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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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Sarah, Sarah, Sarah, and Jason – Happy Hour – It’s New Orleans

This is not typically the place to come for breaking news – a bunch of random folks in a bar. But when one of those folks is New Orleans Council Member Jason Williams and the conversation turns to the Chief of Police… Remember, you heard it here first. Sarah Jane McMahon may not be a…

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Family Friendly – Out to Lunch – It’s New Orleans

Human beings love doing things in groups. It starts off with fun birthday parties when we’re kids, and goes all the way to desperate attempts to have fun at conferences – which is why so many of them come to New Orleans. While folks are here at a conference, Teddy Nathan’s company, Cresecent City Connections,…

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Beer Buddha – Midnight Menu +1 – It’s New Orleans

Jeremy Labadie is, in every sense, the Beer Buddha. Whether his Buddha-like stature is God-given or the result of consuming beer, whether his calm countenance is from a Zen like approach to life or a couple of cool brews, who really knows the truth about, well, anything? Among the many surprising Buddha enlightening moments on…

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