When you grow up in communist Bulgaria there’s a few things you have to live without. Kiwifruit for one. And bubble wrap. Even today the remnants of Soviet domination hangs over the country to such an extent that still no bubble wrap is available. That’s why NOLA-garian Boyanna Trayanova, travels with her own supply of…

Grant says in his introduction to Happy Hour, “When you pull up a bar stool in New Orleans you never know who’s going to be sitting on either side of you.” Today there was no way you could have predicted this turn in the conversation. Chris Lee is best know in New Orleans as front…

MC Trachiotomy spent 18 months on a remote island in the Pacific, a mile long and a half mile wide. From his current landlocked island, The Pearl, a 9th ward sanctuary and creative edge-of the-known-universe, he’s recorded 14 albums and so far released five of them. On today’s show, among other topics, Trach weighs the…

This is not typically the place to come for breaking news – a bunch of random folks in a bar. But when one of those folks is New Orleans Council Member Jason Williams and the conversation turns to the Chief of Police… Remember, you heard it here first. Sarah Jane McMahon may not be a…

If you’re a girl and you tell a guy you’re 26, what does it matter that you’re really only 17? In Jak Locke’s telling of the story, being off by 9 matters, if you’re a hooker. While we’re on the subject of keeping numbers straight, this is Jak’s 6th appearance on Happy Hour. It’s not like…