You may know her as the head rose of Aurora Nealand and the Royal Roses, one of New Orleans’ pre-eminent interpreters and performers of traditional New Orleans jazz music. As if that wasn’t enough, Aurora performs in at least three other bands, and a score of other musical projects, often including international musicians from as…
Read MoreIn 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…
Read MoreBev 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.
Read MoreOne 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. …
Read MoreFerrari-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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