Cypress is the star at Troy and Bernita Landry's new home.

The idea of making and eating sauces in the middle of summer seems laughable. Who wants rich, heavy embellishments on their food when the thermometer is going through the roof and all you really crave is something that is ice-cold,…

La Truffe Sauvage, Lake Charles

NIH Awards Grant to Research Aging-Related Disability Shreveport – The National Institutes of Health awarded a four-year grant totaling more than $1 million to assistant professor Michael Salvatore, Ph.D., of LSU Health-Shreveport. Dr. Salvatore and his research team are testing…

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Huey Long’s anthem was “Every Man a King.” That notion made great politics for the former governor but not such good logic. In a land where every man is a king (or, as Huey was quick to add, “Every Woman…

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Pictured here is a sample of Louisiana seafood. Modern refrigeration and farming techniques have altered the seasons a bit, but we are traditionalists. The natural season of one of these seafoods is between September and April; the other between December…

From the coast to the Delta

PROFILE OUR HUMANE SENATORS Sen. David Vitter of Metairie and Rep. Sam Farr of California were recently named Humane Legislators of the Year by the Humane Society. According to a report in the Times-Picayune by Jonathan Tilove, Vitter was cited…

QUIRKY PLACES WETLAND WATCH IN NORCO When driving out of town, I usually avoid the interstate because it’s too fast and not scenic enough. But there is a stretch on I-10 in St. Charles Parish that travels the LaBranche Wetlands…

CAUSE TO CELEBRATE AS THE VINE FLIES IN MORGAN CITY The year was 1918. Movie houses were packed with audiences thrilled by the silent films flickering on-screen accompanied by the sound of swelling music played on-site in the theatre. Two…

PROFILE THE YELLOW? ROSE OF LOGANSPORT He isn’t to be confused with Davy Crockett’s companion, James Rose, who, according to Alamo survivor Susanna Dickinson, perished with the other American heroes in the San Antonio fort. The story of Louis Moses…

ON THE ROAD BASTROP RETROSPECTIVE Bastrop is the seat of Paroisse de Morehouse (Morehouse Parish), which rises high to touch the state border between Louisiana and Arkansas. Although it is now mainly a retirement community due to the closure of…

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Before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier, “the Negro Leagues” were the only games in town for black ballplayers.

LIFE ON A BARRIER ISLAND

Heat, Rain, Thunder and “Aquaculture” are Part of the Process.

Sam and Noelle LeBlanc’s touch of the French countryside