The Thanh Report

If you Google LSU Women’s head basketball coach Kim Mulkey’s name, one of the top results are: Kim Mulkey outfits. She may have led the Tigers to their first basketball title in school history, but from a media and online perspective, the internet can’t get enough of the colorful and flamboyant fashion Mulkey displayed throughout this year’s March Madness. The story of how the designers connected...

From the 1960’s until 2022, Chris Owens’ name and persona was interlocked with the nightlife of Bourbon Street in New Orleans. She was a throwback to an era of sensual but not explicit showgirls. For 37 years, the straight and gay community would join thousands of others in the French Quarter for the Chris Owens Easter Parade. One year after her sudden death, her longtime manager speaks candidly a...

When was the last time you were in a taxi? Chances are, it’s been a while. There are several taxi cab companies still operating in the greater New Orleans Metro area. That’s increasingly getting tougher in the face of the dominance of rideshare services like Uber and Lyft. How do traditional cab companies survive? Who are their customers? This episode features a New Orleans taxi company that dates...

When Linda Pailet earned the title of fire captain with the New Orleans Fire Department, she became the first female fire captain in the NOFD’s 132-year history. She’s now a 20-year veteran of the department, but being a firefighter didn’t necessarily interest her as a young woman. It wasn’t until an event which forever changed the country that Pailet decided that entering a historically low payin...

Building anything from the ground up, whether it’s a home, a business and even relationships, requires a tremendous amount of work. Trennis Grant is building a collegiate baseball program from scratch. He’s the head coach of Dillard University’s baseball team. The Bleu Devils are in their inaugural season. This episode explores the challenges and rewards of starting a team from scratch in the netw...

City Park is among the 100 largest urban parks in the United States, and it’s often associated with many attractions and events like Celebration in the Oaks, the New Orleans Museum of Art and even beignets and café au laits. Fishing, though, is something that doesn’t always come to mind when City Park is mentioned, but it’s apparently home to the longest running freshwater fishing competition in t...

Following the shooting death of a tv reporter while covering another deadly shooting, we look at some of the ways crime is covered and why. In a news industry where budgets are continually getting smaller, what is the best way to cover crime?

From pressure packed political scenes to private medical moments, American Sign Language interpreters are physically standing front and center. They’re also often in the backroom of those situations. Listen to the story of a New Orleans born ASL interpreter and what she has learned about people, politics and perseverance through her life-long work.

The Greasing of the Poles is something that is unique to New Orleans, the French Quarter and the hotel on Bourbon Street that’s made it a spectacle every year during Carnival season. The annual competition and “sensual” ceremony is considered to be the official kick off to Mardi Gras weekend. Listen to the history and humor surrounding it.   

It can be easy to enjoy a Carnival parade in New Orleans. It’s designed that way. But, what most people outside of New Orleans don’t understand is the amount of time, work and history that’s attached to a single Krewe and its parade. In this episode we visit with the Captain and Krewe members of the all-ladies Krewe of Iris. To them, the tradition of parading celebratory and sacred. 

As the city of New Orleans enters the heart of its parade season and prepares to host hundreds of thousands of visitors, we sit down with the head of the organization dedicated to attracting tourists and presenting the city in the best light. Walt Leger is beginning his first year as the president/CEO of New Orleans & Company. Despite the media attention on New Orleans being the “murder capita...

Why is Louisiana among the top 5 in the U.S. for population loss? One word: money.

Damar Hamlin & Metaire’s “Miracle Meaux” have something in common and we can learn from it.

It seems like there's a different story every day about the possibility of a recession, but what's the reality? Thanh sat down with a professor from Tulane University to get the answer, and it might surprise you.

Visiting a gas station, helicoptering in ... People are taking all kinds of measures to place a sports bet in Louisiana. Get the story of Jim McIngvale, aka 'Mattress Mack,' here.

Remember the joy of visiting a casino and eyeing long lines of every kind of food imaginable? Here's what happened to those days.

The $2 billion in sports wagers and the subsequent $30 million generated in tax revenue from those wagers serves as a good benchmark for a conversation about how sports betting is going and perhaps growing in Louisiana. 

What does Christmas sound like? Thanh Truong set out to get the answer. And it's  a delight.

Throughout 2022, public safety in New Orleans has dominated headlines. With drastic increases in homicides and carjackings from the previous year and an alarming decrease in the NOPD’s manpower, the public and political scrutiny of the mayor’s ability to address those issues has been persistent all year.

In the Thanh Report, a congregation is reeling about the murders of a priest and parishioner whose bodies were found burned. "We hate the way he was taken from us." Rev. Otis Young and church member Ruth Prats were the victims. Antonio Tyson was arrested on Monday and booked with first-degree murder, second-degree kidnapping, obstruction of justice, resisting an officer, and illegally possessing s...

Thanh Troung on location at the Roosevelt Hotel Lobby in New Orleans for the holiday lighting ceremony. Champagne on trays and tourists mingling with locals celebrate a spectacle that goes back generations.

Thanh Troung speaks with various seaman about the effects of the current low water depth of the Mississippi River.

Veterans continue to battle with ongoing effects of wide range of conditions connected to their time in service or training.

Thanh Truong talks to "hoppers" (trash collectors) about the difficulties of garbage pick-up after the pandemic and Hurricane Ida.