Maria Levitsky has a dragon tattooed over most of her body – Maria used to play the flute, she lived in Spain when she was 11, and she rides a horse she bought from a charismatic preacher called Bootise. (Actually the horse is called Bootise, not the preacher.) And that’s just the tip of the…

Joaquin Emiliano moved to New Orleans with the plan of killing himself on his 35th birthday as a publicity stunt for the publication of his novel, Suicide Notes From A Wedding. Discovering that, like everything else he’s attempted in his life, he’d failed again, Joaquin finds himself not only living (dammit) but living near Tulane…

Sasha Masakowski doesn’t look all that fierce. But she doesn’t look like she hangs out in strip clubs either. Looks can be deceiving. Sasha’s middle name is Hildegard, German for Battle Maiden, which is not coincidentally the name of her newest music venture, Hildegarde. And if you go to Deja Vu strip club on Bourbon…

If we ever get to Mars, man’s journey will begin in New Orleans East. Cindy Manto’s fascinating new book, imaginatively titled Michoud Assembly Facility, tells the story of the piece of dirt off of the I-10 that started off as a land grant from Louis XV of France. In the 1940’s Michoud was the site…

8 years in the making, the worldwide exclusive broadcast premier of the hit single Crackhead Fred by Sarah Reagor happens right here. Andrew Duhon was at the bar at Wayfare before this edition of Happy Hour and met Sarah Reagor. Little did he know with whom he was striking up a conversation. Sarah wrote her…