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Restlessly Inventive
by Russell Lord, Freeman Family Curator of Photographs, Prints and Drawings Jim Steg: New Work Through October 8, 2017 www.noma.org Jim Steg was the most influential printmaker to be based in New...
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A Friendship Interrupted
SS Sea Level of the West India Fruit & Steamship Company provided service between Louisiana and Havana from 1932 to 1953. Courtesy of the Historic New Orleans Collection, Charles L. Franck...
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Hot Biscuits
Al Copeland and the Race for Success at Popeyes by Brian Boyles For three years, they pleaded with Al Copeland. Corporate executives, publicists, and Popeyes Chicken franchise owners agreed: the new...
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Requiem for a Dreamer
Louisiana Honors the Legacy of David Egan Music review by Ben Sandmel David Egan. Photo by Culbert This spring saw a fitting memorial to the acclaimed R&B songwriter, singer, and pianist David...
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Channeling the Master Plan
A tanker makes its way northward along the Calcasieu Ship Channel near Hackberry, Louisiana. The Science Behind Saving Southwest Louisiana’s Working Coast by Katy Reckdahl • Photos by Edmund D....
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Hot Fun in the Summertime
SRAC’s Art of the Guitar Exhibition Celebrates James Burton, “Master of the Telecaster” by Pat Viser Art of the Guitar June 2 – August 19, 2017 www.artspaceshreveport.com From vivid pink paisley to...
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Sights and Sounds of Storyville
New Exhibition Complements Recently Published Guidebooks to Sin By Pamela D. Arceneaux, John H. Lawrence, and Eric Seiferth In 1897, Alderman Sidney Story introduced a city ordinance, which would go...
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Great Raft Charts Its Own Course
From LCV Summer 2017 issue Subscribe Brewing is both an art and a science. Science, because of the chemical and biological factors in play when fermenting a liquid into the brewer’s beer of choice....
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Cajun Strong
From LCV Summer 2017 issue Subscribe On this Friday night, the crowd at the Starbucks on the south side of Lafayette is lively, but not loud. It’s the Acadiana edition of the Deaf Chat, a monthly...
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Living Color
Exhibitions showcase Eggleston and his influence by Miriam Taylor William Eggleston: Troubled Waters (from the collection of William Greiner) The Colourful South: William Christenberry, Birney Imes,...
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Celebrating a Francophone Resurgence
CODOFIL Prepares for 50th Anniversary by Charles Larroque, Directeur exécutif, CODOFIL For almost fifty years, the Council for the Development of French in Louisiana (CODOFIL) has managed to bring...
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All Access Past
LSM Prepares to Publish Colonial Documents Collection Online by Sarah-Elizabeth Gundlach In a few months, the Louisiana State Museum (LSM) will complete the digitization and online publication of its...
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It’s in the Water
From LCV Summer 2017 issue Subscribe Ct seems so simple: add a miniscule amount of fluoride to drinking water and help stop tooth decay. Louisiana now has a law on the books, the Louisiana Community...
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Judging Judges
by Scott Sternberg Oollowing the death of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia on February 13, 2016, then-President Barack Obama nominated Judge Merrick Garland to take Scalia’s seat. In...
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The Tale of Deas and Poe
An artist envisions the author and his work by Bradley Sumrall Edgar Allen Poe, by Michael Deas, 2016 In 2007, Michael J. Deas pedaled his bicycle from his French Quarter residence to the Ritz...
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Perfect Time
New insights into a clock that survived Katrina by Mel Buchanan, RosaMary Curator of Decorative Arts and Design An automaton musical clock at the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) continues to awe...
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For Home and Country
New exhibition in Baton Rouge looks at Louisiana during and after WWI This souvenir pillowcase commemorates Camp Beauregard, a military training camp located near Alexandria, LA. Courtesy of...
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Fruits of a Passion
Laura Simon Nelson’s collection of Southern art on display at THNOC by Judith Bonner Baton Rouge native Laura Simon Nelson has enjoyed a lifelong interest in art despite little formal schooling in...
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#LACulture
In order from left to right: @aleecel, photo by Allece Beuhler Langford, @zydecorebel, photo by Lorrae Lantier, @frankiemariec, photo by Frances Cibilich. Photographers use Instagram to share Louisiana...
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American Utopia
Story by Beverly Lewis and Rick Blackwood Photos from LCV archive Editor’s Note: In 1994, documentary filmmakers Beverly Lewis and Rick Blackwood produced American Utopia, an LEH-funded film about the...
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