There’s an old saying about how to be successful in business – “Build a better mousetrap.” Meaning find a product everybody wants and do it better. Peter’s guests on Out to Lunch today have come up with new variations of products that enjoy massive worldwide popularity. Soft drinks and coffee. Geoffrey Meeker has a little yellow…
Read MoreIt’s Veterans Day 2015. The random assortment of folks at Happy Hour at Wayfare runs the gamut from hardcore US Marine Tommy Waller to vegan singer-songwriter and French chanteuse Sarah Quintana. Lafayette musician Philippe Billeaudeaux, from Cajun band Feufollet, recently moved to town. Moon is an artist who tends toward the spiritual and loving end…
Read MoreFor the past few years with all the Hollywood folks in town it’s not unusual for someone at Whole Foods in New Orleans to whisper, “Do you know who that is?” It’s usually a celebrity who looks quite different in the cereal aisle from how she looks like on screen. Today on Out to Lunch Peter’s…
Read MoreBack in the 1970’s when the porno biz was just getting cranked up and you had to actually go to a movie theater to see pornography, Gene Fredericks had a live late night TV show in New Orleans. Gene didn’t come on Happy Hour to dredge all this up but he graciously tells the…
Read MoreKenna Moore conducted a survey in the French Quarter, asking people she maintains were not drunk tourists, “What do you think of when you you think of the Black Church?” The overwhelming response was, “Tyler Perry.” To many people that would have been simple proof that the majority of people in the French Quarter…
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