LCMC Health’s New Orleans East Hospital helps to protect the community by leading vaccination efforts in Eastern New Orleans. The hospital has partnered with businesses and organizations in the region to reach as many people as possible. At the time…
Dear Readers, This edition of The East Magazine shows that Eastern New Orleans is a significant manufacturing and distribution beverage hub and an important economic development generator for New Orleans and the region. We congratulate Faubourg Brewing Company on its…
Walking Trails at Audubon Nature Center 11000 Lake Forest Blvd Main Boardwalk and Adventure Trail: Mon-Thurs 9am-12pm Discovery Trail and Pollinator Path: Mon-Thurs 9am-1:30pm Free CrossFit at Faubourg Faubourg Brewing Co. Saturday, August 14 10am–11am Saturday, September 11 10am–11am Free…
When Valentine Merz opened Dixie Brewing in 1907, he could not have known that what started as an infant brewery on the corner of Tulane Avenue and Tonti Street would become an 85,000-square-foot, 100-barrel brewhouse with a taproom and kitchen,…
When it comes to success stories, it doesn’t get any more classically American than Folgers. The company’s founder and namesake, James Folger, moved to San Francisco in the 1850s at the age of 14. He and his brothers, like so…
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In a matter of months, a never-before-seen virus spread from a small region in China to affect every part of the globe, including right here in Eastern New Orleans. The pandemic quickly changed the way we live our lives and…
It was the mid-1990’s when, between jobs in commercial photography, film and television, Raymond Pumilia began brewing beer as a hobby. He enjoyed it, and the hobby stuck. Then came the day 15 years later when Raymond and his wife,…
An area so abundant with beverage manufacturing would be incomplete without reliable and efficient means of distribution, so it’s fortunate that Eastern New Orleans is also home to Crescent Crown Distributing, a company that operates alongside and in partnership with…
Jon Renthrope, CEO and brewmaster at Cajun Fire Brewing Co., has always had the goal of brewing beer for socio-economic change. As a member of the United Nation of Houma Indians, Renthrope created the company out of a lack of…
If you ask Sylvia Scineaux-Richard and her husband Alvin Richard, Jr. about the secret behind their entrepreneurial success, they’ll quickly tell you that it comes from a desire to give back. “We’re both committed to seeing how we can make…
