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Sweet Samurai – Midnight Menu +1 – It’s New Orleans

October 28, 2014 Midnight Menu +1

Margo’s son just had a birthday. In his short life his sock puppet has already had a long and tortured history, featuring maiming, loss, death, and rebirth. When Margo hit on the dea that it woukd be fun to capture all that in a cake, who else could she turn to than Midori-Tajiri Byrd. Sometimes…

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Whips For Tips – Happy Hour – It’s New Orleans

October 24, 2014 It's New Orleans: Happy Hour

You may know Meschiya Lake as the singer and front-person of her band Meschiya Lake and The Little Big Horns. A very different audience knows her as one of the girls on Girls Gone Wild. She’s in an episode in New Orelans where Meschiya and her girlfriend are doing what girls do – whipping tourists…

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BEER! – Midnight Menu +1 – It’s New Orleans

October 21, 2014 Midnight Menu +1

Two guys walk into a bar. One owns a beer brewing store. The other is opening a brewery. They sit down at a bar table with the guy who owns the bar, and a guy who – despite being known as “The Man Who Ate New Orleans” – hasn’t had anything to eat all day….

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Hitler and Juliet – Happy Hour – It’s New Orleans

October 17, 2014 It's New Orleans: Happy Hour

One theory goes that if Hitler hadn’t failed out of art school he wouldn’t have become an insane dictator. Then there’s a whole other story about shaving pubic hair. And that’s just the first few minutes of this extraordinarily strange meeting of a bunch of random folks on a Fall afternoon on Freret Street in…

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French Market Film Market – Out to Lunch – It’s New Orleans

October 16, 2014 Out to Lunch

In New Orleans we have an uneasy relationship with progress. We want to grow, but not like Atlanta. Or Houston. Or Austin. Or pretty much any economically successful Southern city.  One of the battlegrounds where we fight to retain our local identity and accommodate a changing economy is The French Market. A glance at the…

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