I came to New Orleans because I thought I could get cheap rent after Katrina. Honestly, when you talk about the greatest American city's, only Manhattan, Boston, San Francisco and maybe Chicago can be mentioned in the same breath with NOLA. I'm honored to be living here, and to be a part of the rebuilding efforts of The Big Easy.
I grew up in a NYC suburb, went to college in the Boston area, and started doing college radio. First job was on WWRX FM in Providence, RI, where I was the overnight DJ on the classic rock station. I got fired for falling asleep during Billy Joel's "She's Always A Woman to Me". From there I went to WCCC FM in Hartford, CT., and did a rock radio show for three years. I then went to rock station WAAF FM in Boston, Ma. for nine years, where I was the Music Director/Mid-Day host. Then I went "down the hall" to 'AAF sister station, News-Talk WRKO to host a talk show for a few years.
I took a break from radio for a few years to open a bar, and help smuggle Cubans into Miami. I recently ran into the WRNO brass outside Larry Flynts' Barely Legal Club on Bourbon St., where they offered me this job.
(AP) A Puerto Rican man has been granted his wish to remain standing — even in death.
A funeral home used a special embalming treatment to keep the corpse of 24-year-old Angel Pantoja Medina standing upright for his three-day wake.
Dressed in a Yankees baseball cap and sunglasses, Pantoja was mourned by relatives while propped upright in his mother's living room.
His brother Carlos told the El Nuevo Dia newspaper the victim had long said he wanted to be upright for his own wake: 'He wanted to be happy, standing.'
The owner of the Marin Funeral Home, Damaris Marin, told The Associated Press the mother asked him to fulfill her dead son's last wish.
Pantoja was found dead Friday underneath a bridge in San Juan and buried Monday.
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