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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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From Scotland to Saigon – VietNOLA – It’s New Orleans

What do you do after earning runner-up status on NBC’s The Voice and releasing a #1 single on iTunes?  You go to Vietnam and appear on their version of the The Voice of course!  That’s what New Orleans-based recording artist Terry McDermott did anyway, and he killed it there too! Terry’s been described by Adam Levine as having a…

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The Paris of Latin America – Midnight Menu +1 – It’s New Orleans

Paris, of course, is not in Latin America. Nor is it in North America. To Zella Palmer (aka Zella Palmer Cuadra) the blending of cultures, food, and music in New Orleans is unlike anywhere else in the US or in Europe and the simplest description that explains the blending is in culinary terms a gumbo…

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