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Posted on June 4 at 3:01 p.m.
This is not a column, editorial or rant of mine personally, and any attempt to pin it as such is an attempt to minimize the issue. This is an objective and fair reporting of a rift in the city's arts community between a number of accomplished artists and an art event. It is something to discuss with civility. Ad hominem attacks have no place in this debate. Both Art Melt representatives and artists were interviewed and their views made known. The opinions printed are nothing different from those that have been discussed around town months, if not years before. Rocketing Skyward, I have no personal issues with Art Melt. I have attended a few times in the past and even had a short film shown there last year. I'd like to know what part of the story gave you this impression. Or is it the existence of the story itself? In that case, my defense is easy: It is nothing personal, and I'm just doing my job. Objectivity, as you put it, does not mean sweeping all debate and criticism under the rug.
Posted on May 15 at 2:35 p.m.
Ckville, just click on the photo at the top of the page and that will open up the entire gallery to look through.
Posted on May 10 at 3:25 p.m.
Thanks for writing in. 225 took open nominations from our readers for a period of a couple weeks, then sent out our survey with the top vote-getting nominations as the choices. These results are strictly what our readers told us they liked.
On Best Nights
Posted on December 6 at 3:37 p.m.
Maybe take a couple days off, then go back to one or two of your favorite books as a kid. The books that made you love literature in the first place. Then I'd recommend Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer. That's the best novel I've read in a long time.
Posted on December 6 at 3:29 p.m.
I'm just not that into you.
Posted on October 18 at 2:29 p.m.
I don't know if they'll pull Transformers off. It might just be good cheesy fun, but then again Bay could really screw it up. We'll see. I haven't seen Babel yet, but the storyline sounds promising to me.
Posted on August 23 at 3:42 p.m.
The Dirty Dozen's "What's Going On" at Chelsea's is gonna be fantastic...but so will the battered women's shelter benefit show at Red Star (Reception Is Suspected + John Norris)! a great weekend for music.
Posted on August 9 at 6:07 p.m.
All right everyone. I appreciate you reading and thinking about Grant’s piece, but I’m going to have to kindly ask you all to get off his back about the technicalities and differing tenets of vegetarianism. Early in the article Grant writes “Traditional vegetarians abstain from seafood. But I live in southern Louisiana, and I love crawfish and oysters, so forget that.” In doing so he admits he is not a traditional vegetarian. Why then do you think he is claiming to be one? He and the editorial staff know that crawfish and seafood come from animals. To say we are trying to convince people otherwise is absurd. This is not an investigative or all-encompassing article about vegetarianism in Baton Rouge. Nor is it a piece designed to push any type of vegetarian agenda. It’s a 225 story. And at 225 we’re pretty big on the personal narrative. And Grant did a great job of explaining what the first few months of his new diet were like. You yourself may be a stricter vegetarian, vegan or something else all together, and that’s great, but that does not make Grant’s abstention from meat and poultry and his classification of such as “vegetarian” any less valid. In fact, I would venture to guess there are more people like Grant in Baton Rouge who don’t eat red meat or chicken, but do occasionally eat seafood, than strict vegetarians. His account is honest and funny (check out the photo) and that’s really all there is to it. If you think there is more, then you’re reading too much into it and missing the point. Thank you for your time. Jeff Roedel, 225 magazine
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Posted on June 5 at 10:01 a.m.
July is our BEST OF 225 issue every year, so a larger portion of the magazine is appointed to that cover package, and consequently some of our arts and entertainment features are smaller in the BEST OF issues. Art Melt just happens to be in July.
On Art Melt’s problem