Slurping wetly and noisily at the nourishment that is New Orleans
Adjunct history professor Bond Ruggles runs a guided tour company offering entertaining, historically accurate, adult-only tours, proving the old adage that truth is stranger, and often more macabre, than fiction. On any given day or night, you’re bound to run into tour groups clustered around arm-waving guides, crowding the French […]
The Wyly family business is blossoming; from selling wreaths and garlands at farmers markets, to a sustainable, agritourism destination growing a bounty of blooms. While they were both attorneys living in New Orleans, Teri Wyly’s husband Bubba began squirreling-away plots of undeveloped land in Mississippi. Bubba, who grew up on […]
“Louisiana’s Culinary Ambassador to the World” John Folse achieved his celebrity status through a well-seasoned blend of diligence, enthusiasm, and providence. Chef, entrepreneur, food historian, author, and radio and television personality, John Folse has amassed a list of accolades and accomplishments as long as a Louisiana summer. From his successful […]
Board-certified dermatologist Dr. Laurie Harrington recently brought the aesthetic part of her Louisiana practice to the Mississippi Gulf Coast. For over 30 years Dr. Laurie Harrington has been in practice, offering both medical and cosmetic dermatology services to people in Louisiana. She is co-owner of Renaissance Dermatology & Aesthetics, a […]
King Patrick Van Hoorebeek’s bacchanalian Krewe of Cork rolls into 2024 granting knighthood to the first female lieutenant in the organization’s history. Around this time of the year, you’d typically find corporate event manager Maurye Aycock spending her free time at home, awash in glitter, hot glue-gun in hand, creating […]
A lifelong musician, this New Orleans native turned her performance career toward advocacy in the arts by specializing in entertainment law. In the vibrant city of New Orleans, where music and culture intertwine, Julia Holt stands as a dynamic force at the intersection of art and law. A native of […]
Holly Lemoine-Raymond’s premier real estate brokerage firm expands into Gulfport, as putting people first is proof positive of success. Just last month, celebrity broker Holly Lemoine-Raymond led her team of blindfolded agents into their brand new offices in Downtown Gulfport. Formerly the site of a family law practice, the Craftsman-style […]
A Mississippi-born attorney with Cosmich, Simmons & Brown, Baria is the “David” we all need, slinging lethal pebbles to protect his clients against overwhelming odds. David Baria has championed underdogs for as long as he can remember. Growing up in the small, rural town of Escatawpa, Mississippi, Baria often found […]
While James Beard-award winning chef Susan Spicer is the face of her famous French Quarter restaurant, her chef de cuisine Christiane Engeran keeps the fires burning. The first time she met Chef Susan Spicer, Christiane “Christy” Engeran was poly-sci student at Southeastern Louisiana University working at one of Hammond’s few […]
Financial consultant Nancy Mellon channels her inner fashionista moonlighting as a personal stylist for cabi clothing. Before her lucrative, 37-year career in private wealth management began, Nancy Mellon’s first job was at Godchaux’s, a luxury department store in New Orleans. She entered the executive training program and after two weeks […]
At Fritai, chef and co-owner Charly Pierre embraces his heritage and the inherent connection between New Orleans and Haiti one dish at a time. Often called the “northernmost Caribbean city,” New Orleans shares many characteristics with the great archipelago to the South, particularly Haiti. In the early 1800s, both during […]
At the famous Drago’s Restaurant, family matriarch Klara Cvitanovich continues to honor the oyster empire launched by her husband over half a century ago. Several times a week, Klara Cvitanovich still spends her evenings greeting diners, welcoming them like long lost family to their flagship restaurant on N. Arnoult Road […]
Poet Joseph Addison once wrote, “No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another.” If there ever was an individual who embodied this belief, it would be Di Fillhart from Bay Saint Louis’ Starfish Cafe. Born in Pennsylvania, Fillhart spent most of her […]