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This Natchitoches-Area Home Embraces Nature

I suppose most everyone has a favorite fruit whose appearance in the market is eagerly anticipated. In my case, it’s the persimmon, which comes into season this time of year. What a wonderfully succulent, decadent fruit it is, so soft…

Brennan's | New Orleans

CUTTING DOWN ON TELEVISION COULD LEAD TO LONGER LIFE BATON ROUGE – Does TV viewing affect life expectancy? Peter Katzmarzyk, Ph.D., associate executive director for Population Science and LFPA Endowed Chair at Pennington Biomedical Research Center, recently co-authored a study…

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"Lazarus, come forth!"

A compendium of what’s hot and what’s not in Louisiana

For many Louisiana football fans, last season could have hardly brought more in high hopes and hurtful endings. LSU, going into the national championship game against Alabama, was being talked about as one of the greatest teams ever. “Greatest ever”…

Whether he’s mingling with dignitaries at a White House state dinner, addressing the New Orleans Chamber of Commerce, introducing trumpeter Kermit Ruffins during a stop on the “A Night in Treme” concert tour or advising his 30,000 Twitter followers to…

That and other stories haunt the Alexandria National Cemetery

Northern July 4 KTBS-3 Independence Day Festival Riverview Park, Shreveport (318) 861-5800July 7 Louisiana Spartans (minor leqgue profootball) v. Oklahoma City Diamondbacks 6115 E. Kings Hwy. Shreveport (318) 218-0388July 14 Saline Watermelon Festival (318) 576-3654July 21 Quota Club’s Icing on…

Auburn, Ala. College football is rife with traditions, and few fans embrace ritual as enthusiastically as Auburn University’s. A visit to the plains of Alabama is an invitation to observe and participate in a number of enduring rites, regardless of…

PROFILE FOREVER EMELINA At 70 years old, Emelina Edwards can squat with a 100-pound barbell on her back for 10 repetitions (after a warm-up of 90 reps). Age aside, the accomplishment of this feat for Edwards is doubly amazing: Decades…

PROFILE Beating the Alternative in Angola Chief, the “bad” wolf-hybrid pooch who was terrorizing a peaceful New Roads neighborhood, is going to prison. But his paws won’t be cuffed, and he won’t spend his days pacing in a small cell…

PROFILE EPICURIAN ENGINEER When Ema Haq migrated to the Bayou State from his Bangladesh homeland in 1983, he was a 19-year-old youth bent on becoming an engineer. His dream was to work on oil rigs, and he graduated from the…

LOUISIANA-GROWN CUCUMBERS I have to admit to a personal objection to the use of the term “cuke” when referring to that delicious addition to any salad (or a perfect stand-alone side-dish sliced with oil, vinegar and a sprinkling of dill)…

NEWS BRIEF STRIKING AT HEAT STROKES Shreveport health care workers were recently given a training session at the LSU Health Shreveport Emergency Room that will greatly improve the chances of patients surviving life-threatening heat strokes. In the merciless, humid summer…

Big Bucks and Challenges at Haynesville and along the Tuscaloosa Trend

6 Seafood Recipes for Cooking in a Hurry

A Steamboat named New Orleans and an American Queen

At last, a tribute to the statehood bicentennial