If there’s one thing we all like, it’s being told we’re attractive. No matter how rich or poor, powerful or powerless, beautiful or pedestrian we might be there is nobody who doesn’t respond positively to, “You look great!” You can spend a little or a lot – of time and money – on your appearance….

If you’re a certain age and you grew up in the South, there were things you were expected to do, under the banner of “etiquette.”  After you went to someone’s house for dinner or a party, you wrote them a thank you note. On your personalized stationery. Today, you’re more likely to send an email. But,…

Even with NOLA’s roaring tourist biz, oil and gas, and renaissance boom, the Mississippi River is the heart of the city’s economy. President and CEO of the [Port of New Orleans][link1] Gary LaGrange and CFO and Treasurer of [Canal Barge][link2] Doug Downing take us behind the floodwall and onto the water. [link1]: http://www.portno.com/[link2]: http://www.canalbarge.com/

New Orleans is rising from the debris of 2005 in ways that could never have been predicted, even by the most optimistic of prognosticators. For the first few years of the post 2008 bounce-back recovery, New Orleanians were taken by surprise. Accustomed to reading stories of disasters about the city, from natural to man-made –…

Whether you believe global warming is caused by man or nature, according to NASA, 2014 was earth’s hottest year on record. One of the causes of our continued heating is the depletion of polar caps and other frozen surfaces. They help cool us not so much because they’re cold but because they’re flat and white and…