Winter 2018
About Our Cover
Visual artist, biologist, and environmental educator Brandon Ballengée used a chemical clearing and staining process to create this haunting image of a Texas clearnose skate.
Contents
Nurturing the Lower 9
Creole Italian
Mardi Gras Canceled
The Queen Bee of Louisiana Politics & the Misinterpretation of Nice
Departments
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Articles
Coastal
Ghosts of the Gulf
An unusual look at species impacted by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill
Winter 2018
Nurturing the Lower 9
A complicated tangle of public and private property ownership stymies restoration efforts for Bayou Bienvenue
Louisiana State Museum
He Showed Us What Carnival’s For
A new exhibition at the New Orleans Jazz Museum celebrates Professor Longhair’s Centennial
Ogden Museum of Southern Art
Newton Howard
The architect of Monkey Hill was also a painter of the Sportsman’s Paradise
Arts Council of Northeast Louisiana
Paint the Ouachita
A celebration of the river, steamboats, history, and beer
Shreveport Regional Arts Council
Beloved Objects
Tour of homes explores the private art of Shreveport collectors
Historic New Orleans Collection
Discovering the Lost 1866 Issues of the New Orleans Tribune
The issues provided honest coverage of the Mechanics’ Institute Massacre of July 30, 1866
Sound Advice
Bold New Directions for Veteran Musicians
New releases from Charles Lloyd & the Marvels + Lucinda Williams and Walter “Wolfman” Washington
Geographer's Space
Gretna’s Mechanickham
A possible origin of its name
Winter 2018
Creole Italian
Nystrom's book explores the backstory of Italian New Orleans
Parish Spotlight
King Creole Turns 60
On location in New Orleans, Elvis staked his claim as an actor
Parish Spotlight
Illuminated Wonderlands
The Alexandria Museum of Art exhibits the work of Hari & Deepti in Winter 2018
Lost Lit
Can You Hear Me, Sergeant Blue?
A hard-boiled detective in an intergalactic world
Parish Spotlight
Byway Blues
Mable John and the power of home
Disturbance in Your Mind
Junker’s Blues
A French Quarter rock-n-roll tragedy
Poetry
From the series “Portraits of Our Father Drinking”
Portrait #1: An Early Start
Winter 2018
Alright Is Not Alright
Lexicon: Languages of Louisiana
Winter 2018
Bauhaus in Bossier and Shreveport
Shreveport architects Samuel and William Wiener are the subject of a forthcoming documentary
Democracy & Media
Mardi Gras Canceled
Ernest “Dutch” Morial and the 1979 New Orleans police strike
Winter 2018
Lin-Manuel Miranda Gives 1,600 Copies of New Garfield Book to PRIME TIME Family Reading Participants
The books will be donated to families attending more than eighty PRIME TIME programs across nine states in Fall 2018
Democracy & Media
The Queen Bee of Louisiana Politics & the Misinterpretation of Nice
The there and back again story of Kathleen Babineaux Blanco
