Hurricane Katrina may have amped it up, but New Orleans tchotchkes still big after four years

New Orleans' love affair with itself is one of the historical, parochial, unifying and sometimes cloying characteristics of this city. For instance, very few of us feel the need to append any facts, statistics or evidence to the perpetual claim that is ours: "The most interesting city in America."

Story from Times Picayune by Chris Rose

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