New Orleans Podcasting - Listen to the voices that are rebuilding New Orleans. Click on the link below to hear the latest int
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New Orleans Podcasting - Listen to the voices that are rebuilding New Orleans. Click on the link below to hear the latest int
Listen to the voices that are rebuilding New Orleans. We will be interviewing city leaders, executives, artisans and many other New Orleanians to hear how they are rebuilding their lives and businesses. From time to time, we may even have a national celebrity on our show. Visit often to hear how Ne...
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Julia Bland, Executive Director of the Louisiana Children's Museum
Julia Bland is Executive Director of the Louisiana Children's Museum. Julia, a native of Tennessee, graduated from Newcomb College, began with the Mus...
Ned Sublette, author of The World That Made New Orleans
Ned Sublette is the author of The World That Made New Orleans. Ned take us on a tour of his book that explores many of the outside influences that hav...
Jonah Dowling, Chairman of the Louisiana Landmark Society's New Orleans Nine Committee.
Jonah Dowling is Chairman of the Louisiana Landmark Society's New Orleans Nine Committee. "The New Orleans Nine is a list of nine buildings endangered...
Chef Brian Landry with world famous Galatoire's Restaurant.
Chef Brian Landry is head chef at world famous Galatoire's Restaurant. Chef Brian tells us about his first place finish in the preliminary Great Ameri...
Jennifer Weishaupt Mid-City New Orleans restaurateurs.
Jennifer Weishaupt and her husband are the owners of The Ruby Slipper Cafe in Mid-City New Orleans. Jennifer, originally from New York, explains why s...
Nathan Rothstein is Executive Director of New Orleans Young Urban Rebuilding Professionals
Nathan Rothstein is Executive Director of New Orleans Young Urban Rebuilding Professionals (YURP). Nathan explains how YURP helps young professionals...
"Morgus the Magnificent" solves the world's economic crisis with the FAT TAX
Dr. Morgus, also known as "Morgus the Magnificent", is New Orleans' preeminent Doctor of Science. A member of the "Higher Order", Dr. Morgus specializ...
Bill Borah talks about the City Charter amendment vote on November 4, 2008
Bill Borah is a land use attorney who has work tirelessly to amend the city charter regarding city planning. New Orleanians will vote on this importan...
Ed Blakely, New Orleans Recovery Czar
Ed Blakely is the New Orleans Recovery Czar. Ed tells us that the city has recently started receiving substantial Federal funds as of November, 2007....
Lori Nesser, owner of La Peniche restaurant
Lori Nesser is the owner of La Peniche, a popular restaurant in the Faubourg Marigny. Lori explains the importance of neighborhood businesses in New O...
Elizabeth Williams, President of the Southern Food & Beverage Museum
Elizabeth Williams is President of the Southern Food & Beverage Museum, the latest addition to New Orleans' rich museum landscape. The museum features...
Kacey Hill, Public Relations Officer for The National WWII Museum
Kacey Hill is Public Relations Officer for The National WWII Museum, formally The D-Day Museum. Kacey explains the museum received a congressional man...
Jim Letten, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana
Jim Letten is the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana. Jim tells us how he first became interested in the Law. He explains what the U....
Elyse Luray is an appraiser, auctioneer, and one of PBS television's "History Detectives"
Elyse Luray is an appraiser, auctioneer, and one of PBS television's "History Detectives". Elyse explains why history is so important and why people a...
Suzanne Lapin, President of MakeNewOrleansHome.com
Suzanne Lapin is President of MakeNewOrleansHome.com.
This organization actively promotes New Orleans as an attractive relocation destination. "...
Marci Schramm, Executive Director for the French Quarter Festival, Inc.
Marci Schramm is Executive Director for the French Quarter Festival, Incorporated. Marci gives us a preview of the 2008 French Quarter Festival, April...
Ronnie Kole is a world renowned musician and philanthropist
Ronnie Kole is a world renowned musician and philanthropist. Ronnie talks about two of his proudest music achievements: his recent "Louis Prima Arts a...
Cesar Burgos, Chairman of the Board for New Orleans' Regional Transit Authority
Cesar Burgos is Chairman of the Board for New Orleans' Regional Transit Authority (RTA). Cesar reflects on the damages Hurricane Katrina caused to RTA...
"Doc" Hawley is a river pilot who specializes in steam driven sternwheelers
"Doc" Hawley is a river pilot who specializes in steam driven sternwheelers. For over 30 years, "Doc" has captained the Steamboat NATCHEZ up and down...
