As she juggled classes, dance rehearsals, a part-time job and preparations for Southern University’s homecoming week, Gaybrielle Dixon squeezed in the time this fall to audition for a music video on campus.
As we age, our feet flatten and become wider and the fatty padding wears down, leaving bones and joints more exposed to wear and tear.
Mary Brown, of New Orleans, says, "When my then-fiancé and I went to City Hall to get our marriage license back in 1991, the clerk asked us where we were born.
In this year of women, Opéra Louisiane is following suit, for the first time casting a girl to play the lead role in "Amahl and the Night Visitors."
Nineteen Les Jeunes Amies seniors were presented Dec. 7 at the Baton Rouge Symphony League's Bal de la Symphonie at the Crowne Plaza, where league President Brandi Rinaudo welcomed guests.
In my early days of daily newspapering three decades ago, Douglas Coupland was being hailed as a great new writer after publishing “Generation X,” a novel that focused on characters born immediately after the baby boomers.
Auditions for Theatre Baton Rouge's "The Fox on the Fairway" will be at 7 p.m. Dec. 15 with callbacks on Dec. 16 at the theater, 7155 Florida Blvd. The production opens Feb. 28. Auditions will consist of cold readings, to be provided at auditions.…
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The three of us must have met the parameters of a very specific employee profile — young naive female liberal arts college graduates desperate for a first job and willing to work for very little compensation.
I recently asked friends on Facebook about Christmas traditions and got a great response.
First United Methodist Church has had a Longest Night worship service for two decades. This year, the focus on helping those who have suffered loss doesn’t end when the candles are extinguished.
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Dear Smiley: Mention of the dog swiping a hamburger reminded me of my granddaughter’s standard poodle, Lily.
The Mississippi River is about to get a little more crowded.
What in the world do you give your 102-year-old grandmother for Christmas?
Timotheus Moore is just two steps away from becoming a national champion.
I have to confess I'm a bit "Bah! Humbug!" about Christmas movies, with the exception of "A Christmas Story," Jean Shepherd's wonderful tale of Ralphie, a kid in the 1940s, and his craving for a Red Ryder BB gun.
New Orleans Saints Quarterback Drew Brees will don a disguise and go to work as a dishwasher at a Walk-On’s Sports Bistreaux featured on the season premiere of the CBS reality show “Undercover Boss” next month.
New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees caught washing dishes in a restaurant?
Rita Jones Rushing said God told her in 2001 to write the book "Silly Women."
At 82, swamp pop legend Warren Storm has published his photo-filled memoir “Taking the World, By Storm” and released a new album of the same name.
Feufollet singer and multi-instrumentalist Chris Stafford co-founded the Cajun-Americana band when he was 11.
Rally Cap Brewingopening on Saturday
The hype was real about Mid City Beer Garden even before any booze poured from the Government Street spot's 60 taps.
If, like James Beard Award-winning pastry chef Joanne Chang, you believe in “bringing joy to people through pastry,” you’ll want to check out Chang’s fifth and most personal cookbook yet — “Pastry Love: A Baker’s Journal of Favorite Recipes.”
TESTED RECIPE
OK, I give up. Noting all the hype about Joe Burrow and the LSU Tigers, I promised myself I wouldn't add to the pandemonium and would limit comments on Joe and the SEC champs.
BAND NAME OF THE WEEK: El Jumbotron
Filmmaker Emma Lou Reid had never been in a duck blind until assisting on a New Orleans artist’s project several years ago. What she discovered took on a life of its own.
If you’re like me, Christmas means music — lots and lots of music. I enjoy it all, from the off-the-wall “Dogs Barking Jingle Bells” and “Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer” to classics like “Deck the Halls” and “White Christmas” to the spirtual “…
New Venture Theatre will celebrate the holiday season with “Black Nativity,'' an inspirational gospel musical — originally penned by poet/playwright Langston Hughes — that retells the biblical Nativity story.
Ascension Community Theatre will open its holiday production, "A Charlie Brown Christmas," on Dec. 12 in its newly renovated theater, 823 Felicity St., Gonzales.
Walk-On’s Bistreaux & Bar is making a slight change to its name, a move that company officials said better reflects what makes the Baton Rouge-based chain different from other sports bars.
John Currier says, "My daughter and son-in-law were in for a visit. He is from Cleveland, and it is such a different world that he is sometimes not sure whether we are making Louisiana stuff up or not.
New Orleans native PJ Morton, a keyboardist for pop rock band Maroon 5 as well as a solo rhythm-and-blues artist, played the Varsity Theatre on Sunday night.
Ready, set, party!
It’s an extra-large souvenir Saints jersey, black with a gold collar and No. 9 on the back, just like many, many others. Jennifer Harper, a Saints fan from Mobile, Alabama, said she recalls packing it away before she left the Mercedes-Benz Superdo…
New Orleans native PJ Morton, a keyboardist for pop rock band Maroon 5 as well as a solo rhythm-and-blues artist, played the Varsity Theatre on Sunday night.
Ready, set, party!
Catholic Charities Clinical Director Paula C. Davis was nominated by U.S. Sen. John Kennedy to receive a 2019 Congressional Coalition Institute Angels in Adoption Award. Kennedy presented the award in his office on Nov. 14.
UpStage Theatre will re-imagine Charles Dickens's classic holiday tale "A Christmas Carol" through a woman's eyes when it opens "Ebony Scrooge" at 7 p.m. Saturday.
Keith Horcasitas, of Baton Rouge, says our dog stories reminded him of a tale from Jack and Jill Lasseigne about their late schnauzer, Chance.
It's said art imitates life, but in John Schneider's case, the two are intertwined.
No. 1 Billboard recording artist Lizzo released a new music video for her hit song 'Good as Hell' Monday — and you may notice some familiar faces!
From 1950s-style diners to authentic Japanese ramen, Baton Rouge's food scene keeps getting hotter. Here's a list of restaurants, cafés and eateries we've tried so far in 2019.
The holidays are speeding ever closer, and not a day goes by when there's not a party or maybe drinks after work. Or someone decides to share Grandma's pecan pie or the cookies they baked last night.
Country singer Trisha Yearwood will perform with the Baton Rouge Symphony on March 7 for the Irene W. & C.B. Pennington Great Performers in Concert Series.
Hospice care is a type and philosophy of care that centers on easing the pain and symptoms of a terminally or seriously ill patient and attending to that patient's emotional and spiritual needs. At end-stage Alzheimer's disease, the goal of hospic…
