A Crescent City chronicle of restoring an 1826 Creole plantation house and reviving pre-1930 jazz

July 24, 2021 by

Frederick Starr, an expert on Central Asia and the co-founder of the Louisiana Repertory Jazz Ensemble, talks with hosts Llewellyn King and Linda Gasparello about his restoration of a 1826 Creole-style plantation house in New Orleans, and reviving pre-1930s jazz.

MET Group Advocates for Europe-Wide Energy Bank

Llewellyn King

When Benjamin Lakatos speaks, energy people listen in Europe and increasingly farther afield. Recently Lakatos, chairman and Group CEO of MET Group, has been speaking out strongly in favor of a European energy bank to correct some of the chaos which often convulses European energy markets and leads to general instability. As laid out by […]

How Europe Stole Christmas and Promoted Snow

Llewellyn King

The Grinch didn’t steal Christmas. Europe did. Filched it, packed it up and moved it north, where it snows. In this wholesale looting of the world’s greatest holiday, the U.S., Canada and some other non-European northern habitats were also complicit. I grew up in the Southern Hemisphere in faraway Zimbabwe — then called Southern Rhodesia, […]

Anatomy of a Utility: How CPS Energy Is Getting Ahead of Challenges Facing U.S. Utilities

Llewellyn King

CPS Energy, which serves San Antonio and surrounding areas, as one observer said, “has gotten out in front of its problems.” So much so that the utility, the nation’s largest gas and electric municipal power company, with nearly 400,000 gas customers and over 970,000 electric customers, has become something of a model for other utilities. […]

The Robots Are Coming — Sooner Than You Think

Llewellyn King

The next big thing is robots. They are, you might say, on the move. Within five years, robots will be doing a lot of things that people now do. Simple repetitive work, for example, is doomed. Already, robots weld, bolt and paint cars and trucks. The factory of the future will have very few human […]