Contributors Our contributors give Inside New Orleans its voice, its personality and its feel. Here we are proud to highlight a few of them so that you can put a face with a name and get to know them. Other Voices: Lisa Fremont, Candra George, Ann Gilbert, Thomas B. Growden, Yvette Jemison, Bill Kearney, Rebecca Perrette and Terri Schlichenmeyer.
Shauna Grissett Shauna Grissett grew up in New Orleans and graduated from St. Martin’s Episcopal School, the University of Virginia and the Fashion Institute of Design’s one-year fashion design program. She worked in New York’s rough-and-tumble garment industry for over sixteen years before returning home. Shauna has been writing a fiction book based on her former life on Seventh Avenue for the past few years. When not writing or working on community endeavors, she is busy taking care of her beloved 13-year old English Bull Terrier, who has more “people” than J.Lo. Shauna’s article on cover artist Billy Solitario is featured on page 18.
Kim Bergeron
Tom Fitzmorris
Michael Harold
Kim Bergeron is the Executive Director of the St. Tammany Art Association and a fierce advocate for the arts and artists. She is the founder of Artists & Causes, working to bring together artists of all genres and nonprofit organizations for successful fundraising efforts. She is also an avid writer whose blog, RightBrainDiaries. com, has been honored with awards from the Public Relations Society of America-New Orleans, the Public Relations Association of Louisiana and the Press Club of New Orleans. In this issue, she writes about Russ and Sandra Herman (page 38).
Tom Fitzmorris grew up in Treme, ate red beans every Monday from his Creole-French mother until he left home. Not long after that, he began writing a weekly restaurant review column that has continued 42 years. In 1975, he began a daily radio feature, which grew into his current three-hour daily talk show on 1350, 3WL. He is the author of several cookbooks, more than a dozen restaurant guidebooks, a daily online newsletter (nomenu.com), and joins us At the Table on page 52.
Michael Harold grew up in New Orleans and graduated from St. Martin’s Episcopal School, The University of the South and LSU Law School. Fluent in Spanish and French, he is also a classical pianist. Michael practiced law for more than 23 years and is now a legal recruiter. He is a contributing writer for Local Palate magazine in Charleston, South Carolina. In his spare time, he coordinates the renovation of a 19th century home in New Orleans. In this issue, Michael tells his INside Story on page 30.
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