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A second chance – Restaurants and markets pushing locally grown cuisine are jump-starting family farms along the corridor.

It's a muggy Thursday morning in June at the Red Stick Farmers Market in...

Corridor Cuisine: Gumbo

Mais yeah, chers—gumbo weather is finally here. Countless kitchens along the corridor prepare it,...

Cherise Angelle – Making their mark

Cherise Angelle has had a love affair with Jimmy Choos and Manolo Blahniks for...

Theater’s big encore – Gary Solomon Jr. didn’t imagine returning to New Orleans to launch his live entertainment production firm—other cities were wired better...

Gary Solomon Jr. didn't imagine returning to New Orleans to launch his live entertainment...

The Super Committee

It sounds like something that might happen in a parallel universe. New Orleans and Baton...

The new developers – Meet three visionaries who are redefining historic New Orleans, one nail at a time.

In the four years since Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans has undergone an impressive transformation...

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The risk takers

Ninja Snowballs Snowball stand with a twistPut a snowball stand in a trailer,...

How We Did It: Mike Hackley Corey Tisdale – ShoppersChoice.com has grown from a Baton Rouge barbecue grill shop to an online superstore...

ShoppersChoice.com Founded: 2001 Growth: 177.3% 2005 Revenue: $6.4 million 2008 Revenue: $17.8 million Employees: 28 What were you doing before you started this business? Mike: I...

A tale of four projects

Remember back in the spring of 2008, when the economy was just humming along...

Sounding the Trumpet

Robbie Vitrano’s story is the classic boy-works-his-way-to-the-top-from-the-mailroom tale. His father grew up in the Iberville...