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Stranger Than Fiction: A Walk With Ric “The Professor” Coleman of Hottest Hell Tours

March 27, 2026 No Comments

There’s something to be said for infotainment, as a tour with ‘The Professor’ blends historical facts with a little local flavor. “This is a weird ass town . . . it really is.” laughs Ric “The Professor” Coleman of Hottest Hell Tours. “You can mine its history for a thousand […]

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Hottest Hell Tours: Revealing the True Stories of New Orleans

May 2, 2024 No Comments

Adjunct history professor Bond Ruggles runs a guided tour company offering entertaining, historically accurate, adult-only tours, proving the old adage that truth is stranger, and often more macabre, than fiction. On any given day or night, you’re bound to run into tour groups clustered around arm-waving guides, crowding the French […]

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Though she was born in the San Francisco Bay Area, Kim Ranjbar took her passion for the written word and dragged it over 2000 miles to flourish in the city she loves. For well over a decade, she's been eating, photographing and writing about food (and more!) in New Orleans, her work appearing in local publications such as French Quarter Journal, Where Y'at Magazine, New Orleans Living Magazine, NewOrleans.com and Louisiana Kitchen & Culture.

After over 20 years as a transplant — surviving hurricanes, levee failures, oil spills, boil water advisories and hipster invasions — Kim hopes to eventually earn the status of local and be welcomed into the fold.

Feel free to contact her at kimranjbar@gmail.com

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  • August 9, 2023

    Local Boy Makes Good Ice Cream: Sweet Saint

  • April 1, 2013

    Up Close & Personal: Kirk Coco

  • June 1, 2025

    Mother’s Ham Bake

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  • December 17, 2021

    Truth in Advertising: The Appetite Repair Shop

  • November 1, 2023

    On the Side: Cornbread

  • January 5, 2011

    Twelfth Night treats at Maple Street Patisserie

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