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Pineapple Pumpernickel – Happy Hour – It’s New Orleans

This is what we are not allowed to know about Emma Iris DiAnna: where she works or what she does for a living.   This is what we are allowed to know. She hates yoga, hates people who call their kids “Emma” like the idiot baby on Friends, sleeps with a dog, went to a…

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Sight and Sound – Out to Lunch – It’s New Orleans

A normally functioning human body is something most of us take for granted, until we have personal experience that challenges us. It might be the birth of a child, an accident, or just staying alive long enough to have bits of ourselves wear out. Two of our senses that are susceptible to impairment are hearing…

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Jesus is an Asshole – Happy Hour – It’s New Orleans

Mac Alsfeld was Jesus’ personal assistant. Every day Jesus would scream at him, throw stuff, and get naked. Not the actual Jesus in the New Testament – he’s reportedly still dead – this is the guy who played Jesus in the movies. Our lawyer has advised us not to put the actor’s name here but…

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Big Deals – Out to Lunch – It’s New Orleans

Most people who start a new business build on what has come before them. Every now and again there are revolutionary game changers, like  Apple’s iPhone, but coming up with a totally new  product is not the rule, it’s the exception. And that’s what makes Al Andrews exceptional.  When Al founded TASC in 2009, with…

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Not Dissin Dem or Dissin Dat or Dis n Dat but Dis n Dem – Midnight Menu +1 – It’s New Orleans

Like many New Orleans kids, Colin Provensal was hanging out in bars way too young. In Colin’s case, 7. And he was playing piano. By 13 he had a regular Saturday night piano gig in a restaurant on the Orleans-Jefferson parish line at the beginning of Veterans Boulevard. At 14 he was working in his…

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