We’ve been here in New Orleans for 300 years. We wouldn’t still be here if we didn’t have the ability to adapt. But we don’t like change. We still reminisce about long-closed drugstores, bakeries, and supermarkets. And, 300 years later, we’re still on the brink of flooding when it rains for an hour. The Urban Conservancy is on…
Read MoreAmong the many things you could find remarkable about Arwen Podesta – and there are plenty – perhaps the singularly most impressive is the fact there is a part of your body named after her. There is a part of everybody’s body name after her. It’s in your DNA. Arwen was a part of the…
Read MoreOra King is a sustainably raised salmon from New Zealand, whose story is almost as delicious as the fish itself. Back in early 1900, two avid fishermen somehow managed to bring live King salmon home to New Zealand from a fishing trip to California. The salmon thrived there and the rest is Ora King history.
Read MoreIf you’re a certain age you might remember the telephone. It was a hard-plastic piece of equipment about the size of a small cat. You leased the phone, monthly, from what was known as “The phone company.” There was only one. Eventually, we got multiple phone companies. Then mobile phones. Which came to be known as…
Read MoreJose Fernandes grew up under a fascist regime in Portugal. Jose came to Hammond, of all places, on a tennis scholarship, almost 40 years ago. In the interim, between then and the current rise of fascism, Jose has been a stock broker and a door-to-door furniture salesman – the latter for something like 20 years…
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