Connell: New Orleans never disappoints

NEW ORLEANS -- Perhaps the best thing I can say about New Orleans is that it's pretty much the way I pictured it.

That's not meant as a backhanded compliment, either. I had certain expectations of the city, gleaned in equal measure from the media -- music, cuisine, crime, Katrina -- and from authors such as O. Henry, Anne Rice, John Grisham and the brilliant if ill-starred John Kennedy Toole.
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