Theophile Bourgeois IV is a tattoo artist and the front man for New Orleans band Them Ol’ Ghosts.

Theophile, pronounced Thay-o-feel (it’s very Cajun French) has graduated from tattooing drunk people from his old shop next to strip parlor, to working banker’s hours from his shop on Oak Street, in Uptown New Orleans.

TBIV has a disarmingly beautiful voice, even when singing the acerbic love song he wrote for his wife, “Bitch, I wrote this song for you” with tender loving lyrics like “I know you’re scared I’m an inconsiderate  narcissistic asshole, but honey it’s all for you.” Given that we’re almost halfway through the year, Theophile Bourgeois might be your best find of 2019 so far.

If you’re a woman, it’s turning out to be a weird year. Suddenly we’re all up in arms about whether or not the State is going to let you have an abortion. If you’re a woman who would prefer to have the choice about whether or not to have an abortion, rather than leave that decision to a guy in Baton Rouge, Amy Irvin is your best friend.

As the Executive Director of the New Orleans Abortion Fund, Amy is literally out there fighting for you. So, hey, cut her a bit of slack if she can’t remember the phrase “pro choice” after a couple of cocktails.

If you’re interested in the truth, so is Jonathan Blake Vasquez. Jonathan recently moved to New Orleans from Dallas, and brought his Truth Hurts Podcast with him. It’s a no-punches-pulled look at life. And what we find out in this conversation is that the whole enterprise has the unlikely subversive intent of turning us all into Vegans. 

Back to the being a woman thing again for a moment. If you’re a woman, no doubt you’ve been hit on in almost every way imaginable. Well, guess what? There’s one more way you hadn’t imagined.

Happy Hour photographer Alison Moon is back in town on a break from her stint as a grad student at Oxford University, with alarming tales of how the brainiac class of guys try and get women into bed. It’s fairly unbelievable so in the interest of spoilers we won’t ruin it for you. But if you’ve got time to kill, this insight is almost worth the whole price of admission to this Happy Hour.

Photos at Wayfare by Jill Lafleur.

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