Musician and producer Nesby Phips may be best known worldwide for his work with Lil Wayne and other hip hop artists, but here in New Orleans his equally impressive claim to fame is that Mahlia Jackson was his great aunt. Nesby is one of the owners and gatekeepers of Ms Jackson’s copyrighted material and is…
Read MoreIf you’re like most Americans, you like to shop. Either in a store or on your phone. Every single retailer in America right now – from Walmart to your local shoe shop – is trying to figure out how to get you off your phone and into their store. Somebody somewhere is going to have to…
Read MoreAndrew Ward has more weird experiences than 20 Happy Hour guests combined. Without even mentioning the royal Indian heritage of his transgender chickens, how he gets to be involved in Louisiana’s record setting race to be number one in the country for Gonorrhea, or the fact that Yulman Lapalanian is his step dad, Andrew’s regular…
Read MoreFrom the beginning of recorded history we’ve had a fascination with the blurred lines between the real world and the supernatural world. Greek gods and Hindu gods were described as humans with superpowers who lived in other dimensions and interacted with people on Earth. In biblical times, an all-powerful but invisible God granted some humans super powers,…
Read MoreDarling Darla James (none of them are her real name) occupies what she describes as the bottom rung of the sex industry, or the whorachy. The whorachy starts at burlesque, graduates to club stripping, then porn, then prostitution. Darling Darla is a burlesque dancer. She also calls herself a stripper-light. Among the many things you’ll…
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