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Live Chat Tuesday: Talk To Bob Marshall About Challenges Facing Coastal Louisiana

WWNO Staff — Mon, 20 May 2013 18:32:42 +0000

Last week, we began a series on the crisis facing the Louisiana coast, reported by The Lens’ Bob Marshall and produced by our own Fred Kasten. The stories lay out the causes of Louisiana’s coastal loss and what can be done to reverse it.

Join Us This Thursday For SpeakEasy!

WWNO Staff — Mon, 20 May 2013 14:52:02 +0000

Join WWNO — New Orleans Public Radio this Thursday, May 23 for our latest SpeakEasy — starting at 6 p.m. at Chickie Wah Wah (2828 Canal Street). SpeakEasy is a great way to meet other WWNO listeners and some of the voices you hear on the air, plus it's free and all are welcome.

Is It 'Last Call' For Louisiana's Coast?

WWNO Staff — Sun, 19 May 2013 18:38:50 +0000

Join WWNO — New Orleans Public Radio and Bob Marshall, The Lens’ Coastal Desk reporter, on Wednesday, May 22, for an in-depth discussion of coastal issues discussed in our new series The Louisiana Coast: Last Call.

WWNO To Examine Coastal Land Loss In New Series

WWNO Staff — Thu, 09 May 2013 18:19:53 +0000

Rising sea levels threaten communities on every American coastline, but none more so than Louisiana’s Gulf Coast, where every hour a football field’s worth of marsh disappears.

Join Us This Evening For Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! — Live!

WWNO Staff — Wed, 01 May 2013 19:57:49 +0000

LISTEN LIVE: NPR Coverage Of Boston Manhunt / Boston Police Scanner

Jason Saul — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 23:37:02 +0000

You can use our new streaming player to listen live to the latest breaking news and analysis of the manhunt for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

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'The Reading Life' Live at Christwood Retirement Community

WWNO Staff — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 02:26:18 +0000

WWNO — New Orleans Public Radio and Christwood Retirement Community invite you to a live-audience recording of The Reading Life with Susan Larson. It takes place Friday, April 19 at 2 p.m.

Featuring three distinctive local authors and their books about New Orleans women in history:

Emily Clark
Susan Tucker
Chris Wiltz

Christwood Retirement Community
100 Christwood Boulevard
Covington, LA

WWNO's Second SpeakEasy Is Tonight!

WWNO Staff — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 18:34:45 +0000

You're invited to join WWNO — New Orleans Public Radio for our next SpeakEasy tonight, Thursday, March 28, at 6:00 p.m. at Chickie Wah Wah.

WWNO and the WWII Museum Present Historian Dr. Arthur Herman

Jason Saul — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 22:17:02 +0000

WWNO and the National WWII Museum are kicking off a new authors' lecture series this Thursday with Dr. Arthur Herman, historian and author of Freedom’s Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II.

Dr. Herman will take audience members back to a time when captains of industry tapped into the extensive network of American businessmen to forge what came to be known as "the arsenal of democracy" — the retooling of the United States' nascent industrial prowess into the world's most powerful war machine.

Music Inside Out's Greatest Hits

Gwen Thompkins — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 19:00:00 +0000

Don't miss the Music Inside Out grand slam this week. We're playing some of the best stories, songs, and moments from our first season. Review with us, if you will, our musical guests and hip shakin' moments.