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...boiled crawfish (or crayfish, as they're known outside Louisiana). And there'll be plenty of that going on at the annual Breaux Bridge Crawfish Festival (bbcrawfest.com), held from May 5-7. Nicknamed "mudbugs" because of their natural habitat in the mud of the southern state's bayou or creeks, crawfish were once scorned as food for the poor. Today, however, they've been proudly adopted as a Cajun delicacy. Visitors to the festival in the city of Breaux Bridge will have a chance to sample a slew of popular Southern dishes-from boiled crawfish to crawfish étouff...
...Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder known outside Louisiana). And there'll be plenty of that going on at the annual Breaux Bridge Crawfish Festival bbcrawfest.com, held from May 5-7. Nicknamed "mudbugs" because of their natural habitat in the mudof the southern state's bayou or creeks, crawfish were once scorned as food for the poor. Today, however, they've been proudly adopted as a Cajun delicacy...
...it’s still only one family in a city where you drive block after block after block, and it’s all the same. And if you drive out of the city, you drive into Mississippi and Alabama and back down to the bayou.”Morgan trailed off, as if seeing the destruction.In the Ninth Ward, a heavily flooded, poor neighborhood where several undergraduate teams worked over spring break, rusty cars had been turned upside down and rugs flung over tree branches. One porch was missing its house. On it sat a single folding chair...
After high-profile alleged frauds like Refco's and another this summer at hedge fund Bayou Management, where managers shut down the firm without notice, the call for strict oversight is growing. Largely unregulated investment pools for institutions and the wealthy, hedge funds make big bets--up or down--on stocks, bonds, commodities and currencies. Officials are investigating trading records at 35 institutions as part of their probe into naked short selling. And starting in February, hedge-fund advisers must register with...
...trees have been dead for a decade or more, victims of man-made canals that carry brackish water from Lake Pontchartrain, poisoning the cypress. Biologists call this a ghost swamp, one of many throughout the delta. When Katrina's winds howled in from the lake, the thinned forest around Bayou LaBranche could do little to buffer the impact on the communities of Norco and Good Hope to the south. Nor could the area's old marshland slow the storm surge that followed; most of the marsh had long since been turned into a salty lake...