Labors of Love - November 2018

Thankful For Small Businesses

  This year I am thankful, as always, for my family and friends. I am also thankful for the victorious Saints, my almost steady cash flow, my productive kitchen garden and my tranquil home. I’ve moved five times in the…

Heavenly Bakery

  Donuts, pastries and pies: two sisters, Trinise Proster and Antoinette Bradford, are slowly building a sweet dream one step at a time on the corner of Elysian Fields and Filmore. Lawrence Bakery “Mr. Wedding Cake” and Gambino’s once used this…

Pied Piper of Louisiana Music Traditions

  Judy Stock, a well-known performer of children’s music, heard Johnette Downing perform and suggested she’d be great with kids. “And a bell went off,” says Downing. “I knew instantly what I wanted to do with my life.  And the…