Style + Beauty

Laura Cayouette

Hollywood Lights to Louisiana Roots: Commander’s Palace Welcomes a Queen Article by Christian George, PhD | Photography by Austin Smith of POLA Marketing, Andrew Cooper, James Kong INTERIOR – COMMANDER’S PALACE – MORNING A woman in towering heels stands in front of Commander’s Palace. Her dress, a psychedelic dragon print, dares the morning traffic to look away. We’re shooting a cover. Oak trees offer shade, but the humidity laughs. It’s the kind of wet heat that melts makeup and fogs...

Professional Services

Saving You Money

How Stephen Hammond’s Italian Family Dinners Prepared Him to Serve His Clients Well … and Seek Out Cost-Saving Options We Never Knew We Had Article by Christian George, PhD | Photography by Katie Patterson Photography When I met Stephen at PJ’s Coffee in Mandeville, I didn’t expect him to look me straight in the eye and tell me he’d rather eat Vienna sausage for a week than sell someone the wrong insurance plan. I did expect a pitch, charts, jargon. But what I got was a conversation with a...

Finance + Legal Services

Charlton Ogden

The Man Who Was Saved to Save Others Article by Christian George, PhD | Photography by Trent Spann of Images by Robert T. Charlton Ogden III carries his ancestry like a tailored suit: stitched with lineage, lined with resilience. He is the thirteenth generation in a family of attorneys, stretching back to Robert Nash, the first governor of North Carolina. For centuries, the Ogdens practiced law in New Orleans; they were judges, speakers of the Louisiana House, men who etched their names into...

Health + Wellness

A Sanctuary of Self-Care

Inside Hollrah Wellness & Aesthetics, the Northshore’s Beauty Powerhouse Article by Christian George | Photography by Emily Songer There’s a building off the Tchefuncte River with an unmarked elegance. Three floors of clean lines and natural light, tucked behind secluded trees like a well-kept secret. Inside, two sisters are changing the face of beauty on the Northshore. Welcome to Hollrah Wellness & Aesthetics, where glowing skin is only the beginning. This isn’t a whitewashed med spa with a...