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I woke up hungry for the Shrimp & Grits from Ste. Marie's. Yep, for breakfast. My mind immediately went to the meal I'd enjoyed just a few weeks ago at Ste....

04 April, 2012 /

Our last evening in New Orleans was one I'll never forget. Not only did we dine in the home of Grammy Award winning trumpeter, Irvin Mayfield, but we also had the...

28 March, 2012 /

Who would ever believe this story? Only in New Orleans: On Friday night, after all the pre-planned activities were over, a bunch of our NOLAbound members embarked on Frenchmen Street, a...

22 March, 2012 /

I arrived five days ago with my preconceived ideas of what New Orleans would be. Today I came home with a totally different impression. The New Orleans I now know is alluring,...

19 March, 2012 /

Upon receiving the phone call from the doctor telling me that my husband had cancer, I immediately called my friend Kim, a breast cancer survivor. "Welcome to The 'C' Club, she...

18 March, 2012 /

In the three days that we've been here we've sat in the finest of the city's boardrooms. We've watched basketball from best box in the New Orleans Arena. We've dined...

17 March, 2012 /

Today we were split into four sub-groups: the Arts, Bio-Science, Tech, and Sustainability. I joined the "Arts" group as we ventured off on foot to four artists' studios. Our first stop...

16 March, 2012 /

If you're interested in doing business in New Orleans, please call on these folks who so graciously hosted the NOLAbound project: Greater New Orleans, Inc: a regional economic development alliance serving...

16 March, 2012 /

In a commencement speech, Steve Jobs tells the 2005 graduates of Stanford that, "death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life's change agent. It clears...

16 March, 2012 /