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| The Return Of The Random All Cajun Happy Hour Special | 24 Jun 2020 | 01:09:11 | |
Until we're allowed back into bars in New Orleans and until people feel comfortable coming down and sitting around having a cocktail with random strangers, we're revisiting some our best shows from the past decade. Today Happy Hour Digital Producer, Andrew "C-Rock" Cirac has picked this episode, so here's the Return of the Random All Cajun Happy Hour Special. 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 discovering they’re all Cajun. Louis Michot is the fiddle player and lead singer in the Cajun band Lost Bayou Ramblers. You don’t get much more Cajun than Louis and his tales of Petit Paris (aka St Martinville), living in Broussard, Lafayette, and out in the woods of Arnaudville. Louis plays two songs on this Happy Hour, accompanied on one of them by fellow Cajun Andrew Duhon. Here in New Orleans we pronounce Andrew’s name Doo-Hon but if you go a few miles West (just how many is open to debate) it’s pronounced Doo-Yong. Until you get a few miles out of Lafayette, into Texas, where it reverts to doo-hon, as evidenced by Louis’ dog whose name was Clint Duhon, pronounced the Port Arthur way ’cause that’s where he came from. Lizzie Guitreau is a Baton Rouge Cajun who decided that her inspiration from watching the TV show House as a kid should propel her into making TV shows rather than medicine. Lizzie went to UNO for film, started a band (of film makers) and is still working with them today, as Worklight Pictures. Ready for the next weird Cajun coincidence? Worklight Pictures are making a documentary about The Lost Bayou Rambers. It’s called On Va Continuer (we will continue). Brandon Beeyard can’t hide his true identity too long. Yes, it turns out his name is really spelled Bulliard, and he’s Cajun, from, wait for it, St Martinville aka Petit Paris, and his family is related to Louis’s wife’s family. Brandon is headed for self-propelled meta-stardom (no, that’s not a typo, though he might also be bound for mega-stardom) by way of his of his revalatory and inspirational life-story podcast, Dreamster. Photos from this show by Jill Lafleur – yes, that’s a Cajun name! - are at our website.
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| Katrina Brees Meets Tank and The Bangas | 17 Jun 2020 | 01:05:58 | |
In the Happy Hour annals of "random people who have nothing in common," the day artist Katrina Brees meets Tank and the Bangas stands out to Happy Hour Live Feed Video Director Asher Griffith as the Best Of Happy Hour. Where's Karina? If you ever wondered what happened to Karina Nathan she’s now Kevin Simons. And Karen Regis. And Krystal Sedona. And Chi Chi the lead singer of the Girl Dawgs, who is actually a dog. Katrina Brees sheds some light on this fantastic array of personalities, and their wardrobes. Go Tank or Go Home Tank from Tank and the Bangas has her own specialty wardrobe and range of personas too. Her wardrobe doesn’t extend to panties (which she has given up wearing) but she does occasionally wear boy shorts to boost her booty. Her personas start out with Terianne Michelle Ball in New Orleans East and extend to the woman sorting through damaged goods on aisle 4 at Walmart. Norman Spence and Merell Burket from Tank’s band, Tank and the Bangas, join the party – but strictly under their own names. Hello, Ricky! Ricky Lemann’s alter ego is Frederick, his real name. Ricky could have gone with alter ego #2, Fred, but he’s keeping it real, pleading “the fifth” on a range of issues. Photos from this show by sunny Alison Moon at the now defunct Wayfare at our website. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| Live From Petco | 15 Apr 2020 | 01:17:57 | |
Music is apparently non-essential. So New Orleans musicians have no place to play. Some are doing live streaming from their homes, but others – like drummers and sax players – don’t have the kind of live streaming ability that, say, a singer-songwriter has. And then there’s this interesting factoid – Petco is regarded as essential and is still open. So here’s the obvious solution: Live From Petco. Musicians go play at Petco, if not in the store then at least in the parking lot. That’s the wisdom that comes out of this Covid Zoom conversation aka Happy Hour. Back in the day when people went to work, Allison Hererra made social media influencer videos for people like personal injury attorney Chip Forstall. Allison is going to use her talents to film the Petco Sessions and put them up online. Brian Hudson knows a thing or two about viral music videos. Brian is a street performer whose singing partner is internet sensation Grandpa Elliot, the older guy who sings Stand By Me on YouTube, Instagram and all over. The other interesting thing about Brian is he’s a therapist. And a keen observer Sage Rouge is a sax player who is making live streaming videos with her roommate, Mark, who is also a sax player. Together they’re releasing a series of videos that combine music and alcohol, called Day Drinking Duets. For a day job, Sage is a sax player in the band Spylights. Vincent Giovanni, the front-man lead singer and driving force behind Spylights, throws caution and social distancing to the wind for today’s show, putting together a 3-piece version of Spylights to play two songs on this Happy Hour. Andrew Duhon takes us out with a rendition of his beautiful song about the heartache of separation, Coming Down Over Here. Apparently, we’re all staying home till the middle of May, so we’ll see you back on Zoom Happy Hour next week. Oh, and in the meantime, not everybody’s social isolation is totally dull and predictable. Listen to Asher Griffith’s story about shooting a chicken in the head. Stay home and stay safe and see you back here in a week. Photos by Jill Lafleur. Last week’s Covid conversation is here. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| #MeTooSoon - Happy Hour - It's New Orleans | 10 Jan 2018 | 01:03:42 | |
You just know that the MeToo movement is going to be a feature at Mardi Gras this year. What you don t know, yet, is quite how sexual harassment is going translate into New Orleans style humor. So here s a bit of an early sneak peek at what you can expect. You d expect that the founder of the largest women s marching organization in the world who gave her club the name of "Bearded Oysters" would probably have a few unbridled and surprising points of view. Katrina Brees turns the tables on men and gets the upper hand by means of her own harassment, and the liberal advocacy for the recreational use of amyl nitrate, aka rush or in Katrina s shadow world online, VHS cleaner. Camp Morrison remembers using rush back in the day when he started his private detective agency the first time around. The second time was the charm and Camp has been in the private detective business in New Orleans since 1988. If you re looking to hire a private detective to snoop on people you ll have to use your own sleuthing skills to find Camp. His view of marketing is singularly unique, amounting to the belief that no good whatsoever can come from any public pronouncement. Lynn Drury makes a return appearance on Happy Hour with a brand new record, new songs and a new attitude about sex which begins with turning her phone off at midnight and not turning it back on again till 10AM when the male libido has supposedly quietened down. Lynn s take on the MeToo movement hasn t made the mainstream media. Because she s a Southern woman Lynn has reportedly had plenty of experience at getting harassed and is inclined to suck it up, or as Katrina re phrases it, lick it up. If you re looking to take the temperature of the average drinking New Orleanian at this beginning of the second year of the Trump era, this Happy Hour conversation is a good place to start. Photos at Wayfare by Alison Moon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| Keep Krishna in Christmas 2 - Happy Hour - It's New Orleans | 20 Dec 2017 | 01:02:28 | |
In our 2nd annual Krishna Christmas the Das Brothers, Gadadhar Pandit and Srivash, from the local [Hare Krishna Temple][link1] play live, [James Moises][link2] brings his own wine, [Raine Bedsole][link3] gets yogic and Bill from [Slice][link4] explains how pizza saved his marriage. [link1]: http://www.iskcon-nola.org/ [link2]: http://www.moiseswines.com/ [link3]: http://www.rainebedsole.com/index2.php [link4]: http://slicepizzeria.com/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| Budget Bitch Law Bitch Cello Bitch - Happy Hour - It's New Orleans | 06 Dec 2017 | 01:02:19 | |
Molly Richard pronounced the Cajun way, Re shard first got the moniker Budget Bitch when she was working with homeless folks in Lafayette. Yes, even in a small town filled with decent people there are apparently homeless people, but if you re homeless and lucky enough to run into Budget Bitch she ll slap you into shape and into a home. Budgets and math might not be Helen Gillet s strong point 3x6 Guy Madden but she is able to explain the physics of Indian musical scales. Oh, and incidentally, play them. On a cello no less. There are no words in the English or Hindi languages than can describe exactly what Helen Gillet does with a cello. If you don t know Helen s music, listen to this podcast for the sole reason of hearing it. If you re already a fan you have to hear this Indian raga. Derwyn Bunton met his wife playing soccer on a co ed team. Today they re married and Derwyn doesn t head balls any more but he does head up the Orleans Public Defender s Office. There are 60 lawyers in this office, all defending people who have allegedly committed crimes but can t afford to defend themselves in court. Just like you never know when hardship might strike and you could find yourself homeless, you never when misfortune might strike and you find yourself needing legal representation. You might be interested to know that Louisiana is the ONLY state in the nation that doesn t allot money for this purpose. Instead, Derwyn has to go on Twitter, and wear cargo shorts. Photos at Wayfare by Alison Moon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| Don't Be A Dick - Happy Hour - It's New Orleans | 29 Nov 2017 | 01:02:30 | |
Remy Robert rhymes with Amy Snowbear is, among other things, a professional matchmaker at a new startup called Tawkify where you can get hooked up with another human by another human, not an app. There are a lot of layers and nuances to this as you will hear in this conversation but Remy distills the the sum of her knowledge of relationships into this simple admonition Don t be a dick. Apparently just being yourself is enough to win over the right person, if you can find him or her. When she s not hooking people up, Remy s life consists of hanging out with famous chefs like Alon Shaya, translating their prodigious skills into simple enough language to become recipes in a cookbook. Her next cookbook is a Mad Libs inspired culinary adventure. And after that she just might be concocting a book with Chef Kenneth Temple. Chef Kenneth Temple is the recent winner of the prestigious TV cooking show, Chopped. He s been a personal chef to Lil Wayne and other celebrities Lil Wayne likes chicken wings and he s just published a cookbook with 75 of his favorite signature recipes, called Southern Creole. If you re a betting person you could pretty safely bet on Chef Kenneth becoming a big deal celebrity chef and media star. But don t expect him to follow any well worn path. His current cooking show is on Facebook and it s a vast departure for anything you ve seen before. NOLA FAM are charting their own path through the world of Hip Hop. Happy Hour favorites, Moni explains how he has undergone a persona change, inspired by the 1986 Saab Turbo S. He s not kidding. Like the Saab, Moni is nearly invisible, but reliable and fast, and that s how he s come to be called 900. The other half of NOLA FAM used to be known as Q Hefner but is now known as Q The Don. The genesis of these identity change is the imperative of rhyme and while you re betting on Chef Kenneth put a side bet on NOLA FAM. As 900 says, "Things are bubbling." Take a listen to their music on this show, these guys are definitely onto something. Photos at Wayfare by Hope Byrd. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| Dreamy Fernanado's Dead Bean Yelp! - Happy Hour - It's New Orleans | 15 Nov 2017 | 01:00:27 | |
