LAFAYETTE — They are an unlikely group of crusaders. Three dancers, a poet and a drummer. Their strength is a combination of narration, dance and live percussion.
Tuesday, September 18, 2018
Several fun events are on horizon. Woman’s Hospital’s BUST Breast Cancer art bra auction takes place Sept. 26 at L’Auberge, and then on Sept. 28, Cat Haven will hold its “Cat Tails & Cocktails” fundraiser at the Crowne Plaza. Hope to see you a…
Brandy Johnson never appears on stage, but Theatre Baton Rouge's "Little Shop of Horrors" wouldn't work without her.
Tuesday, September 18, 2018
By now, men are so conditioned to completing our dressing ritual by putting a length of silk around our necks that we don't even think about it.
Monday, September 17, 2018
Perhaps we all have a little corner in our hearts for the places where we’re from, where we grew up and learned how to drive, where we started becoming who we are.
Everybody needs a break from work. Brian Fourroux gets away from selling things by … selling things.
Monday, September 17, 2018
The audience will know something is off-kilter with Christopher in Simon Stephens' 2012 Tony Award-winning play, "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time."
The Louisiana State Penitentiary Museum Foundation is hosting its biennial symposium from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday at the Receiving Center at the Angola Museum, 17544 La. 66, known as the Tunica Trace, Angola.
Cortana Kiwanis donates AED to school
Monday, September 17, 2018
Another Broken Egg has closed its downtown Baton Rouge restaurant after a little over a year and a half in business.
What to call New Orleans?
Sunday, September 16, 2018
"I love to have fun with telephone and computer scammers," says Ernie Gremillion, of Baton Rouge.
Sunday, September 16, 2018
In Medicare data from years 2008-10, in clinical practice with interviews with people who were being treated for Alzheimer’s disease, one study concluded that just 45 percent of physicians told their patients they have Alzheimer’s. Some physicians…
The Honda Accord was the first car from a Japanese automaker to be built in America. That happened back in 1982, and the Accord has been built in Marysville, Ohio, ever since. More than 11 million Accords have been sold in the U.S.
on a big corner lot at the intersection of Audubon and LaSalle Avenues in Goodwood Estates, the home at 1465 Audubon Ave. has antique wood floors and custom cypress millwork throughout. It’s old world charm in the middle of town.
Saturday, September 15, 2018
Adopted as a toddler from a children’s home in Latvia, Baton Rouge’s Brandon Gautreau always wondered about his birth family. But, separated by an ocean and language, he didn’t hold out much hope of ever finding out about them.
And we’re off! The summer slowdown on the social scene is over. In one day, I went to four events, starting with the Bengal Belles season kickoff luncheon.
Actor T.C. Matherne says he's really just living in the moment — and who wouldn't?
With help from a yard crew, we cleared some ropy vines from the base of our oaks this summer. A few dead strands still hang from the upper branches, motionless on most afternoons, like the pendulums of clocks that no longer keep the time.
Baton Rouge Gallery is featuring work by artist members David DuBose, Randell Henry and Paulo Dufour during September.
Deadline for religion bulletins is noon Monday. Email religion@theadvocate.com.
Registration is open for fall classes at Theatre Baton Rouge. For a list of classes and to register, call (225) 924-6496 or visit theatrebr.org.Tickets are on sale for Louisiana's Old State Capitol's "Spirits of Louisiana" gala on Oct. 25. Tickets…
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Having returned from Italy some weeks back, I couldn’t help but remember the old saying that begins “When in Rome …,” particularly as it applies to driving.
Friday, September 14, 2018
Sept. 27 is the annual celebration of Meskal in the Ethiopian Orthodox and Eritrean Orthodox churches.
Louisiana native Sheryl St. Germain will receive the 19th annual Louisiana Writer Award.
Thursday, September 13, 2018
ST. FRANCISVILLE — A couple of years after her husband's sudden death, Marsha Lindsey had a reality check — her large home and its 35 acres was too much for her to take care of alone.
You might not know that pineapples are bromeliads. So is Spanish moss.
If you have been scouting for insects or disease damage on your citrus trees in the past few weeks, you probably have noticed some silver to whitish tunnels on the leaves.
Chris Motto, executive chef at Mansurs on the Boulevard in Baton Rouge, is heading to "Hell's Kitchen."
Jay Dardenne, the state's commissioner of administration when he's not thinking up atrocious puns, comments on his recent "dishonorable mention" in the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, a celebration of bad writing:
BAND NAME OF THE WEEK: The Justin Doan Video Game Shredstravaganza
Predators are personal for Shane Black. He was hacked apart by one of the fearsome alien hunters in the first "Predator" movie 31 years ago and now returns to sit in the director's chair for the latest in the franchise.
Their vacation in December 2016 came at the end of a particularly painful year, but Leslie Rose and her husband, Donney, found a spirit of rejuvenation in Puerto Rico.
Parish Brewing’s double IPA, Ghost in the Machine, has always enjoyed a cult following. What began as an infrequent release a few times a year morphed into the so-called "Summer of Ghost" in 2017 when the hoppy ale was available from June through …
Bud's Broiler, the New Orleans institution, opened a new Baton Rouge location a few months back in what was likely a former Pizza Hut on Nicholson Drive, just across the tracks from Tigerland.
Weeks from the end of his farewell concert tour, Paul Simon has released a disc that feels like a valedictory itself.
He’s got a new album, a new manager and a new name.
The fall movie season isn’t as serious as it used to be.
Butter Beans (or Lima Beans) with Shrimp
In more than a decade interviewing Louisiana cooks, I’ve learned the secret of our world-renowned cuisine. It’s simple: Cooks here know how to season food. Visitors from the Midwestern meat-and-potato states are surprised when that first bite of g…
Wednesday, September 12, 2018
If Teresa LaBranche failed to bring her flan to their holiday parties, members of the Gourmet Club of Baton Rouge would be mighty disappointed. The Venezuela native has treated them to her version of flan, or caramel custard, for decades.
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