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  The New Orleans Biennial

  Ariella Cohen | Mon, Nov 17th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: New Orleans | Tags: new orleans, ariella cohen, ariella cohen, mel chin, kirsha kaechele, peter nadin, dan cameron, biennale, wangeshi mutu, prospect one | 1

  New Orleans is a hard city for good ideas.  It’s not that there is a lack of them, just the opposite. The city is full of good ideas — ideas that are never implemented. It’s a city full of displaced dreamers, talented people who come from all over to a place where success as it is defined elsewhere is overshadowed by indigenous social markers most often involving whiskey and parades.

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• The Daily Report

  A First Person View of Hurricane Gustav

  Ariella Cohen | Mon, Sep 8th, 2008 | Category: Report | City: New Orleans | Tags: new orleans, ariella cohen, ariella cohen, ray nagin, first person, hurricane gustav | 0

  When New Orleans’ mayor Ray Nagin predicted that Hurricane Gustav was going to be the “mother of all hurricanes,” he urged the city’s residents to get out of town or make one of the biggest mistakes of their lives. Writer Ariella Cohen stayed — and here’s what happened.

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• The Daily Report

  Gambling Can Be Addictive, For City Governments

  Ariella Cohen | Tue, Aug 26th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: New Orleans | Tags: new orleans, ariella cohen, ariella cohen, racetrack, gambling, ray nagin, harrah's | 0

  What is the role of gambling in New Orleans future: a) just another fun pastime; b) a way for the city to recover; c) not the kind of thing the city should invest in if it wants to have a serious economic engine; or d) all of the above. Ariella Cohen spends a day at the tracks and finds out. 

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