In a few minutes, I'll be getting on a plane for New Orleans. Should be quite a weekend.

New Orleans may have the richest culture of any American city. Writers and reporters had a hard time describing the city even before the complicating factors of first the hurricane, and then to a much lesser extent, the All-Star Game.

At this moment in history, as the Big Easy struggles to find its feet while recovering from the worst natural disaster in American history, it's a story with a lot of moving pieces, and something that's very tough to describe accurately and with nuance.

Drop into the middle of that the multi-faceted nuttiness of the All-Star Game -- all those events, parties, and madness on and off the court. Mix it all together and what do you get? Something great? Something terrible? Something in between? 

I have no idea how TrueHoop, ESPN, or even the entire assembled media could do a thorough job of keeping track of everything that might happen. Last year in Las Vegas some of the best portraits of the scene in the city came from citizens -- cab drivers, waiters, dealers and the like.

This year, let's get everyone ready to help early. If you are in New Orleans, or if you are willing to look up and link to some of the best New Orleans content, I am asking for your help in covering the 2008 All-Star game.

With the help of David Cohn, I just started a wiki about All-Star in New Orleans.

Go on, put your writing and researching hats on and click that link. 

Let's use that wiki to assemble, starting now and running all weekend, all of the best articles, blog posts, video, and original anecdotes about what's happening all over the city. Not just the stuff that's in press releases, but what's really happening on the ground.

If you're from New Orleans, and have a story to tell about having the All-Star game in your city, please share it here. If you find a great article or video about New Orleans, this is the place for it.

Basically, I am hoping that with your help this can become a go-to resource of the best real New Orleans information as All-Star Weekend rolls on. It'll take a lot of you pitching in with thougtful contributions. But if you do, this'll really be something.

Also, I'll be honest, in the past I have found wikis kind of hard to operate. Not this one. It's really simple. Try it. Here's the link again. Thanks.

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