emeril Lagasse. Lagasse was the perfect gentleman, making us two different dishes so we could have our choice of flavors, and he did his trademark "Bam!" spicing right before our very eyes. But, before we could eat, the press was right there in our face, asking us prying questions. They even shoved a microphone in our face as we took our first bite, and let out a muffled "mmm!" of approval. Ah, what a day!

We've written at length about the New Orleans Saints situation, and how we would welcome the Saints in LA under the right circumstances, if they really were unable to play in the Big Easy. But the Hornets are an entirely different matter.