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Print Edition #18: February 29, 2008
Make your future bigger than your past
Thursday, Feb. 28, 2008
A friend recently sent me a copy of the book, The Laws of Lifetime Growth, which proposes and explores 10 laws for growth. Read story.
A league of their own
Thursday, Feb. 28, 2008
Next month a new youth baseball league takes the field at Cypress Mounds, the expansive baseball complex off Gardere Lane near Burbank Drive. Read story.
The smell of success
Thursday, Feb. 28, 2008
Ever piled the kids in the car after a day at the park and wished you could spritz them good with Febreeze? Read story.
30 SECONDS: Casey Rayborn Hicks
Thursday, Feb. 28, 2008
Sheriff’s department opens up about parish crime Read story.
Amanda and Ty Larkins' Hundred Oaks family room
Thursday, Feb. 28, 2008
as told by Ty Larkins Read story.
Lane Grigsby’s trophy mounts
Thursday, Feb. 28, 2008
"Shooting an individual animal rather than at a bunch of birds seemed to be more personal,” Lane Grigsby says, explaining his move to hunting large game in 1982. Read story.
Berry popular beer should be easier to find
Thursday, Feb. 28, 2008
Abita’s Pontchatoula strawberry-infused beer won so many fans last year it was next to impossible to find it. Read story.
What's up with that?
Thursday, Feb. 28, 2008
Question: Who’s supposed to gather stray parade beads from the trees? Answer: Not I, says the guy at the DPW Read story.
Mango’s spiked with fun
Thursday, Feb. 28, 2008
Beach volleyball scene springs to life at this sandy suburban oasis Read story.
5 great weekends to liven up your spring
Thursday, Feb. 28, 2008
A memorable weekend is only a drive (or short flight) away. Read story.
The Man behind the bar
Thursday, Feb. 28, 2008
Ivar Quigley ponders his native Ireland, New York and the Baton Rouge bar that bears his name Read story.
Two Hundred Twenty-Five Things to Do!
Thursday, Feb. 28, 2008
What is the essence of Baton Rouge? Read story.
Signature: Dr. Tasha Chantoi Shamlin and Dr. Kenyatta Dayatra Shamlin
Thursday, Feb. 28, 2008
The Shamlin sisters have no business worrying about reducing the signs of aging, but the fact they’re doing it together should come as no surprise at all. Read story.
Guinness when you’re tired
Thursday, Feb. 28, 2008
I spent an entire year in Dublin one weekend in the summer of 2001. Read story.
Hot Lunch: Zeeland Street Market
Thursday, Feb. 28, 2008
A virtual lunchtime institution, Zeeland Street Market keeps its loyal customers coming year after year with simple gourmet plate lunches. Read story.
Review: Bones - Sounds from the Id (TillDeath Records)
Monday, Feb. 25, 2008
Bones is all about two things: a slap and a warm sensation. Read story.
Riffs: Glenn Scott Harris, guitarist, The Way*High Men
Monday, Feb. 25, 2008
On Neil Young’s Harvest Moon Read story.
Ramble on
Monday, Feb. 25, 2008
In the days after Hurricane Katrina drowned most of New Orleans in Gulf Stream muck and unbearable lawlessness, Eric Frey and Chas Justus of the Red Stick Ramblers welcomed a few evacuees into their Breaux Bridge home. Read story.
Let the music play
Monday, Feb. 25, 2008
Grassroots music school teaches more than chords Read story.
No square Pegg
Monday, Feb. 25, 2008
While many are obsessed with Sasha Baron Cohen as the “It Brit” comedian of late, here is an alternative candidate: writer/actor Simon Pegg. Read story.
Riffs: Cackey Miltenberger, executive manager, Louisiana Media Productions
Monday, Feb. 25, 2008
On eclectic tastes Read story.
Riffs: Wylie Sofia Garcia, artist
Monday, Feb. 25, 2008
On becoming a newcomer to the Baton Rouge arts scene Read story.
Art in the court
Monday, Feb. 25, 2008
As one of America’s preeminent portrait artists, Baton Rouge artist Janie Emery has painted ambassadors, generals, congressmen, Supreme Court justices, business tycoons and philanthropists. Read story.
Riffs: Richmond Odom (pen name Kameron Gray), local attorney, author of House of Blood and Fire
Monday, Feb. 25, 2008
On shifting from nonfiction to fiction, and writing under a pen name Read story.
Reviews: A Lytle Baton Rouge history
Monday, Feb. 25, 2008
Turkish Bazaars on Main Street, grand steamboats chugging down the Mississippi River—you’ve never seen Baton Rouge like this before. Read story.
Reviews: Holding Out and Hanging On: Surviving Hurricane Katrina, by Thomas Neff
Monday, Feb. 25, 2008
While most fine art professionals decided to tell the story of Hurricane Katrina through politically motivated photos and documentaries detailing destruction and lack of government aid, LSU photography professor Thomas Neff took a more personal approach. Read story.
The real Tax Man
Monday, Feb. 25, 2008
I didn’t know it at the time, but I married the daughter of a Tax Man. Read story.
Time now to make our gamble pay off
Monday, Feb. 25, 2008
Like most wars, the war over the Riviere got ugly quick, and even though it’s over, it’s not really over. Read story.