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Print Edition #16: December 28, 2007
A lesson before winning
Friday, Dec. 28, 2007
Novelist Olympia Vernon becomes the first winner of the inaugural Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence for her novel, A Killing In This Town. Read story.
Out and about
Friday, Dec. 28, 2007
Madcap comedies and intense dramas are the cornerstone of this year’s Outworks play festival at LSU, which features six original one-act plays centering on gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer themes. Read story.
Johnny Palazzotto on the state of the blues
Friday, Dec. 28, 2007
If you have any connection with music in this town, whether as a fan or a player, you have crossed paths, and possibly swords, with Johnny Palazzotto, a tireless figure in promoting and producing the indigenous music of Baton Rouge for three decades now. Read story.
What's Up?
Friday, Dec. 28, 2007
Domeless, What else have we lost?, Curb appeal, Coffee trash talk, E85 guarantee Read story.
Aaron Hussey and Jennifer Knox’s North Baton Rouge den
Friday, Dec. 28, 2007
As Told By Aaron Hussey
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Long Distance: Ryan and Lea Anne Turner
Friday, Dec. 28, 2007
HERE: Engineer, International Mezzo Industries (Ryan); staff member, Campus Crusade for Christ (Lea Anne)
THERE: Missionaries, Campus Crusade for Christ in Florence, Italy. Read story.
What's up with that?
Friday, Dec. 28, 2007
Who cleans up after Baton Rouge Police Department horses?
Answer: Depends where the deed is done.
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Riffs: Stephen Moret, secretary of economic development for Louisiana
Friday, Dec. 28, 2007
On economist.com, news and international affairs newsmagazine Read story.
Dr. King’s comic books
Friday, Dec. 28, 2007
Comic books are an interest for Dr. Andrew King, LSU communication studies professor, sparked during the Great Depression and World War II. Read story.
Return to glory
Friday, Dec. 28, 2007
State Capitol Raceway is the third-oldest quarter-mile dragstrip in the country and has been in business for more than 35 years. Read story.
The Boys of Forever
Friday, Dec. 28, 2007
If LSU wins the national championship Jan. 7, here’s why they’ll still be talking about it in 50 years. Read story.
Our 2008 People to Watch
Friday, Dec. 28, 2007
Nine people. Nine personalities. Nine reasons to watch them. Read story.
Signature: Shanna Lynn Forrestall
Friday, Dec. 28, 2007
If she were to audition for this role, she would need much bigger earrings. Read story.
Hot Lunch: George’s City Deli
Friday, Dec. 28, 2007
In South Louisiana, sandwiches are judged by the quality of their bread, but in a traditional deli, meat takes the lead. Read story.
From Russia with love
Friday, Dec. 28, 2007
Look for Stiletto vodka this month, the super-premium spirit imported by a new Louisiana woman-owned company. Read story.
Restaurants help customers lighten up
Friday, Dec. 28, 2007
Losing weight is hard enough without having to negotiate the pitfalls of dining out, where large portions, hidden calories and the dessert tray provide temptations a’plenty. Read story.
Reginelli’s: More than pizza
Friday, Dec. 28, 2007
With four locations flourishing in the New Orleans area, Reginelli’s Pizzeria opened its first Baton Rouge branch in the old Bayou on Chimes Street in a building that’s seen everything from a Steven Soderbergh filmshoot to a fire. Read story.
Top 5 Baton Rouge records of 2007
Friday, Dec. 28, 2007
The qualifying factors of a great record are not tallied sales and moved units, but in the way they latch onto a listener and linger when the disc is over, and these are the top five that did it for me this year. Read story.
Riffs: Jon Eenigenburg, indie filmmaker, art director and marketing consultant
Friday, Dec. 28, 2007
On The Mission Read story.
Riffs: Ronlyn Domingue, author, The Mercy of Thin Air
Friday, Dec. 28, 2007
On the greatest book she’s never read Read story.
Review: After the Hunt: Louisiana’s Authoritative Collection of Wild Game & Game Fish Cookery By Chef John D. Folse
Friday, Dec. 28, 2007
John Folse’s latest culinary tome, After the Hunt: Louisiana’s Authoritative Collection of Wild Game & Game Fish Cookery, is a whopping 870 pages. Read story.
Riffs: Katherine Scherer, deputy director, Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge
Friday, Dec. 28, 2007
On what the Arts Council hopes to accomplish in 2008 Read story.
Best Bets
Friday, Dec. 28, 2007
With bursts of color and energy emanating from the canvas you can almost hear the vibrant song and dance depicted in the 47 pieces on display in the latest exhibition at the Louisiana Art & Science Museum, ¡Merengue! Visual Rhythms! Read story.
Photography, a dying art
Friday, Dec. 28, 2007
Artists go the distance to stay in a darkroom Read story.
A life that shines
Friday, Dec. 28, 2007
Tommy the shoeshine man is every bit as content as the suits who tower over him like kings, reading their Wall Street Journals while he busily brushes and buffs their expensive loafers and oxfords. Read story.
Railroaded
Friday, Dec. 28, 2007
R. Buckminster “Bucky” Fuller’s unique industrial dome in North Baton Rouge, studied and revered by architecture and design students for five decades, was demolished in November by Kansas City Southern, which apparently surprised no one more than the folks at the Foundation for Historical Louisiana, which had vowed to save it. Read story.