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Kicked Up Local – Out to Lunch – It’s New Orleans

The Small Business Association defines a small business as having fewer than 500 employees. By that definition, over 99% of all businesses in the US are small businesses.  Even so, the businesses in the remaining 1% that they’re competing against have a hugely outsized influence when it comes to marketing and other resources. How does a…

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Ecstasy Saved My Life – Happy Hour – It’s New Orleans

Lori Tipton is the most popular guest in Happy Hour history.   Last time Lori was here she talked about her shallow vagina and how she had to become intimately familiar with its intricacies in pursuit of self-administered insemination (aka turkey baster). As impossible as it sounds, today Lori has an even more amazing story…

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Quick Bites: Johnette Downing, Louisiana’s Pied Piper

Children in Louisiana grow up with so many local traditions that schools could practically add an extra class to cover all of them! Luckily, songwriter Johnette Downing is around to set these traditional stories to music. Johnette’s award-winning books and songs have earned her many nicknames, from “the pied piper of Louisiana music traditions” to “the musical ambassador to children.” 

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Accidental Ecstatic Hypoventilation – Happy Hour – It’s New Orleans

This is probably not quite how Kate Becker intended her serious practice of healing and self-development through breath-work to be interpreted, but did you know you can get high AF from breathing? Breath-work is cheaper than drugs and the effects of happiness linger on and reverberate through your life long after the high is gone….

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