Tourism | With a Little Help From My Friends
Jennifer Gibson Schecter was once a tourist in New Orleans herself and is now proud to call NOLA home. She also writes the Wednesday Tourism Blog on BizNewOrleans.com In 2019, New Orleans…
Biz The Magazine - August 2020
Dining | A Crystal Clear Legacy
A native New Orleanian, Poppy Tooker has spent her life devoted to the cultural essence that food brings to Louisiana, a topic she explores weekly on her NPR-affiliated radio show, Louisiana Eats!…
A Tale of Four Businesses
As Louisiana experiences various phases of reopening, the dining and entertainment industries are having to rethink how they do business. Part of the survival plan for the industry is learning how to shift…
Now is the Time to Upgrade Your Software
As business purchasing has dropped, software companies have continued to provide incentives in response to the challenges presented by COVID-19. The result is that businesses now have a unique opportunity to get some great deals on software designed to help…
Editor’s Note: Should She Stay or Should She Go?
And to continue this (altered) song lyric from The Clash, “If she goes will it be trouble? If she stays will it be double?” That’s been the gist of the discussion between my husband and I over the past month…
Culture Club
The coworking space Club Discovery (2831 St. Claude Ave.) gets its name from one of the nightclubs the building was home to in the late ’80s through the early 2000s. Many of the club’s original design…
No Cliffs-Notes for COVID-19
"We can’t be naive to think that there isn’t learning that needs to be recovered, but systems don’t need to spend an entire year in remediation." One of COVID-19’s most punishing…
Water Watchers
Every Tuesday for the past 20 years, Pontchartrain Conservancy (known as the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation prior to a rebrand on June 24) has been sending water quality scientists out to 12 area recreational sites to take water samples that…
Sports | Holding Out On Hope
Chris Price is an award-winning journalist and public relations principal. When he’s not writing, he’s avid about music, the outdoors, and Saints, Ole Miss and Chelsea football. Price also authors the Friday…
Delays and Uncertainties Plague Commercial Construction
COVID-19 will hopefully be under control with effective treatments and vaccines sooner rather than later, but it will have long-lasting operational changes that we must be diligent about and monitor going forward. - Ryan Gootee, president and CEO of Ryan…
Entrepreneur | Home Alone
Keith Twitchell spent 16 years running his own business before becoming president of the Committee for a Better New Orleans. He has observed, supported and participated in entrepreneurial ventures at the street,…
Publisher’s Note: New Times Equal New Offerings
As I write this month’s publisher’s note in mid July, we are forecasting and planning for the fall and end of the year, while also beginning to work on our plan for 2021. Last month, we began making adjustment to…
Cleaning Up
This spring the Kutcher family pivoted from their film special effects company to launch Clean Hands Solutions with the goal of providing mobile handwashing stations to hospitals, events, productions and more in response to new COVID-19…
From Bad to Worse
Louisiana was already home to one of the fastest-growing substance abuse problems in the United States. - James Buras, director of business development for Covington Behavioral Health Hospital As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to rage, its negative impacts on the…
