April 2020

Issue Articles

Basketball’s Big Bounce

Chris Price is an award-winning journalist and public relations principal. When he’s not writing, he’s avid about music, the outdoors, and Saints, Ole Miss...

Don’t Be a Victim

ON APRIL 28, 2017, THE LOUISIANA OFFICE of Financial Institutions closed a failing First NBC Bank and began the $1 billion expense of cleaning...

April Calendar

3 Social Media Boot Camp Webinar: Insta? What is it? How do I use it? Hosted by Brianna Cunningham, sales and marketing professional 12 to 1 p.m. Cost...

INDUSTRY NEWS

CONSTRUCTION Delgado Maritime Training Facility Awarded $850,000 Federal Grant The Delgado Community College Maritime and Industrial Training Facility in New Orleans East has been awarded an...

Built to Give

This year’s St. Jude Dream Home, located in Lakeview, has four bedrooms, spans 2,800 square feet and is valued around $700,000. Raffle tickets are...

EVENTS: Jefferson Chamber of Commerce Legislative Breakfast

Alyssa Herbert, Roy Forest and Veronica Reyes   TUESDAY, MARCH 3 | HILTON NEW ORLEANS AIRPORT HOTEL Michael Hecht, CEO and president of Greater New Orleans, Inc.,...
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EVENTS: New Orleans Chamber of Commerce First Quarter Luncheon

Adrienne Breaux, Travis Tague and Etienne Tardy     WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19 | THE ROOSEVELT HOTEL Stephen Waguespack, president and CEO of Louisiana Association of Business and Industry,...

Back in Fighting Shape

Kimberley Singletary is the managing editor of Biz New Orleans magazine. A 20-year Southern California veteran, she has been surrounded by the film industry...

Have Booze, Will Travel

When Lenaye Doussan moved to New Orleans from California five years ago — her wife’s family has lived in New Orleans for seven generations...

Marketing 101

Keith Twitchell spent 16 years running his own business before becoming president of the Committee for a Better New Orleans. He has observed, supported...

United for a Cure

  In the summer of 2018, 12-year-old Slidell resident Da’Ni Otis was on a family trip to Disney World when she started complaining of intense...

Prime Positioning

Melanie Warner Spencer is editor of New Orleans Bride and New Orleans Homes & Lifestyles and managing editor of Louisiana Life and Acadiana Profile....
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Quarter Life Challenges

More than $“8.5 million is spent each year on public safety in the French Quarter on top of the policing budget for the New...

Defend Your Data

You've heard a lot of the recent cybersecurity horror stories and you want to protect yourself and your business — but where to start?...

Changing More Than Lightbulbs

THE BASICS MISSION Green Light New Orleans invests energy in people by assisting New Orleans residents in person, one household at a time. Volunteers install free,...

RECENT OPENINGS

COMING SOON Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience Expected to draw more than 35,000 visitors a year to New Orleans’ museum district, the Museum of the...

EVENTS: New Orleans Tourism Leadership Luncheon

Christine Clouatre, Dianne Waller, Seran Williams and Lori Spansel     TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18 | NEW ORLEANS MARRIOTT Governor John Bel Edwards gave the keynote address at this...

Empowered for Employment

When you know you look good you feel like you can do anything — including get that job that will get you on your...
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Publisher’s Note: No Stopping Love

What a time we are having! As I write this month’s publishers note (in early March) we are in an all-out virus crisis with...

Editor’s Note: Strange Times

This is the first time I've ever been working on the calendar section of a magazine while at the same time wondering if any...

Comfort Food From Afar

A native New Orleanian, Poppy Tooker has spent her life devoted to the cultural essence that food brings to Louisiana, a topic she explores...

New Orleans & Company’s Plan of Attack

Jennifer Gibson Schecter was once a tourist in New Orleans herself and is now proud to call NOLA home. She also writes the Wednesday...

The First Problem in Problem-Solving

For almost 10 years, I've been adjunct faculty at Tulane University’s Freeman School of Business, where I teach a business integration capstone course. In...

Renovated Retreat

  Ever since the Windsor Court Hotel opened at 300 Gravier St. in 1984, it has been home to everything from vacations, staycations and myriad...
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