Quote of the Day

In New Orleans, the world always seemed a little askew. Oozing delightful eccentricity and a laissez-faire attitude, the city masked the grinding, generational poverty with bread and circuses. Free Mardi Gras beads and high unemployment, world class cuisine coupled with genuine hunger, European civility and street violence worthy of Somalia.

Beth Millbank, on her previous home in New Orleans. Beth, a co-worker, will be a regular contributor to the Raleigh News and Observor.

January 23rd, 2007