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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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Cats ‘n Dogs – Out to Lunch – It’s New Orleans

Last year Americans spent over 55 billion dollars on their pets. To put that in some sort of perspective, that’s more than most countries in the world spend on their military. In New Orleans, Zeus Place is one of a number of 21st Century pet boarding and day care facilities where pets are treated somewhere…

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I’m Writing a Book – Midnight Menu +1 – It’s New Orleans

Addie K. Martin is a self described “Swamp Cajun.” As opposed to the “inland Cajuns” with the cochon propensities, Addie s Golden Meadow Cajuns are shrimpers and fishers. After graduating from the King of Cajun s Cooking School, aka Chef John Folse s Culinary Institute, Addie went on to work in restaurants till Katrina blew…

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Some of Those Koochies Are My Best Friends – Happy Hour – It’s New Orleans

Helen Gillet leads her band, The Wazozo Zorchestra, she’s a solo jazz and experimental cello player, is originally from Belgium, grew up in Singapore and Chicago, and lives in New Orleans. What else could you say about anybody that could be more unique and interesting than all of that? How about that Helen lived for…

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