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Oak Street merchants are gearing up for the third annual Po-Boy Preservation Festival, an event ostensibly designed to celebrate New Orleans’ signature sandwich but which functions as much as anything else as a promotion for the street and its eclectic businesses. Read more

A fresh-food grocery store may be coming to the intersection of St. Claude and Caffin avenues in the Lower 9th Ward. If successful, the venture could spark meaningful development in a community famous for being written off. Read more

Officials with Louisiana’s Tax Free Shopping Program are measuring its impact as it celebrates its 20th anniversary of providing an incentive to international visitors. Read more

Amid the clamor of jackhammers and the roar of diesel engines, Audrey Hinton is watching her profits slip away. The 81-year-old owns a block of real estate on the southeast corner of North Causeway and Veterans boulevards in Metairie that has fallen victim to progress. Read more

At the New Orleans Po-Boy Preservation Festival on Nov. 22, as brass bands play and celebrators hoist drinks, serious-minded panelists will tell tales of long-lost po’ boy shops. They will speak of the import of this city’s signature sandwich, piled with roast beef and gravy or corn-flour-breaded and fried shrimp, slathered with mayonnaise, paved with sliced pickles and sliced tomatoes, strewn with shredded lettuce, wrapped in butcher paper. Read more

Small brick-and-mortar shops that rely on seasonal sales are seeking creative ways to avoid last year’s bloodbath of discounting, as cash-strapped consumers are expected to gravitate toward big-box and discount retailers. Read more

Now that Naked Pizza has its federal disclosure document, the health conscious takeout pizza enterprise is going nationwide. Read more

Small-business owners are in a Catch 22. Obtaining financing for their companies can be difficult without a strong business credit history. At the same time, banks and credit-card issuers have tightened standards and don’t want to risk providing loans or lines of credit to small companies that don’t have proven track records. Read more

Louisiana’s recently renewed Sound Recording Investor Tax Credit could give the state an edge in film scoring, even for films shot outside Louisiana. Read more

New Orleans, the largest MSA in the state, will add only 3,000 jobs in 2010 and 2,500 in 2011. While most of the growth will be driven by construction, upcoming layoffs at Lockheed Martin Space Systems and weak tourism numbers will offset many of the construction gains in the region. Read more