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NOLA Baby – Out to Lunch – It’s New Orleans

Latona Giwa from Birthmark Doula Collective breaks down the A B C-sections of the NOLA baby biz. Angelle Missios, NOLA Birth Photographer, is there to capture baby’s first breath and first Facebook post. In the Pay It Forward segment of the show Peter, Angelle, and Latona take a look at The Elmer Group’s Nerium. For dessert, co-founder of Birthmark Doulas,…

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Eureaux Sophisteaux on Magazine – Midnight Menu +1 – It’s New Orleans

Near Ms Mae’s and across from the 2nd District Police station on Magazine Street, a step through the door into Cafe Rivista immediately transports you into a whole other world of casual European sophistication. Even the air feels Italian. But don’t think pretentious furnishings, hipster baristas or gleaming cappuccino machines, this joint is understated and…

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That’s the Way it Goes on Death Row – Happy Hour – It’s New Orleans

Once in a while when you re just out to grab a drink and you get talking to the person next to you at the bar you discover that some people are dealing with some serious sh t. This conversation with The Lens journalist Della Hasselle starts out light enough talking about how when she…

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Fleurty Rock’n – Out to Lunch – It’s New Orleans

In 4 years Lauren Thom has taken Fleurty Girl from a bedroom in the front of her house on Oak Street to 5 stores citywide. At a time when the term “T shirt shop”was synonymous with “bottom feeding scum,” representative of everything that was wrong with New Orleans tourist centered economy, Lauren turned T shirt…

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Rolls and Bowls – Midnight Menu +1 – It’s New Orleans

Margo is such a big fan of Vietnamese resaurant Rolls and Bowls that not only has she eaten there twice in one day, she ordered the same dish for lunch and dinner!   Co-owner Ricky Phan is the first guest to bring along a plus one that is, as he described it, “My plus two”…

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