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Barbara Weaver/Thanh Nga Nguyen – War Baby – VietNOLA – It’s New Orleans

When Barbara Weaver’s father Mike went to Vietnam in 1967 to serve in the war, he brought with him not much more than a rucksack with his toothbrush, a few family photos, and some clothes. When he returned to the States almost ten years later, it was with a Vietnamese wife and seven children –…

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In It For The Money – Out to Lunch – It’s New Orleans

There are a lot of great reasons to live in New Orleans, but “making money” is not typically at the top of the list. Even though the business climate is undeniably better here now than we’ve seen in decades, money is not what drives most of us. But of course, we can’t live without it….

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Dr. Gourmet and Chef Nutella – Midnight Menu +1 – It’s New Orleans

Dr. Gourmet has a day job as a doctor and professor of medicine at Tulane University. And a side gig as a gourmet doctor at Tulane’s revolutionary Goldring Institute for Culinary Medicine. Emmy Award winning Dr Gourmet, aka Timothy Harlan, started out working in restaurants at age 11. He opened his own French Bistro in…

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Cloudy, With a Chance of Triangles – Happy Hour – It’s New Orleans

Sean Gautreaux is not totally normal, but he’s pretty close. An illustrator of children’s books and graphic designer of well known video games, he’s not a kook but he has spent  a great deal of time and money trying to figure out what the UFO’s are hovering above his house. The UFO’s are hidden in…

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The Rebel of Village de L’Est – VietNOLA – It’s New Orleans

More than twenty years before the Cyndi Nguyen ran for City Council, there was the self described rebel Cindy Nguyen who nearly got herself kicked out of high school and went off to Iowa in search of something different. The Cyndi who returned to New Orleans nearly ten years later had a college degree and…

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