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...real estate along the Mississippi River. The French, it turns out, knew what they were doing when they built the Vieux Carre at the bend in the river. That section of the city didn't flood after Hurricane Katrina, even after the levees broke, because it was on higher ground. Now, while homeowners in suburban New Orleans worry that neighborhoods will be bulldozed for parks and greenways, the moneymen are hoping to lure people back into the city to live nearer the waterfront...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Orleans: A Future by the River? | 3/2/2006 | See Source »

...Inner New Orleans is ripe for a similar rebirth: It has the highest number of blighted and derelict houses-over 30,000-that could bring homeowners and developers back to neighborhoods like Treme, a rundown version of Uptown. "New Orleans has many historical neighborhoods with fantastic houses on high ground. We could make it richer architecturally on less land without displacing anybody involuntarily," says Kroloff. Downside? "People in New Orleans may have to trade their ranchburger lifestyle for an urban lifestyle," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Orleans: A Future by the River? | 3/2/2006 | See Source »

Reeves transferred to Harvard after his freshman year at Trinity College and remembers his first visit to the Harvard Square of the 1960’s, which back then was teeming with street musicians, Hare Krishna chanters, and “hippies with no shoes sitting on the ground...

Author: By Ximena S. Vengoechea, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Outside the Box | 3/1/2006 | See Source »

...video ditches the carefree fun, wit, and danceability that made every MTV-2-watching teen with a guitar dream of hitching to the East Village and enlisting in the band. “I don’t write better when I’m stuck in the ground,” and “All our friends, they’re laughing at us,” are some decidedly unhappy lyrics, particularly so from the newly-married leader of a superstar group whose concerts sell out in eleven minutes. The Strokes seem to have lost some...

Author: By Adam J. Scheuer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Pop Screen - The Strokes | 3/1/2006 | See Source »

...signing a “Never Be Ordinary” pact, and thus ensuring from the start that the book will never be boring. They go back each summer to the Vineyard, where Caitlin strings Vix along. Caitlin is manipulative, but ultimately she needs Vix as a rock to ground her own manic moods. For Vix, Caitlin is like a drug; dangerous yet incredibly tempting, one snort and Vix is hooked yet again...

Author: By Margot E. Edelman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Tome Raider: Summer Sisters | 3/1/2006 | See Source »

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