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Glory-Holing The Galaxy, And Back – Happy Hour – It’s New Orleans

For under $400 Samantha Bearden can show you how to be the person you’ve always dreamed of being. A Mississippi-born Star Shaman, Samantha will, somehow, restructure your DNA, both in your body and in the ether, and you’ll end up being the best version of yourself possible. The total all in cost is $367. Who…

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Online Offline – Out to Lunch – It’s New Orleans

If you’ve been out to lunch yourself lately, you’ve seen people sitting around a table, all looking at their phones. It’s no longer an unusual sight. The boundary between the real world and the digital world is getting more blurred all the time. If you have a business, that blurred line is vital to navigate. Getting people…

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A Briefcase With a Stack of Cash and a .45 – Happy Hour – It’s New Orleans

Back in the day when legendary Bob Walker was a star DJ on AM radio in New Orleans – on WTIX – he was one of the guys who’d get a bunch of cocaine and cash to play records by goody two-shoes like The Osmonds. Then there was the day when the Motown guy came…

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Alt Startup – Out to Lunch – It’s New Orleans

One of the knocks against New Orleans as a place to start up a business is that we can’t be all that great or we would have produced a Google or Facebook or some sort of spectacular big-bucks success by now. But, despite what you might think, not everybody wants to be a billionaire. Some…

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Cocaine and Heartbreak, Dapper Men, and Pomeranian Hats – Happy Hour – It’s New Orleans

On a literally freezing New Orleans afternoon, looking fabulous despite braving icy streets and sidewalks, two dapper dudes and a fashion-forward yogi warm up Happy Hour with talk of hot Buti yoga, hot jazz and soul, and hot off the presses.     Four years ago Joseph Makkos responded to a Craig’s List ad ……

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