BATON ROUGE (press release) – The 9th Annual Baton Rouge Soul Food Festival announced the talent lineup, contests and sponsors for the upcoming festival, May 23-24 at the East Baton Rouge Parish Library (Main Library, 7711 Goodwood Blvd.) From 11…
Each of our journeys contains three parts. First comes the anticipation. For days, months or years, we look forward to our departure. Then, finally, that day arrives. We travel, some of us, to leave…
The Beauregard Watermelon Festival has been moved up a month earlier (from late June to May 8-10) this year. Learn to dance the Watermelon Crawl, sign up for melon voice singing contests, seed spitting contests, bouncing watermelon races, goat roping,…
Turned Earth “Turned Earth” is Brad Richard’s fifth poetry collection, this one by LSU Press. This collection goes through Richard’s journey as he navigates his mother’s death, life with his husband and being a teacher. Richard’s placement in New Orleans,…
Slidell artist Solange Ledwith gave her gallery an unusual name. It’s called Swamp Girl Glass. She didn’t grow up in a Louisiana swamp, though her house in Slidell does back up to nearby Bayou Bonfouca. After a long nomadic life…
A Louisiana homegrown musical voice born from the soul-searching…
It’s been years in the making, but Amtrak seems poised to debut train service between New Orleans and Mobile. This fall, visitors may travel twice a day between the two colonial French…
The first time my husband Mark and I visited Arnaudville we were en route to a weekend in Toledo Bend and could only stop long enough for a brief scenic driveabout and lunch. We made the brilliant decision to go…
BATON ROUGE, La (press release) – The LSU Museum of Art has again achieved accreditation by the American Alliance of Museums, the highest national recognition afforded to the nation’s museums. Accreditation signifies excellence to the museum community, to governments, funders,…
RUSTON, La (press release) – Three-time nominated and Grammy Award Winner Tommy Emmanuel C.G.P. is returning to the Dixie Center for the Arts in Downtown Ruston, Louisiana on Wednesday, Dec. 10, for his second appearance at the Historic Theater. Recognized…
NEW ORLEANS (press release) – On Sunday, March 23, at 2 p.m., the famous Stella Shouting Contest will begin the 39th year of the Tennessee Williams and New Orleans Literary Festival, which returns to the French Quarter for its celebration…
Tennessee Williams & New Orleans Literary Festival March 26-30 // New Orleans // tennesseewilliams.net When a young Tennessee Williams arrived in New Orleans, the Mississippi native wrote that he had found his special place. “In New Orleans … I found…
The natural beauty of St. Francisville’s rolling hills, bluffs and ridges, pristine historic homes, quaint boutiques and top-notch eateries is like a “Gilmore Girls” Stars Hollow fever-dream. For our three-day…
A star on the rise with a throwback style of funk uniquely his own, Grammy-nominated Cuban musician Cimafunk took some time to speak about his artistic process, his journey as a working musician and the importance of valuing education not…