Morgan Ford got married last week and postponed her honeymoon so she could go on Happy Hour. Okay, that might be a slight exaggeration. But Morgan did actually get married last week and she really is on this Happy Hour. Morgan probably knows more about what s going on in New Orleans than anyone in the city she s the community manager for Yelp Devin DeWulf arrived in New Orleans a decade ago and did what most people do when they get here painted his car and turned it into a work of rolling art, started a Mardi Gras krewe Red Beans, which has now spun into a sister krewe called Dead Beans met and married a Belgian woman, had two kids, wrote them both theme songs, and started teaching middle school history. In his spare time Devin also paints. He sells his artwork, often donating the proceeds to education causes. Dayna Kurtz is one of America s musical treasures, a song writer s song writer. Song writers like Nora Jones and Bonnie Raitt sing her praises. Dayna sings the praises of the city she calls home now, New Orleans, and on this Happy Hour she sings a song about a guy named Fernando who she fell in love with in a dream. Fernando who apparently doesn t exist was in Venezuela which does but his legacy lives on in this awesome song. If you ve never heard Dayna before, listen to this, you ll see what all the fuss is about, and if you are already a DK fan, this is a great version of this song complete with a finger injury . April Love Stolf sits in for Grant Morris. Photos at Wayfare by Alison Moon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| Displaced Disparaged & Disenfranchised - Happy Hour - It's New Orleans | 08 Nov 2017 | 01:03:29 | |
Justin McKee doesn t let his career as a Michael Kors model get in the way of his literary pursuits. Actually, Justin wasn t a Michael Kors model for as long as he was a music conservatory student specializing in jazz vocals. These days Justin is a literary editor and publisher of a magazine called The Raffish. If you re thinking it s a little unfair that one guy could have so many talents, wait till you see how good looking he is. Alicia Reynaud knows a thing or two about making guys look good. Including every single one of the guys on The Saints football team. Alicia organized for them all to get pedicures. The whole team. And get this the pedicures were a gift from Coach Sean Payton as thanks for the team winning four games in a row. The reason Alicia is the lucky provider of Saints footcare is she is the creator of a beauty care and spa services app called Spafoo. Andrew Duhon could have used Spafoo earlier today when he got his hair cut at Parker Barber. It s the same barber shop Andrew is launching Friendsgiving, the night before Thanksgiving where you can enjoy Burmese food and know your dollars are going to a good cause busing Thai kids to school. Or something. Anyway, there s going top be plenty of food and booze and great music. Janie Lynne Vessels started putting a band together when she was in elementary school. Her original band names were The Salteens, Da Babies, and Starfling. Things have moved along a little since then and now Jamie has a new record that s almost out. It's going to be Called Storm Comin after one of her most popular recent songs. Jamie brings the house down at Wayfare playing the song live. Photos at Wayfare by Alison Moon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| Ontological Girls In Action - Happy Hour - It's New Orleans | 01 Nov 2017 | 01:02:14 | |
It was a day just like any other. Rev Dr Ray Cannata was walking down Freret Street in Uptown New Orleans, on his way home from his favorite new lunch spot 4 hours later when he happened to glance into Wayfare at the very moment Happy Hour host Grant Morris was glancing out from behind his mic, about to begin the show. Next thing you know, Ray has a martini and he s explaining why we re all going to Heaven even if we don t do any good deeds. If you ve ever thought about converting to Christianity or reaffirming your faith, look no further, Ray is the guy to talk to. Kay Morrrison, perhaps better known to New Orleanians as The Occasional Wife, started out as a good little Southern Baptist girl in Algiers. Kay was a member of a gang of like minded Southern Baptists known as Girls In Action. Today Kay is avowedly one of the happiest people you ll ever meet. Her joie de vivre is contagious. Even Andrew Duhon feels upbeat and gung ho about life by the end of this conversation. Andrew has finished his new album, which looks like it s going to called False River, and is considering taking some business advice, branching out and writing songs for other artists. Andrew tries out one of his new songs today, and plays one off of False River. The Kay and Ray show, one of the happiest Happy Hours in our 7 year history, is brought to you by dirty martinis at Wayfare. Photos by Alison Moon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| Like This But With Pasta - Happy Hour - It's New Orleans | 25 Oct 2017 | 00:59:42 | |
Geretta Geretta spent years in Italy where she became the darling of Italian horror cinema. That was before she moved to Costa Rica and opened a chain of laundromats Wash a Go Go and way before she moved to New Orleans with nothing but a small dog and an expensive Louis Vuitton suitcase. She eventually had to sell the suitcase to make ends meet. Now a worlwide cult superstar of horror, Geretta has her own bobblehead doll, and a screenwriting scholarship called The Write Room. And as for her time in Italy, Happy Hour is reminiscent "It s like this but with pasta." Jason DeRouen is better known, literally to millions, as The Cajun Ninja. What started out as a goof making a pot of gumbo on Snapchat has turned Jason into a legit internet sensation. He s the Emeril of the internet generation. A genuine down home Cajun larger than life Louisiana boy who can cook. And make you laugh. After all, what else is there Geretta suggests his good looks don t hurt. Michael Pagones and Dylan James are a couple of Slidell boys who have hung in with their buddies from Slidell High for 6 years as a band called The Painted Hands. If you ve heard the band before, you ll know how good their singular brand of danceable rock is. If you ve haven t heard them you re in for a very pleasant surprise. Check out the new album, A BubbleGum Western, and get a free sample of it on this show. Andrew Duhon rounds out the hour with a tribute to the late great Fats Domino in the form of a song called "Waiting In The Wings." Photos at Wayfare by Alison Moon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| Mahalia Jackson Was My Great Aunt - Happy Hour - It's New Orleans | 18 Oct 2017 | 01:03:24 | |
Musician and producer Nesby Phips may be best known worldwide for his work with Lil Wayne and other hip hop artists, but here in New Orleans his equally impressive claim to fame is that Mahlia Jackson was his great aunt. Nesby is one of the owners and gatekeepers of Ms Jackson s copyrighted material and is working on cementing her legacy in various ways. Nesby is also the force behind the musical project Black Man 4 Sale and the voice of the podcasts "Am I Tripping " and "Call Me Old Fashioned." If you live in New Orleans there s a good chance you ve spent time with Joe Bikulege even if you didn t know it. For the last 14 years Joe has been the owner of Le Bon Temps Roule on Magazine Street. Joe is also a big supporter of Cops 2, the citizens support group for the NOPD 2nd District. If you re checking this out before Saturday October 21st, go support Cops 2 at the first ever Cochon de Lait Festival at Palmer Park. Marci Schramm knows a thing or two about festivals. For ten years she was the Executive Director of the French Quarter Festival and presided over its journey from local party to major festival with a bigger economic impact on New Orleans than Jazz Fest. Yes, really. Today Marci helps her husband run publishing company River Road Press and is Director of Development for the New Orleans Ballet Association. Photos at Wayfare by Alison Moon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| Employees Must Wash Hands After Exposing Themselves - Happy Hour - It's New Orleans | 11 Oct 2017 | 01:04:08 | |
Andrew Ward has more weird experiences than 20 Happy Hour guests combined. Without even mentioning the royal Indian heritage of his transgender chickens, how he gets to be involved in Louisiana s record setting race to be number one in the country for Gonorrhea, or the fact that Yulman Lapalanian is his step dad, Andrew s regular night in a bar on Frenchmen Street is not like yours. On Andrew s average night the bartender drops his pants to illustrate a point by displaying his genitals which turn out to have Batman tattooed on one testicle, Superman on the other, and what is going on in between you ll have to figure out for yourself. Christine Clouatre was a bartender on Al Copeland s yacht and is here to say Al never hit on her once. Maybe it was because she told him that she spent her off hours in the jerk off room at the adult sex store on Airline Highway. That was all a long time ago. Today she s an upright citizen who spends her off hours beading like a Mardi Gras Indian with her beading krewe, the Dames de Perlage. Julie Lodato is a fellow Dame and a beading Saints fan, as you can see from her intricate bead work scene of the classic Gleason punt. By day, Julie creates artwork that sells Blue Runner Beans, Crystal Hot Sauce, and other Louisiana goodies. Andrew Duhon returns from a musical run up and down the great American highway to play a beautiful new song inspired by the stoic travails of his mom who has "the good kind of cancer." This is the kind of song that restores your faith in the over used term, "singer songwriter." Oh, just in case you were wondering if there s anything you might not have heard in a barroom conversation before, Andrew Ward relates what he s been up to lately convincing Ugandan men to have a circumcision while they re hanging out at a music festival in Uganda. For real. Photos at Wayfare by Alison Moon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| One Man's Dystopia is Another Man's Utopia | 01 Apr 2020 | 01:12:10 | |
