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Hear celebrated and up-and-coming authors read excerpts from new books and discuss their work with former Times-Picayune book editor Susan Larson.
New Orleans writer Ian McNulty hosts Where Y'Eat, a weekly exploration and celebration of food culture in the Crescent City and south Louisiana.
Part-time New Orleans resident Harry Shearer hosts a look at the worlds of media, politics, cyberspace, sports and show business while providing an eclectic array of music along the way.
A leaked draft Supreme Court opinion suggests the US Supreme Court is poised to overturn Roe versus Wade, ending the constitutional right to an abortion in the United States. How did we get here? This is Banned, a new narrative podcast that tells the story of how one Mississippi law could end the right to legal abortions in the United States — and overturn Roe v. Wade. Hosted by journalist Rosemary Westwood, Banned is a production of WWNO New Orleans Public Radio, WRKF Baton Rouge Public Rad ...
OUT TO LUNCH finds economist and Tulane finance professor Peter Ricchiuti conducting business New Orleans style: over lunch at Commander’s Palace restaurant. In his 9th year in the host seat, Ricchiuti’s learned but uniquely NOLA informal perspective has established Out to Lunch as the voice of Crescent City business. You can also hear the show on WWNO 89.9FM.
Climate change is scary. Life Raft is not. From WWNO, WRKF and PRX, comedian Lauren Malara and reporter Travis Lux explore your questions about living with climate change. How bad will the flooding get? Is it ever going to be too hot to live here? Have I had my last good oyster? We’ll tackle it all.
From New Orleans, Louisiana, the world’s incarceration capital, stories at the intersection of human lives and the criminal legal system.
Four historic clashes between Louisiana politicians and the media, one at a time. The series highlights the tense but necessary relationship between the media and the government, and draws parallels between past moments in our country's history, and today.
Each episode of TriPod: New Orleans at 300 is devoted to a single story or subjects from New Orleans’ rich history.
Join host Diane Mack for a conversation with the leading figures of the New Orleans arts and culture scene, each week Inside the Arts. From gallery openings to the performing arts, Diane takes you along on an intimate examination of the people and places that make New Orleans one of America's most interesting cities.
Everybody likes to make money. The accumulation of wealth is so ingrained into our American way of life that wealth is synonymous with success. And for good reason. In our society, the more money you have the better access you have to pretty much everything – from healthcare to art. For some people, there are pathways to making huge amounts of mone…
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Where Y’Eat: New Orleans Restaurants and a Summer That’s Far from Normal
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The calendar says summer started June 21, which basically tells us calendars don’t know New Orleans. We all know summer really starts immediately after Jazz Fest and lasts until sometime around Halloween.Still, the “official” start of summer signals what is historically the roughest time of the year for New Orleans restaurants. Things could be diff…
On this week’s edition of Le Show, Harry brings us News of the Olympic Movement, News of America’s Longest War, News of Inspector’s General, News of Smart World, Keeping Up with The Murdochs, The Apologies of the Week, original music, sketches, and more.By Harry Shearer
By Susan Larson
Whatever you believe is the cause of our changing climate, we seem to be living through an era of historically more storms, and more severe storms. Even if you only moved here recently, most of us in Louisiana have now lived through a major hurricane, or had one narrowly miss us. You’re no doubt all too familiar with the hurricane season ritual ahe…
On this week’s edition of Le Show, Harry brings us News of the Godly, News of the Warm, News of the Atom, The Apologies of the Week, News of Microplastics, plus thoughts about Google’s LaMDA, SpaceX & NASA programs, the January 6th committee, original music and more.By Harry Shearer
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The Reading Life: Alex Jennings, Kyle Bravo
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On Father’s Day, Food Memories Bring Back More Than Meals
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New Orleans food writer Ian McNulty with a reflection on family food memories for Father's Day, and what endures through change.By Ian McNulty
Here’s a stupid question. Is 40% a lot? The answer, of course, is “Yes it is.” For example, if you order a pizza that has 8 slices, and you throw 40% of the pizza in the trash, you’ll only have 4.8 slices to eat. Why would you do that? You wouldn’t throw out 40% of a perfectly good pizza. That you paid for. Right? That would be a ridiculous waste o…
EP 7 – Mississippi. Anti-abortion activists in Mississippi are anticipating a historic victory. What will Mississippi look like if abortions are banned? How will the state respond to thousands more pregnant women and thousands more babies born every year? And what will become of the Pink House? Follow Banned wherever you get your podcasts. A produc…
EP 6 – The Loophole. There are three choices before the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court. The most likey? Overturning Roe v. Wade. So what will the country look like? And what happens when you can flout an abortion ban simply by using the mail? Follow Banned wherever you get your podcasts. A production of WWNO and WRKF.…
On this week’s edition of Le Show, Harry brings us News of Inspector’s General, News of Microplastics, News of the Atom, The Mar-Apprentice, News of Smart World, The Apologies of the Week, thoughts about the January 6th Committee prime time broadcast, great music, and more.By Harry Shearer
