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Preview: A Weekend successful New Orleans

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Hosted by Jane Pauley

COVER STORY: Welcome to New Orleans
In the 1930s, it's said that playwright and longtime New Orleans nonmigratory Tennessee Williams counted the metropolis among America's apical three. "Everywhere else," his saying goes, "is Cleveland." Known arsenic a thriving hub for art, civilization and cuisine, New Orleans has besides faced its stock of challenges — fires, wars, diseases, hurricanes and, astir recently, a violent onslaught — and survived. Correspondent Lee Cowan shines a airy connected the city's affluent history, and the resilience of the radical who unrecorded there.

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ARCHITECTURE: Longue Vue House
Host Jane Pauley visits Longue Vue House, a 20th-century property and architectural masterpiece designed by Ellen Biddle Shipman.

BRAND NEW YOU: Can you redesign a personality?
For years, writer Olga Khazan hated overmuch of her ain personality. So, contempt the communal presumption that quality traits are immutable erstwhile a idiosyncratic reaches a definite age, Khazan acceptable retired to alteration hers. Correspondent Susan Spencer explores the tract of property science, and hears from a prof astatine the University of Kentucky whose probe successful that country could beryllium a game-changer for intelligence wellness treatments.

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FLOWER POWER: The past creation of Hawaiian lei-making
Hawaii is renowned for lei-making, an past contented that's inactive fashionable connected the land today. But the aboriginal of the trade could beryllium successful peril, arsenic angiosperm farms vanish and remaining onshore overheats owed to the effects of clime change. Correspondent Jonathan Vigliotti sits down with Meleana Estes, a Hawaiian autochthonal who learned the creation of making leis from her grandmother. He besides attends this year's yearly Lei Day Festival, held annually successful Waikiki since 1929, and meets Island Boy laminitis Andrew Mau, who's reinventing what a lei tin be.

EASY DOES IT: The French Quarter's historical ironwork, and the craftsmen who support it alive
A metropolis known for its centuries-old ironwork needs an adept who tin support it looking similar new. Correspondent Michelle Miller, the erstwhile archetypal Lady of New Orleans, is our usher to immoderate of its astir iconic designs. She meets with Darryl Reeves, 1 of conscionable a fistful of restoration blacksmiths inactive moving successful New Orleans, wherever vintage, wrought robust pieces past successful the French Quarter.

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DESIGNING OUTSIDE: Since the COVID-19 pandemic, outdoor surviving continues to thrive
Throughout history, the American backyard has greatly evolved. Even aft the pandemic forced radical to walk much clip outside, outdoor surviving spaces person go a booming business, to the tune of astir $10 cardinal a year. Correspondent David Pogue talks with "House Beautiful" editor-in-chief Joanna Saltz astir the trends and visits a location with Foxterra Design cofounder Justin Fox to spot conscionable however immoderate radical are taking their interior plan outside.

HIDE AND SEEK: Secret passageways to history
Correspondent Nancy Giles goes successful hunt of hidden rooms, and finds immoderate of them successful the astir unexpected places. Giles speaks to Steven Humble, the laminitis of Creating Home Engineering, which specializes successful gathering concealed passageway doors and high-security panic rooms. She besides hears from April Tucholke, who researches hidden spaces and says the phenomena of concealed rooms goes backmost centuries.

BEYOND GUMBO: How puerility meals inspired 2 chefs' acclaimed menus
New Orleans is known for its music, Mardi Gras and, especially, its food. Correspondent Mo Rocca visits with 2 award-winning chefs who created bonzer menus by reaching backmost into their puerility memories of cooking and culture. Rocca speaks with Nina Compton and her husband, Larry Miller, astir the interaction of St. Lucia connected the cooking astatine Compere Lapin, and with cook Serigne Mbaye and his concern spouse Dr. Effie Richardson, who bring a Senegalese spirit to the nutrient astatine Dakar Nola.

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RIDE IN STYLE: New Orleans transit authoritative says streetcars are integral to the city's individuality — here's why
By the 1960s, New Orleans had replaced astir each of its streetcars with buses. But immoderate continued connected humming. Lona Edwards Hankins, the CEO of the New Orleans Transit Authority, tells analogous Michelle Miller that arsenic the metropolis reintroduced modern streetcars successful caller decades, it besides maintained a fewer originals. Anthony Maggio, a seasoned machinist, shares however helium and an service of craftsmen support them running.

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NO PLACE LIKE HOME: Christian Bale is connected a ngo to support foster siblings together
Actor Christian Bale won praise for his titular show successful the "Batman" franchise, and now, he's connected a ngo to assistance kids who could usage a real-life superhero. Bale is helping to physique Together California, a foster attraction location designed to support orphaned siblings from being separated. He talks to analogous Tracy Smith astir his inspiration for the project.

ITALY: Prehistoric homes successful Puglia
Correspondent Seth Doane travels to confederate Italy for a look astatine its magical peaked Trulli houses.

SUITING UP: For many, the seersucker suit is simply a New Orleans staple
Southern gentlemen cognize each astir the quality and coolness of the seersucker suit, and its transportation to New Orleans. Correspondent Jamie Wax, a Louisiana native, takes viewers connected a travel done the sartorial broadside of the metropolis — from a historical men's covering store to an iconic suit shaper and, finally, to a fashionable New Orleans party.

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HEART AND SOLE: Forty years of Air Jordan
The Air Jordan sneaker turns 40 this year. "Sunday Morning" celebrates the plan of the iconic footwear with analogous Luke Burbank, who traces its origins backmost to NBA fable Michael Jordan's archetypal gathering with Nike, past a comparatively tiny sneaker institution successful Oregon.

CULTURE CELEBRATION: "Beadmaster of New Orleans" pays homage to Mardi Gras' past with his art
In Michelle Miller's last look this week astatine pillars of New Orleans' style, the analogous delves into the centuries-old Carnival contented of Black Masking. Acclaimed modern creator Demond Melancon's enactment has been shown each implicit the world, but it is profoundly rooted successful elaborate beaded suits helium creates arsenic the Big Chief of the Young Seminole Hunters Black Masking Tribe.

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NATURE: Black-bellied whistling ducks successful New Orleans
We permission you this Sunday greeting with Black-bellied whistling ducks, basking successful the prima astatine the Audubon Park and Zoo successful New Orleans, Louisiana.

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Emily Mae Czachor

Emily Mae Czachor is simply a quality exertion astatine CBSNews.com. She typically covers breaking news, utmost upwind and issues involving societal and transgression justice. Emily Mae antecedently wrote for outlets similar the Los Angeles Times, BuzzFeed and Newsweek.

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