If you’re trapped at home hating watching the world come to an end, remember the wise words of Sergio from the band Rodo: One person’s dystopia is another person’s utopia. Sergio and Rodo (the person) play a couple of songs that illustrate this dichotomy, as well as pulling together another pair of polar concepts, ballads and hip hop, into their unique blend of music that Grant apparently branded as Hip Hop Ballad. Their new music is out April 15th, so enjoy your dystopia/utopia with a new soundtrack. Also, while you’re holed up in the house, how about watching Linda Midgett’s movie, Same God? Its on Amazon and AppleTV and is a feature length documentary about a black woman college professor at an evangelical school who decides to show some empathy for Muslim women by walking around in a hijab. You can probably guess what happens to her but it sounds a lot more worthwhile and compelling than Tiger King. The last time we had a major societal meltdown in New Orleans, Blake Haney and his company Dirty Coast were at the forefront of the recovery, galvanizing us around the bumper sticker that said it all, “Be a New Orleanian wherever you are.” This time around Blake isn’t quite so upbeat about how this is all going to go down. But’s one of the smartest and most erudite guys in town so his opinion is very much worth listening to. Photos by Jill Lafleur. Here's last week's Covideo. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| Dick Tassels and the Whorachy - Happy Hour - It's New Orleans | 04 Oct 2017 | 01:05:12 | |
Darling Darla James none of them are her real name occupies what she describes as the bottom rung of the sex industry, or the whorachy. The whorachy starts at burlesque, graduates to club stripping, then porn, then prostitution. Darling Darla is a burlesque dancer. She also calls herself a stripper light. Among the many things you ll learn from this conversation is how to make your breasts rotate in opposite directions. We ll bet dollars to donuts that if you re a women you ll put this on pause and try this technique in the mirror as soon as you hear it. Ross Karpelman is particularly interested in one of Darla s specialty acts the one where she sets her outfit on fire and we watch her reveal her naked body as her clothes burn off of her. Ross s interest in this pyro stripping is purely professional. Ross is one of the founders of, and the driving force behind, the Halloween spectacular haunted house, The House of Shock. A Halloween annual visitor to Happy Hour, Ross plays the part of Satan aka Belial, though this year he ll be doing it with a body full of intravenously delivered antibiotics that are fighting off a kidney infection. Singer songwriters Kathryn Rose Wood and Mikayla Braun are friends who serendipitously and totally by coincidence finished their respective new recording albums at the same time. They re having a joint record release party and doing joint appearances all over town, though it s doubtful either of them are talking about their skin cancer and possible relationship to coffee makers and Hitler too many other places. Photos at Wayfare by Alison Moon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| Ginger Killed Jesus - Happy Hour - It's New Orleans | 27 Sep 2017 | 01:05:57 | |
New Orleans band Ginger and The Bee is principally a duo of Sherri Montz aka "B" which stands for Beatrix Skiddo, her Big Easy Roller Derby name and Scott Frilo who has red hair, like Judas Iscariot who betrayed Jesus for 30 pieces of silver, which back in the day by the way, before the Trump tax plan, was worth something. Sherwood Collins was brought up as a Christian Scientist and has turned the CS principle of spreading love into a full time calling with a New Orleans twist. With the help of his superstar wife, Amy, Sherwood raises money for autistic and developmentally challenged kids by throwing a giant annual party called Beignet Fest. If you happen to be checking this out before October 7th 2017 make sure you check it out it s free and there s every kind of beignet under the thankfully not so hot sun. If you re a regular listener to this podcast you ll know that our Happy Hour photographer is Alison Moon. Today Alison steps out from behind the camera and joins the conversation to try out marketing her line of workout clothes, LouisianaLegs. They re custom made yoga and workout clothes that feature designs that begin life as Alison s photographs. They re very cool and Alison does a great job her first time out as a self promoter. In this Happy Hour conversation we learn a lot about marriage, friendship, religion, neatness, daiquiris, the other worldly meaning of freckles, and the truth about who killed Jesus. April Stolf and Alison Moon both contributed photos see if you cam tell who took what at Wayfare. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| Yes, And... - Happy Hour - It's New Orleans | 20 Sep 2017 | 01:00:34 | |
What do marketing managers, law professors, singer songwriters and podcast hosts have in common They could all use a good improv class. Dane Ciolino is a Tulane law professor and legal analyst who sends his trial advocacy classes to The Moth story telling event. Taylor Richardson is marketing manager and SEO guru at Turbo Squid. She also attends Renaissance Faires in 25 pounds of chain mail, and shoots a Mongolian horse bow Don t miss April s impressive research into all things archery . Taylor has participated in Hell Yes Fest, but don t call her a standup comic she will set you straight. Alex Mallet takes a break from his Frenchmen Street hustle to play a new original song, and promises a new album ... possibly named for his address. Andrew Duhon is back on the pod and borrows Alex s guitar to play one of his classics. It s a lingo filled Happy Hour you will never hear a more interesting convesation about archery and Ren Faires with guest host April Stolf See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| Trouble Never Ends - Happy Hour - It's New Orleans | 13 Sep 2017 | 01:03:13 | |
Manny Chevrolet Bruno describes himself as "The next Mayor of New Orleans." A perennial mayoral candidate with the slogan "A troubled man for troubled times" Manny is stepping it up this election cycle with his new slogan "Trouble Never Ends." It s unlikely you ve ever heard a candidate for office espouse quite this strange of a collection of thoughts. Along with the usual promises to legalize marijuana and dismantle the Sewerage and Water Board, Manny is disturbed by the existence of domesticated pets and doesn t believe questionable drinking water is much of a problem. And that s just the tip of the iceberg. As a retired body builder, professional fitness trainer, and owner of two elite gyms in New Orleans, Sacha Owens could kick Manny s ass. It s a miracle she doesn t. People don t ever come to blows on Happy Hour but this might be as close as we ve gotten. for the past 3.5 years George Elizondo has resisted the temptation to install Tinder on his phone. He s working on his music. And the concentration is paying off. George s band Nebula Rosa is about to release their new record. If you have an idea for an album title that s not "Welcome To My World" let George know. You might be able to find him at The Bulldog on Magazine Street. Photos at Wayfare by Alison Moon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| Transactional Microdosing - Happy Hour - It's New Orleans | 06 Sep 2017 | 01:04:35 | |
If you re a guy you have to assume a woman wants to have sex with you for the same reason you want to have sex with her. Namely, that there s some kind of attraction. According to Chef Toya Boudy, that s not what women think at all. Not just some women but all women, according to Toya, are looking for something else beyond the satisfaction of sexual desire. Though it might not be a wholly original theory to believe women want more out of a sexual encounter than men, it s interesting to find out exactly what men might think that is. Ian Neville is the guitar player in New Orleans premiere funk band, Dumpstaphunk. Growing up as a member of the royal family of New Orleans music has come with its challenges, but Ian has been equal to them and manages to walk the line between being a regular New Orleanian and avoiding his nightmare scenario of extreme fame coupled with extreme poverty. Mark Bologna grew up as a die hard New Orleanian too. His parents, who were "Kids when they married and kids when they had me," owned the renowned Teddy s Grill in Gentilly and Mark grew up cooking without knowing that s what he was doing. After 15 years away working for the V.A. Mark has returned to New Orleans where, among other things, he hosts the popular local podcast Beyond Bourbon Street. You never know when you sit down with total strangers in a bar what it is you re going to find that you have in common. You might not be surprised to discover, in this case, there are gumbo stories to swap, and you might not even be surprised to hear about various opinions about sex, but you might be a little more surprised by the discussion about psychedelic drugs. Photos at Wayfare by Alison Moon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| Lesbian Bikini Bodybuilders Trapped In Love - Happy Hour - It's New Orleans | 30 Aug 2017 | 01:08:27 | |
Imagine being trapped with one other person in a magic room where you can get anything you want, except freedom. The only way to get free is to fall in love with the other person. And have them fall in love with you. And then you have to leave alone. And imagine you re a woman trapped in the room with another woman. You begin to see the dilemma you might find yourself in, right That s the plot of Bird, the new movie by Renso Amariz. Renso has, as Grant says, "come a long way from a military photographer who shaved his legs and rode bikes." Renso is, by his own description, perpetually heartbroken. You d never guess it from this conversation. Barbara Blank is probably the only resident of the West Bank who is a retired professional bikini body builder. When she was on the professional body building circuit she competed in the Superbowl of bodybuilding, in the bikini section. Maybe you weren t aware that "bikini" is a division of bodybuilding. There may be other pertinent facts about bodybuilding you don t know either like how much a year you can expect to spend on waxing, and what that exactly feels like. Barbara has moved on from building her own body and now helps other people build theirs with her 7 year old company Clean Creations. It s kind of like Blue Apron except for about the same money your meal arrives prepared and ready to eat. It s healthy room service, at home. You wouldn t guess it from looking at her or listening to her sing, but Gabrielle Evelina has just graduated from high school. Not only does Gabrielle have an extraordinary voice, she has an equally extraordinary story that s just waiting for a publicist to spin into a superstar saga. Check this out Gabrielle was deaf until the age of 6 when she had tubes put in her ears and could hear for the first time. Can t you just hear that story on every late night talk show and NPR interview You probably won t have to wait too long till you do. If you have no other interest in listening to this show, listen to Gabrielle sing. You will not be sorry you did. Photos at Wayfare by Alison Moon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| 6 Dead For Dinner - Happy Hour - It's New Orleans | 23 Aug 2017 | 01:03:37 | |
