Louisiana Life - January/February 2012

Gary L. Jones, Ph.D. - Louisianian of the Year - Education

  We present here our first class of Louisianians of the Year. In doing so we defined some key categories: Conservationist, Visual Artist, Civic Activist, Educator, Celebrity, Chef, Musician and Entrepreneur. There are other important, higher profile categories that we…

Gina Womack - Louisianian of the Year - Civic Activism

  We present here our first class of Louisianians of the Year. In doing so we defined some key categories: Conservationist, Visual Artist, Civic Activist, Educator, Celebrity, Chef, Musician and Entrepreneur. There are other important, higher profile categories that we…

James Dickson - Louisianian of the Year - Wildlife Conservation

  We present here our first class of Louisianians of the Year. In doing so we defined some key categories: Conservationist, Visual Artist, Civic Activist, Educator, Celebrity, Chef, Musician and Entrepreneur. There are other important, higher profile categories that we…

Jenny Ellerbe - Louisianian of the Year - Visual Arts

  We present here our first class of Louisianians of the Year. In doing so we defined some key categories: Conservationist, Visual Artist, Civic Activist, Educator, Celebrity, Chef, Musician and Entrepreneur. There are other important, higher profile categories that we…

Troy Landry - Louisianian of the Year - Celebrity

  We present here our first class of Louisianians of the Year. In doing so we defined some key categories: Conservationist, Visual Artist, Civic Activist, Educator, Celebrity, Chef, Musician and Entrepreneur. There are other important, higher profile categories that we…

John Folse - Louisianian of the Year - Culinary

We present here our first class of Louisianians of the Year. In doing so we defined some key categories: Conservationist, Visual Artist, Civic Activist, Educator, Celebrity, Chef, Musician and Entrepreneur. There are other important, higher profile categories that we could…

Daryl Byrd - Louisianian of the Year - Entrepreneur

  We present here our first class of Louisianians of the Year. In doing so we defined some key categories: Conservationist, Visual Artist, Civic Activist, Educator, Celebrity, Chef, Musician and Entrepreneur. There are other important, higher profile categories that we…

Mardi Gras Rhythms

There are two different strands to the music of Carnival in Louisiana - both can get you moving

Carnival in New Orleans

Pictured here are members of the Mondo Kayo Social and Marching Club on Frenchmen Street in New Orleans. If it is true that blondes have more fun, what can be assumed, from this picture, about people whose hair is pink…

From the Editor: Holly Beach

There were neither porpoises nor egrets that could be spotted from this intersection. Nor, for that matter, was there an avenue or much of a street. Someone could have exceeded 15 miles per hour, and no one would have noticed.…

Lifelines: Bogalusa - Blanco Responds

Re: November/December 2011“Can Bogalusa Save the World?”by Richard Meek I was dismayed to read in the opening lines of an otherwise positive article on Bogalusa and Dr. Berenson’s heart study program a reference to an apparent rumor, stated as fact.…

Barometer

A compendium of what’s hot and what’s not in Louisiana