Brian Landry, Vice President of Marketing for Children's Hospital
Brian Landry is Vice President of Marketing for Children's Hospital in New Orleans. Brian tells us that Children's Hospital accepts all children, rega...
Carnival Krewe captain of Thoth
Our guest this week is the captain of Thoth. Thoth, a Carnival Krewe, or organization, began in 1947. Ever since "Reconstruction" following the Civil...
Dominique Rizzo, owner of La Boulangerie describes the original French King Cake
Dominique Rizzo is the owner of La Boulangerie, a popular French bakery located on Magazine Street in New Orleans. Since we are in the Carnival Season...
French Market Coffee Company's Jesyka Bartlett, fourth generation family co-owner.
Jesyka Bartlett is the fourth generation Bartlett to work at the French Market Coffee Company. Her family co-owns this New Orleans based business alon...
Arthur Hardy, New Orleans Mardi Gras expert and historian
Arthur Hardy, Mardi Gras expert and historian, publishes the annual Mardi Gras Guide. Arthur shares the big news for Carnival 2008: the Krewe of Endym...
Patty Gay, Executive Director of the Preservation Resource Center
Patty Gay is Executive Director of the Preservation Resource Center. She explains how the PRC focuses on saving and promoting our neighborhoods, archi...
Robert Lyall, General and Artistic Director for the New Orleans Opera Association
Robert Lyall is General and Artistic Director for the New Orleans Opera Association. Robert describes Hurricane Katrina's extensive damage to the oper...
David Rubenstein, owner of Rubensteins on Canal Street in New Orleans
David Rubenstein is the owner of Rubensteins, one of New Orleans premiere clothing stores. David describes the challenges his store faced following Hu...
Bonnie Goldblum, Executive Director of Longue Vue House & Gardens
Bonnie Goldblum is Executive Director of Longue Vue House & Gardens. Philanthropists Edgar Bloom Stern, a New Orleans cotton broker, and his wife, Edi...
Beau Bassich, Executive Director of the City Park Improvement Association
Beau Bassich is Executive Director of the City Park Improvement Association in New Orleans. Beau talks about the recent reopening of the park's histor...
Lenny Vangilder, Director of Publicity for the New Orleans Fair Grounds
Lenny Vangilder is Director of Publicity for the New Orleans Fair Grounds Race Course and Slots. Lenny reflects on the damages caused by Hurricane Kat...
James Bernazzani, FBI special agent in charge of New Orleans.
James Bernazzani is the FBI special agent in charge of New Orleans. We met in Audubon Park, near his uptown home, to talk about how the FBI has taken...
Marc Robért II, owner of Robért Fresh Market in Lakeview
Marc Robért II, owner of Robért Fresh Market, explains his commitment to Lakeview and New Orleans: "This is a very strong area...and I am confident t...
Sandy Whann, owner of Leidenheimer Bakery talks about New Orleans French Bread
Sandy Whann, owner of Leidenheimer Bakery, is the great grandson of its founder, George Leidenheimer. Sandy tells us about the challenges his company...
Blain Kern--"Mr. Mardi Gras"--talks about his Haunted House
Mardi Gras World owner Blain Kern--"Mr. Mardi Gras"--talks about his Haunted House and special Halloween Night Gala. Blain is donating 50 percent of t...
David Kahn, Director of the Louisiana State Museum
David Kahn is the Director of the Louisiana State Museum in New Orleans. David talks about "GOLD", the exciting new exhibit that opened October 20 and...
Kenneth Ferdinand is Executive Director for the French Market Corporation.
Kenneth Ferdinand describes the Market’s newly completed renovation and updates us on those currently in progress. Kenneth emphasizes the importance o...
Linda Gonzales, Assistant Executive Director of the New Orleans Mission
Linda Gonzales is Assistant Executive Director of the New Orleans Mission. Linda describes the damages the Mission sustained following
Hu...
Charlie Martinez is General Manager of Landry's Seafood House
Charlie Martinez is General Manager of Landry's Seafood House. The only restaurant remaining on the New Orleans lakefront since Hurricane Katrina. Lan...
Norm Abram, master carpenter with This Old House, TV's popular home improvement program
Norm Abram, master carpenter with This Old House, TV's popular home improvement program, will be filming ten This Old House episodes here in New Orlea...
Jim LeBlanc is President and CEO of Volunteers of America for New Orlean
Jim describes how Katrina affected the organization's staffing and its many properties. "However, " he says, "we are bouncing back well". Jim points o...