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Print Edition #11: September 29, 2006
Your own taste
Friday, Sept. 29, 2006
We asked readers to share their favorite tailgating dishes. You came through. Read story.
Changing identity
Friday, Sept. 29, 2006
What makes Halloween so appealing isn’t the bulging bags of candy or the thrill of fright. Read story.
How do we stop violent crime?
Friday, Sept. 29, 2006
Just as the summer heat was coming to an end, a wave of killings once again made Baton Rouge anxious, wary and even paranoid. Read story.
Clay saviors
Friday, Sept. 29, 2006
A Robert Frost quotation hangs on the studio wall of artist Denise Greenwood: “A poem begins as a lump in the throat.” Read story.
Scary movies
Friday, Sept. 29, 2006
Back in 2001 The Others suffered from unfortunate comparisons to The Sixth Sense and never really got its due as a slow-building suspenseful mood piece, more spiritually aligned with the darker side of Hitchcock than the pulpy Scream-style slasher trash that was much more popular at the time and has been parodied to death since—hello, Scary Movie 4? Read story.
Why’d it have to be Snakes?
Friday, Sept. 29, 2006
Flex Alexander stars in the cult hit of the year Read story.
A cheesy Hollywood lesson
Friday, Sept. 29, 2006
There can’t be many things worse than an in-flight visit from a horde of deadly snakes. Read story.
A cool, new project
Friday, Sept. 29, 2006
In high school, it’s the ball players who the girls all go for, right? Read story.
Writing on the rock
Friday, Sept. 29, 2006
Like what 225 freelancer Alex V. Cook has to say about music? Read story.
November and everything after
Friday, Sept. 29, 2006
“Every time I was around a piano since I was a small tot, I would plink out notes and try to create my own melodies,” recalls 24-year-old singer-songwriter Lindsay Rae Spurlock. Read story.
Jarheads
Friday, Sept. 29, 2006
Like Springsteen dipping into the bag of folk firebrand Pete Seeger on We Shall Overcome, Grammy-winning rock band Jars of Clay this year revisited the more traditional spiritual psalms and Christian hymns of the last century with Redemption Songs. Read story.
We’ve got your Voodoo mojo, right here
Friday, Sept. 29, 2006
Neither evil spirits nor storm damage can keep the good times at bay. Read story.
Meriwether hits big time, but on their own terms
Friday, Sept. 29, 2006
Hard-working Baton Rouge band Meriwether has signed a multi-record deal with a major record label, something most young musicians would dream about. Read story.
Taste of BR
Friday, Sept. 29, 2006
Jim Urdiales sounds off on the state of Baton Rouge cuisine Read story.
Hot Lunch: Chelsea’s Café
Friday, Sept. 29, 2006
After an eight-month hiatus, lunch at the new Chelsea’s under the Perkins Road overpass is served. Read story.
Queen of the fish tacos
Friday, Sept. 29, 2006
When your Spanish is lousy, you fall back on this foolproof ordering technique: talking louder and slower in English. Read story.
An earful from the cheap seats
Friday, Sept. 29, 2006
My editor called me not too long ago and asked if I wanted to attend a “really crazy” sporting event and write about it. Read story.
The art of salvage
Friday, Sept. 29, 2006
Hargroder, McGlynn remake mid city block into a thriving home for art, restoration and cool Read story.
A petite predicament
Friday, Sept. 29, 2006
Smaller and average-sized women navigate the perils of petite style Read story.
Growing pains
Friday, Sept. 29, 2006
The health, the taste and the economics of buying fresh and local in Baton Rouge Read story.
225’s LSU road- game guide
Friday, Sept. 29, 2006
Knoxville - Tennessee Volunteers and Little Rock - Arkansas Razorbacks Read story.
Are you ready for some…hockey?
Friday, Sept. 29, 2006
Since the Baton Rouge Kingfish folded a few years ago, hockey’s profile has pretty much been on the down-low in our area code. Read story.
The voice heard around the world
Friday, Sept. 29, 2006
If you happen to buy the newest Canon EOS Rebel XTi camera, the soothing female voice you’ll hear on the virtual demo is that of Melinda Walsh of Baton Rouge. Read story.
Car killer
Friday, Sept. 29, 2006
Unlike today’s new electric cars, with their limited range and speed, General Motor’s now-defunct EV1 could travel between 60 and 120 miles and reach speeds of 60 mph in under nine seconds. Read story.
Now that’s good mileage
Friday, Sept. 29, 2006
Bill Elam isn’t sweating gas prices like most of us. Read story.
A Festival of Words
Friday, Sept. 29, 2006
Some of the world’s favorite writers, poets and storytellers will present lectures, chat with readers and sign copies of their books at the Louisiana Book Festival Saturday, Oct. 28. Read story.
Hear for now
Friday, Sept. 29, 2006
Frustrated by the lack of diversified talk shows on local radio, a group of women convinced Clear Channel to bring Air America Radio to the capital city last summer. Read story.
Courting celebrities
Friday, Sept. 29, 2006
Local film productions have made Baton Rouge no stranger to celebrity sightings, and this fall a whole host of A-listers will once again descend upon our fair city. Read story.
Beer garden time
Friday, Sept. 29, 2006
The Oktoberfest German Beer Garden celebration is back and, yes, the beer will be flowing. Read story.
Last-minute music festival
Friday, Sept. 29, 2006
Promoter JL Concert Productions has managed to pull together its three-day outdoor music festival, Rock-N-Rouge, with just a few weeks to spare. Read story.
Long Distance: Lauren Lax
Friday, Sept. 29, 2006
Here: Student, McKinley Senior High, barista, CC’s Coffee
There: Economics PhD student, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
Read story.
It’s not ‘the new bridge’ after all
Friday, Sept. 29, 2006
People like to name their bridges. Read story.
Crash Cash
Friday, Sept. 29, 2006
With 40 bus-stop benches, two billboards in the city and two more on the interstate, it’s hard to miss Jim Holt in his trademark Stetson, acting as his own scale of justice. Read story.
Tip Pace’s cigars
Friday, Sept. 29, 2006
Before cigar bars flourished into fashion in the early 1990s, Tip Pace was selling dozens of premium brands out of two humidors at his Feliciana Seafood/Exxon convenience store in St. Francisville (next door to The Myrtles). Read story.
Whispers
Friday, Sept. 29, 2006
Whispers is a new feature in 225 magazine that brings you the chit chat, scuttlebutt and scoop around town. Read story.
30 SECONDS: Rima Hodgeson
Friday, Sept. 29, 2006
Rima Hodgeson - Lebanon-born Baton Rougean Read story.
What's Up?
Friday, Sept. 29, 2006
Making it to the Big Leagues, Marathon Man, Fear of Flying, Star Support Read story.
Impossible is not a fact, just an opinion
Friday, Sept. 29, 2006
There’s a great new book I just finished reading by Robert K. Cooper, and if you haven’t had a chance to read Get Out of Your Own Way, I highly recommend it. Read story.