The post Hurricane Katrina world of demolishing New Orleans buildings and hauling truckloads of rubble off to a landfill isn’t a male-dominated industry, it’s a male only industry. At least it was until Simone Bruni came along. A party planner with no parties to plan in 2006 Simone started out with nothing more than a…
Read MoreTwo Christmases ago, before the then inexplicably eccentric manager at The Columns Hotel kicked us out because he “Didn’t want to brand The Columns as a Happy Hour location,” we recorded what has become one of the classic episodes of Happy Hour. Singer-songwriter Lynn Drury, Rabbi Yonah Schiller, and New Orleans’ ultimate renaissance man Andrew…
Read MorePres Kabacoff and his company HRI Properties have had an enormous impact on the city of New Orleans – as diverse as building Beau Chene on the Northshore, pioneering inner city living by bringing back the Warehouse District, converting the Blue Plate Maynonaise factory to artist lofts and creating The Healing Center in Bywater. Pres…
Read MoreHaving left Atlanta, Cam Tu Nguyen moved to New Orleans for love and stayed for her love of New Orleans and its Viet community. As a non-profit organizer Cam educates everyone in the NOLA Viet community from underserved fisherfolk to church-going professionals about Obamacare.
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