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Where Y'Eat: In New Orleans, a Culture of Wine Far from the Vines
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New Orleans food writer Ian McNulty on the power of wine to represent welcome, and how a wine festival taps that.By Ian McNulty
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The Reading Life: Marti Dumas, Dean Thomas Ellis
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EP 5 – The Court. A single footnote set the stage for a showdown over Roe v. Wade in Washington, D.C. That showdown begins on the morning of Dec. 1, 2021, in Washington, D.C. The day Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban is finally heard in the Supreme Court of the United States. Religion is everywhere – and nowhere – on that historic day at the Supre…
EP 4 – The Strategists. Abortion rights activists have been warning for years that it’s only a matter of time before the battle over Roe v. Wade is lost. We follow how the 15-week ban moved through the federal courts and arrived at the U.S. Supreme Court with perfect timing, thanks to the persistence of anti-abortion activists, a bit of luck, and t…
This week on Le Show, Harry Shearer examines current events with News of the Godly, It's a Smart World, News of Microplastics, The Apologies of the Week, News of the Olympic Movement, and more!By Harry Shearer
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The Reading Life: Richard Campanella, Elisa Marie Speranza
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Where Y'Eat: The Dilemma of Dining Out on Mondays
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New Orleans food writer Ian McNulty on why it's become harder to find open restaurants on Mondays.By Ian McNulty
EP 3 – The Providers. Abortion access in Mississippi has been hanging on by a thread — actually a clinic — for twenty years. That’s thanks to a very small group of people keeping the doors open at the Pink House. What drives them to work here? And what do they risk? Follow Banned wherever you get your podcasts. A production of WWNO and WRKF.…
EP 2 – The Pink House. There is only one clinic you can go to in Mississippi to get an abortion. We go inside Jackson Women’s Health Organization, dubbed the Pink House, the clinic suing Mississippi over its 15-week ban. Women drive for hours from across the South to get to the Pink House. So what does it take for women to get an abortion there? Fo…
EP 1 – A Mississippi Law. In 2018, the governor of Mississippi signs into law the most extreme abortion ban at the time, banning abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. It was a long shot, a law destined to be shot down by federal courts. Because under 50 years of U.S. Supreme Court rulings, Mississippi’s abortion law was clearly unconstitutional. S…
On this week’s edition of Le Show, Harry brings us News from the Land of 4,000 Princes, News of Smart World, News of Inspector’s General, The Apologies of the Week, News of the Olympic Movement, News of the Atom, an original sketch, great music and more.By Harry Shearer
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The Reading Life: Scott Billington, Nick Courage
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Where Y'Eat: The Crawfish Boil And the Invaluable Gift of Time Together
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New Orleans food writer Ian McNulty on the value of time well spent around a Louisiana crawfish boil.By Ian McNulty
On a recent show, we talked about Successful Exits with the founders of Turbosquid, Levelset, and Lucid. A successful exit is when your business is doing so well that someone buys it off you. In 2021 the founders of Turbosquid, Levelset and Lucid sold their New Orleans companies for $75m, $500m, and $1.1b dollars, respectively. As impressive as tha…
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Where Y’Eat: Why Meatless Meals Are Everywhere Now, Even in New Orleans
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New Orleans food writer Ian McNulty on how more restaurants are putting vegetables and meatless dishes in the spotlight.By Ian McNulty
On this week’s edition of Le Show, Harry brings us News of the Atom, News of Smart World, The Apologies of the Week, News of the Godly, an interview with Amanda Moore about MRGO, great music and more.By Harry Shearer
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The Reading Life: Scott Billington, Rosalyn Story
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For better or worse, New Orleans economy is dependent on tourism. As we’ve discussed previously on this show, critics say a tourist-dependent economy traps people in low-paid jobs. Tourism boosters say without the revenue generated by tourists we’d all be paying way more in taxes and our cost of living would be through the roof. Whichever of these …
On this week’s edition of Le Show Harry brings us News of the Warm, News of Smart World, News of the Atom, New of the Godly, The Apologies of the Week, great music by Steely Dan, Keb Mo’, The Ray Brown Trio, and more!By Harry Shearer
The constitutional right to an abortion is on the brink. A recently leaked draft opinion of the U.S. Supreme Court shows a majority of justices are prepared to overturn Roe v. Wade. Banned is the story of the Mississippi case that got us to this moment. It’s the story of how people you’ve probably never heard of created a law now poised to win the …
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If you want to know the answer to a question, all you have to do is ask Alexa, Siri, or Google. If your question happens to be, “What is the capital of Latvia?” or something else pretty straightforward, Siri, Alexa, or Google will do just fine. But if you’re looking for information that’s more complex, or if you have to be absolutely certain that w…
On this week’s edition of Le Show, Harry brings us News of the Olympic Movement, The Mar-Apprentice, News of the Warm, The Apologies of the Week, plus updates on COVID-19, the SCOTUS leak, Vippi Media, Business Insider, and more.By Harry Shearer
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