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Dinner Party: 08/11 by WRBH Reading Radio

Lyn sits down with Major Lynda Thornhill, Salvation Army Area Commander for Greater New Orleans

Carl sits down with Sarah Waldman - Carl's CrossfFit coach - who specializes in working with visually impaired athletes.

Babs sits down with Dr. Megan Marino, the Deputy Director of New Orleans EMS, to discuss COVID-19.

Carl sits down to talk with Pinky Harris, who is a blind vendor operating the bistro of Orleans Criminal Court. More information about Pinky can be found at http://www.pinkyharris.com/

Babs sits down the the Executive Director of Community Sailing New Orleans, Jacob Raymond.

Babs sits down to talk with the founder and CEO of the Split Second Foundation, Mark Raymond.

Lyn sits down with Dr Michael Wolfe to discuss when its time to orthopedic surgery

Lyn sits down with The Dragon Cafe co-owners, Tom Forbes and Chip Duncan.

Michael sits down with Grammy-award winning producer and acclaimed actor, Chris Thomas King, to discuss his life and his new book, The Blues: The Authentic Narrative of My Music and Culture

Michael sits down with Gary Gautier to discuss his many travels and his writing.

In this month's update, Megan talks about the OBONO event inspired by Tom Dent's St. Joseph's Day essay, "NOSTALGIA: St. Joseph's Day Celebrations, or the Origins of Super Sunday," More information about the event can also be found on Facebook athttps://www.facebook.com/events/184245549670751/

In this week's episode, Babs sits down with Chloe Raub, Head of Archives and Special Collections at Newcomb Institute, to talk about the Art+Feminism events taking place on March 6th and 11th. Art+Feminism is a do-it-yourself and do-it-with-others campaign to improve coverage of cis and trans women, non-binary folks, feminism and the arts on Wikipedia. Howard-Tilton Memorial Library and Newcomb In...

In this week's episode, Lynn talks with Marianne Cufone, Executive Director of Recirculating Farms Coalition, to discuss the Growing Local Good Collaborative. Lynn also sits down with the CEO of Kingsley House, Keith Liederman, to discuss his organization and their new partnership with the Humana Foundation. Originally aired on Monday, February 24th, 2020.

In this week's episode, Amy talks with Chef Hardette Harris to talk about North Louisiana cooking. Originally aired on Wednesday, February 12th, 2020.

In this week's episode, Candice talks with author Michael Zapata about his new book, "The Lost Book of Adana Moreau" Originally aired on Thursday, February 20th, 2020.

In this week's episode, Babs talks with the C.A.O. of the Cantrell Administration to talk about the newly-enforced Mardi Gras rules. Originally aired on Monday, February 17th, 2020.

In this week's episode, Sherry sits down with John Pope to talk about his career along with the new book that he co-authored, "Building on the Past: Saving Historic New Orleans." Originally aired on Thursday, February 13th, 2020.

In this episode, new host, Babs Wood, sits down with the Deputy Medical Director of New Orleans EMS, Dr. Megan Moreno. Originally aired on Monday, February 10th, 2020.

In this episode, Lynn sits down with Margaret Ether to talk about CASA-Jefferson to tell her about her organization. More information about CASA can be found at https://www.casajefferson.org/ Originally aired on Monday, January 27th, 2020.

In this week's episode, Candice talks with author, Margaret WIlkerson Sexton, to discuss her new book, "The Revisioners." "The Revisioners"was named as a New York Times' Notable Book of the Year. Originally aired on Thursday, January 23rd, 2020.

In this month's update, Megan talks about the "Dialogue on Dent" event - a community discussion on Tom Dent's life and work. The event will take place at Dillard University on Thursday, February 6th from 6pm-9pm, and will be held at the Will W. Alexander Library. Also, on the second Sunday of every month, OBONO encourages its supporters to volunteer at the Louisiana Books 2 Prisoners organization...

In this very special episode of the Music Show, we'll hear part of the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra's performance of Zachary Lazar's Vengeance - the 2019 Selection for One Book One New Orleans' Book of the Year. Originally aired on Tuesday, January 21st, 2020.

In this week's episode, Amy sits down with Ian McNulty, Food Writer for The New Orleans Advocate, to discuss all things happening in food in New Orleans. Also, after the interview, Amy and Ian livestream a King Cake taste test on Facebook! The video can be found here at https://www.facebook.com/pg/chefamysins/videos/ Originally aired on Wednesday, January 22nd, 2020.

In this week's episode, Lynn sits down with James J. Leader (Director of Communications) and Jacinta Massey (ADA Coordinator/Counselor) of Nunez Community College to discuss some exciting new things happening within the college! Originally aired on Monday, January 20th, 2020.