In 4 years Lauren Thom has taken Fleurty Girl from a bedroom in the front of her house on Oak Street to 5 stores citywide. At a time when the term “T shirt shop”was synonymous with “bottom feeding scum,” representative of everything that was wrong with New Orleans tourist centered economy, Lauren turned T shirt…
Read MoreNancylee Myatt and Paige Bernhardt don’t play lesbian cops on TV but they do write and produce them. The Emmy winning creators of Nikki & Nora, TV’s first lesbian kick-ass cop show, Paige and Nancylee write and produce the cult hit in Uptown New Orleans. If their real life is an inspiration for the…
Read MoreDavid Darragh is President and CEO of Reily Foods. Even if Reily Foods is not a household name you probably have some of their products in your household. La Luzianne Tea, French Market Coffee, CDM Coffee, Blue Plate Mayonnaise and many more. Erik Frank is a former USA weightlifting champion who bench-pressed a then record…
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