ULTIMATE TAILGATING Sports condos coming to LSU When it comes to understanding what a sports fan really wants, Capstone Development Corp. of Birmingham, Ala., is ahead of the game. Project “FieldHouse, Baton Rouge” is a 100-unit luxury sports condominium development…
What’s Hot Bus ride. Southern University students Katorri Alexander and Aileen A. Hendricks wrote the play “Our Boycott” about the Baton Rouge bus boycott of 1953. The play recently premiered at Southern. It was soooo big! Four Louisiana youngsters earned…
I want to thank Louisiana Life for Autumn 2004’s “Around Louisiana.” Juban’s Restaurant has served “Hallelujah Crab” for the past 21 years. Jeanne Frois’ description of our most popular dish had me grinning. Thank you for showcasing the best of…
I enjoyed the article in your Autumn issue on the German influence in Louisiana. But I was surprised that the community of Des Allemands was not even mentioned. Des Allemands, French for “the Germans,” was formed when German settlers from…
In the Autumn 2004 issue on page 64, there is an error about the barred owl. The article is about barred owls; it says that near Monroe they have been heard emitting a long, drawn-out scream. This is not from…
Ask a New Orleanian what the oldest existing Carnival parades are and he might say, if he knows his stuff, Rex, Proteus and Zulu (Comus and Momus, which would otherwise have been first and third, stopped parading in 1992). Now…
