Kate Wright is a romance novelist. If you read romance novels you’ve never heard of her. But there’s a good chance you’ve heard of Vivian Wood, Kate’s pen name (created by the way by a “mellow yat guy”). Vivian is the creator of a range of titles like “Noah’s Revelation,” “Gavin’s Salvation,” and “Taken By The…

Hugo Montero is the impressario behind the art-space, hip Mexican restaurant and sophisto tequila bar Casa Borrerga on OCH in Central City New Orleans.   The reason the place is a joyful and riotous success on many levels is a direct reflection of Hugo’s larger than life personality and intellect. Hugo started out as an…

 An award-winning Happy Hour …   Guy Tem is an award-winning opera singer and vocal professor who came to New Orleans from Turkey in 2007 to sing in an opera – and never left. Guy teaches the table how to tell  a man’s singing voice by looking at his neck…then “swings low” with a stirring…

What do you call a jam cruise that doesn’t have a jam band, but does have a funny poignant singer-songwriter, a 5-string bass-player bandleader, a solo act, and an artist? In other words, the three musicians and an artist who walked in to Wayfare for this week’s Happy Hour.  While the panel never quite comes to an…

Colby Fox had the benefit of growing up in paradise: Destin, Florida. But when he flunked out of community college and joined the Navy, his ex-military Army dad wasn’t terribly supportive. He told Colby, he’d rather have a daughter in a cathouse than a son in the Navy. Colby nonetheless persevered and won the old…