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The Sugar Mill Sessions
The Sugar Mill Sessions is an ongoing photography project focusing on sugar production in Southwest Louisiana. It attempts to give a localized, contemporary view of the industry by documenting harvest...
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The Follies of a Film Economy
A century prior to New Orleans being dubbed “Hollywood South” for its thriving movie industry, the Crescent City was poised to become a major center for silent film studios. by Vicki A. Mayer In 1902...
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The Cracker Jack: A Hoodoo Drugstore in the “Cradle of Jazz”
by Carolyn Morrow Long A 1973 article in the Sunday magazine of the Times-Picayune took readers inside a slate-gray building at the corner of South Prieur Street and Cleveland Avenue identified only...
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Where is LA Art?
Brown Pelican Bones, by Danny Allain, 2017. Ink and watercolor on paper, courtesy of the artist, theinklinggirl.etsy.com. Directors of the state’s arts councils respond Where is Louisiana art being...
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Twentieth Century Millennial: Revisiting Faulkner’s Mosquitoes
Faulkner in full bohemian mode, Paris, 1925. By Rien Fertel In early June, my Facebook feed buzzed with a NOLA.com story ranking New Orleans as the nation’s sixth fastest-growing city for millennials....
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Sound Advice: Commodifying Traditional Music
Ralph Peer is the subject of a new three-disc anthology. Photo: Birth Place of Country Music Museum. The prolific, controversial career of Ralph S. Peer by Ben Sandmel Last issue’s Sound Advice column...
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Freedom’s Filmmaker
Photo by Eric Waters. Remembering Royce Osborn by Katy Reckdahl When filmmaker Royce Osborn died, Ashton Ramsey, eighty-three, created one of his trademark paper collages in honor of his longtime...
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A Message from Puerto Rico
Photo: Río Piedras de la Universidad de Puerto Rico This year Louisianans welcomed thousands of new members to an unfortunate club: Americans who’ve survived twenty-first century hurricanes. In Texas,...
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The French Language in Louisiana and Quebec
An Interview with Lisanne Gamelin By Richard Campanella One basic goal of the humanities is to engage people in cross-cultural discussions toward a better understanding of people and place, past and...
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Riders
Jeanerette Trail Ride, Jeanerette, LA, 2015 Southwest Louisiana’s Creole Trail Riding Clubs By Alexandra Giancarlo Photos by Jeremiah Ariaz You could say trail riding and horse culture is in...
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Deep Cuts
John T. Scott, Blues Poem for the Urban Landscape: Dangerous, 2002-2003, woodcut Prospect 4 Spotlights John T. Scott As part of Prospect.4: The Lotus in Spite of the Swamp opening November 16-18, the...
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The New Cartographers
Concordia staffers review community notes on coastal maps. Coastal communities in Plaquemines Parish plot the future with LA SAFE by Monica Barra photos by Zack Smith Poised over a table-top–sized map...
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Interview with a Vampire Scholar
by Alison Fensterstock In 1997, the year after winning the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing, Rick Bragg, then a Southern correspondent for the New York Times, filed his report on an escalating New...
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Lost Lit: Fatima Shaik’s The Mayor of New Orleans
Cover of 1989 paperback edition with illustration by Stephen Henriques. A nomination for Shaik’s memorable protagonist by Rien Fertel Mid-September delivered arguably the biggest book news for...
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The Rising Marée that Lifts All Bateaux
Almost 5,000 students now participate in French immersion schools in Louisiana. CODOFIL: French immersion schools fuel bilingual economy by Charles Larroque Losing a football field of Louisiana...
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A Carnival Visionary
by Wayne Phillips In the flamboyant and artistic realm of Carnival, a designer must possess an unfettered imagination and an inexhaustible dedication to this annual ritual. Combine that with clients...
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Voices of the City
by Mark Cave Since April 2014, The Historic New Orleans Collection (THNOC) has collaborated with WWNO, 89.9 FM, on the radio series NOLA Life Stories, which showcases interviews from THNOC’s oral...
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Book Review: The Historical Section
Mullatoes returning from town with groceries and supplies near Melrose, NatchitochesParish, Louisiana, by Marion Post Wolcott, 1940. Photographs of Depression-era Louisiana capture a state on the verge...
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Weaving a Trail
An UNcommon Tale of Acceptance The Beaded Blanket Trail January 20, 2018 www.artspaceshreveport.com A Blanket Trail of twenty quilts woven together in bands of color with beads, bangles, and a...
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Book Review: Images of Depression-Era Louisiana
Mullatoes returning from town with groceries and supplies near Melrose, NatchitochesParish, Louisiana, by Marion Post Wolcott, 1940. New collection showcases three photographers from New Deal agency by...
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