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Friday, Aug. 29, 2008
Scientists say opposable thumbs are what distinguished mankind. Now, muzzling those same thumbs may save it. Read story.
Friday, Aug. 29, 2008
Was the smear letter about Holden something new, or politics as usual? Read story.
Friday, Aug. 29, 2008
Election season in Louisiana shines a glorious, uninhibited light on the unique and quirky nicknames common to many candidates. Read story.
Friday, Aug. 29, 2008
While watching his infant son’s every move with the attention of a detective on stakeout, former LSU and professional basketball player Ricky Blanton tells the stories behind a career’s worth of plaques and pictures. Read story.
Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008
What happened to LSU’s Greek Reflecting Pool?
Answer: Progress. Funding. Mosquitoes. Read story.
Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008
Beauty isn’t always in the eyes of the beholder—sometimes it’s in the ears.
Read story.
Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008
Another wave of new shops, restaurants, and other businesses will open this month in Baton Rouge. Read story.
Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008
Here: Baton Rouge public school English teacher, There: Manager of four shoe stores in Pensacola, Fla. Read story.
Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008
Surviving in the music business has been hard for Brad Pope, but selling The Compact Disc Store will be even harder. Read story.
Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008
Second in an occasional series about what local people are doing to reduce pollution and live greener lives. Read story.
Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008
Dodging the wrecking ball, the Kress building is reborn, preserving a chapter of B.R. history Read story.
Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008
Reborn state parks near Baton Rouge offer blissful weekends away Read story.
Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008
Where are the Metro Council’s four incumbents getting the bank to finance their campaigns? Read story.
Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008
Pushing a taxpayer-funded $989 million bond issue is no small gamble for a mayor facing re-election Read story.
Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008
A political sonata told in three parts: Gluttony, Naiveté, and Arrival. Read story.
Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008
A family’s journey from delivery room to Iraq and back Read story.
Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2008
This evening started with a thunderstorm, but now, the sky glows above the LSU lakes. Read story.
Stowaways
Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2008
Like this wine now? It’s better with some years on it. Read story.
Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2008
On grilling as entertainment Read story.
Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2008
Cantaloupe and honeydew are quite possibly the last things you would expect to drink. Read story.
Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2008
Foodies love Jonathan Gold’s column in LA Weekly because he loves simple places that serve extraordinary food. Read story.
Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2008
A violinist and singer-songwriter from New Orleans via Sweden, Theresa Andersson expands her folky sound into a rich sonic tapestry on Hummingbird, Go! Read story.
Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2008
When most people think of a song, the first thing that comes to mind is the lyrics. Read story.
Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2008
Nashville is not exactly known as a hotbed of soul sounds, but then the fuse of The Dynamites runs deep, back to Harlem’s Apollo Theatre where singer Charles Walker opened for James Brown and Wilson Pickett in the late 1960s. Read story.
Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2008
On the state of music
Read story.
Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2008
Local musician sends instruments worldwide Read story.
Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2008
When Joel and Ethan Coen decide to try to make us laugh, it can turn out like Intolerable Cruelty, a screwball comedy the 1950s coughed up and want back, or it can grow into a cult phenomenon like The Big Lebowski. Read story.
Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2008
On her favorite film Read story.
Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2008
It is the first 95-degree day of the summer in Baton Rouge on the first day of shooting for The Deadline, a psychological thriller that intrigued Brittany Murphy enough to spend 24 days in this condemning heat. Read story.
Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2008
Baton Rouge Gallery hosts its next Sundays@4 event with special guest Faye Phillips on Sunday, Sept. 14. Read story.
Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2008
That works by realists Robert Henri and John Sloan appear side by side in the “American Masters” exhibit at the LSU Museum of Art is no coincidence. Read story.
Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2008
Ann Connelly rarely stayed long in Baton Rouge. Read story.
Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2008
Local author Toni McGee Causey has hit another home run with the second installment in her hugely popular Bobbie Faye series with the release of Bobbie Faye’s (kinda, sorta, not exactly) Family Jewels. Read story.
Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2008
Famed humorist brings his new book to Baton Rouge Read story.
Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2008
All modern fathers will tell you that little girls go through four distinct developmental phases by the time they turn 5: fairy, princess, High School Musical and trial lawyer. Read story.
Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2008
If you think expensive gasoline and groceries are cramping your lifestyle, consider what the working poor in our 10-parish Capital Region are going through. Read story.