Anne Ohri s plan for the ultimate demise of her family is, as each member dies, for them individually to be wired into a chair at a dining table set up in a mausoleum on their family farm in Plaqueimine s Parish and be slowly reclaimed by the ocean as erosion destroys Louisiana. Strangely, that s kind of the plan for her 10m experimental school called New Harmony High. New Harmony is one of only ten projects in America that is re imagining high school education that will prepare kids for jobs that are yet to be invented. It s wildly futuristic and exciting. So is selling pot in Colorado, which is what her youngest of four kids does and which is, unknown to him, giving him lungs that will assure him of a choice seat at the table of the dead. By the way, Anne already has the table. Dr. Les White has a buddy who knows a lot about human lungs he s a cardio thoracic surgeon and he told Les that "The ugliest human lungs he sees are the ones belonging to people who smoke pot." That might not sound too poetic but there s a good chance that Les could make it sound that way if he had a mind to. Les has 35 years of experience as a professor of English lit, specializing in poetry. He can even rhapsodize about the four dogs that live at his bedside, in urns. Erica Falls decided a year ago that she wants to end up in an urn too. Not necessarily one at Les s bedside. But she still hasn t given up on growing old with the love of her life, if he would just show up and do what he promised he could deliver. Until then, Erica s getting good mileage out of the optimism of falling in love on her new record Home Grown. Erica sings a beautiful song off of the record, called The Makings of Love. Erica is accompanied by one of the city s greatest guitar players, the fabulous June Yamagishi, who has not yet made a decision about cremation versus burial and isn t inclined to make it today. He does, however, play guitar throughout the entire show. If you don t feel compelled for any other reason to check this conversation out, ignore the witty banter about eternity and the Oversoul, and listen to June play it s beautiful. Photos at Wayfare by Alison Moon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| The Librocubicularist - Happy Hour - It's New Orleans | 16 Aug 2017 | 01:08:20 | |
You may have met a librocubicularist and not known it. You may stood next to one at Barnes and Noble. You might even be one. According to singer songwriter Alexandra Scott, a librocubicularist is a person who enjoys reading in bed. According to our crack Happy Hour research staff Grayson Jernigan the word is not in Websters dictionary, but then Webster can t be expected to know everything. Alexandra, on the other hand knows a lot of stuff, including inside tales of her hometown Charlottesville and the actions of the neo Nazis who, for all the wrong reasons, have put the place on the map. Godwin s Law of internet etiquette allegedly postulates that discussion of Nazis ends all discussion. But this crowd managed to push on through and cover a great deal of post Nazi ground from Fiji inspired skincare to Polaroid photography, and much more. Linsey Lamba created her Fijian inspired skincare line, Ariya Apothecary, when she was working for Microsoft in Seattle and living in New Orleans. A life of bouncing back and forward stressed her out and gave her acne which she cured herself with potions she whipped up based on her mom s Fijian folk remedies. Today Linsey lives full time in New Orleans, has a skincare line, and doesn t need to mess with Microsoft. Ginette Bone is 6 feet tall but her accent is probably the first thing you notice about her. Living in New Orleans for 37 years hasn t dimmed her British diction one bit. Ginette and her husband, artist Blake Boyd, own the Boyd Satellite Gallery on Julia Street and are in the throes of assembling their joint decades long project, Louisiana Cereal. It s a collection of over 500 Polaroid photographs of Louisiana luminaries that is going to be a limited edition book and an exhibit. You can be a part of it thanks to Kickstarter. Photos at Wayfare by Alison Moon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| Sober Phobia - Happy Hour - It's New Orleans | 09 Aug 2017 | 01:03:40 | |
The problem with being sober is waking up in the morning and knowing it s not going to get any better all day. When you drink, you might have plenty to regret but you can have a lot of fun getting there. That s the philosophy behind being what pirate, leather maker, and tour guide Jennifer Raven calls Soberphobic. If Jennifer is scared of what she ll find out about herself sober, that s about all she is scared of. She s stared down the barrel of a loaded gun aimed at her husband and the woman she caught him in bed with, asking herself, "Do I really want to go to prison for these two " She made the right decision and got the ultimate revenge she s watched her ex husband go bald and end up with a woman with a harelip who has been banned from every bar on the North Shore. You can t make this stuff up. Johnny Dilks went all the way and got himself sober. On the upside, he s no longer naked in bars fighting other drunk guys. On the downside he s gotten so happy he s been able to fall in love and get married and now as a result his songwriting which comes from a place of tormented darkness is suffering. So Johnny says. But the evidence points in the other direction. Take a listen to his song about dying from cancer and see if, even in your darkest imaginings, you could think and feel even half as darkly as Johnny Dilks at his so far lifetime happiest. Even Andrew Duhon, who regularly regales us with tales of heartbreak and souls lost, feels upbeat singing a song about the lighter side of having a baby you know is going to be mentally compromised and watching it develop into a special needs person. By the way, this is not some rambling fantasy of a fictional conversation this is what actually is taking place in this happy hour. Stu Schayot is considering legally changing his name to the name everybody calls him, "Stu from the Howlin Wolf." Stu has spent the last 16 years making The Howlin Wolf tick over, starting out as a street team flyer poster and doing everything in between till he got to the position of running the joint. If you want to kow what s going on in music and New Orleans music specifically, Stu s your man. We ve had plenty of Happy Hours where conversation goes off the rails, tp places you never expected, but not many wander down these bizarre avenues. Photos at Wayfare by Alison Moon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| Kalamartian Jewish Rugby All Stars - Happy Hour - It's New Orleans | 02 Aug 2017 | 01:07:32 | |
You can t judge a book by its cover. There s no way you could look at a bunch of random people sitting around a table at Wayfare in New Orleans and guess what you re about to find out about them. A lot of people know Constantine Georges in New Orleans. He was a U.S. Attorney, which in itself is a pretty big deal. When he quit that he made what you d have to describe as a sideways step into the hospitality industry, founding the gourmet hot dog empire, Dat Dog. What you may not know about Constantine is that he has an olive tree that is 500 years old among an olive grove in Kalamata Greece, from which he makes some of the most delicious olive oil you ve ever tasted. Oh, and another thing. You wouldn t know to look at Constantine that he has a phobia about being eaten by a shark. You probably wouldn t guess that New Orleans singer Leslie Blackshear Smith is the mother of one of America s greatest Jewish rugby players. Leslie s son plays on an all Jewish US representative rugby team that may or not be called the All Stars of David. Another thing you probably wouldn t guess about Leslie is that she knows the secret for keeping a relationship together. And she has the numerically referenced ex husbands to prove it. Lea Woolf s secret inner life has got to do with the ability to exercise enormous patience in the face of behavior that would have most of us reaching for a baseball bat to rearrange the face of the person and his 29 friends who are trying to ruin our evening. Lea is the events manager and sales director at New Orleans adult arcade bar, Barcadia. That s actually the tip of the iceberg of secrets you re about to learn from this conversation. One of these people, for example, is banned for life from the campus of Tulane University. Another doesn t believe in love. This Happy Hour is a wild ride. Photos by Alison Moon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| Covideo | 25 Mar 2020 | 01:10:46 | |
In our second Happy Hour by Zoom we manage to take advantage of not being able to hang out in a bar and instead talk to people all across the country in a new concept we’re calling Covideo. Yes, that’s in questionable taste, but after all it is Happy Hour. Mike Rubin is stuck in his second week of isolation in San Francisco. When times are normal Mike has a photography business called Neomodern, in which people walk into his photo gallery with their phones filled with photos and with the assistance of experts walk out with a framed print on archival quality paper. It’s a brilliant idea that has been around for 3 years but Mike’s dilemma is, does he hang on and hope the world returns to how it was, or does he embrace change and morph into something different? He’s at this point heading along the latter avenue. Katrina Brees is sitting on a possible Covid-driven windfall. Not only did her 10 year old movie about her Vagina from the Future who cures a Chinese-born virus predict this whole current scenario, but she has long been in the funeral and casket business. Katrina’s Fantastic Casket business is fundamentally a DIY coffin, though now she is moving into a whole new arena of disposing of dead bodies which involves melting flesh and crushing bones. In case you think this is a piece of mis-reporting or exaggerated in some way, take a listen to this conversation. Rich Collins had a great year lined up which included an Asian tour and a solo spot at Jazz Fest. Well, that’s all changed. However, he still has a trove of great new songs, one of which he plays on this show, about the pleasures of driving around aimlessly and cranking up the radio. Hopefully those days will return in the not too distant future. Andrew Duhon gets his cable fixed in the middle of this show, just in time to play an almost acapella song. Photos from this show by Jill Lafleur are on our website https://itsneworleans.com/2020/03/25/covideo/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| Conceived In Fat City - Happy Hour - It's New Orleans | 26 Jul 2017 | 01:02:11 | |
Singer, Songwriter, playwright Paul Sanchez describes Fat City as "a polyester Bourbon Street." Paul used to play in a band called Godot in Fat City back in the 1970 s. Being in an artsy new wave band that made musical references to French literature didn t get you laid back then. Paul says, though, that he sometimes went home with a woman who slept with someone else. The reason this conversation even gets started is because Cherie Melancon Franz the creator of Thinkerella mentions she doesn t know where the Cajun Melancon comes from in her family because she is adopted. Her birth mother found her when Cherie was 21 and apparently told her that she was conceived in Fat City one night after mom "met a guy." After some mild deliberation it doesn t look, however, like Paul Sanchez is Cherie Melancon Franz s dad. In case Cajun names get confusing and you don t know your Melancon from your Molaison, Paul brought along singer songwriter Justin Malaison to help him sing a song off his album, Between Friends. There s an amazing story behind Paul s latest album, Life Is A Ride, that will tug at your heartstrings for sure. If you re in the market for beautiful songs, Andrew Duhon can help you out with his newest, Down From The Mountain. As you ll hear, there is an interesting reason this song may never make it onto an album so listen up. It really is a gorgeous piece of music with evocative lyrics that take you to the mountain. Mark Owens is not Cherie Melancon s father either though he is also adopted. Mark owns arguably the grooviest gym in New Orleans, Prime Fitness RX. As well as smelling like a eucalyptus forest, the place looks and feels like you re somewhere else. Somewhere where they throw lots of money into making a gym hip. Just ask Dave Chapelle, Hugh Jackman, and a bunch of other about as cool as you can get tourists who like to work out. Photos at Wayfare by Alison Moon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| B J And The 20K Picasso of New Orleans - Happy Hour - It's New Orleans | 19 Jul 2017 | 01:02:19 | |
