Regional Travel
Winter in the South can be a wonderful season to travel. The weather is mild. Crowds and prices are often at a minimum. Winter travelers can take advantage of some great opportunities to explore across state lines and discover some…
Louisiana Life - January/February 2009
Best Places to Work in Louisiana
Remember the glory days? When you didn’t wear out the keypad connecting to a real person? After a four-year stint as a restaurant review columnist and a customer-support/quality-control manager with IBM, I consider myself the Queen Bee in recognizing quality…
At Home on the Road
Cabahanosse Bed & Breakfast and Antiques & GiftsDonaldsonville “Wake up in a quaint bed-and-breakfast, and go downstairs to visit a unique antique and gift shop with 18 vendors who offer surprising treasures. Located in a restored 1890s building in the…
Louisiana's Best
Our readers have spoken. Our Spring and Summer issues contained self-addressed postage-paid ballots with which readers were asked to pick their Louisiana favorites in many categories. In tallying the results, we only included those places for which there was a…
Luderin Darbone: A Life as a Rambler
Luderin Darbone, the acclaimed Cajun-swing fiddler who co-founded The Hackberry Ramblers in 1933, died on Nov. 21 at Calcasieu-Cameron Hospital in Sulphur. He was 95.Darbone was born in Evangeline on Jan. 14, 1913, and raised in Orangefield, Texas. He taught…
Exploring Louisiana at “The Collection”
In the heart of New Orleans’ cluster of architectural gems and captivating museums called the French Quarter is a sub-cluster of architectural gems and captivating museums called the Historic New Orleans Collection. Many Louisianians have heard tales of the treasures…
Hooked on Fish
From the back deck of her boathouse on River Road just north of Lake Charles, Raejean Clark has a commanding view of the Calcasieu River and the seemingly incongruous city skyline in the distance. A saltwater gate that prevents brackish…
A Harmonious Home
Like an orchestra hitting its crescendo, the third annual Acadiana Symphony Decorators ShowHouse created its own excitement. Located in Vintage Park in Broussard, the event attracted thousands of visitors who came to see the very latest in building materials and…
Jambalaya
Along with gumbo, jambalaya is one of the most famous and emblematic dishes of Louisiana cooking. Like gumbo, jambalaya can contain a multitude of ingredients from land and sea in combinations that vary greatly from one cook to another. The…
Six degrees of Franklinton
For my husband’s birthday last October, I ordered the memoir by former LSU football player John Ed Bradley, It Never Rains in Tiger Stadium. For purposes of secrecy, I had the gift shipped to me at my neighbors’ address. I…
Louisianian at Large
New tribal center is home to treasuresThe Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana is preparing to cast a long shadow into its future. Opening in 2009 is a Cultural and Educational Resources Center that promises not only to house the tribe’s hard-…
Barometer
Angel of hope. Through the efforts of Pam and Bob Schroeder of Alexandria, an “Angel of Hope” statue stands on a granite base in a patio of memorial bricks in the Mount Olivet Cemetery in Pineville. The statue is part…
Statewide Carnival Calendar
Northern Louisiana Jan. 3. Twelfth Night Celebration. Bossier Civic Center, Bossier City (318) 741-8900. Jan. 9. Sobek Bal, 7 p.m. Riverview Hall, 600 Clyde Fant Parkway, Shreveport (318) 673-5100. Jan. 10. Sobek Parade, 1 p.m. Fairgrounds, 3701 Hudson Ave., Shreveport…
Letters
I was reading my latest copy of Louisiana Life, and I love it as I have for the past few years as a subscriber.I am curious, however. In the “Barometer” section by Carolyn Kolb, for “What’s Not,” y’all listed a…
A Really Big Omelette
Here’s a tip: The next time a general comes riding through your town with an army marching behind him, do not fix him an omelette. That, according to legend, is what the people of Bessières, France, learned when Napoleon Bonaparte…
Central Louisiana
PROFILETributeIn my family it was a standing joke each hurricane season that whatever location my mother wished to evacuate to for a storm always indicated its actual landfall in Louisiana. She wanted to go to Lafayette for Carmen and Baton…
Northern Louisiana
CAUSE TO CELEBRATEMighty mitesAccording to Monica Crowe, a reporter for the Ruston Daily Leader, a group of preschoolers mounted on tricycles recently burned serious rubber in the parking lot of Emmanuel Baptist Church. The Trike-A-Thon, an annual fundraiser wherein the…
A Louisiana Life
Because the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack on the Pentagon did not damage the endless corridor where hang the oil portraits of America’s previous commandants of the Marine Corps, Louisiana visitors can still find there the likenesses of Gen. John…
The Great Lousiana Quiz
1.These lines are from a medieval French Mardi Gras song still remembered by some old-timers in Cajun County: “Capitaine, Capitaine, voyage ton flag /Allons se mettre dessus le chemin.” What is the name of the song?A. “La Chanson de Mardi…
Cajun Country
QUIRKY PLACESPirate’s pathHe caused the Spanish merchant ships much grief, but Jean Lafitte never attacked an American vessel. Perhaps his breeches weren’t quite as tight as Yul Brynner’s (who played him in The Buccaneer), but he remains a dashing and…
Greater New Orleans
WORTH WATCHINGUncorked artAlthough it was a warm Saturday night in June and my birthday doesn’t come until August, I was being treated to an early gift from my brother, Tim, and his wife, Pat, who are well-aware of my fondness…
Lifetimes
Northern LouisianaThrough May 2. “Michael Graham: Cane River Back Roads.” Old Courthouse Museum, 600 2nd St., Natchitoches (318) 357 2270. Through Jan. 25. “The Photographs of Andy Warhol.” Meadows Museum of Art, Centenary College, 2911 Centenary Blvd., Shreveport (318) 869-5169.…
