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Don’t Squeeze The Shaman – Happy Hour – It’s New Orleans

New Orleanian Paul Summerlin is not only a super fab musician who tours the world playing keyboards in Seal s band, he s also a neo shaman. If you re not 100 sure what a neo shaman is, Paul describes it as a shaman with an iPhone. And if you re not quite sure what…

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Entrepreneur Week 2014 – Out to Lunch – It’s New Orleans

New Orleans annual Entrepreneur Week is a week-long throw-down of entrepreneurs and the men and women who love them. Resembling a melange of New York’s Fashion Week, TED talks, and Cirque du Soleil of business, classes and seminars fill out the day around the star events where NOLA entrepreneurs get to pitch their Idea-Village-labeled “crazy…

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From Boat Person to Gates Scholar – VietNOLA – It’s New Orleans

We’ve all heard stories of the hard working immigrant who finds success (however you define it) through their own hard work and determination, but do you wonder if it ever truly happens?  It has in 22 year old Ngoc Pham’s case! When the Ngoc came to the United States, she was eight and had spent…

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Mom, Where Do Buildings Come From? – Out to Lunch – It’s New Orleans

We talk a lot in New Orleans about the “rebirth” of the city but before the city was re-born it was born. The architects of what we all agree is our remarkably beautiful city were just that: architects. The major architects of today’s New Orleans are renaissance men and women. An eye for beauty and…

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The Elephant In The Tent – Happy Hour – It’s New Orleans

Renso Amariz spent years as a combat photographer in the US Navy. His photos have appeared on the front pages of every major newspaper in the world, on the cover of most of the known news magazines and he’s faced down death literally more times than he can remember. Living in New Orleans Renso has…

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