Labors of Love - August 2017

I’ve known Gisele Cosma, owner of Rye Clothing, for more than 20 years.  We met during my brief and colossally unsuccessful career as a salesperson at Gambit Weekly. I was in awe of her as week after week I saw…

What drinks 800 gallons of water a day, fights crime and obesity, protects wildlife, lowers electric bills and just might save New Orleans from rising stormwaters? The answer, according to Susannah Burley, is a tree: specifically a Live Oak or…

Ashley Millet LeBlanc has had success transferring her skills.

On the corner of Galvez and St. Bernard streets, Melvin Sampson is usually snipping, buzz cutting and shaving; yesterday he was mopping. On Saturday, waves sloshed almost a foot of water into his 700-square-foot old-school barbershop. “It was bad enough…