Gwen Thompkins is host of the authoritative and quintessential New Orleans music show, Music Inside Out, on NPR station WWNO. Gwen’s tenure in Sudan and East Africa as cash-toting bureau chief in that neck of the woods has given her a wide worldview out of which has come her solution to the debate over guns…
Read MoreYou’d have to be a certain age and have a certain kind of musical taste to remember Peter Allen singing, “All our dreams will come true again, when everything old is new again.” Today on Out to Lunch Peter is talking with two business people who are taking old fashioned taste and recycling it for a…
Read MoreAt the beginning of this conversation artist Myesha Francis tells the table that everything she wished for by writing it on her “vision board” at the beginning of 2015 came to be by the end of the year, except one thing. In the next 60 minutes, by sheer chance, Myesha’s last remaining goal is going…
Read MoreWhen we talk about big events in New Orleans we typically say “Mardi Gras and Jazz Fest.” Economically, though, if we’re going to bracket two events, we should say “Mardi Gras and French Quarter Festival.” French Quarter Festival’s economic impact on the city has become massive. It’s reportedly bigger than Jazz Fest. French Quarter Festival…
Read MoreIn the next 60 minutes you’re going to hear how a relatively successful New York City accordion player broke down on stage, became a Buddhist cult leader, and inadvertently gave birth to the Gwendolyn Molson Quartet. Leslie Molson tells the story and many more besides, including how she cured having a fat face and tiny…
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