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Personal Empowerment Embodied in NOLA Snapshots in “Quit Playing Yourself”

November 18, 2022 No Comments

About four years ago, I interviewed up and coming Rhode Island-born transplant and self-taught interior designer Holly Owen for my Spaces & Design column in New Orleans Living Magazine. Armed with a good eye for stylish (and affordable) design and a vivacious, can-do attitude, Owen went from staging real estate […]

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Rediscovering Design: Holly Owen

January 1, 2018 No Comments

A recent transplant discovers her calling through unexpected channels and becomes the latest creative asset to Crescent City interiors. Born in Warwick, Rhode Island, Holly Owen has spent much of her life in the Northeastern part of the country; from New Jersey and Connecticut to Cambridge, Massachusetts. But a little […]

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Though she was born in the San Francisco Bay Area, Kim Ranjbar took her passion for the written word and dragged it over 2000 miles to flourish in the city she loves. For well over a decade, she's been eating, photographing and writing about food (and more!) in New Orleans, her work appearing in local publications such as French Quarter Journal, Where Y'at Magazine, New Orleans Living Magazine, NewOrleans.com and Louisiana Kitchen & Culture.

After over 20 years as a transplant — surviving hurricanes, levee failures, oil spills, boil water advisories and hipster invasions — Kim hopes to eventually earn the status of local and be welcomed into the fold.

Feel free to contact her at kimranjbar@gmail.com

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  • September 1, 2016

    Reviving a Legend: Pontchartrain Hotel

  • October 1, 2016

    What’s in my bag?

  • July 1, 2020

    Local Cottage Food Industry: Black-Owned Bakeries

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  • September 5, 2025

    Celebrating 54 at Acamaya

  • June 1, 2020

    Hot Chefs, Cool Flavors

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    Westbank eats at Perino’s Boiling Pot

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