Morgan Molthrop is writing a book called 300 Reasons to Love New Orleans. He has to hand the manuscript in tomorrow. As Happy Hour kicks off he’s gotten the list up to 290. He needs another 10 reasons to love New Orleans in the next 60 minutes. It would be good if we could avoid associating…
Read MoreIf there’s one thing everybody around the world knows about New Orleans, it’s that we were the victims of Hurricane Katrina. The other thing they probably know is, we’re the birthplace of jazz. The New Orleans Jazz Orchestra was, for a time, one of the most successful and well-funded jazz institutions in the city. Today, a…
Read MoreIf you’re a white person in the U.S. you might tend to think of other races as being, of themselves, monolithic. However, if you’re a member of a race with non-white skin hues you are more attuned to the finer shades of skin color that make you lighter or darker than other people of your…
Read MoreWhen you think of a business that’s based on franchising, you probably think of places like Subway and McDonalds. But there are many more. There are over 750,000 franchise outlets in the U.S. Some of them might surprise you. Like Barre 3. They’re workout studios that combine ballet barre with yoga and Pilates. There are 3…
Read MoreOn this Happy Hour, Julia Elizabeth Evans learns that you can be an artist, a philosopher, a daughter, a sister, a business person with your own production company, and a film maker on the way to world renown, and yet all a bunch of guys around a table want to know is what it’s like…
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