The Final Four of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament is coming to town. North Carolina, Duke, Villanova, and Kansas are the four teams left in the field, with the semifinal games set for Saturday at the Superdome.
City officials are hoping the tournament will be the latest boost to the tourism industry, with more than 70-thousand basketball fans expected to arrive by the weekend.
We have a winner in the “Shark Tank”-like finale of New Orleans’ entrepreneur week. It’s a start-up called “Jamm Around,” an app that makes it easier for musicians to collaborate. The app’s three founders earned the 400-thousand-dollar grand prize, raised from a group of New Orleans investors.