In the past 12 months, Americans have spent over 60 billion dollars on their pets. Almost half of that, 30 billion dollars, was spent on food. If you’re a dog owner, or if you’ve been in a pet store lately, you know that we don’t feed dogs a 45 pound bag of $3 dog chow any…
Read MoreThe problem with being sober is waking up in the morning and knowing it’s not going to get any better all day. When you drink, you might have plenty to regret but you can have a lot of fun getting there. That’s the philosophy behind being what pirate, leather-maker, and tour guide Jennifer Raven calls Soberphobic….
Read MoreWhen we talk about “the New Orleans business community” we generally have a mental picture of the CBD. We might include spokes that poke out from that center a few miles – the Marigny, Mid-City, and Uptown. If we’re particularly expansive we might even talk about “the metro area” as a way to include Metairie…
Read MoreYou can’t judge a book by its cover. There’s no way you could look at a bunch of random people sitting around a table at Wayfare in New Orleans and guess what you’re about to find out about them. A lot of people know Constantine Georges in New Orleans. He was a U.S. Attorney, which in…
Read MoreTypically, nationwide businesses start out in a big city – where there’s a big market. As the brand grows and demand grows with it, the business gradually spreads across the country to ever smaller markets – until eventually everybody’s within a few miles of, say, a Walgreens. There are notable exceptions to this pattern. For…
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