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...along the Gulf Coast, construction is driving the post-Katrina economic recovery, but the biggest and boldest bets in Mississippi are on gambling. Eight casinos are now open for business compared to 12 prior to Katrina, with more than 50,000 people employed either directly or in a support role. "By the end of this calendar year, the numbers will be pretty much where they were before Katrina," boasts Jerry St. P?, head of the Mississippi Gaming Commission. The gaming haul has certainly helped the revival. In January, the three casinos up and running reported astonishing revenues - 65% of what...
...casino players like the Golden Nugget bought land in Biloxi for casino development. Harrah's Casino, owner of the destroyed Grand Casinos in Gulfport and Biloxi, sold its Gulfport location, moved everything to Biloxi and bought out a smaller casino for future expansion. And, the crown jewel of coast casinos - the huge Beau Rivage in Biloxi - announced a massive renovation beyond its Katrina damage. It plans to observe the one-year anniversary of the storm with a grand reopening to salute returning employees...
Michael De Kort has a face made for YouTube. He's not especially handsome, his on-camera demeanor is not especially polished, and his choice of subject matter - refitted Coast Guard ships - is not especially compelling. But De Kort has become the online video-sharing site's latest media peg, thanks to his hijacking of the technology for use as a whistle-blower megaphone...
...White is one of those, driving a now familiar road between a temporary base in Houston and his shattered ancestral home in New Orleans, when the anguish pours out of him like the summer Gulf Coast rainstorm he is navigating. "The music of New Orleans you hear in the language, the rhythm in the way we walk, the way we gesture. The smells of the food, the way people sit on the stoop, the looks on the faces of the old people as they tell stories, the eccentricities of the way they dress," White said. "But you smell that smell...
...might think the spectacular cliffs and needle-like volcanic pinnacles that loom like a menacing picture postcard over the northeastern coast of the Isle of Skye in the Scottish Hebrides would have little need of adornment. But adorning unlikely physical spaces--natural and man-made--is what Angus Farquhar does. Farquhar, 44, is the founder of a Glasgow-based environmental-arts organization called NVA nva.org.uk that for nearly 15 years has been bringing Hollywood-scale lighting and acoustic effects to unusual places in Europe--a shipyard, a tramway, a gorge, a glen...