For Today Carolyn Hembree Carolyn Hembree’s poetry collection, “For Today,” tackles grief, trauma, anger, love and living in New abook follows a recent mother who grieves her father who died right before she gave birth to her child. Throughout this…
From crawfish and Heavenly Hash to conjuring spirits and exploring the rhythm of America, we've covered a lot this year on "Louisiana Insider." For the final week of the year, we're shining some light on some of our most popular…
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…
Gordon “Nick” Mueller once had a conversation with Stephen Ambrose, a history professor colleague at the University of New Orleans. What Ambrose had to say would make history itself. He proposed a project to build a museum focused on the…
The world-renowned Degas House, recognized by the French Ministry of Culture as a French Landmark, played host to French President E. Macron, among other dignitaries. The only home of Degas has won 11 consecutive “Best of Weddings” and now beckons…
Louisiana has a rich literary history. All authors conduct interviews as part of their craft, but only one wondered what it would be like to interview a vampire. As another Louisiana author, Kate Chopin, might have said about Anne Rice’s…
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…
When driving into Baton Rouge, one can be amazed by the object in the distance that looks like a rocket ship on a launch pad about to take off. The building, of course, is the state capitol, the tallest…
BOSSIER CITY, La (press release) – The Cordish Companies will host a Groundbreaking Ceremony to celebrate the commencement of construction on the first, land-based casino in the Shreveport-Bossier market and the $270+ Million Live! Casino & Hotel Louisiana, a project that will serve…
Louisiana Life is a statewide cultural lifestyle magazine that reaches a statewide audience. Publishing for over 40 years, Louisiana Life features include travel, food home and culture. In the next issue, “Hotels and Lodges with a View” will feature…
Jessica Harris has twice won James Beard Foundation awards, including one for Lifetime achievement. Rather than just being in the kitchen, she has proved herself to be especially skilled at blending sentences and paragraphs and then seasoning the mix with…
Suppose your job is to take care of a tiger – a real tiger with jaws and claws and that is physically fit. David G. Baker is a veterinarian who for several year had the responsibility of overseeing the most…
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…
One of the great green spaces in America is New Orleans’ City Park. In 2005, the flood waters from Hurricane Karina turned it into a gray space that was muddied, overcome with fallen trees, deprived of joy and hope. Robert…
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…
Normally in this space, I’d spin a tale that relates to one of the stories in the issue or talk about something from behind-the-scenes, so please indulge me in a subject-matter shift. After having the privilege of serving as a…
On a Saturday night in 2005, only a few weeks after Hurricane Katrina plowed through the state, there were bursts of bright red glows along the levee near the Avoyelles Parish town of Mansura. There had not been much…
“There are two types of people in Louisiana,” says Shane Kessler. “Those that have a hog problem, and those that are about to have a hog problem.” Outside of Grand Ecore, Kessler turns onto the Campti Cutoff and glides along…
(Left) The living room’s vintage sectional is covered in a persimmon, geometric patterned fabric. Anne made the coffee table, the chairs are midcentury Danish. Art Left to Right: Kelly Guidry, Scott Bivens, and Elemore Morgan, Jr.…
