RUSTON, La. – The 2026 Louisiana Peach Festival, the 76th annual event, takes place in Downtown Ruston on Saturday, June 6. The Louisiana Peach Festival is a long-standing tradition created by local peach farmers in 1951, organizers share on the…
Sometimes things just fall into place. Call it kismet, call it cosmic harmony, but whatever invisible force exists that brings people together in the right configuration at the right time knew what it was doing when it put the members…
May - June Melanie Warner Spencer The Correspondent by Virginia Evans. It’s a gorgeously written epistolary novel centered on a 70-year-old retired lawyer who does not suffer fools. Confession: I cried at the end. John Kemp Mark Twain by Ron…
Reviewing “Twelve Years a Slave,” Solomon Northup’s 1853…
Dauphin Island lies only 3 miles south of Mobile Bay and a short drive from downtown Mobile. It’s an even shorter jaunt from the exquisite Bellingrath Gardens and its dramatic flowering gardens. Yet, the 14-mile-long barrier island with its small-town…
“This is an original show—I’ve never done anything like it before,” said Deri’Andre Tucker, who plays cocktail server La Fonda in “Last Night at the Rue Bayou.” “It has a mythical feel to it.” As the French Quarter fills music…
While thousands of music fans flooded New Orleans for the annual French Quarter Festival on Saturday, April 18, a few hundred Gulf and Western music fans stormed a rambling roadhouse straddling…
LAFAYETTE, La. (press release) – During the Festival International de Louisiane's 40th anniversary, Ochsner Eat Fit is partnering with the festival’s food vendors for the first time to highlight Eat Fit-approved dishes and…
BELLE CHASSE, La. (press release) – The 22nd Annual Plaquemines Parish Seafood Festival will take place April 24-26, bringing a celebration of local seafood, culture and community to the festival grounds at 333 F. Edward Hebert Blvd. in Belle Chasse.…
With a minimalist set accented by a modernist neon nod to Gothic-style architecture and rock-n-roll costumes, the show "Six" is presented uniquely as…
ORLANDO, Fla. (press release) – Travel + Leisure Co., a leading leisure travel company, announced plans today for a new Baton Rouge Sports Illustrated Resort. What is a Sports Illustrated Resort? Sports Illustrated Resorts is an experiential hospitality brand designed…
WEST MONROE, La. – The Landry Vineyards 5k Wine Run, offering wine, live music and more, takes place Saturday, April 18, at 1 p.m. The race, open to all ages and skill levels, offers a scenic course through the vineyard.…
NEW ORLEANS (press release) – Nearly 90 percent of the rocket powering the Artemis Moon Mission was manufactured at the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. The Space Launch System rocket for the Artemis II Moon Mission is the most powerful…
BATON ROUGE (press release) — Louisiana Economic Development unveiled 19 sites spanning 16 parishes moving forward in the inaugural Louisiana FastSites round, marking the largest coordinated site investment effort in state history and redefining how Louisiana competes for high-impact, nationally…
Louisiana covets its fair share of mysteries across its three million acres of wetlands; fragments of cultures thought forgotten, treasures left to fester in a swamp water grave, and people for whom the cool embrace of the bayou is home.…
NEW ORLEANS — Riding solo, Dr. Gregory Maassen seeks to accomplish a 5,800-mile e-bike journey across the United States. According to the bike tour's Instagram page, Maassen arrived in Louisiana on Monday, April 6. The live GPS tracker currently shows…
