It's New Orleans Out to Lunch

07/21/2025

Robin Brou's company Marillyn In The Moon takes local fabric design far away from "snoballs, crawfish and cutsie" and makes it into beautiful records of culture and history - from stripes that are streetcar tracks to what look like random squiggles that turn out to be hurricane tracks, complete with labels like "Camille" and "Katrina." You can buy these and other unique, quality fabrics at Chateau Sew & Sew where owner Laura Fenner also teaches sewing. Meet Robin and Laura on Out to Lunch, on your podcast app, on New Orleans Public Radio 89.9FM and https://itsneworleans.com/2025/07/20/stitches/
📷 Jill Lafleur Photography

07/14/2025

If you're smart enough to get into college but not fortunate enough to have resources to navigate and pay for it all, your chance of graduating is a mere 12%. An organization called College Beyond is dedicated to fixing that, supplying mentorship and money to qualified students. Clara Baron-Hyppolite from College Beyond joins Peter Ricchiuti on Out to Lunch this week, along with Hector Garcia. If you've picked up a Times Picayune from a box on the street in the past 40 years, Hector probably put the paper in there. Hector's stories about distributing the paper are wilder than most of stories in the paper! Meet Clara and Hector on Out to Lunch on your podcast app, on New Orleans Public Radio 89.9FM or https://itsneworleans.com/2025/07/13/college-paper/
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07/12/2025

Coming up on Out to Lunch: Times Picayune newspaper delivery man Hector Garcia recounts the incredible tale of the last time he was robbed at gunpoint while he was delivering papers.
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07/12/2025

On this week's Out to Lunch we're taking a hot sauna and a cold plunge. Come on in.

There’s a difference between an unintentional and an intentional experience. For example, you could be wandering down Oak Street at night and unintentionally hear music coming out of The Maple Leaf. It might sound great, but it sounds a whole lot better if you intentionally go into the club and st...

07/07/2025

We often say that living in New Orleans is like living in a sauna, but now we come to find out sweating your a** off walking across the Rouse's parking lot isn't actually anything like a suana! According to Eric Trombly from Luxe & Leisure Saunas, if you had a sauna it would be the least humid room in your house. So how about that? Jacob Tramontin at Uptown Wellness + Aesthetics has a sauna, a cold plunge, red light therapy, cryo therapy, and a whole lot more wellness and beauty treatments, for men as well as women. Meet Eric and Jacob on Out to Lunch on your podcast app, on New Orleans Public Radio 89.9FM and https://itsneworleans.com/2025/07/06/hot-sauna-cold-plunge/
📷 Jill Lafleur Photography

06/23/2025

On the one hand companies like to complain about the onerous demands of complying with OSHA, on the other they brag about their safety record to attract and retain good employees. American Safety LLC CEO Corey Rosales and Jones Walker LLP labor & employment partner Jane Heidingsfelder join Peter Ricchiuti on Out to Lunch, this week from the Honeymoon Suite at The Columns Hotel! Listen on your podcast app, on New Orleans Public Radio 89.9FM or https://itsneworleans.com/2025/06/22/safety-first/
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06/16/2025

The heady days of "Hollywood South" seem to be behind us but film maker and film tech innovator Kenny Morrison rolls on undaunted, building a Silicon Valley-meets-Hollywood film platform called Lucy XR. Musician Adonis Rose is the one jazz drummer in the world with a head for business and is using it to head up The NOCCA Foundation, the fundraising division of NOCCA that pays for everything public schools don't - which at NOCCA is pretty much everything essential to an arts education. Meet Kenny, Adonis and guest host Andrew Ward on Out to Lunch on New Orleans Public Radio 89.9FM. on your podcast app and https://itsneworleans.com/2025/06/15/lucy-nocca/

06/09/2025

Conway Solomon's live event company Wrstbnd is more than just a piece of electronic hardware on your wrist - these guys know how to throw a party, or a festival or convention. Patrick Young is focused on how to break up the parties online before they spill over into violence offline: a huge % of gun violence comes with warning signs on social media but you need to find it in time to intervene and that's what Patrick's organization 4 Social Peace is all about. Meet Conway and Patrick on Out to Lunch with Peter Ricchiuti, on your podcast app, on New Orleans Public Radio 89.9FM or https://itsneworleans.com/2025/06/08/general-admission/
📷 Jill Lafleur Photography

05/26/2025

What's more New Orleans than prostitution and gambling, right? Celebrate the golden age of Storyville at The Storyville Museum and meet its founder, Claus Sadlier, on Out to Lunch, along with Oji Alexander from People's Housing Plus where they are changing the whole real estate game by extinguishing the demarcation between "home owner" and "renter." Two very different but uniquely real New Orleanians - and Peter Ricchiuti! Out to Lunch is on New Orleans Public Radio 89.9FM, on your podcast app right now and https://itsneworleans.com/2025/05/25/affordable-storyville/
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05/19/2025

Tey Stiteler raises and sells flowers, Camille Terk helps entrepreneurs raise money and sell companies. Meet Tey and Camille on Out to Lunch with Peter Ricchiuti on your podcast app, on New Orleans Public Radio 89.9FM & https://itsneworleans.com/2025/05/17/seeds-of-change/
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05/12/2025

Did you know that the motorcycle kickstand was invented in New Orleans? Motorcycle designer JT Nesbitt is an evangelist for the lesser-known fascinating history of New Orleans' bike lore. Galactic bassist & Tipitina's co-owner Robert Mercurio takes us backstage at Tips. All on this week's Out to Lunch, on New Orleans Public Radio 89.9FM, on your podcast app (right now) and at https://itsneworleans.com/2025/05/11/tipitina-bienville/
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04/21/2025

Chris Meaux knows a thing or two about launching a new company and now you can know everything he knows - and a lot more - on his new AI-driven business consultant app, Solomon. Chuck Perrett is revoltionizing the office lives of architects with his software platform, Centerline. Meet Chris and Chuck on Out to Lunch on your podcast app, on New Orleans Public Radio 89.9FM or https://itsneworleans.com/show/out-to-lunch
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