In a tragic example of life imitating art, police have identified a body retrieved from the Mississippi River near the French Quarter in New Orleans as actor Michael Showers.

I’m sitting alone at the restaurant, slightly hung over and pretty tired, increasingly bored and antsy waiting for my cab to arrive or, short of that, something remotely engaging to happen.

"If it was easy everybody'd be in here." – Albert Lambreaux

"Sometimes the battles worth fighting are the ones you know you're gonna lose." - Albert

"People coming home for this." - Antoine

"Man, you could hide a dead hooker in here and no one would know." - Morial on Davis' disheveled house

"I'm not trying to be the spokesman for the city. New Orleans speaks for itself." - Creighton

"This is for New Orleans in her hour of need." - Davis

"Shit man, it's like watching a rat back up a cat." - Sonny

"There's no place like New Orleans." – Jazz musician

"Are we entering some sacrificial realm here?" - Davis McAlery

A show to prove worthy of the exquisitely unique city of New Orleans herself?