I know the New York Times isn't the end all be all of the best on the internet, but a number of the slide shows they produced over the course of covering New Orleans after Katrina have stuck in my mind over the many months since.
A photographer relays his experience in the area during and after Katrina in New Orleans Revisited. (Click on the Return Trip tab. I can't seem to link to it directly.) His photographs and audio account give a more robust portrait of New Orleans "after the storm" than you typically get from a news outlet. He shows the destruction, but also captures a bit of the culture that makes the city unique. At the end of the show you see and hear the Treme Brass Band. They are playing the wedding I'm attending this weekend down there, and I expect to be parading behind them at some point in the next 72 hours. I hope you all are jealous!
If you have time, the Then and Now slide show on the tab in the top-left corner is also quite good.
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This slideshow does a great job of capturing the stories of the people (i.e. the mayor of Miro street) of New Orleans and offering a ray of hope in a bleak, often impossibly hopeless situation. While acknowledging that restoration may take 10 years or more, this slideshow captures the spirit of those who don't get up, which is encouraging, and offers a perspective other than the Blame Bush manifesto which seems all too pervasive.
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