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Food & Drink

Peek inside the new Pizza Art Wine, combining art, high-end flavors and wine dispensers

At Pizza Art Wine, diners can admire art while indulging in Italian food and sipping on high-end wines.   The concept opened in February on Perkins Road inside Ichiban Square. CEO Yilena Hernández has been working on the project for the past three years, aiming to bring a new kind of dining experience to Baton Rouge. Hernández, who has traveled the world for her modeling career, says she wanted to open…

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Style & Home

Dani Brouillette’s disco decor is casting a trail of glittery light specks across town

A glittering, repurposed globe spotted online was the start of a new venture for Dani Brouillette.  She, too, had an old globe lying around that she intended to get rid of. Instead, she decided to cover it in shiny tiles. What started as a fun craft has turned into an Etsy shop that Brouillette calls her side hustle and hobby. Disco tiling gives her something to keep her hands busy…

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Things to do

The Wearin’ of the Green parade is back this month. Here are five new ways to experience it.

Now in its 38th year, this month’s storied Wearin’ of the Green parade is one of Baton Rouge’s most beloved events. And for regulars, it’s full of familiar rituals. Families head to the same spots to vie for beads. Friends attend the same fêtes thrown by route dwellers. Others head to favorite watering holes along Perkins Road.But while the return to well-worn activities makes the St. Patrick’s Day parade special,…

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Our City

Was blues music born in Louisiana? Yes, according to this year’s pick for the library’s One Book One Community series

With the Baton Rouge Blues Festival just around the corner, the East Baton Rouge Library is simultaneously set to spill the secrets of the genre's rich history in Louisiana. This year's One Book One Community reading program encourages local readers to connect through discussion of Chris Thomas King's The Blues: The Authentic Narrative of My Music and Culture. Starting this Sunday, March 19, the series will kickoff several meetups that…

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