Tennessee's greatest hits

Tennessee Williams in Quarter Time

Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2006

Veteran Shakespeare director John Dennis leads construction on Tennessee Williams in Quarter Time. Actress Andrea Frankle Molina stars in Quarter Time, which runs Feb. 1-19 at the Reilly Theatre Read story.

225 Editorial: Becoming One

Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2006

It’s time for Baton Rouge and New Orleans to think as a single region, like Dallas-Fort Worth. The hurricanes threw us together. Fate tore down barriers we couldn’t. The question: Do we have the foresight and self-discipline to build a region? Read story.

Romancing the movies

Six rentals to keep your Valentine's Day cozy

Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2006

Valentine's Day is over, but that doesn't mean love is over. Read Jeff Roedel's movie picks for Valentine's Day. They are evergreen. Read story.

Have blues, will travel

John Popper, in hat above, gives us the runaround

Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2006

The “code of the bro” prohibits me from divulging the myriad of ways that Blues Traveler has fun on the road. Read story.

Righteous funk

Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2006

So how to describe them? The first reaction is to dub them a jam band. But those connotations are as nebulous as the music scene itself. Read story.

Rockin' docs

Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2006

A surprising number of local physicians are passionately pursuing music, healing people at night with their sounds. Read story.

A Super Secret

Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2006

Unlike traditional comics that follow a single timeline and story arc, The Secret Voice reads more like Zack Soto’s one-man anthology, a loose dry-humored collection of characters and genres. Read story.

Hot Lunch: Pinetta's

Pinetta’s

Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2006

For around $10 per person, you can have your own Lady and the Tramp moment with spaghetti and meatballs Read story.

Love bites

The euphoria of sensuous food

Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2006

Food and lovemaking have been coupled in literature, movies and everyday life. Oysters were never the same after reading Casanova’s treatment of them in his memoirs. Read story.

Red Stick Cocktails

The White Swan at Gino’s Restaurant

Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2006

The White Swan drink has been served at Gino’s Restaurant for years. Forty years later, nothing has changed: They’re not giving out the recipe. Read story.

Galatoire’s hits and misses in BR

Our reviewer had a fine meal but food and service getting mixed reviews.

Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2006

Has there ever been a restaurant to cause more hum and buzz than Galatoire’s Bistro? The restaurant is getting mixed reviews, but the reviewer generally liked it. Read story.

Andrei Codrescu

Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2006

If after Katrina and gentrification, New Orleans is still a place for writer’s dreams, then poetry has won one against the more sober-minded world Read story.

FEMA's Dirty Little Secret

FEMA's Baker trailer park is a mysterious sanctuary, as 225 found out when we asked writer Chuck Hustmyre to write about life in B.R.'s instant subdivision.

Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2006

The quest to simply enter the park became a story in itself as FEMA has surrounded the place in a baffling veil of secrecy and red tape. But once inside, writer Chuck Hustmyre met frustrated, angry people eager to talk about their troubled daily lives. Read story.

The Curator

David Applegate plays with dolls.

Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2006

Most of all, Applegate’s warehouse is the annual birthplace of dozens of those ubiquitous Mardi Gras flamingos. Read story.

One crazy flocker

The guy behind the flamingo capers

Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2006

He’s among the old-school regime around Spanish Town, one of the original krewe members who started making flamingos, installing flamingos, and yes, swiping flamingos.Read story.

Parody, pomp & pink flamingos

How a small neighborhood party grew into a monster.

Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2006

"A parade is more meaningful when it’s on your home turf, because it’s about community,” Zeringue says. “When you own it, it means more to you.” Read story.

Murder — it’s a crime

Louisiana novelist coming to LSU

Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2006

The person who believes he can rise to a position of wealth and power in Louisiana without doing business with the devil probably knows nothing about the devil and even less about Louisiana. Read story.

What a trip

Krew of Sneaux hits the slopes of Snow Mass

Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2006

Krew of Sneaux hits the slopes of Snow Mass Read story.

Google This: Cancer Alley

Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2006

Envirohealthaction.org warns while Cancer Alley between Baton Rouge and New Orleans gets the most attention, other disease clusters like Lafayette and Ouachita parishes chart higher-than-average mercury levels and cancer rates that should be addressed Read story.

Long Distance

Carolyn Pione, center, with her sister and sister-in-law.

Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2006

What’s essential when you come back to visit? DiGuilio’s tuna steak with salsa, Juban’s bar, runs around the lakes, the beautiful new Manship School at LSU—my alma mater. First up, Carolyn Pione. Read story.

Keeping up with change

Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2006

My message to these people is: engage. Take part in the ongoing community dialogue. You may not like the direction things are going, but the process has started, and it’s unstoppable.Read story.

Now that’s a party

Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2006

The neighborhood is like a John Steinbeck novel, full of scoundrels, imps and n’er do wells, with enough kind souls to look after them all. Read story.