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Say Hello To Life Raft, A New Podcast Exploring Everyday Questions About Living With Climate Change

Oct 23rd, 2020 4m 49s

If you’re like us, climate change leaves you with a lot of questions, and they’re not about the rate of ocean warming — they’re about practical things that affect our everyday lives. So, for us and for you, we created a podcast about it.

New Orleans: 300 // Bulbancha: 3000

Dec 20th, 2018 29m 20s

This is the final episode of Tripod. For these past three years, we’ve been telling stories about New Orleans. But, before it was ever called New Orleans, this place already had a name: Bulbancha . The people that host Laine Kaplan-Levenson spo

TriPod Xtras: Kiese Laymon

Dec 3rd, 2018 25m 59s

Kiese Laymon is a Mississippi based writer, who’s just released a new book titled "Heavy: An American Memoir." In it, he writes about his struggles with eating disorders and addiction, abuse, and his relationship with his mother. TriPod’s Laine

WWNO Presents: 'Sticky Wicket'

Nov 16th, 2018 31m 50s

TriPod: New Orleans at 300 shares the first episode of WWNO's new series, Sticky Wicket

Desire, Louisiana

Oct 11th, 2018 22m 56s

Tripod: New Orleans at 300 returns with a look at the Desire community, then and now. If you've from New Orleans, or you’ve lived here for a minute, you know how often locals identify themselves by their neighborhood. Before Katrina, for thousa

TriPod Xtras: Peter Marina (Podcast Edit)

Sep 13th, 2018 46m 35s

TriPod: New Orleans at 300 returns with a new TriPod Xtra segment. As part of the New Orleans Museum of Art’s literary ‘Arts and Letters’ series, Laine Kaplan-Levenson spoke with sociologist Peter Marina in front of a live audience about his bo

TriPod Xtras: Peter Marina (Radio Edit)

Sep 13th, 2018 17m 24s

If These Pages Could Talk: Touro Infirmary's First Admission Book

Aug 9th, 2018 22m 7s

TriPod: New Orleans at 300 returns to hunt down a rare artifact full of private, and personal information. Laine Kaplan-Levenson goes on the search. When you first walk into a hospital, before you can see a doctor, you walk up to a counter in a

Edmond Dédé: The Classical Composer You've Never Heard Of

Jul 19th, 2018 22m 26s

I crashed an opera rehearsal the other day. A large group of vocalists, young, old, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, all the genders, belted out in long rows surrounding a piano. They were preparing for the 75th anniversary celebration of the New

A Community Of Refugees In New Orleans East

May 24th, 2018 14m 24s

You’ve probably heard of the James Beard Awarding-winning Duong Phuong Bakery out in New Orleans East, whether or not you actually got to taste their coveted King Cake. But today, high school students from Metairie Park Country Day take over Tr

TriPod Xtras: John Barbry Of The Tunica-Biloxi Nation

May 17th, 2018 14m 48s

TriPod: New Orleans at 300 returns with a new tripod xtra. Laine Kaplan-Levenson sat down with John Barbry of the Tunica Biloxi nation, to discuss the history of the tribe and its contributions to New Orleans and Louisiana. The Tunica Biloxi la

"The Mexican Band"

May 10th, 2018 12m 24s

TriPod: New Orleans at 300 returns with a new episode about a Mexican band that rocked the city in the 80s -- the 1880s. Long, long ago, a band in New Orleans swept the city off its feet, but it wasn’t a New Orleans Band. It was Mexican. There'

TriPod Xtras: “Arriving Africans And A Changing New Orleans”

May 3rd, 2018 13m 59s

TriPod: New Orleans at 300 returns with a tripod Xtra produced by Laine Kaplan-Levenson. In this tripod xtra, we hear an abridged talk given by Dr. Erin Greenwald, curator of the Historic New Orleans Collection's 'The Founding Era' exhibit. Gre

Tall Ships Arrive In New Orleans

Apr 20th, 2018 1m 3s

Kicking off a weekend of tricentennial events, New Orleans welcomed unusual guests to her shores Thursday - six historic sailing ships. Elissa, the oldest and largest of the six ships, was built in Scotland in 1877 and is twice as long as a blu

TriPod Xtras: Herlin Riley And Joe Lastie

Apr 12th, 2018 1h 17m

TriPod put out an episode on the legendary Lastie family — a family that holds generations of iconic musicians. I talked to drummers and first cousins Herlin Riley and Joe Lastie about their experience growing up in this musical family, what it

The Legendary Lasties

Apr 12th, 2018 14m 27s

Tripod: New Orleans at 300 returns with a new episode that spotlights a famous musical family, the Lasties. Host Laine Kaplan-Levenson sat down with drummers, and cousins, Herlin Riley and Joe Lastie. This is the first in a series of episodes f

TriPod Xtras: The Stranger Disease

Mar 22nd, 2018 12m 47s

TriPod: New Orleans at 300 returns with a new TriPod xtra segment. Host Laine Kaplan-Levenson sat down with Chris Kaminstein and Kiyoko Mccray, co-directors of a new play called 'The Stranger Disease' by local theater group Goat In the Road. Th

TriPod Xtras: Cokie Roberts On The Tricentennial, #MeToo And More

Mar 15th, 2018 22m 55s

Laine Kaplan-Levenson sat down with political commentator and New Orleans native Cokie Roberts. The two discussed everything from the Me Too Movement to the 2018 midterm elections, and started local, with the city's upcoming mayoral transition.

The Lost History Of Gay Carnival

Mar 1st, 2018 12m 27s

TriPod: New Orleans at 300 returns with a look at the once secret history of Gay Carnival Krewes. Note: this episode contains a racially insensitive word that may offend some listeners. We have included it for context. Barrett Delong Church is

NOLA vs Nature: Building The Industrial Canal

Feb 15th, 2018 22m 36s

Tripod’s NOLA versus Nature series returns with a story of the construction of the Industrial Canal. Host Laine Kaplan-Levenson looks at the ways this massive infrastructure project was invasive, above and below ground. Hear the Part I on Sauve

TriPod Xtras: Nathaniel Rich

Feb 1st, 2018 32m 46s

TriPod: New Orleans at 300 returns with a new TriPod Xtra segment. Host Laine Kaplan-Levenson sat down with writer Nathaniel Rich to talk about his newly released third novel, King Zeno .

NOLA vs Nature: The Blessing And Curse Of The Wood Screw Pump

Jan 11th, 2018 12m 21s

TriPod: New Orleans at 300 returns with its NOLA versus Nature series . This week: WWNO’s Laine Kaplan-Levenson and Travis Lux look at the city’s drainage pumps, and the man behind their design -- Albert Baldwin Wood. New Orleans is below sea l

NOLA vs Nature: The Other Biggest Flood In New Orleans History

Nov 30th, 2017 11m 57s

For the next few episodes TriPod dives into the city’s messy relationship with water through a new series called NOLA vs. Nature. First up: a look at the worst flood in New Orleans history — before Katrina. It’s spring of 1849, and the Mississi

TriPod Xtras: Isabel Wilkerson

Nov 16th, 2017 22m 37s

TriPod: New Orleans at 300 returns with a new TriPod Xtra segment, where host Laine Kaplan-Levenson sits down with a special guest for a one on one conversation. This week, Laine spoke with Isabel Wilkerson, author of “The Warmth of Other Suns: