Theatre + Art

Surprise Visitor

Glenda Thaxton of Robeline, captured this image in her backyard. “I sat on our porch swing one Sunday afternoon reading a book. I glanced straight ahead and was totally shocked to see this beautiful gray fox sitting in the edge…

Sound Design

Violin maker Anya Burgess connects classical and Cajun in her Arnaudville workshop

When The Water Rises

Waterways define Louisiana. They set the state’s boundaries on three sides; they divide the state’s interior into political and social regions. They provide work, leisure, food and great vistas. Like many people throughout the world, we are folks that have…

Bayou Hopping

The woodland waterways of northeast Louisiana offer a world of adventure seemingly little changed since the days of De Soto, Mark Twain and Audubon. Here gators glide, pelicans preen, frogs hop, turtles bask on stumps and part-sunken logs while impossibly…

Natural Moments

Timothy Fontenot of Lake Charles photographs marshes and bayous of Southwest Louisiana

Dave Ivey

Dave Ivey captures character and beauty in Northwest Louisiana

All That Jazz

New Orleans singer Linnzi Zaorski’s “accidental” career

Roar of the Crowd on Bayou Lafourche

Curtain time is not always an easy moment when you operate a theater on the edge of a bayou. At the Bayou Playhouse in Lockport, about a half hour away from Thibodaux, guests wait for the theater doors to open…

Profile: Artist Hank Holland

When Hank Holland of Lockport talks about his paintings, he uses words such as “love,” “faith,” “joy” and “heart” to describe all of the emotions that guide his hand and brushes across canvas. His intensely bright images are imaginary scenes…

Spencer Gray Jr.

This Ferriday artist draws cartoons with pots and pans. By John R. Kemp