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Print Edition #19: March 28, 2008
Baton Rouge moving in the right direction
Friday, March 28, 2008
Eleven years ago I made the move to Baton Rouge and have been able to witness first-hand a transformation in the Capital City. Read story.
30 SECONDS: Jarvis Green
Friday, March 28, 2008
Ex-LSU Tiger makes a difference on and off the football field Read story.
Chris Stelly’s DVD collection
Friday, March 28, 2008
As a teenager, Chris Stelly worked for a local movie theater in 1988, first behind the concession stand, then as a projectionist where for five years he saw nearly the entire American cinema catalogue, from Good Morning, Vietnam to Tombstone. Read story.
Long Distance: Ari Ellerbe Mathé
Friday, March 28, 2008
HERE: LSU student, member of the Louisiana Bar Association, THERE: Assistant public defender, chair of the State Bar of Georgia’s Young Lawyers Division Juvenile Law Committee Read story.
Beeline for California
Friday, March 28, 2008
Beekeeper channels his passion to help attack a national crop crisis Read story.
Anatomy of a heist
Friday, March 28, 2008
Hoping to hide theft, a fire chief commits far worse crimes Read story.
Spoiler room
Friday, March 28, 2008
Feds’ LSU Katrina Fraud Task Force becomes a model for disaster sleuthing Read story.
Rouzan won. Now what?
Friday, March 28, 2008
A few years ago the City Park golf course debate taught us that if united they stand, a small group of homeowners could rebuff a city’s plan for change. Read story.
Outside the box
Friday, March 28, 2008
As Skip Bertman prepares to leave his post, a look inside the brain of the man who changed baseball in Baton Rouge and continues to challenge the mindset of the city. Read story.
Signature: Dr. Edgar Shannon Cooper
Friday, March 28, 2008
Dr. E. Shannon Cooper served as a U.S. Navy physician during Vietnam—more specifically what he calls “not the exciting part.” Read story.
Hot Lunch: Christina’s Restaurant
Thursday, March 27, 2008
A popular downtown breakfast spot serving up down-home favorites like biscuits with sausage gravy and country-fried steak and eggs, Christina’s is also a great place to grab a hearty Southern lunch. Read story.
Sushi yama
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Yama is Japanese for “mountain,” and since opening on Perkins Road in the fall of 2006, Sushi Yama has certainly climbed near the top of the local Asian food chain. Read story.
Riffs: Wilson Savoy, accordionist and fiddler for the Pine Leaf Boys
Thursday, March 27, 2008
On late New Orleans music legend James Booker Read story.
No strings attached
Thursday, March 27, 2008
The Avett Brothers perform April 29 at the Manship Theatre Read story.
Festival International from the inside
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Festival International de Louisiane brings some of the best and most popular artists from the francophone world to Lafayette each April, but some of these performers only hail from French-speaking countries. Read story.
An insider’s guide to Jazz Fest
Thursday, March 27, 2008
It’s a daunting task, not to mention an honor, to be asked to steer Jazz Fest fans toward the best of the Fest. Read story.
A month of musical Sundays
Thursday, March 27, 2008
The popular series of free outdoor concerts, Sunday in the Park, returns this month with four concerts in Lafayette Park, under the oaks outside the Shaw Center for the Arts downtown. Read story.
Rocking out downtown
Thursday, March 27, 2008
The popular Friday evening series of free outdoor concerts, Live After Five, returns this spring with eight concerts featuring various music styles. Read story.
Tried and true
Thursday, March 27, 2008
No doubt 2008 will be a year of firsts for Chris Thomas King, the Baton Rouge native, singer-songwriter and actor. Read story.
Lazy Lester highlights bluesy lineup
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Most stories about the blues involve a train, but in Lazy Lester’s case, it was a bus. Read story.
Movie boys and movie girls
Thursday, March 27, 2008
After partnering with the Red Stick International Animation Festival to offer youth movie workshops last year, the Boys & Girls Club of Greater Baton Rouge hosts its first-annual Aspiring Filmmakers Festival this month. Read story.
Finding every niche
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Local film tech navigates a growing industry Read story.
The wall
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Frequent collaborators Charles Barbier (foreground), Clark Derbes, Wylie Sofia Garcia and Hunter Roth (background) recently spent more than 60 hours painting a 29-by-12-foot mural downtown. Read story.
Riffs: Denise Greenwood, artist
Thursday, March 27, 2008
On her favorite local artist and artwork Read story.
Theater of questions
Thursday, March 27, 2008
B.R. director tackles spiritual themes and Katrina in New York City plays
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Review: Makin’ Groceries, by Todd-Michael St. Pierre
Thursday, March 27, 2008
The lexicon of New Orleans is a strange and wonderful combination of Southern charm and hospitality splashed with a South Bronx accent, where words and phrases run together to create something new and phonetically chaotic. Read story.
Louisiana’s ghost bird
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Steinberg explores rare woodpecker controversy and Louisiana’s vulnerable wildlife habitat Read story.
Home incompetence
Thursday, March 27, 2008
The older I get the more I’m humbled by people who turn their yards into masterpieces. Read story.
It’s time for EBR schools to shine
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Despite rampant disapproval of local public schools and the continued flight of white, middle-class Baton Rouge to other parishes and private schools, the East Baton Rouge Parish School Board prevailed at the polls in March and convinced voters to renew a one-cent sales tax. Read story.
Sweet conflicts of interest
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Have you had a real old-fashioned Coca-Cola lately? Probably not, unless you have ordered one at a restaurant frequented by Hispanics, shopped at a mercado or the ethnic section of a supermarket that sells imported Coke, or bought a Coke when traveling abroad. Read story.