Harry Shearer: A New Orleans Diary – Leaving Town, After Six Months

It’s one thing to be in love with New Orleans, as I have been for almost two decades. It’s another thing entirely to spend almost the entire first half of the year in the city, as it’s roller-coastered from Super Bowl-inspired ecstasy to oil-spill-driven gloom. No city has traveled so far on the emotional spectrum so fast…

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