Crosstown Conversations

Sculptor and installation artist Roy Stabb, an artist-in-residence at the Joan Mitchell Center in Bayou St. John, discusses his work involving nature. Then, Linda Pompa, Executive Director the Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard Merchants and Business Association, promotes the upcoming 9th annual New Orleans Central City Festival, and discusses business development along O.C. Haley post-Katrina. Angel W...

Jeanne talks about the food, business trends, and history of local celebrated eateries, with Jack Murphy, owner of new Marigny restaurant Paladar 511; Stephen Polier, owner of Sugar Park on St. Claude; Diane Marino of Jack Dempsey’s in Bywater; Bryon Peck of Elizabeth’s on Chartres, and Cassi Dymond from Satsuma.

Joshua Perry, Executive Director of the Louisiana Center for Children’s Rights, discusses LCCR’s report calling for youth to be removed from adult jail, and problems with the juvenile justice system. Next, Alysia Savoy, Performing Arts Manager at the Contemporary Arts Center, promotes “How to Build a Forest,” a colorful, interactive eight-hour installation and performance inspired by recent enviro...

Civil rights activist and former First Lady of New Orleans Sybil Hayden Morial joins Jeanne to discuss her memoir, “Witness to Change,” about the Jim Crow and Civil Rights Movement eras in New Orleans. Then, local actress Amy Alvarez, and Moscow Nights artistic director Natasha Ramer, discuss their new production, “Façade,” which profiles a family dealing with their son’s terminal illness. Finally...

New Orleans real estate developer Pres Kabacoff, co-founder and CEO of HRI Properties, and local artist Sallie Ann Glassman, co-founders of the New Orleans Healing Center, discuss their upcoming New Orleans Festival of Water, and the socio-economic, cultural, and spiritual impacts of water for the city. Then, local artist Christina Juran, Art Director of the New Orleans Art Center, stops by to pro...

Climate Interactive’s Co-Director Drew Jones, and NASA scientist Dr. Gavin Schmidt talk about recent trends with the warming Earth, and climate change science. Next, Dr. Karin Muraszko, Chair of Neurosurgery at the University of Michigan, talks multiple sclerosis and other neurological health issues as she attends a neurological conference in New Orleans. Then, local attorney and art collector Chr...

Justin Ehrenworth, Executive Director of the Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council, discusses how the financial resources from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and coastal restoration, can benefit the creative industry and cultural economy of New Orleans. Then, author Barbara Sillery discusses her new book, “Biloxi Memories,” and the cultural history of Mississippi’s Gulf Coast from Jim Crow to...

Dr. Gary Clark, Chair of the Department of Political Science at Dillard University, joins Jeanne to recap the recent Republican presidential debate. Then Sean Snyder, Director of Marketing and Communications for the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, talk about the orchestra’s new home at the Orpheum Theatre downtown.

Barbara Hill Moore, internationally renown singer and Meadows Professor of Voice at Southern Methodist University, and internationally acclaimed opera singer and Louisiana native Leon Turner discuss their new production, “Wading Home,” about a young musician searching for his missing father who stayed behind during Hurricane Katrina.

Jeanne reviews where New Orleans and its communities stands in its recovery 10 years after the storm — and compares the city’s recovery from Hurricane Katrina to its recovery from Hurricane Betsy; with Kim Ford, Executive Director of the L9 Resilience Festival, and Ro Brown, former WDSU sports anchor and Sports Director at WBOK-AM. Then, Monique Moss, choreographer and artistic director at Third E...

Gia Hamilton, Director of the Joan Mitchell Center, promotes the grand opening of the center, and its purpose in the cultural and even socio-economic life of the city. Afterwards, artist Chelsea “Che” Elisabeth her work, “#DignityinProcess,” which discusses concepts of sustainable activism and intersectional identity.

Callers and artist Robert Tannen weigh in on the proposed removal of Confederate monuments from New Orleans; and Russell Lord, curator with the New Orleans Museum of Art, promotes the Katrina 10 retrospective “Ten Years Gone," which includes Willie Burch’s representations in bronze of the homes of crawfish. Also, Tannen promotes the upcoming “People’s Mural” interactive art project at the Myrtle B...

Lower Ninth Ward resident and community leader Calvin Alexander reminisces about about why he chose to live in Holy Cross, his return to New Orleans after the storm, real estate speculators in his neighborhood, and his public anger with the proposal to turn the Lower Ninth north of Galvez into green space. Also, Kim Ford, Executive Director of the L9 Resilience Festival, shares her memories of ret...