If you’re a fan of classic retro-TV you’re familiar with Fame, the Glee of the 70’s. (Basically a high school where they spend more time singing songs and dancing than doing any actual school work.) If you can imagine that on acid, that apparently was Jo Morris’s education. Today Jo and band-mate Steve Walkup are…
Read MoreThis is not a cute click bait podcast title. Dr John Sawyer (you can call him “Johnny Jr” if you want) is the Co-Director of the Brain Health Program at Ochsner Health System. If you want any other reassuring credentials he’s also an ex-seminarian and a married gay man and father of two kids. And…
Read MoreIf you’re like most people, when you do your taxes once a year you’re genuinely surprised at the numbers staring up at you. You can’t believe how much you spent on various items. Maybe it’s car repair. School supplies. Travel. Eating out. Shoes. Or even groceries. You’re so surprised at how much you spent, compared to how…
Read MoreOne criticism that used to be levelled at New Orleans was that we have a thousand restaurants but only ten recipes. Every restaurant served a variation of gumbo, jambalaya and fried seafood. Those days are gone. Take, for example, Marjie’s Grill on Broad Street. Not only is Marjie’s a popular New Orleans restaurant, it was named one…
Read MoreTheophile Bourgeois IV is a tattoo artist and the front man for New Orleans band Them Ol’ Ghosts. Theophile, pronounced Thay-o-feel (it’s very Cajun French) has graduated from tattooing drunk people from his old shop next to strip parlor, to working banker’s hours from his shop on Oak Street, in Uptown New Orleans. TBIV has…
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