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Quoc Hoang – VietNOLA – It’s New Orleans

In 1980, Quoc Hoang was born in a refugee camp in a Malaysian jungle.  Two-and-a-half months later, his family found itself in Canada in the dead of winter, totally dislocated from friends and family, and in a city (Toronto) that, at the time, had very few Vietnamese people.   Now Quoc lives in New Orleans…

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Mindset – Bev Bell – Mindset – It’s New Orleans

Bev Bell can walk around hometown New Orleans unnoticed but in political circles in Washington DC and other countries – particularly Haiti where she has been variously a presidential insider and a revolutionary – Bev Bell is a political force to be reckoned with.

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Turkey Legs To Turkey Basters – Happy Hour – It’s New Orleans

One of Happy Hour’s happiest features is that it brings together random strangers with nothing in common … who often end up having some pretty crazy things in common. Today’s Venn diagram overlaps at enchanted forests, trains, and…sperm donation. Andrew Duhon is back on the pod and the amazing Andrew Ward guest-hosts for Grant.  …

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Comparative Death – Death: the podcast – It’s New Orleans

Ferrari-shaped coffins? Narco tombs? Yes, they do exist. Justin Nobel travels the world investigating diverse death practices in places you’ve heard about, and many you haven’t. Justin chronicles his cross-cultural death discoveries in his unique blog, Digital Dying. On this edition of Death: the podcast, Arian talks with Justin about how various death rituals have…

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Smoke My Crabs Jackie O – Midnight Menu +1 – It’s New Orleans

Steve Armbruster pioneered the New Orleans pop up restaurant scene back in 1978 when he founded a kitchen in Tipitina’s. Steve and 13 friends opened Tips a year earlier so they could hear R&B artists who, thanks to The Beatles, “The British Invasion” and the total demise of New Orleans music, had no other place…

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