New Orleans annual Entrepreneur Week is a week-long throw-down of entrepreneurs and the men and women who love them. Resembling a melange of New York’s Fashion Week, TED talks, and Cirque du Soleil of business, classes and seminars fill out the day around the star events where NOLA entrepreneurs get to pitch their Idea-Village-labeled “crazy…

We talk a lot in New Orleans about the “rebirth” of the city but before the city was re-born it was born. The architects of what we all agree is our remarkably beautiful city were just that: architects. The major architects of today’s New Orleans are renaissance men and women. An eye for beauty and…

Sure, we all know New Orleans business is doing better than it ever has, but in your wildest imaginings of exactly what that means it’s unlikely you’ve had any idea that “they sky’s the limit” has in the last few years gone from being a visionary fantasy to an aerospace reality. While many of us…

Hubig’s isn’t what the rest of the country thinks of as “pie”. It’s a single-serving deep fried envelope of home-made pastry and pie filling, sealed in a wax paper bag.  And it’s not sold in bakeries, but in all kinds of stores all over town. After Katrina, the return of Hubig’s Pies was heralded as a…

Ocean front property is desirable, unless the ocean is meant to be hundreds of miles from your front door. Webster Pierce Jr is the inventor of a hunk of plastic called the Wave Robber. Anchored off the coast of rapidly disappearing Louisiana land, it upends the natural process of waves washing away land by robbing…