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Kalamartian Jewish Rugby All Stars – Happy Hour – It’s New Orleans

You can’t judge a book by its cover. There’s no way you could look at a bunch of random people sitting around a table at Wayfare in New Orleans and guess what you’re about to find out about them. A lot of people know Constantine Georges in New Orleans. He was a U.S. Attorney, which in…

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Cocktail & Sons – Out to Lunch – It’s New Orleans

Typically, nationwide businesses start out in a big city – where there’s a big market.  As the brand grows and demand grows with it, the business gradually spreads across the country to ever smaller markets – until eventually everybody’s within a few miles of, say, a Walgreens. There are notable exceptions to this pattern. For…

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Cocktail & Sons – Out to Lunch – It’s New Orleans

Typically, nationwide businesses start out in a big city where there s a big market. As the brand grows and demand grows with it, the business gradually spreads across the country to ever smaller markets until eventually everybody s within a few miles of, say, a Walgreens. There are notable exceptions to this pattern. For…

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Conceived In Fat City – Happy Hour – It’s New Orleans

Singer, Songwriter, playwright Paul Sanchez describes Fat City as “a polyester Bourbon Street.”   Paul used to play in a band called Godot in Fat City back in the 1970’s. Being in an artsy new wave band that made musical references to French literature didn’t get you laid back then. Paul says, though, that he…

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Wonderful World Beautiful People – Out to Lunch – It’s New Orleans

We have a nationwide opioid epidemic. We consume a huge amount of alcohol. There’s a trend toward legalizing marijuana. And over 10% of us are prescribed mood altering medication. These are all attempts at coping with life. Another approach to making life more bearable is to spend more time focusing on the good parts. That’s…

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