Obligations at the Lounge

By: Ryan Scully and Howie Huber
  • Summary

  • A podcast from New Orleans about the current events, history, and tall-tales surrounding infamous BJ's Lounge and its Ninth Ward neighborhood.

    © 2024 Obligations at the Lounge
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Episodes
  • Episode 26: Bywater Bakery's Alton and Chaya!!! Live Music by Cuba Heat!
    Oct 20 2024

    Alton and Chaya come to the King Room to drop some baker's knowledge. They discuss the impact of Whole Foods decision to change the recipe of the Chantilly cake, why the public went crazy, and how the New York Times highlighted Chaya's role in the creation of the original recipe. Alton describes growing up in the 7th Ward and how he couldn't wait to get back after his family moved when he was ten. They share stories of getting married during Hurricane Nate, having to get advanced payment for dick cakes, and how they came to bake Taylor Swift's birthday cake, what's in it, and how everybody wants one.

    Cuba Heat provides two hot live tracks!!!

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    1 hr and 39 mins
  • Episode 25: Bruce Sunpie Barnes!!!!
    Oct 5 2024

    Sunpie joins Howie and Scully in the King Room to talk about music, nature, Creole culture, photography, neighborhood history, sports, and the spirit world. He describe how playing with Kansas City Chiefs was cool, but not his dream, how eating songbirds helped him ace ornithology, getting lost on his first day in New Orleans on Mardi Gras Day, going to the hardware store with Fats Domino to buy nothing, his decision to get his musical eduction from the street rather than the university, how he shares the gift of premonition with his grandmother, and how his visions have predicted events like the shooting at Joe's Cozy Corner that resulted in Papa Joe's imprisonment.

    He provides us with two hot tracks!!!

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    2 hrs and 8 mins
  • Episode 24 - Low Point's Mik Grantham!!! New Release Music by Max Bien-Kahn!
    Sep 19 2024

    Howie and Scully return for the first episode of their second season with Mik Grantham co-owner of Ninth Ward community hub, Low Point. They discuss coffee, books, wine, music and more. She tells of how she self published her first book of poems which led to the founding of Disorder Press - her own fearless publishing co., the pleasure of curating Low Point's book selection, how she and Scully were surprised to have a mutual friend in the underground publishing world, the Challenges of expanding from a coffee shop into a coffee shop/bookstore into a coffee shop/bookstore/wine bar, and ultimately the joy of pursing a life as a small business owner in New Orleans Ninth Ward.

    Her husband and good friend of the Lounge Max Bien-Kahn provides two new releases from his upcoming album.

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    1 hr and 37 mins

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