On May 14, the Louisiana Wildlife Federation (LWF) released an action alert, a briefing and an official statement in response to a new proposed tax policy for Grant Parish that would affect Kisatchie National Forest, Louisiana's only national forest. The…
Louisiana is a diverse state with a range of terrain and communities. You can live in Louisiana and reside on a farm acres-wide, a bayou accessible only by boat, a French Quarter corner in a 500 sq ft studio apartment,…
It is with good reason that Yasmina Reza’s "God of Carnage" was an international hit the moment it was first performed on the French stage in 2006. The dark comedy quickly went global when Christopher Hampton’s translated adaptation took the…
LAFAYETTE, La. (press release) – Lafayette’s music, food, tourism and French heritage will take stage this summer in Brittany, France, with a new Lafayette tourism tent planned for the upcoming Festival Interceltique de Lorient, one of France’s largest urban festivals,…
If you need a break from the abundance of crawfish in your life, or just an excuse to make a delicious shrimp dish, the perfect day for you is coming. May 10 is National Shrimp Day. I’m not sure how…
Louisianians have a strong love for their state, but that love isn’t blind – well, not fully. We often rank the worst in national lists on topics like health and crime. And even though most of us are aware of the…
BATON ROUGE (press release) – Louisiana made history on April 29 with one of the most remarkable Powerball drawings the state has ever seen. Eleven Louisiana Powerball players became millionaires in a single drawing, combining for $16 million in total…
BOGALUSA, La. (press release) — Lake Isabel Farm reopened on Friday, April 24, welcoming guests to its clear blue lake, white sand beaches and unique natural setting in Washington Parish. Following its inaugural 2025 season that drew more than 3,000…
JEAN LAFITTE, La. (press release) – The Jean Lafitte Seafood Festival returns May 29-31, offering a celebration that combines Louisiana seafood, live music and immersive bayou experiences all in one place. The festival captures the culture, environment and spirit of…
I love reading bucket lists. Even if I’m not able to check off every item on one, it’s fun to get ideas for places I would’ve never imagined. But if you don’t know, you can’t go, so it’s worthwhile to…
The books precede her. In her hands, they teeter, a miniscule leaning library of Pisa. Entering the Visitor Center at Audubon State Historic Site, six miles east of St. Francisville, Ann Reiley Jones stops to banter with the staff before…
1 | Take a Swamp Tour It’s so easy to enjoy the vast swamps and marshes of Louisiana, whether by a speedy airboat or something slow and nature-oriented. Swamp tours are available in the Atchafalaya Basin, Lake Martin near Lafayette…
There is no end to the food creativity of the people of Louisiana. We have tried to find ways to eat just about everything. There was even a campaign, albeit unsuccessful, in the early part of the century to encourage…
In the July/August issue, Louisiana Life will showcase the best hospitals in the state (based on Medicare ratings). Showcase yourself or your practice as a leading doctor. Louisiana Life is a statewide magazine with an audience over 300,000 across our…
There’s laughter on the count-in but heartbreak in the beat, and as a deep, sliding guitar snakes beneath the start of Maggie Koerner’s fourth album “Upstate,” her voice tumbles and pierces. It’s a sound raw and close, and it’s the…
Efforts are underway to preserve the Tchefuncte Lighthouse, a nearly 200-year-old landmark now facing the threat of slow, steady loss of the land beneath it.
If you are a fan of Vincent van Gogh, Edward Hopper, Salvador Dalí or Sandro Botticelli, you certainly will take to Pineville artist Matt Dawson’s faintly familiar interpretations of these masters with his own visual twists and humor. Dawson, a…
Anatomy of an Alibi “Anatomy of an Alibi” has a classic Hitchcockian premise: Camille Bayliss and Aubrey Price come from completely different worlds, but they both believe the same man hold secrets that could irrevocably change their lives: Ben, Camille’s…
Prehistoric Park, Louisiana’s sole immersive dinosaur adventure, was recently transformed. Guests walking the trails will encounter 24 towering new dinosaurs tucked into the landscape. Five are fully robotic, with lifelike movements and sounds, including the must-see 40-foot Tyrannosaurus Rex with…
Wandering through Maison Olivier, the circa 1815 Raised Creole Cottage-style plantation house at the Longfellow-Evangeline State Historical Site, it’s easy to get the feeling you might bump into a member of the Olivier family. The home is decorated and staged…
Sometimes things just fall into place. Call it kismet, call it cosmic harmony, but whatever invisible force exists that brings people together in the right configuration at the right time knew what it was doing when it put the members…
May - June Melanie Warner Spencer The Correspondent by Virginia Evans. It’s a gorgeously written epistolary novel centered on a 70-year-old retired lawyer who does not suffer fools. Confession: I cried at the end. John Kemp Mark Twain by Ron…
Reviewing “Twelve Years a Slave,” Solomon Northup’s 1853…
Dauphin Island lies only 3 miles south of Mobile Bay and a short drive from downtown Mobile. It’s an even shorter jaunt from the exquisite Bellingrath Gardens and its dramatic flowering gardens. Yet, the 14-mile-long barrier island with its small-town…
