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Print Edition #20: May 1, 2008
Insomkneeacks is up all night—again
Thursday, May 1, 2008
If you prefer your coffee with a fancy French name, or drinking it amongst the Web-surfing exec types on break from the office, then Insomkneeacks probably isn’t your cup of tea. Read story.
The steroid detective
Thursday, May 1, 2008
Other than the occasional idiot who tries to recreate the gold medal long jump in his driveway, Olympic years don’t necessarily equate to more work for the average doctor. Read story.
Cultural experiences in Baton Rouge
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
A few weeks ago I took my family to the Magnolia Performing Arts Pavilion at Baton Rouge Community College to watch Brothers of the Knight, a theatrical production based on the Brothers Grimm fairy tale, The Twelve Dancing Princesses. Read story.
30 SECONDS: Hampton Grunewald
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Ex-assistant learned quickly under Mayor Holden Read story.
Long Distance: Elizabeth and Jeanne McCollister
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Sisters and roommates Jeanne and Elizabeth moved to Los Angeles in 2006 to pursue careers in public relations and advertising, respectively. Read story.
Appointment with Apple
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
A first-hand look at Mac’s Personal Shopping service Read story.
For the record
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Band mate’s dad documents the tragedy and survival of The Terms Read story.
Style like a rock star
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Baton Rouge’s Abigail Franklin keeps Prince, Bon Jovi looking good Read story.
On the air
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Murphy, Sam and Jodi are reaching far beyond Baton Rouge. Is their family-friendly radio show poised for the big time? Read story.
When cops call 911
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Elite SWAT team balances non-stop training with trying to live peaceful family lives Read story.
I’ll be your mom
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
A Zachary mom’s fight to adopt and hold together five siblings Read story.
Now what?
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
State’s top school official turns to outside operators to turn around Baton Rouge’s failing schools Read story.
Property of the State
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Few local schools have ever performed more poorly than Prescott Middle, a chronic under-achiever in one of the weakest school districts in the state. Read story.
Signature: Jayme Oliver Cramer
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
To put it in football terms more people will understand, Jayme Cramer is in the middle of “two-a-days.” Read story.
Sno-ballin’
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Just because the shaved ice machine was invented in New Orleans during the Great Depression doesn’t mean our sister city to the south holds a monopoly on that delightful summertime concoction known as the sno-ball. Read story.
Hot Lunch: Delpit’s Chicken Shack
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Not for the clogged of heart, this restaurant specializes in thick, crispy fried chicken, both tenders and the bone-in variety. Read story.
Boudin Central
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Three decades of homemade boudin on Greenwell Springs Road Read story.
Riffs: Shawn Taylor, public information officer for LSU Hospitals and film aficionado
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
On classic cinema Read story.
Close encounters
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
After just one week online, the trailer for Steven Spielberg’s Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was viewed at the official site more than 200 million times. Read story.
This summer’s best movies
Monday, April 28, 2008
Summer starts early this year with a huge, nostalgic May at the box office, but then things settle down a little bit. Here are some of the best bets among big studio films in the coming months. Read story.
B.R.’s hardest rockers and their golden harps
Monday, April 28, 2008
The band may never know it, but chances are somewhere Harptallica has united forever the disparate souls of a classical music aficionado and a metalhead. If Run DMC can cover Aerosmith, why not mash up metal with classical? Read story.
B.R.’s Webbie Billboard’s Top 10
Monday, April 28, 2008
At the time of this writing, a Baton Rouge artist is responsible for the No. 9 single and No. 4 album on the Billboard charts. Read story.
Riffs: Joe Stark, guitarist, Sons of William
Monday, April 28, 2008
On his favorite CDs of 2007 Read story.
Play it to me, Hollywood Blues
Monday, April 28, 2008
One hour with the B.R. rock band most likely to go shirtless on stage Read story.
Revolutionary art
Monday, April 28, 2008
A group of Baton Rouge artists and activists have joined other groups from Las Vegas to New York to raise thousands of dollars to support the Grace of God Orphanage in the sub-Saharan African nation of Malawi. Read story.
Riffs: Mary Ann Caffery, artist, owner Caffery Gallery
Monday, April 28, 2008
On the importance of color in her artwork Read story.
Barefoot in the grass
Monday, April 28, 2008
An art lover’s hesitant foray into the world she loves to view
Read story.
Riffs: Rebecca Hamilton, state librarian
Monday, April 28, 2008
On her path to becoming a librarian Read story.
Review: Shooting the Pistol: Courtside Photos of Pete Maravich at LSU by Danny Brown
Monday, April 28, 2008
LSU was home to one of the best college basketball players ever to set foot on the hardwood, but to anyone under the age of 40, the memory of Pete Maravich remains steeped in legend, a virtual myth relegated to the pages of several books about his life and ubiquitous highlight reels on ESPN. Read story.
Learning TV all over again
Monday, April 28, 2008
Next month I celebrate the first anniversary of the single-greatest accomplishment of my marriage—and no, I’m not talking about the fact that I managed to keep my absurdly enormous 1970s-era stereo speakers, although that was a coup. Read story.
Private promoters threaten downtown
Monday, April 28, 2008
A downtown brawl earlier this month that spilled out onto Third Street and led to multiple arrests, plus the discovery of an AK-47 assault rifle in someone’s car, is precisely the kind of activity that threatens to scuttle sensible plans to establish downtown as an entertainment destination for the region. Read story.
A teacher speaks out
Monday, April 28, 2008
I fully understood the forces marshaled against the March 8 sales tax renewal to maintain teacher salaries and improve public school infrastructure. Read story.