The vacuum created when NASA left the Michoud facility in New Orleans East has been filled by a range of new, innovative aero-space and robotic manufacturers. Among them, Crescent Unmanned Systems and NVision Solutions. Charles Easterling, co-founder and CEO of Crescent Unmanned Sytems, came to lunch with his Google Glass. While you’re doing whatever it…

Cam Marston tells a great story that illustrates how our attitudes to parenting have changed: today babies are brought home from the hospital strapped down in a rear-facing car seat in the back seat of a car. In the previous generation babies were carried in mom’s lap in the front seat while mom wore no…

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…

Pres 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…

The film business continues to grow so quickly that the term “Hollywood South” is becoming less of a quaint marketing moniker and more literally true with every movie that shoots here. Giant productions like Jurassic Park II and The Arnold Schwarzenegger franchise Terminator numbers 4, 5, and 6 are on the way. Part of the…