NOLAFugees.com
The NOLAFugees.com content from 2005-2011 is currently being archived and updated to our new platform. Please check back soon to review our chronicle of life in post-Katrina New Orleans. Much of the work is available in Our Books.
The front image of our second issue featuring Ray Nagin as Willy Wonka, from December 2005
NOLAFugees.com began publication in November of 2005 as a bi-weekly online magazine documenting life in New Orleans in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, ranging from the surreal to the peculiar to the gravely serious.
NOLAFugees.com was conceived as a response to the national media coverage of the flooding of the Crescent City. After witnessing the gross inaccuracies which served to document the greatest natural disaster in American history, we decided we’d try our hands at chronicling life in the wake of the storm.
Since November 2005, NOLAFugees.com has published the work of over 100 writers. Focusing on life in post-Katrina New Orleans, NOLAFugees.com offers a mix of satire, reviews, and dirty reportage to tell “the good, the bad, the dirty, the ugly and the profane.” Our content includes political and social commentary, coverage of local music and culture, iconoclastic first-person essays, and our trademark sharp and controversial satire that “blurs the lines” between fact and fiction in New Orleans.
Our mission is to provide another record of life in New Orleans, one that exists beyond the mainstream news, the alternative weeklies, the guidebooks and tourist commercials. As longtime residents of the Crescent City, we are partisans, but we are advocates for the city as it is, not the city as it is branded. Our New Orleans is wild, dangerous, and random. It is a city of great possibilities and of great failures. It is a city unlike any other.
Which is why we advocate Secession.
The writers of NOLAFugees have interviewed Mayoral & Congressional candidates, famous musicians/drug addicts, burlesque dancers, shadowy non-profits, teachers, douchebag actors, writers, snitches, Indians, policemen, trannies, service industry workers, & Sam Butera’s surviving family members. They have filed from France, Bulgaria, China, Portland, and Plaquemines, among other exotic locals.
None of them has ever been paid.
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