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Cat fight
Sunday, Aug. 1, 2010
Shelter Director Hilton Cole is at the center of a harsh financial and emotional battle

How Do We Get There?
Sunday, Aug. 1, 2010
Besides simply defining its mission in 2009, Baton Rouge Area Foundation's No Kill BR Committee delineated a detailed action plan to end the euthanization of adoptable companion animals, encourage the development of a humane culture citywide and curb the uncontrolled breeding of unwanted animals.

Please save me
Sunday, Aug. 1, 2010
Eight out of 10 animals that wind up at the city-parish animal shelter are euthanized. But a clash between animal advocates and authorities has produced a new alliance—and new hope—for stray and abandoned animals.

For the love of food
Sunday, Aug. 1, 2010
I took an out-of-town guest to several restaurants recently, and he was blown away.

What's up
Sunday, Aug. 1, 2010
August 2010 issue

Beer makes a comeback with the pigskin
Sunday, Aug. 1, 2010
The Chimes is a Baton Rouge staple, and LSU is in its blood, maybe even in its beer.

Sweet crush
Sunday, Aug. 1, 2010
Macaroon is a fun name for such a fun cookie.

Whispers
Sunday, Aug. 1, 2010
Chit-chat, scuttlebutt and scoop

Aimee Elizabeth Landry Skinner
Sunday, Aug. 1, 2010
Here: Episcopal High School grad, LSU Opera singer
There: Australia’s Got Talent contestant in Sydney

B.R. finds Sanctuary in one book
Sunday, Aug. 1, 2010
Seventeen years ago, writer and publisher Neil White spent 18 months serving time in a federal prison in Carville, and to this day he says he lives by the principles he learned living there among the last leper colony in the continental United States.

6 to 10
Sunday, Aug. 1, 2010
Forecasting LSU wins especially tricky this year

Couch potatoes need not apply
Sunday, Aug. 1, 2010
LSU’s video team is a non-stop key to the Tigers’ preparations

6 Tigers to watch
Sunday, Aug. 1, 2010
LSU Football Preview

Will Miles earn his keep in 2010?
Sunday, Aug. 1, 2010
Either way, a generous contract with a hefty buyout clause means he isn’t going anywhere soon.

The art of the sell
Sunday, Aug. 1, 2010
How an English filmmaker wants to make Baton Rouge a cultural pioneer

Why the Tea Party is spitting mad
Sunday, Aug. 1, 2010
Twenty-one years in politics taught me that angry voters are often irrational.

Signature: Arthur Clark Moore
Sunday, Aug. 1, 2010
Just walking in to Yes I Can Love Center you feel serene, even if the pastor welcoming you is 6-foot-6 former NFL star Art Moore.

Café Du Jour
Sunday, Aug. 1, 2010
Hidden away in a back corner of The Foyer, Café Du Jour offers an array of hot and cold sandwiches, as well as salads and an always-delicious soup of the day.

In the grip of shawarma
Sunday, Aug. 1, 2010
How Lebanese food took over Baton Rouge

Dreams in a Bottle
Sunday, Aug. 1, 2010
It started with a trip.

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