Just when you think New Orleans couldn’t surprise you any more, you meet Luke Hooper.   Luke Hooper is the kind of character a Hollywood screenwriter would dream up. Tall and handsome. A semi-professional iron-man athlete who is also an award-winning inventor. He’s invented a new version of delivering wireless power (yes, that’s right, wireless…

There’s a fine line between Jesus and The Man. Jesus wants you to do things His way and he holds out the specter of sending you to Hell forever if you don’t comply. On the other hand, management and their proxies, consultants, have you buy in to a better way of life for everyone right…

Here’s everything you need to know about this week’s Happy Hour: if you’re disgruntled about the Rolling Stones playing Jazz Fest, there’s a subversion plan afoot. Andrew Duhon comes up with this genius idea after ony one drink, and dubs it “Pontchatrain’s 11,” inspired by the Oceans 11 scam. The plan involves everyone sitting around…

Happy Hour is billed as “Random conversation with folks who have nothing in common.” Anything that’s truly random will, sooner or later, appear to us not to be. Like flipping a coin and getting four “heads” in a row. Or inviting random people to sit around a table at a bar in New Orleans and…

Kimberly Kaye woke up at 3AM one morning and knew she was dying. She was right.   Months later, after spending weeks in a hyperbaric chamber in New Orleans and months at the Cleveland Clinic, Kimberly finally found out she had something exotic called EDS, a rare, genetic, connective tissue disorder.  Today Kimberly is kicking…