Bev Bell can walk around hometown New Orleans unnoticed but in political circles in Washington DC and other countries – particularly Haiti where she has been variously a presidential insider and a revolutionary – Bev Bell is a political force to be reckoned with.
Read MoreOne of Happy Hour’s happiest features is that it brings together random strangers with nothing in common … who often end up having some pretty crazy things in common. Today’s Venn diagram overlaps at enchanted forests, trains, and…sperm donation. Andrew Duhon is back on the pod and the amazing Andrew Ward guest-hosts for Grant. …
Read MoreFerrari-shaped coffins? Narco tombs? Yes, they do exist. Justin Nobel travels the world investigating diverse death practices in places you’ve heard about, and many you haven’t. Justin chronicles his cross-cultural death discoveries in his unique blog, Digital Dying. On this edition of Death: the podcast, Arian talks with Justin about how various death rituals have…
Read MoreMorgan Molthrop is writing a book called 300 Reasons to Love New Orleans. He has to hand the manuscript in tomorrow. As Happy Hour kicks off he’s gotten the list up to 290. He needs another 10 reasons to love New Orleans in the next 60 minutes. It would be good if we could avoid associating…
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