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Her couture business, odAOMO, has made a big splash in both New Orleans and Nairobi. But it's just one of the goals this powerhouse surgeon has been working toward since girlhood.
- story and photos by Ellis Anderson |
The French Quarter of New Orleans may be a valuable national commodity, but it's also a community. Somehow, it manages to survive as a neighborhood, although currently more than a million visitors each month visit the city now - the majority of them walking the streets of an area that's only thirteen by five blocks in size.
If you're a visitor to New Orleans, you might think that the French Quarter is sort of a Disney World with a bad ass edge.
If you're a New Orleans native, you're likely to believe it used to be a neighborhood. Now it's different. Tarnished and tawdry. And empty.
We'll agree that the French Quarter is different now. staid and static are two words that have never applied to this place and never will. Like all great communities, it's a living entity and always changing. And in a place where energy surges up from the sidewalks, where feet want to dance while they're walking down the street,
If you're a visitor to New Orleans, you might think that the French Quarter is sort of a Disney World with a bad ass edge.
If you're a New Orleans native, you're likely to believe it used to be a neighborhood. Now it's different. Tarnished and tawdry. And empty.
We'll agree that the French Quarter is different now. staid and static are two words that have never applied to this place and never will. Like all great communities, it's a living entity and always changing. And in a place where energy surges up from the sidewalks, where feet want to dance while they're walking down the street,