Jax Frey is the most prolific painter in the entire world. Yes, you read that correctly. Jax has painted more paintings than anyone in the world. At least 6,500 more than Pablo Picasso who held the previous world record at 13,500. Jax is at 20k and counting. Except she can t get the folks at the Guiness Book of World Records to believe her. Not for want of trying. And not for want of having her record officially sanctioned by Guiness s competitors. The stuff you learn over a drink at Happy Hour is crazy. Did you even know there s a competing world record keeper Anyway, Jax is making 40 bucks a shot selling these paintings and she s knocking out thousands of them. Do the math. Oh, and by the way, she s single. David Capasso was single, more or less, for 13 years. On either side of that was the time he date a woman for a year and a half then went back after the 13 year break and married her. David is an attorney who loves to break certain laws, namely those pertaining to the restrictions on smoking weed. He s also an expert on blow jobs, anal sex, and the comparative merits of performing both or either in public spaces. If you had to have a lawyer, this has gotta be the guy. Whe he gets you off it s going to be a hell of a party. Carly Meyers and Adam Gertner are not legally married but they ve been together since they met at the Denver High School For The Performing Arts. You can see why they were and still are attracted to each other and formed a duo he s a drummer and she s a trombone player. It s a marriage made in some kind of parallel universe heaven where music is different. But guess what It works. They re a duo who call themselves ROAR and their music does seem beamed in from another planet. One where everything is super cool and upbeat but not nerdy and super hip without requiring tattoos and mustache wax. If this music doesn t end up being a super huge worldwide commercial success we ll hand in our prognosticator license. It s a must listen. Photos at Wayfare by Hope Byrd. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| Obama: The Funniest Person in New Orleans | 12 Jul 2017 | 01:02:19 | |
Lauren Malara is officially The Funniest Person in New Orleans. Lauren is the winner of the 2017 Hell Yes Next award from the comedy HQ of New Orleans, The New Movement Theater. Just a few hours after being crowned, Lauren s first official engagement is Happy Hour. It s trial by fire. One of Lauren s pieces in her routine, which she does on this show, is discussing her mother the racist. Lauren is black and her mom is white. Lauren s dad is black. Which makes Lauren the Obama of New Orleans. And that s not even the most interesting thing about her. Other than being the funniest person in New Orleans she was also a member of the famous Second City comedy theater in Chicago and spent 8 months as a comedian on a cruise ship and and only had sex for the last 3 weeks of the gig. Actually, you re going to have to do the math on that yourself. Kris Fortier is no stranger to people like Obama. The ex President that is. Kris has a company called Porter which caters to people with enough money to have other people make their dinner reservations, buy their booze and groceries, or just hang out with them and get them soup when they re not feeling well. For somewhere around 50 and hour you can basically buy a friend. And once you meet Kris you ll get the idea it s well worth it. Rory Callais is a member of a band you might not have heard of if you re going by record releases. Vox and The Hound have taken years to make their new record, Aloha Shores. We take a listen to a couple of tracks on this show and we re pretty sure you ll agree with everyone at Wayfare, it s awesome. In fact, the Funniest Person in New Orleans endorses it. Also, if you like David Bowie s music and good looking people taking their clothes off you can experience both of those at once at Rory and burlesque dancer Bella Blue s show Oh You Pretty Things. Best to show up high, by the way. Photos at Wayfare by Alison Moon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| Clit Sit Meditation - Happy Hour - It's New Orleans | 28 Jun 2017 | 01:10:27 | |
In the annals of "You never know what the hell is going to come up in conversation," this Happy Hour would have to rank at the top of the list. Aidi Kansas her real name left behind a career as a pet portrait artist to pursue her abilities as a psychic energy healer and has stumbled into the world of getting women to reach spiritual enlightenment by stroking their own clitoris. Aidi calls it Clit Sit Meditation. Masturbatory meditation is only able to be practiced by people with a clitoris, in other words not men. Men, however, can have their own problems with too little ejaculation that can lead to porn and all manner of bad behavior. Talking of badly behaved men, Hitler, according to John Hebert, would have been a nicer person if he d stayed off of the crystal meth. Apparently only the 1930 s equivalent of Photoshop saved Adolf from being portrayed as the meth head he really was. Atoning for his owns sins, and some of his family s "My mother and I were bar fighters" , John is the guy behind all the red and white signs that say "LOVE" nailed to phone poles all around New Orleans. John Lisi makes a welcome return visit to Happy Hour with his shiny Dobro, a fistful of stories, and a song. Andrew Duhon starts things off on the good foot with a bit of beard oil that was produced by a prisoner friend of Aidi s. The hour goes by way too fast. If you start listening to this make sure you can listen to the whole 60 minutes because you won t be turning this off. Photos at Wayfare by Alison Moon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| If It's Not Amazing It's Not Worth It - Happy Hour - It's New Orleans | 14 Jun 2017 | 01:11:36 | |
If you ve ever wanted to meet a bunch of amazing New Orleanians, or you want to reaffirm your faith in the plain old New Orleans tradition of having honest to god real conversations and fun with complete strangers, this is for you. YouTube sensation Princess Shaw describes how she got to be the Princess, what it s like to be a star, to travel the world, to come home to New Orleans with no job, to go from being a lesbian to loving men, and what to do when your partner cheats on you. And that s for starters. Desiree Ontiveros has a company called Badass Balloon Company that makes balloons with sayings on them the like of which you can see in the photo, above. Most of the sayings on these balloons will get us axed from whichever respectable podcast app you listen to podcasts on but you get the idea pretty quickly from Desiree s description. When she s not making balloons Desiree dreams of being a sexy assassin, like the original Princess Shaw. If you re not following that exactly, you ll catch on a couple of minutes into this conversation. Matthew Rosenbeck is not Jewish but equally surprisingly he s about 18 Irish. Matthew has been the driving force behind the band The Honorable South, a music booker on Frenchmen Street and a podcast pioneer. Today he s a visual artist with a gallery exhibit and a rising star of sculpture. Andrew Duhon didn t bring a guitar but he did bring his harmonica. Matthew demonstrates his producer skills and masterminds a collaboration between Andrew and Princess Shaw. They come up with a song about cheating that s actually pretty darn good. By the end of these drinks it s hard to discern if Grant is dating Princess Shaw and cheating on her with Desiree or by what method he s going to be killed. Somewhere in another universe in a parallel dimension this conversation is still going on. Photos at Wayfare by Alison Moon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| Facebook Is My Client - Happy Hour - It's New Orleans | 07 Jun 2017 | 01:05:22 | |
Mike Dillon is one of the greatest and most inventive percussionists in the USA, or probably anywhere. Mike chose to move to New Orleans for one simple reason the music. He s been on an interesting path to get here, not so much geographically as spiritually and psychologically. Being a New Orleanian also means you can drop the pretense and the b.s. that comes with living other places. If you want to know what that means in the real world, take a listen to what Mike has to say about his own life and life in general. And for a special treat, take a listen to Mike play. Veronica Alweiss is a life coach. If you ve ever wondered exactly what that is and why you might need one, well, everybody s doing it. Even the super cool, super successful folks at Facebook, who are Veronica s clients. Veronica solves the same questions in this conversation that she solves for the big shots at FB why are we here and what would we like to leave behind Along with the mirth, smart ass responses, the beer and cocktails, there are some pretty interesting answers to these questions from this happy hour gathering. Erik Neumann owns a restaurant called Fud Bar Fud is pronounced food in Gentilly. It s a cool new concept where they serve chef prepared meals for the home cooking crowd. But when he started out, Erik had ideas about being a musician. For a shining moment he gets to live out those dreams today, playing a song he wrote a few years back, for his answer machine. Andrew Duhon is in town and had enough time on his hands before the show to bang out a brand new and very beautiful song. This is one of those New Orleans conversations that takes on a life of its own and goes places you wouldn t expect. Photos at Wayfare by Alison Moon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| Paul Sanchez Owes Me One - Happy Hour - It's New Orleans | 31 May 2017 | 01:04:56 | |
Singer songwriter Paul Sanchez is not on this show. But he was supposed to be. Criminal Defense attorney Michael Kennedy showed up early enough to have a couple of drinks to recover from his 2 hours at the gym working on his back which he does on Wednesdays . Linda Summey showed in plenty of time to get started drinking early too. It s Linda s last day on the job as a schoolteacher and one of her last days in New Orleans, so she s happy to have a bunch of drinks too. It turns out, after who s counting anyway number of drinks, that Linda and Michael have a lot in common, starting with the fact that they re married to and living with a guy named Josh, respectively. It s definitely not the the same guy. Linda s Josh is musician Josh Summey who Linda met when she was working at Macy s and Josh was working at Sunglass Hut. Michael s Josh is a guy he met naked at the other end of a Grindr hookup. About half way through this conversation, Paul Sanchez weighs in to say his car has broken down, he can t make it, and he owes us one. Andrew Duhon plays a song called No Man s Land off of his still untitled new album. If you have an idea for an album title shoot it on over email protected . And here s another question you might be able to answer What do you think Paul Sanchez means when he says, "I owe you one " Photos at Wayfare by Alison Moon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| Is This Your Dog? - Happy Hour - It's New Orleans | 24 May 2017 | 01:03:27 | |
