Hit the Road: 21 Fun Fall Travel Ideas
1 | Alexandria The Alexandria Museum of Art is home to a large collection of artwork (both from renowned art icons to lesser-known artists from every corner of the globe). Be sure to…
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Luling's Lafon Performing Arts Center Introduces 2025/2026 Season of Entertainment
LULING, La (press release) – The Lafon Performing Arts Center is proud to announce their 2025-2026 season and a new programming model. The new season will host meaningful, memorable encounters between professional artists, students, educators and families and kicks off…
Delgado Professor and Poet Gina Ferrara Named Next Louisiana Poet Laureate
NEW ORLEANS (press release) – The Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, along with Gov. Jeff Landry, announced Louisiana’s newest Poet Laureate, Gina Ferrara. Following Alison Pelegrin’s successful tenure as Poet Laureate from 2023 through August 13 of this year, Ferrara…
Free Community Screening of The Mamma Joe Project in Lake Charles
LAKE CHARLES, La (press release) – The Mamma Joe Project, in partnership with the Alzheimer’s Association of Louisiana, announced a free screening event of the documentary "My Mama Joe, Hope & Help." This community engagement forum will take place on…
The Baton Rouge Epicurean Society's 18th Annual Fête Rouge Announced
BATON ROUGE, La (press release) – The Baton Rouge Epicurean Society announced its signature annual culinary celebration, Fête Rouge, will take place Friday, Aug. 22, at L’Auberge Casino & Hotel Baton Rouge. Fête Rouge brings together over 30 top restaurants and…
Historic Oleander Hotel Added to National Register of Historic Places
GRAND ISLE, La (press release) – The Oleander Hotel, a two-story structure that has withstood time and storms on Louisiana’s only inhabited barrier island, has officially been added to the National Register of Historic Places—a significant milestone in the campaign to…
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Hidden Louisiana: There's More to the Bayou State than Meets the Eye
We brake for anything weird, unusual or off the beaten path and a tour through Louisiana never disappoints. Everyone knows…
Hit the Road: 21 Fun Fall Travel Ideas
1 | Alexandria The Alexandria Museum of Art is home to a large collection of artwork (both from renowned art icons to lesser-known artists from every corner of the globe). Be sure to…
Isn't it Grand?
Grand Isle is Louisiana at its most concentrated; a distillation of every unique taste, adventurous spirit and cultural memory that makes the Gulf South special. An 8-mile-long stretch of beach and wetlands, the state’s only inhabited barrier island, Grand Isle…
The Musical Pursuits of Shreveport's Maggie Koerner
The music industry knocks down more than it lifts up. But for Maggie Koerner, a bluesy singer/songwriter who has done more than her fair share of time in the trenches of the music machine, talent was never in question and…
A Poetic Place: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s “Evangeline” and St. Martinville
“We tell ourselves stories in order to live,” writes Joan Didion in her essay collection…
Shreveport's Chicken and Blues Fest, Hammond Airshow and more
The first annual Chicken and Blues Festival (October 4) features iconic Southern chicken dishes by celebrated chefs and a musical lineup that includes gospel soul singer Jamal Roberts, the dynamic hip-hop, bounce and street soul diva, Sweet Nay, and the…
Houma Has all of the Ingredients for a Day or Weekend Down the Bayou
We walked into Downtown Jeaux at about 10 a.m. comin’ in hot and hungry from our drive into Houma from New Orleans. I claimed the last open table while Mark staked a spot in the growing line. It was a…
Mirliton, Grits and More Louisiana Foods that Deserve a Little Love
Sometimes things are hidden in plain sight. And when asked to describe those hidden things, it is always a surprise that someone not from Louisiana knows about them. That is what we will be exploring in these recipes — the…
What We Are Reading This Year
September - October Misty Milioto “Dungeon Crawler Carl” by Matt Dinniman. This story follows a man and his cat who must survive a deadly alien-run dungeon crawler game that has replaced Earth. While it’s a totally different genre for me,…
Lafayette Artist Cayla Zeek and the Alchemy of Art
The Louisiana landscape, nature, dreams, the female body, the moon and the “archetypal stories and mythologies” that passed through time are spiritual and metaphysical forces that give expression to Lafayette artist and filmmaker Cayla Zeek’s art. At first glance, her…
Literary Louisiana: Books Offering a Glimpse into the unknown and the Secret
The Devil in Oxford “The Devil in Oxford” is the third book in the Ruby Vaughn Mystery series by USA Today best-selling, New Orleans author, Jess Armstrong. Armstrong follows the adventures of Ruby Vaughn, who works for Mr. Owen, owner…
Strolling on the Bridges of North Little Rock, Arkansas
“Dogtown” might be fighting words in North Little Rock. Some residents embrace the nickname — as does the city, which is home to an…
20 Years Ago – The First Days of Katrina
On the evening of August 26, 2005, I was in the owner’s suite at the Superdome. (I had gained entry not because of rank but because of luck and knowing one of the hosts.) The event was a mere pre-season…
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