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Bopp Frank Lee – Happy Hour – It’s New Orleans

Grant says in his introduction to Happy Hour, “When you pull up a bar stool in New Orleans you never know who’s going to be sitting on either side of you.” Today there was no way you could have predicted this turn in the conversation. Chris Lee is best know in New Orleans as front…

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Saints! Pelicans! Tourists! – Out to Lunch – It’s New Orleans

New Orleans is one of the country’s most popular tourist destinations. There is no specific reason – there’s no amusement park or beach – but like other great cities – Paris, Manhattan – people come here to spend time just living like we do. Ironically, we herd them into the French Quarter and down Bourbon…

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Zen Boogie Burgers ‘n Beer – Midnight Menu +1 – It’s New Orleans

The Zen Temple is on the 4th floor of a Camp Street building in downtown New Orleans. The building used to be Cosimo Matassa s legendary recording studio. Today, below the Zen temple where the music temple once stood and the greatest of New Orleans music was recorded, the Zen Boogie has been handed on…

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With Love From Tahiti – Happy Hour – It’s New Orleans

MC Trachiotomy spent 18 months on a remote island in the Pacific, a mile long and a half mile wide. From his current landlocked island, The Pearl, a 9th ward sanctuary and creative edge-of the-known-universe, he’s recorded 14 albums and so far released five of them. On today’s show, among other topics, Trach weighs the…

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Angels ‘n Exports – Out to Lunch – It’s New Orleans

A few years ago, for most of us start up was a verb it was something you did to a car. These days it’s a noun. A startup is a new business, typically based on a new and untested idea. One of the toughest things about a startup, the noun, is the verb starting it…

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