NEW ORLEANS - During last week’s Saints-Bucs game, weather reports showed then-Tropical Storm Sally on a collision course with New Orleans. In what’s become a familiar routine this hurricane season, though, the storm eventually changed course, shifted east and spared…
“The world is full of beautiful things, butterfly wings, fairy tale kings. And each new day undoubtedly brings still more beautiful things.” Leslie Bricusse wrote these lyrics for the 1967 film “Doctor Dolittle.” This is what we want for…
In the three years since New Orleanian Leigh D’Angelo and her sister, New Yorker Casey Isaacson, founded Dig, a dating app for dog lovers, the company has found fast success on a national scale. With hundreds of thousands of…
Next Wednesday will be a good day for 8-year-old Jack White. When he was 6, White was diagnosed with leukemia. Now, after much pain, frustration and anxiety, his port will be removed. A port is a small device placed under…
NEW ORLEANS - As the Saints prepared to play the Tom Brady-led Buccaneers in a mostly empty Superdome, Gov. Edwards announced the state will move to ‘Phase 3’ of its pandemic restrictions and the New Orleans business community continued to…
Although I've lived in New Orleans for almost 50 years, my stern Midwestern roots still run deep. As this pandemic rages on, I soldier on. As two friends died lonely COVID-19 deaths, I soldiered on. As my income plummeted…
This week features a conversation about how COVID-19 has "changed the game" for small business owners on Oak Street - a historic commercial corridor in Uptown New Orleans - and citywide. Our guest is architect and Tulane grad Min…
NEW ORLEANS - City officials, state leaders, the business community and individuals all worked this week to aid residents of southwest Louisiana who have been affected by Hurricane Laura. Among the efforts: New Orleans Saints defensive end Cameron Jordan is…
The COVID-19 pandemic has flooded our lives with a painful glut of anxiety. On any given day, I bounce around from panicking about my financial security, my isolation, how in the hell will I evacuate a hurricane, to fears…
With the start of September, we should be excited as schools start up again and football and fall festivals commence — all things that seemed promising back in March when everyone was thinking, “Let’s get through COVID-19, there are…
HGTV’s new show “Selling the Big Easy,” premiering Sept. 11 at 8 p.m., is getting a lot of buzz, but what is the show about? How did it happen? And what kind of exposure will the city be getting?…
As the pandemic grinds on, our lives continue to adapt to the new normal. And, as we open back up, working parents need to put their children back into childcare. However, the reality is that as they do, they…
NEW ORLEANS - Despite the threat of two hurricanes and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, there was time for some business as usual in New Orleans this week. Here are news highlights compiled from staff and wire reports: Hurricane Marco fizzled…
New Orleans restaurants are facing an existential threat. The pandemic has drastically reduced the number of visitors to the city and locals are dining out less frequently. It’s unclear when health restrictions will ease and life can return to…
In the midst of dueling hurricanes, a pandemic and just way too much stress, today I offer a bit of hope for the future. Let me introduce you to The Color Company. Ava Carrigee is the marketing director, Abby…
NEW ORLEANS – After weeks of cautious preparation, the New Orleans Saints finally began full-contact football activities this week that resembled any other training camp – just without fans in the bleachers to watch over the proceedings. The daily practices are providing…
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is leaving scores of New Orleans residents unemployed, while a growing wave of evictions is also rendering many of them homeless. It is also forcing schools to completely restructure in order to maintain a safe learning…
Looking to use this time to prepare for a career change or add to your list of marketable skills? Tulane’s AB Freeman School of Business is launching their first-ever online graduate degree program — a Master of Management in…
According to The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, at one point, more than 1.5 billion students, (or 91 percent of the world’s students) were out of school because of the COVID-19 pandemic. In the New Orleans area,…
NEW ORLEANS - The picture on the front page of the paper says it all: a former New Orleans bakery worker is now earning a few dollars an hour holding up one of those signs on the street to capture…
Joseph Brock, a New Orleans native and Loyola University alumnus, founded and runs NOLA Green Roots (NGR), which spent last year turning 8 million pounds of yard waste and food scraps into garden gold — compost. NGR’s compost is used…
In this podcast, we talk to music manager Reid Martin (Big Freedia, Tank and the Bangas, Sweet Crude) about how the New Orleans music industry is dealing with the severe changes caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Some artists, like…
For 36 years, artist Oscar C. Donahue III has set up his shop, Oscar of New Orleans, in the bustling French Market. Here he sells whimsical handmade pins of such things as pink flamingos, crawfish and cool saxophone playing…
NEW ORLEANS - Now that the federal government’s ban on certain evictions and the $600 weekly boost to Louisiana unemployment benefits have both expired, concerns are mounting that many families are facing immediate financial peril. Housing advocates nationwide predict a…
