re: Worst city in America is hosting a high profile sporting event...

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new orleans culture is insanely overrated.

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More like under appreciated.

You can love the place or hate the place, but the fact remains that the city has inspired the works of William Faulkner, Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Elmore Leonard, Anne Rice. John Kennedy Toole, Andrei Codrescu, Lillian Hellman, Owen Brennan, Paul Prudhomme, Emiril Lagasse, Al Copeland, Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet, Dr John, Fats Domino, Lee Dorsey, Pete Fountain, Mahalia Jackson, Branford and Winton Marsalis, "King" Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, The Neville Brothers, Louis Prima, Allan Toussant, Irma Thomas to name a few, and did I mention that it is the birthplace of the most definitive American art form ever produced.

You can be heart broken about the way the city has been run for the last 50 years, but on the subject of culture, cities like Houston, Dallas, Austin, Memphis, Nashville, Atlanta and Miami couldn't pop a pimple on New Orleans tired arse.