Rickie Castrillo learned to play guitar when he was just 7-years-old and spent much of his life reveling in the music that filled the smoke-filled clubs of New Orleans. He learned the guitar at the ...

The home video material, coupled with archival news footage and film verite capturing the couple's journey, led to the ...

On Aug. 19, 2005, a tropical wave formed in the Caribbean, one of many that hurricane season. But this one would evolve into one of the most devastating storms in U.S. history. Ten days later, after ...

Displaced by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Karen Riley Simmons is finally returning to her New Orleans home after 20 years in ...

It’s been 20 years since Hurricane Katrina, the costliest and fourth-deadliest hurricane in U.S. history, hit New Orleans as a Category 3 storm. Ivor van Heerden may know more about Louisiana’s ...

Hurricane Katrina left scars across Louisiana and Mississippi that are still evident 20 years later. Katrina claimed at least 1,392 lives — both during the storm and in its aftermath — and was America ...

NEW ORLEANS — Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the U.S. Gulf Coast with catastrophic storm surge and flooding, New Orleans marked the storm’s anniversary Friday with solemn memorials, ...

Timed to the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, a slate of new documentaries — including a feature-length episode directed by the Oscar-winning filmmaker — are at their best when foregrounding the ...

Twenty years ago, on Aug. 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina cemented itself in history as one of the deadliest and most devastating disasters to strike the United States. Katrina claimed the lives of 1,392 ...

When Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans on Aug. 29, 2005, floodwaters overwhelmed the iconic Charity Hospital, shuttering the historic 20-story complex in the heart of downtown. Two decades later, ...

Over this past week, we at EssentiallySports have been paying homage to one of the NFL’s greatest quarterbacks: Drew Brees. Brees is one of five former NFL players that are going to be inducted into ...