You might remember Tommy Hayne from the news. Tommy was the guy who got shot recently when he tried to convince a would be car thief to quit trying to bust into cars. He recovered quickly enough to play in an Ultimate Frisbee tournament a few days later but it turns out getting shot wasn t the only crazy thing he s done. He d been shot once before and in between those two firearm incidents he d jumped off of a cliff with a poncho over his face, opened a natural food store in Wyoming, and left his dog off of the leash while he got coffee at CC s on Magazine Street in New Orleans. If you re wondering how leaving your dog off the leash compares with crazy sh t like getting shot and jumping off cliffs, listen up. Emily Istre has had a whole set of other adventures that started when she dropped out of UL in Lafayette and took a random chance on finding herself in Las Vegas. Not only did Emily discover she had the skills to make it as a singer, band leader, and dancer in Vegas, she also found herself working with Celine Dion and Oprah Winfrey, and, following in the footsteps of Elizabeth Taylor, playing Cleopatra. Rathbone makes a return to Happy Hour with a new sound and a new band Mark Linam and Courtney, who is half of People Museum. Rathbone s new music is awesome and is appearing fresh each month here. Reflecting on being shot, Tommy observes that life throws you a number of chances to make decisions that can turn out to be startlingly wrong. Everybody else has made one of those too. Have you Yours might be deciding to listen to this show. Photos at Wayfare by Alison Moon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| Angiogenesis - Happy Hour - It's New Orleans | 17 May 2017 | 01:03:33 | |
Andrew Duhon returns to Happy Hour after recording his new album, titled fill in the blank . If you have an idea for a title there s a free record, T shirt, and all kinds of other goodies waiting for you. Andrew describes the process of looking for a title amongst his ruminations on the river of love, pain and sundry other emotions that courses through the human body. Any ideas striking you yet Listen to Andrew play a couple of songs off the new album and maybe something will hit you like it hit Dr. Kathy Jo Carstarphen, aka K.J. K.J s idea for a title to Andrew s record is Angiogenesis. If you want to be 100 sure about the meaning of that you could Google it but K.J. is a doctor and describes it in a way that even a geriatric like Grant or her geriatric patients can understand, after a few drinks. K.J. also describes how we in New Orleans have achieved one of the highest rankings in America for the transmission of HIV and Syphillis, which is good to know because you don t get to read much in the news about Syphilis these days. You can, however, do something about the spread of these disaeses simply by having a few drinks and listening to music care of K.J. s Krewe du Sante. Advocate reporter Ramon Antonio Vargas explains why even exceptional numbers of NOLA deaths from VD don t make the news unless the syphillis patient also gets run over his own driveway by his car. Ramon has his own medical adventure stories, including a rough night on the soccer field and a 1,400 ambulance ride. Ever wondered what s in Hangover Destroyer Today s the day you find out. Photos at Wayfare by Alison Moon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| Moist Scrotum Ointment - Happy Hour - It's New Orleans | 10 May 2017 | 01:04:36 | |
Sage Rouge plays the part of Asterixxx the hobot in an organization called SCROTUM the Sacred Coalition Responsible For The Total Unfunkification of the Multiverse. Sage also pays saxophone in Johnny Sketch and the Dirty Notes as well as a funk band called In Business. The latter s newest recording is a concept album about space shenannigans, principally the battle for the multiverse under leadership of a charismatic futuristic loverboy called Andromeo. And that s just one of Sage s stories in this wide ranging conversation that drifts haphazardly across space and time, from The Good Wife to manicures for the terminally ill. Carissa Kerner Ramirez says a good manicure or pedicure can make you feel great, even if you re terminally ill. Whether or not any healthcare professionals agree, Carissa speaks from experience. Her company, The New Orleanian, will come to your house or hotel room and give you a bunch of stuff that will certainly make you feel better, from a massage to a full skin treatment. Carissa is a licensed esthetician though she doesn t do much waxing herself. She was at home bed ridden with a difficult pregnancy for 4 months and celebrates being out and about for the first time with a nice Pear 75 and a handful of great stories. Although some of them include moisturizing, none of them include the word "moist which apparently has been "scientifically proven" to be abhorrent to most of the English speaking human population, along with the words "oink" and "ointment." If you want to get a massage or a facial or any services offered by The New Orleanian you can get 15 off by going to theneworleanian on Instagram and commenting on the post about Happy Hour. Jack Nester is a professional hipster. He hadn t actually called himself that till this conversation but it is pretty much agreed around the table that if you spend your time professionally doing Instagram and Facebook for the hip PR firm Bond Moroch and you know social media inside out you qualify as a professional hipster. Jack s resistance to the title is evidenced by his claim that going home tonight to watch The Good Wife after Happy Hour disqualifies him from hipster status. Before he goes though, Jack shares some invaluable information about how and when to post on Instagram for maximum attention. Oh, and he also explains wtf is up with hashtags and when and how to use them. Photos at Wayfare by Alison Moon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| It's New Orleans Coronavirus -- Part 2 | 18 Mar 2020 | 01:10:26 | |
When we started making podcasts in New Orleans 10 years ago, we encountered a lot of skeptical questions, among them “What happens when you run out of good guests, in 6 weeks?” and “What’s a podcast?” One of the questions we didn’t hear was, “What happens if every bar and restaurant in the city shuts down?” That sure would have been funny, but it’s turning out to be no joke. So, welcome to It's New Orleans Coronavirus. Part 2. Our show is coming to you today courtesy of Zoom. All of our crew and our guests are quarantined in their homes. Mimi Schippers was last on Happy Hour when she was a younger woman and in a polyamorous relationship with two people. Those relationships have matured into something different (though not much different from your average long-term relationship actually, aka no sex) and Mimi has matured into a respected academic who is head of the Sociology Department at Tulane University and a world authority on polyamory and Queer Studies. Melissa and Matt DeOrazio (pronounced “Dee-Razio” the “O” is silent) are a married couple with no polyamorous desires. They’re collectively The Dirty Rain Revelers and are in the process of using the Covid hiatus to tidy up around their apartment, record new songs and play live online. Well worth checking out. And let’s face it, you’ve got the time now to go all kinds of online rabbit holes like listening to bands and checking out Americana music. And while you’re doing that, go investigate what Andrew Duhon is up to. Andrew had to abandon his tour when it became illegal to play music to people in a room if they were closer than 6 feet apart, and then soon after there were no rooms even open in the US to go hear music. Can you believe this is even true and not some sort of drug-induced bar room drunken conversation like we normally hear on Happy Hour? Crazy. But we do get to hear a beautiful downer classic Andrew Duhon song on this show, called Almost Forever. Ryne Hancock had his Twitter account suspended when he “went off on a Nazi” who apparently said bad things about his Aunt Mandy. Ryne’s ex-landord was a crack addict who somehow managed to do a lot of crack while still holding onto rental property and retained functioning limbs while owing drug dealers money all over town. See photos from this show by Jill Lafleur on our website. More Happy Hour conversations about polyamory here and here. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| Me and My Shallow V@gina - Happy Hour - It's New Orleans | 03 May 2017 | 01:14:01 | |
Lori Tipton who you might recognize as both the creator of Sluts Unlimited and the voluptuous dynamo behind the bar in the lobby of the Ace Hotel discovered when she went to knock herself up using the turkey baster method that it s good know how deep your vagina is. Lucky for her, Lori discovered her vagina is shallow, therefore her cervix was easily "bathed" and she got pregnant first time out with the baster masturbation method. And that s just the beginning of the conversation with Lori on today s Happy Hour. There are a lot of "Only in New Orleans" moments on Happy Hour, but how about this one Two guys who have never met each other comparing notes about the Catholic brothers who beat the sh t beaten out of them in high school. And not even the same high school. Mark Berger was too smart for New Orleans and go shipped off to get beaten up in Mississippi. John Papa Gros got beat up here in New Orleans. Apparently it doesn t mess you up too bad. John has gone on to have a stellar career as a New Orleans musician, played all over the world with his band Papa Gros Funk, and now has a bran new record out, Rivers On Fire. We listen to two tracks on Happy Hour the title track and "Cocaine and Chicken Fricassee." If you love good old down home NOLA funk in the style of the Nevilles and Meters, the like of which you literally never hear these days, you need to check this out. Mark Berger might the greatest over achiever in the city. Mark is the owner of Higher Power, a personal fitness gym that offers a unique combination of Yoga, TRX, and cycling, and has a myriad other pursuits as well, one of the most intriguing of which is an ambassador for Lulu Lemon. If you don t learn over 110 things you didn t have any idea about in this 60 minute barroom conversation we ll refund your money and buy you a cocktail. Photos at Wayfare by Alison Moon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| The Expandable Wedding Ring - Happy Hour - It's New Orleans | 19 Apr 2017 | 01:07:36 | |
