Resilient New Orleans regains its stride, hardly missing a beat after truck attack

FILE PHOTO: Brian Lee plays the piano with his band at Ticklers Piano Show on Bourbon Street, following the opening of the street, on the day of 2025 Sugar Bowl, after people were killed by a man driving a truck in an attack during New Year's celebrations, in New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S., January 2, 2025. REUTERS/Octavio Jones/File Photo

NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - In the days since a U.S. Army veteran drove a truck into dozens of New Year's Day revelers, normalcy has begun to return to a stricken yet defiant New Orleans, where music is again streaming from clubs and restaurants are filled with tourists.

After leaving flowers at an impromptu memorial, Mayor LaToya Cantrell on Thursday led a traditional New Orleans brass-band parade down Bourbon Street, where the FBI says a Texas man carried out an attack that was inspired by Islamic State.