For a while, Louisiana was a prime spot for making films — it has even been referred to as Hollywood South. Because of the robust tax credits production companies could earn, there was a slew of movies made throughout the…
There are few places on Earth quite as cinematic as Louisiana. Surely that’s why filmmakers have been traveling down the long-forgotten bayous and wetlands of the state for over 100 years, looking for just the right glimpse of a perfect…
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Tucked on the west bank of the Mississippi River sits the town of Westwego, a community built on trust, resilience and common cause, a homegrown example of Southern hospitality with the amber glow of New Orleans off the horizon. It’s…
It started, as many great Louisiana ideas do, with a party. Every year, Lexie Polito hosted a mother-daughter Champagne and candy canes Christmas gathering and every year she faced the same maddening problem: she could not find stylish, elevated, matching…
A curious raccoon peers through the foliage while quietly enjoying a snack beneath the shelter of the trees in Deville. by Lacey Hoosier, Deville
Michelin Guide released “The Ultimate Guide to the Best Pies in the U.S.” and three Louisiana spots made the cut. Michelin selected Elsie’s Plate & Pie in Baton Rouge for best apple pie. Emeril’s famous banana cream pie made the…
It spawned questions, that title. Some caught its urgent playfulness, a novel that winks before you turn its cover. Others scrunched their brows at the onset of genre vertigo. Ernest J. Gaines, the son of sharecroppers in Pointe Coupee Parish…
For Sarah Quintana, music is the power of speaking the unspoken: the expulsion of pain, joy, loss and love all molded into the twang of guitar chords, the wheeze of an accordion or the…
Holidays are wonderful, but they can be full of stress caused by the need to be perfect and by the lack of time we have because there are so many things going on. We can enjoy the holidays more if…
If you’ve ever wanted to live inside a Hallmark Christmas movie, Natchitoches during the holidays has you covered. Louisiana’s oldest city — established in 1714, making it the oldest permanent settlement in the Louisiana Purchase Territory — is, under ordinary…
Shreveport artist Ron Smith has stories to tell. Through his paintings of the rural Southern landscape, jazz, rhythm and blues musicians, civil rights activists, Black artists and writers, Smith pays tribute to his early…
The Maltese Version Katy Simpson Smith’s “The Maltese Version” starts with the premise of two writers who are partnered, who are “on two paths, pretending they’re on one.” One of Simpson Smith’s superpowers is being able to seamlessly juggle different…
Cleveland, Mississippi At the turn of the 20th century, workers Henry Sloan, Charley Patton, Willie Brown, Roebuck “Pops” Staples and Son House, among others, would end their day at Dockery Farms plantation outside Cleveland,…
Alexandria Museum of Art View the impressive exhibition Life as Opportunity: Clementine Hunter from the Brittain Family Collection at the Alexandria Museum of Art on view October 30, 2026, through June 19, 2027. The exhibition features over 100 original artworks…
