It’s New Orleans: Out to Lunch

Hosted ByPeter Ricchiuti

OUT TO LUNCH finds the country's most entertaining finance professor Peter Ricchiuti conducting business New Orleans style: over lunch. Each week Peter invites guests from the New Orleans business world to join him, sometimes for fine dining others for pizza. From CEO's to startups, managers, musicians, biomed needle-movers, Silicon Bayou success stories and entrepreneurs of all stripes put aside the elevator pitch and the talking points and actually enjoy themselves. It's business, New Orleans style.
You can also hear the show on WWNO 89.9FM.

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

July 21, 2016 Comments Off

If you were born in 2004 and you’re now in 8^th 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.