BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — Matt Labash has always had a way with words.

Whether it be his seminal profile of political operator Roger Stone, a chance fly fishing trip he took with former Vice President Dick Cheney or the time he and Christopher Hitchens bribed an Iraqi driver to get them into Kuwait, the celebrated longform storyteller has long had a penchant for condensing a feeling or place into a line or two, all in his own style.

It's a style that satirist P.J. O'Rourke called "Hunter S. Thompson on acid," and former Esquire executive editor and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Mark Warren made Labash "one of the absolute greatest magazine writers in America."

The way he described New Orleans was no different.

"Go there just once, and if you see the right things with someone who kn

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