Out To Lunch - New Orleans Business Podcast

It’s New Orleans: Out to Lunch

Hosted ByPeter Ricchiuti

Tulane University A.B. Freeman School of Business finance professor Peter Ricchiuti holds court over lunch at Columns in Uptown New Orleans. Peter's lunch guests are New Orleans business people, from startups to CEO's, from artists to tech entrepreneurs, musicians to movers-and-shakers. New Orleans is on everybody's list as a great place to party but it's also on many lists of the best place to start a business. Peter's deeply knowledgable and equally levity-laden approach to business conversation neatly makese sense of the Crescent City's contradictions.

Good Bye Hollywood South – Out to Lunch – It’s New Orleans

July 21, 2016 Out to Lunch Comments Off on Good Bye Hollywood South – Out to Lunch – It’s New Orleans

If you were born in 2004 and you’re now in 8th grade, you’ve never known a time when New Orleans wasn’t Hollywood South. Hold on to those memories. By the time you get to college nobody will believe you’d see Tom Cruise at the football game or Matthew McConaughey in the park. If things keep going the way they are, the dismantling of the State’s film tax credits will make Hollywood South a golden era that’s never coming back.

Or is it?

Peter’s guests on Out to Lunch today have a range of options by which we might yet live to see a sequel.

lenny alsfeld

Lenny Alsfeld puts deals together that get films made.

Dawn Arevalo

Dawn Arevalo is from IATSE 478, the union that represents folks in the film business.

Julie Stokes

Julie Stokes is a State Representative and a CPA.

peter ricchiuti

Is it good bye forever to Tinsel town? Or can we look forward to more star sightings and trucks blocking traffic in our future?

Julie Stokes, Lenny Alsfeld, Dawn Arevalo, Peter Ricchiuti

Photos at Commander’s Palace by Alison Moon.

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