BATON ROUGE, La (press release) – The 11th Annual Baton Rouge Mardi Gras Festival starts with a pre-party on Thursday, Feb. 8, from 7 p.m. to midnight at Henry Turner Jr.’s Listening Room. The main festival will be held on…
Often listen to music when I cook. Lately, my choice has been “The Complete Million Dollar Quartet,” an impromptu jam session that took place at Sun Records in Memphis on December 4, 1956, with Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee…
NEW ORLEANS (press release) – Stronghold Studios is a locally owned and operated art and fabrication studio based in Mid City, New Orleans, Louisiana. This Mardi Gras season, they are stepping up to the plate and taking the lead on the…
BATON ROUGE, La (press release) – On Tuesday, Dec. 12, at 12:08 p.m. PST, TV5MONDEUSA and Louisiana Public Broadcasting are partnering up to bring viewers the Baton Rouge segment of La Piste de la Francophonie pour la planet, a special…
BATON ROUGE, La (press release) – The Friends of Magnolia Mound Plantation will hold the 24th annual Petite Antiques Forum on Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024. Each year the Friends organization presents this one day educational event featuring an enlightening and…
KEITHVILLE, La. (press release) – Eight chimpanzees who’ve spent most of their lives in sparse concrete-slab enclosures recently explored a forest under the open sky for the first time – and they charged right in! “We expected this reserved bunch…
GONZALES, La (press release) –The debut of the new Gonzales Holiday Market public holiday market will take place Dec. 8-10 at the Lamar-Dixon Expo Center. The special holiday market will feature booths for shoppers to browse the newest and hottest…
BELLE CHASSE, La (press release) – The Plaquemines Parish Fair and Orange Festival takes place on Dec. 1-3 at historic Fort Jackson in Buras, marking its 77th year of celebrating Plaquemines Parish's citrus heritage and showcasing the bounties that Plaquemines…
SHREVEPORT, La (press release) –Shreveport and Bossier city officials, friends of tourism, and event organizers gathered today at a press conference emceed by Santa at the American Rose Center to unwrap Holiday cheer in Shreveport-Bossier, Louisiana with “Holidays on the…
SHREVEPORT, La (press release) – Shreveport-Bossier is gearing up for Mardi Gras 2024, with both the Krewe of Centaur and the Krewe of Gemini parades confirmed to roll along their full routes from downtown Shreveport to East Kings Highway Park.…
BATON ROUGE, La (press release) – LWCC, the state’s largest workers’ comp insurance provider, is celebrating the completion of its third annual Louisiana Loyal Service Project. In September, 175 individuals made up of LWCC employees and agent partners volunteered more…
BATON ROUGE, La (press release) – Art Bridges Foundation, the national arts nonprofit founded by philanthropist Alice Walton, announced this week the launch of “Access for All,” providing $40 million in funding to 64 museums nationwide. The initiative aims to increase…
