Out To Lunch - New Orleans Business Podcast

It’s New Orleans: Out to Lunch

Hosted ByPeter Ricchiuti

OUT TO LUNCH finds the country's most entertaining finance professor Peter Ricchiuti conducting business New Orleans style: over lunch. Each week Peter invites guests from the New Orleans business world to join him, sometimes for fine dining others for pizza. From CEO's to startups, managers, musicians, biomed needle-movers, Silicon Bayou success stories and entrepreneurs of all stripes put aside the elevator pitch and the talking points and actually enjoy themselves. It's business, New Orleans style.
You can also hear the show on WWNO 89.9FM.

Free Culture – Out to Lunch – It’s New Orleans

January 7, 2016 Out to Lunch Comments Off on Free Culture – Out to Lunch – It’s New Orleans

When we talk about big events in New Orleans we typically say “Mardi Gras and Jazz Fest.”  Economically, though, if we’re going to bracket two events, we should say “Mardi Gras and French Quarter Festival.”  French Quarter Festival’s economic impact on the city has become massive. It’s reportedly bigger than Jazz Fest.

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French Quarter Festival Executive Director, Marci Schramm, joins Peter Ricchiuti on this edition of Out to Lunch.

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So does Jan Ramsey, creator of another New Orleans cultural institution: OffBeat Magazine. Along with Best opf the Beat, OffBeat’s annual music awards, and a local musician’s information exchange.

If you live in New Orleans there’s a pretty good chance you go to French Quarter Festival, and you read Off Beat Magazine. And one thing’s for sure – you don’t pay for either of them.

How are they keeping OffBeat and French Quarter Festival free? Jan Ramsey and Marci Schramm tell all.  

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Photos at Commander’s Palace taken by Alison Moon.