Local Spirit : Neighborhood Bars of Orleans Parish

4 years in the making, this is an unprecedented look at more than 120 bars inside and outside (literally) of Orleans Parish. Local Spirit : Neighborhood Bars of Orleans Parish By Rick Dobbs & Ken Murphy Rick Dobbs is the award winning creative director of UNREAL, a multi-disciplinary creative studio based out of New Orleans with clients world wide. Rick was previously art director at MGM-MIRAGE's Beau Rivage Resort in Biloxi, Mississippi, and at XDesign in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. With over 15 years of advertising and design experience, Rick is zealous about creating clean, effective design that tells a story and starts a conversation. The idea for Local Spirit: Neighborhood Bars of Orleans Parish has absorbed Rick for a long time, and it's a beautiful homage to the spirit of a city he loves. Ken Murphy was born in Frankfurt, Germany in 1954, but has spent most of his life in Bay St. Louis, his mother’s hometown. In 1971, Murphy, a 17-year-old high school dropout, joined the Army t