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Interview: Pat Mire
In 2018 director Pat Mire celebrates the twenty-fifth anniversary of his landmark documentary, Dance for a Chicken. Funded in part by a grant from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, the film...
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Critical Mass 6
In and Out of the Fire, by artist Talbot Hopkins won Visual Arts Best of Show in 2017’s Critical Mass 5. A massive exhibition reflecting the energy, passion, and powerful talent of Northwest Louisiana...
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Location, Location, Location
View of Baton Rouge and the Mississippi River from the old Louisiana State Capitol, ca. 1932. Like most Louisiana cities, Baton Rouge has an interesting site-selection story. Courtesy of the Historic...
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Against the Flow
Earl Armstrong aboard his airboat in the shallow waters near the mouth of the Mississippi River in lower Plaquemines Parish, 2015. Photo by William Widmer The Lesson of the West Bay Sediment Diversion...
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Sugarcane and Sweet Potatoes
Reiniel Vicente, Trey Litel, and Jeff Murphy of Louisiana Spirits. Louisiana agriculture spurs spirited growth in distilleries By Nora McGunnigle The lush deltas and fertile farmland of Louisiana...
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Make It Good: An Interview with Leah Chase
Leah Chase Collection. Courtesy of the Amistad Research Center. Leah Chase is the 2018 LEH Humanist of the Year Introduction and interview by Zella Palmer On January 6, 2018, at her elegant birthday...
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They Built This City
Le Missisipi ou la Louisiane dans l’Amérique Septentrionale; ca. 1720; hand-colored engraving by François Chéreau; The Historic New Orleans Collection. New Exhibition and Book Examine Early New...
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Ghosts of Desire
The mural covers the wall of an abandoned shopping mall. Revolutionary Art Rediscovered in a Trash Heap 45 Years After its Creation By Orissa Arend On a Tuesday morning in February, four cultural...
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An Alarm of Riot
The Prelude to Violence in Sugar Country By John Desantis AUTHOR’S NOTE: Thibodaux Massacre survivor Jack Conrad’s medical chart shows four gunshot wounds. On November 23, 1887, mobs of white...
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Sound Advice: The Shimmering Mosaic of Louisiana Music
New Releases from Lloyd Price, Gregg Martinez, Sweet Cecilia and More by Ben Sandmel On occasion this column diverges from detailed discussions to address, in more encapsulated form, the ongoing...
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Huey Long vs. The Media
Courtesy of Library of Congress In his clashes with the press, the Kingfish used legislation, slander, and even physical force to control the message. by Alecia P. Long The ongoing war of words between...
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A New Beach for Louisiana
Dr. Gary LeFleur on Elmer’s Island in Jefferson Parish. Caminada Headlands is the Coastal Master Plan’s largest completed restoration project by Della Hasselle Photos by Rush Jagoe Wearing well-worn...
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Mrs. Officer
In June 1915 Monahan began patrolling the notorious Milneburg resort town on the shores of Lake Ponchartrain. New Orleans’ first policewoman endured controversy to patrol vice districts By Sally Asher...
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The Last Great Medicine Show
The active ingredients listed on the back label included bioflavonoid, biotin, calcium, choline dihydrogen citrate, cobalt sulfate, copper sulfate, d-panthenol, honey, inositol, iron, magnesium...
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Book Review: Freedom’s Dance by Karen Celestan and Eric Waters
Black Men of Labor, by Eric Waters. Left to right: Roy “Sundown” Johnson, Bobby “Boozer” Sardie, Wilbert Thomas, Todd Higgins, Barry Taylor, Nathan “Raddy” Thomas, Alvin Jackson, Deshawn Burks, Willie...
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Henry Roeland Byrd Fesses Up
Professor Longhair at his home in 1979. Photo by Michael P. Smith. Courtesy of The Historic New Orleans Collection Documentaries reflect the unique genius of Professor Longhair By Ben Sandmel This year...
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Tennessee, Revisited and Revived
Poster for Here Without Me, Iranian film adaptation of The Glass Menagerie. 2011. Photo courtesy of Naghmeh Rezaie. An early version of The Glass Menagerie, a look at Williams in Iranian cinema, and...
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Where Art Leads Us
Grocery Store in the Rain by Melanie Parent. Photo courtesy of the Shreveport Regional Arts Council. Summer artspace exhibitions follow the distinct journeys of two artists By Pat Viser Artists Julie...
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Plaquemines Picaresque
Vesper by Cate Colvin Sampson. Courtesy of the artist. On the road with The Great Big Doorstep By Rien Fertel I come from Plaquemines stock, a family brimming with stories simultaneously sweet and...
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Publisher’s Note: Move on Up
by Brian Boyles Recently I moved offices. I trucked my books, iMac, and assorted souvenirs down the hall forty feet, to a space that’s long been used as the editorial nerve center for Louisiana...
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