New Orleans Ballet Association to present the best of MOMIX on Friday & Saturday, October 26 & 27, 2007, at 8 p.m., at Dixon Hall, Tulane University.

New Orleans Ballet Association to present Estampas Porteñas: tango fire on Friday, Feb. 8 and Saturday, Feb. 9, 2008, at Dixon Hall, Tulane University.

Aspen Santa Fe Ballet will perform at New Orleans on Friday, March 28 and Saturday, March 29, 2008, at Dixon Hall, Tulane University.

New Orleans Ballet Association features ‘Absolute Ballet’: dancers from Pacific Northwest Ballet on Friday, May 9 and Saturday, May 10, 2008, at Dixon Hall, Tulane University.

River North Chicago Dance Company will make its debut at New Orleans, on Friday, Feb. 29 and Saturday, March 1, 2008, at Freda Lupin Memorial Hall, NOCCA Riverfront.

Two years ago, UC Berkeley civil engineer Bob Bea made national headlines critiquing New Orleans' levees and flood control system that failed under the onslaught of Hurricane Katrina. Now he is equally damning about the reconstruction efforts by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to make the city safer.

A New Orleans brass band led feathered dancers through the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, kicking off the three-day Essence Music Festival on Thursday.

63rd anniversary of original D-Day invasion at Normandy also marks annual meeting of Museum's National Board of Directors at New Orleans.

The nation's first study to examine African Americans' evacuation response in a disaster has found that a combination of poverty, optimism about riding out the hurricane, and perceptions of racism by authorities coordinating the evacuation influenced many people not to leave New Orleans before Hurricane Katrina, researchers at the University of South Carolina have found.