Frank Scurlock is ready to propose at the drop of a top hat. Admittedly, being super wealthy increases Frank s chances of getting a woman he s just met to agree to accept his Jason of Beverly Hills diamond engagement and wedding ring and commit to live with him and love him for all eternity, but so does the prospect of being married to the next mayor of New Orleans who has an actual plan to fix the pot holes. And this barely scratches the surface of the subjects Frank traverses during this hour from drinks with sheikhs in Qatar to dinner with titans on Wall Street and Disney style factories in New Orleans East. Including male multiple orgasms. Shane Avrard from the band The Noise Complaints comes up with a suggestion for Frank the expandable wedding ring. It s a one size fits all wedding ring for the spontaneous, impulsive proposer. Shane also manages to dismiss the entire contents of the Bible in this conversation as well as play two impressive songs off the band s new record, Feed It Back To Me. When you embark on a conversation in a bar about where our souls and spirits come from and go to you can only hope for so much. Dr Jess Tregle who is a healer and the author of the book Heal Your Spirit and Empower Your Life, manages to get most of the way through an explanation of what we are all doing here on Earth before Frank has to take a call from his printer in Beverly Hills. But everyone at the table knows a lot more about our inner selves by the last round of drinks than than they did when they sat down with a cocktail. If you re looking for a true collection of random, smart, fascinating New Orleanians, you ve found it with this edition of Happy Hour. Photos at Wayfare by Alison Moon. Oh, by the way, if you want to call or text Mayoral candidate Frank Scurlock, 504 575 4484. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| That Funky Daytime Abortion - Happy Hour - It's New Orleans | 12 Apr 2017 | 01:06:47 | |
Even for New Orleans, this is an unusual bar scene: a woman in a vagina costume, a drag queen, and a super sexy African American guy having drinks. Which one would you like to know about first? Okay, the drag queen. That s Kitty d Litter. It s 3pm on a Wednesday afternoon and Kitty is wearing what she calls "Day Drag." The difference between day and night drag is that day drag is a little more subdued. Yes, apparently walking around with gigantic costume jewelry, enormous eyelashes, high heels, and an eye catching electric blue dress is a step down from Kitty s regular attire. If you ve ever wondered why certain gay guys like to dress in drag and what it entails, check out this frank conversation. What would make you want to walk around dressed like a vagina, or more strictly, a vulva? Amy Irvin is making a point about women, their vaginas, and raising money for the New Orleans Abortion Fund of which she is Executive Director. The fund gives money to women who can t afford it to pay for an abortion. That sounds like a job that s about as serious as you can get. But if you want a lesson in how to get a difficult and contentious point across with humor and and reason, take a listen to Amy. J Sharp has the sexiest voice in New Orleans. That s not independently verified but you couldn't get much more of a cross section random sample of New Orleanians than around this table and they all agree. J is a co founder, keyboard player and singer in the super tightest and slickest funk band to come out of New Orleans in years - Water Seed. If you've heard any of the band's past 5 records or caught them at anything from Jazz Fest to their regular gig on Frenchmen Street, you'll agree. If you've never heard Water Seed and you like funk like Parliament and The Meters, consider your life changed. And check out their new record, "We Are Stars." Photos at Wayfare by Alison Moon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| The Art & Science of Dandelion Heroin - Happy Hour - It's New Orleans | 05 Apr 2017 | 01:07:42 | |
April Stolf wrote the book on success. It s called The Art and Science of Success. After a couple of cocktails Neuro Linguistic Programming seems pretty easy. April has enough material at this table to keep her busy for a year re programming personalities. First there s Zach Quinn. Zach dropped out of high school in Chalmette in 10th grade due to "mental problems." Today he claims to be riddled with insecurity and self doubt, but it s impossible to tell from his public persona as the front person for wildly successful punk band The Pears. Then there s Matthew Snyder. He s a professor of political science at Delgado with a specialist expertise in the Middle East. He lived and worked in politics and academia in Cairo and believes the whole of the Middle East basically has to burn to the ground before there will ever be peace. On the other hand, in his professional opinion Trump is too much of a buffoon to cause that to happen so we have nothing immediate to worry about. Other than, possibly, heroin. Cat Tod is the creative force behind the New Orleans art tech business Where Y Art, where local artists and people who love art can find each other. Cat s big news of the day, other than exploring her secret personality that makes her gyrate around her kitchen with three dogs, is the reduction by one crayon of the long running traditional box of 24 crayons, so that there will now be 23 crayons in a box. What color is being retired Dandelion. It doesn t take too to figure out the conspiracy behind that one. After another cocktail. Try and get a word in edgeways here. The fastest paced Happy Hour ever. Photos at Wayfare by Alison Moon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| Villanelle The Ghost - Happy Hour - It's New Orleans | 29 Mar 2017 | 01:09:16 | |
A villanelle is not a small cottage in the French countryside. It s a kind of poem where you can make the same point for example, making out with a bartender at The Maple Leaf in a number of chorus like ways. That s about the only literary fact you ll learn from Louisiana s ex Poet Laureate Julie Kane on this Happy Hour, but you will learn some more about Julie and the kind of life you can lead when you re a superstar poet, even if Julie does have Bobby Jindal of all people to thank for the recognition. Fame is no stranger to Richard Pomes. Richard is famous in the world of liquor and millennial liquor lovers as "The face of Fireball," the sweet cinnamon flavored whiskey that took the 20 something drinking classes by storm over the past few years. Today Richard is making an even bigger splash with his new brand, Ghost Tequila. It s a smooth tequila infused with Ghost Pepper one of the hottest peppers in the cosmos. After a shot of Ghost and a few minutes of Richard s magic spell binding sales poetry, you d probably buy anything off of him. John Shirley was at one point the 5th best golfer in Mississippi. That was a while back. Now he s the singer, guitar player and one of the songwriters in the 3 piece band Cardinal Sons. In all the many hours of Happy Hour, John is the first guest ever to literally call bullshit on his own work. The new Cardinal Sons record is out on cassette. Remember you heard it here first according to John, cassettes and cassette players are coming back. These guests could go for another hour or two and the conversation wouldn t dry up or get anywhere near dull. If you re looking for three smart, funny, nice, talented, and ego less people to stumble into in a bar, you ve found them. If this ends up being your favorite Happy Hour we wouldn t be at all surprised. Photos at Wayfare by Alison Moon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| Is This Me? - Happy Hour - It's New Orleans | 22 Mar 2017 | 01:02:23 | |
If you ve ever looked at something in a store and weren t sure whether to buy it or not, apparently the question you are subconsciously trying to answer is, "Is this me " According to artist Rebecca Rebouche, that s the central question in all of our lives in the way we relate to art. How that art gets created is a whole other question. In Rebecca s method, the path from the real world to an image living inside a frame can come from a sliver of nature or the crushing heartache caused by finding out that a total stranger guy you ve been looking at across the room in bar has a girlfriend. Jerry Resse II totally agrees with Rebecca. In Jerry s opinion the heartache of unrequited imaginary love is just as crushing as the real thing. Jerry has his sights set on sports broadcasting or politics but in the meantime he s more than happy to be setting up Dat Dog franchises around the country. If you re interested in making a boatload of money from selling Dat Dogs, look Jerry up. Tell em Happy Hour sent you. Jack Miele might be the most successful New Orleanian entertainer you don t know. What you may have thought was a fun gig playing the part of Randi Wilde, the Devo lookalike singer and guitar player in the band The Molly Ringwalds, is actually serious touring band big business complete with lawyers, managers and tour buses. Despite The Molly s being a full time gig, the kicker is that it s just the tip of the iceberg of Jack s professional career which includes writing and recording Grammy and Emmy winning music. This is one of those typically surprising New Orleans conversations where you discover that the 3 perfectly normal and unassuming people you happen to sitting at the bar with wrote the music on the TV show you love, designed the pattern that s on the sheets you re sleeping on that you bought at Anthropologie, and run the business at the place you ate at last night. Photos at Wayfare by Alison Moon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| Self-Propelled Poboy - Happy Hour - It's New Orleans | 15 Mar 2017 | 01:05:45 | |
When Cornell roboticist and biolocomotion expert Andy Ruina decided to come to New Orleans for a physics conference he didn t plan on walking into a bar to prepare for his lecture on the physics of the self propelled bicycle and end up being suckered into a podcast conversation with a bunch of yahoos. But thanks to the evil of cocktails we now all get to learn about the physical principles behind pushing a riderless bike across a parking lot. Johnette Downing also gives us an education. You too can learn to build a poboy the way the kids in Kuwait do it. Johnette is the internatonal musical children s ambassador, or children s international ambassador of music or something similar that s harder to remember after a few drinks but whatever her title, Johnette has a charismatic and captivating way of getting your attention, and songwriting skills that create simple melodies that are deceptively catchy. After you ve heard the poboy song try getting it out of your head. Chris Klein is trying to get his music out of his head. In his series of videos with his band Chris Klein and the Boulevards, he creates what are essentially movies that are smart and sizzling. You could be the 60th person in the world to see them if you act quickly. Chris also talks tattoos he s a professional tattoo artist and even though you probably think you can imagine the crazy stuff people let a tattoo artist put on their body, you still won t believe what Chris has got to say about that. Thomas Mattera is not only the tallest guy who has ever been on Happy Hour he s also the only guest who rode his bike across the USA, twice, and lived in Nepal. If you had to be trapped on a desert island with only one other person and you could choose anybody in the world, Thomas would be a wise choice. Especially if you need to rustle up Mexican food in the middle of nowhere or build a house. Andrew Duhon cements in place the first track off his new album, "It s Alright Johnette, Leave It There" maybe not the final title . Photos at Wayfare by Alison Moon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| Meaux B Dick - Happy Hour - It's New Orleans | 08 Mar 2017 | 01:04:57 | |
