ino

Rollin’ Fatties – Midnight Menu +1 – It’s New Orleans

What do you think of when you hear the name “Rollin Fatties” Fat or weed Maybe burritos How about a burrito that s more than a burrito It s a fattie Aiji Daste s food truck is rollin , making vegetarian fatties that will rock your Tex Mex burrito world. Fatties like The Soul Food…

Read More

Michael Jackson Ate My Homework – Happy Hour – It’s New Orleans

Although New Orleans film maker Kevin McLin was twenty years younger than the King of Pop, he grew up with Michael Jackson. Kevin’s dad was Michael’s spokesman from the 90’s all the way through till the end of Michael’s life.  We let Kevin talk a bit about his first movie, The Station, and his new…

Read More

Hubig en Espanol – Out to Lunch – It’s New Orleans

Hubig’s isn’t what the rest of the country thinks of as “pie”. It’s a single-serving deep fried envelope of home-made pastry and pie filling, sealed in a wax paper bag.  And it’s not sold in bakeries, but in all kinds of stores all over town. After Katrina, the return of Hubig’s Pies was heralded as a…

Read More

Cow Urine or Death – Happy Hour – It’s New Orleans

If you kill someone in New Orelans and you’d like to avoid the death penalty, Brandi Studer is the person you need to get to know. Brandi works for the Capital Defense Project where she spends her day putting together arguments to convince a jury you’d be better off alive, in jail or out, than…

Read More

Water Works – Out to Lunch – It’s New Orleans

Ocean front property is desirable, unless the ocean is meant to be hundreds of miles from your front door. Webster Pierce Jr is the inventor of a hunk of plastic called the Wave Robber. Anchored off the coast of rapidly disappearing Louisiana land, it upends the natural process of waves washing away land by robbing…

Read More