The first thing you notice about A F The Naysayer is that he is totally mucus free. Okay, you might notice that he s tall and striking, with a head of dreadlocks but you ll find out in this conversation why he looks so healthy and how he lost somewhere between 8 and 80 pounds. Closer to 80. It all goes back to 1912 and a mucus free diet. Keith Spera is the music writer for The Advocate. As you might imagine, it s a gig that gives you a lot of nights out. Of all the memories Keith could have dredged up over cocktails, how about the night he spent with Master P in P s Beverly Hills hacienda And then there s the menories of Mo B. Dick. Though after P moved to Baton Rouge with his entire crew that may have become Meaux B Dick. The sure way to be the most popular person in just about any room is to give away free booze. Stacy Johnson is the tasting room manager at Celebration Distillation, where they make Old New Orleans Rum. Stacy spends all day giving away free drinks and concocting new cocktails, and on this show she plies everybody with extraordinary high octane and delicious rum as well as a bottle of jet fuel known as Gingeroo. This rum infused conversation darts around all over the map, from the perils of dating drummers to the lure of Missoula Montana, and a hundred stops in between. Photos at Wayfare by Alison Moon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| The Importance of Being Karina, Katrina, Terianne, Tank, Frederick, Ricky, Krystal, Karen, Kevin and ChiChi - Happy Hour - It's New Orleans | 02 Mar 2017 | 01:00:48 | |
If you ever wondered what happened to Carina Nathan she s now Kevin Simons. And Karen Regis. And Crystal Sedona. And Chi Chi the lead singer of the Girl Dogs, who is actually a dog. Katrina Brees sheds some light on this fantastic array of personalities, and their wardrobes. Tank from Tank and the Bangas has her own specialty wardrobe and range of personas too. Her wardrobe doesn t extend to panties which she has given up wearing but she does occasionally wear boy shorts to boost her booty. Her personas start out with Terianne Michelle Ball in New Orleans East and extend to the woman sorting through damaged goods on aisle 4 at Walmart. Norman Spence and Merell Burket from Tank s band, Tank and the Bangas, join the party but strictly under their own names. Ricky Leman s alter ego is Frederick, his real name. Ricky could have gone with alter ego 2, Fred, but he s keeping it real, pleading "the fifth" on a range of issues. All photos on this page were taken by sunny Alison Moon at Wayfare. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| Wife Me Bad Boy - Happy Hour - It's New Orleans | 23 Feb 2017 | 01:07:14 | |
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 Pack." These novels and novellas mostly feature covers of men who are "ripped" but not necessarily "driven" or "got their sh t together" which is the kind of guy Kate not Vivian is looking for. If you ve ever wondered it might be like spending all day every day in a sex fantasy, Kate like Noah has some revelations. And if you re wondering what men say to an erotic novelist and what kind of insight Kate has gotten about what men and women really want listen up. Alex McConduit is going straight home from this conversation to take a nap with Kate or alone at the time of writing was TBD then get up and launch his career as an erotic novelist under the name Chuck Wood. In his more sedate real life Alex is a children s novelist, author of the popular The Little Who Dat, Who Didn t. Alex s latest title, Snowballs For All is published by prestigious Pelican and is taking Alex around the world with his trumpet. Alex is planning on changing careers to become a jazz musician in about 22 years. In preparation he has quit listening to music with words and has for the first time heard of David Bowie. True story. Josh Ray from the band Hazy Ray shows up at Happy Hour with his guitar, his wife, and his 18 day old daughter, Evangelina Grace. Yes, 18 day old. As the new dad of a daughter Josh is suddenly looking at the implications of female fantasies from a whole new angle. To celebrate the occasion Josh sings a song he has been working on very intermittently for the better part of 16 years, called Just Good Sex. This is one of the most educational and informative conversations you will ever overhear in a bar anywhere, though your definitions of "educational" and "informative" have to run fairly wide of the traditional meanings of information and education. Perhaps "revealing" would be a better word choice, but we ll leave that up to the novelists. Photos at Wayfare by Alison Moon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| New Orleans Corona Virus: Part 1 | 11 Mar 2020 | 01:04:12 | |
So today it's New Orleans Corona Virus: Part 1 - the first day of the New Orleans shut down. Even the It's New Orleans Happy Hour podcast is caught up in the global pandemic, though so far all that's happened to us is we have to move off the stage of the Maple Leaf Bar to make room for Dave Jordan and Flow Tribe after they relocated here when the outdoor Wednesday in the Square concert was shut down by the city. So, instead of thousands of people gathering in the sunny outdoors while our small crew meets on the stage of the club, now thousands of people are crammed into the club while our small crew gets to hang out in the sunny outdoors in the courtyard. So, Yay Corona Virus Part 1! Felter goes by one name, like Cher or Prince, who she's the same height as. Felter, like Prince and Cher, specializes in making people feel better. She's a motivational speaker whose contribution to New Orleans Corona Virus Part 1 is coming up with a whole new way to inspire people without catching their viruses. Joe Gerrity's contribution to making people feel good during the early days of New Orleans Corona Virus: Part 1 is selling them CBD. Joe's company - Crescent Canna - makes what he says is not only the finest CBD available but, unlike other local manufacturers, it is actually CBD. Did you know what other people claim as CBD that you're paying $60 a bottle for, is not CBD at all? Now that you'll have plenty of time at home to do nothing but experimental stuff like trying various CBD's you can find that out for yourself. Doyle Cooper's contribution to the sum total of human happiness during the era of New Orleans Corona Virus is substantial. Doyle is the leader of the Doyle Cooper Jazz Band. Maybe you've heard people tell stories of how they got started playing an instrument? No matter how many of these stories you've heard, you've never heard one like Doyle's. It involves parents who are partying their asses off, a stoned baby sitter, and Jazz Fest Crawfish Bread. See photos from this show by Jill Lafleur at our website: https://itsneworleans.com/2020/03/11/new-orleans-corona-virus-part-1/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| Not Titty Bingo - Happy Hour - It's New Orleans | 15 Feb 2017 | 01:06:02 | |
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 intellectual and academic, spent time as a street artist, and has been a part of the New Orleans cultural scene since the early 90 s. Even pre dating the arrival of Titty Bingo, as he relates in this series of tales that include interesting observations of our steretypes about Mexicans and Mexican restaurants that you may not realize you harbor till you hear it laid out. Hugo s reference to the Titty Bingo days of yore spring from the experiences of Darcy Malone and The Tangle. No strangers to music individually Darcy has sung since childhood with her dad Dave Malone of Radiators fame this is the first go round for the band as a collective. With their new record, Still Life, out any minute the band has some decisions to make. Spotify Yes or no Their Solomonic answer might presage a new wave of music marketing. Andrew Duhon enlists Senor Montero to accompany him on a brand new song about a girl from Plaquemines Parish. From Plaquemines, takes a trip to Aziza Bayou. Don t look for that on a map, you won t find it. Aziza Bayou is not a place, it s a person. Aziza is an anthropologist who manages in a few well chosen sentences to explain the absolute insignificance of the cultural evolution of Facebook, Twitter, and the kids today. Photos at Wayfare by Alison Moon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| The Adam's Apple Gives It Away - Happy Hour - It's New Orleans | 08 Feb 2017 | 01:07:19 | |
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 a cappella rendition of the spiritual that nearly blows out the mics. David Lee Simmons is an award winning journalist and communications professional. As communications specialist for the Foundation for Louisiana, David Lee wants us to know about the Foundation s LEAD program, a seven week leadership workshop accepting registration for its next cycle through Friday, Feb. 10. David Lee also came to New Orleans as a visitor and never left...except for the Atlanta years, which he says gives him a unique empathy for the Falcons. Outlaw Nation is a soon to be award winning New Orleans band whose founder Christian Simeon claims most of the best music ever came out of New Orleans. Christian and co guitarist Sebastian Weston serve up three tunes so infectious you ll need a shot. Andrew Duhon says he s stuck for an album title and asks Christian to name Outlaw Nation s top 10 for inspiration. The winner "Greatest Misses." Stay tuned. Rich Collins of The Imagination Movers hosts for Grant ... and tells our favorite story about the home delivered underpants. Photos at Wayfare by Catherine King. Adam s Apple cover art Adam s Apple censored by Mark Satchwill See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| Three Musicians and an Artist Walk Into a Bar - Happy Hour - It's New Orleans | 01 Feb 2017 | 01:06:08 | |
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 answer, they do make the case that no matter what form their work takes, New Orleans artists have a lot in common. Anastasia Pelias is a visual artist whose most recent exhibition, Sisters, paid tribute to great female singers. Her favorite critique came from the cable guy, who talked for 20 minutes about her work. And don t mess with her daughters Anastasia is of Greek heritage and warns the New Orleans Greek community is "a powerful association." Musician Davis Rogan knows a fair bit about New Orleans Greeks he s married to one. Davis says he got his start in entertainment reading PSAs about VD on WTUL at the age of 10, and decided to become a musician when he "wrote some funny words and then picked up a little piano." These days he handles all talent booking for the newly renovated Carver Theater. One of the acts Davis is looking to book is Naughty Professor, one of Noah Young s many musical projects. Noah is a 5 string bass player who came to New Orleans by way of Vermont to study jazz at Loyola University, where Naughty Professor got its name from a hot teacher. Noah has just released a CD with his own group, the less imaginatively named Noah Young Band. Andrew Duhon who is performing under the name Andrew Duhon until he thinks of something more clever is back in the co pilot s chair. Andrew discusses jam cruises and suggests Naughty Professor should get a cruise gig, leading to speculation about what a cruise featuring this week s Happy Hour would be called. Pinch hitting for Grant is Peter Ricchiuti, the host of another It s New Orleans podcast, Out to Lunch. Peter also teaches at Tulane s business school, and after 30 years in academia says what he really wants to be is a naughty professor. He leads the group in an insightful conversation about what it s like to be an artist in New Orleans. Photos at Wayfare by Catherine King. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||