64 Parishes

Introducing the Visual Arts Issue

Featuring the art of Randell Henry

Artists of Public Memory

Public art commissions from Prospect

Looking Down and Back

The history and preservation of New Orleans’s ceramic street tiles

Salt of the Earth

In Winn Parish, an ancient salt dome has sustained life for centuries

Keeping the Culture

"The old songs live forever"

Ils Sont Partis

Bush tracks of South Louisiana

Mayhaws

The sour-sweet taste of grandmother’s house

Perique Tobacco

A St. James original

Crossing Over

The Miss-Lou Memorial Day Parade

“Leave Your Rought Clothes at Home”

The history and legacy of the Ninth Ward’s Law and Desire corridor

52,000 Irises Saved—and Counting

Louisiana Iris Conservation Initiative

Integrating Grambling

Mary Barnes and the Louisiana Civil Rights Movement

The Orphan Train Museum

Opelousas commemorates a complex child welfare project

Outsider in Ouachita Parish Politics

George B. Hamlet, Monroe’s first Black mayor

From Whole Cloth

Culture Shock

Discovering Cajun and Creole music

Mapping Trans Joy

A community finds belonging and resists erasure

Lincoln Parish Turns 150

A century and a half for the Reconstruction-era parish

Silent No More

Uncovering Black history in Iberia Parish

“Why Don’t You Come on Over, Valerie?”

How Thibodaux’s cathedral obtained its patroness

From Angola to the Smithsonian

Self-taught artist Welmon Sharlhorne

From Freeman and Harris to Orlandeaux’s

A Shreveport family upholds more than a culinary legacy

Five Acres and a Mill

Organic rice cultivation in Rapides Parish

The Irrepressible Bobby Marchan

From drag to rap promotion and everywhere in between

From Little Acorns

Oaks celebrated on a Books Along the Teche bike tour

Possums in the Rafters, Fiddlers on the Floor

The Blue Moon Saloon and Guest House

Who Will Pick Up the Czech?

Libuse keeps central European traditions alive in central Louisiana

Put a Lid on It

Sartorial mainstay Meyer the Hatter

The Dixie Mafia Lonely Hearts Scam

A personal-ad scam run out of Angola led to a double murder

“Don’t Let the Rain Fall on My Face”

The wooden grave houses of Talbert-Pierson Cemetery

Flipping the Narrative

Telling the story of urban enslavement

Great Balls of Fire

“La Fin du Monde,” the Red (or White) Scare, and the story of the Great Meteor of 1957

The Leg-Brace Saint

New Orleans’s St. Roch Chapel gets a facelift

Who Belongs to the Good Earth?

A Houma museum commemorates the parish’s Black heritage

Amédé Was the King

Creole musician Amédé Ardoin’s legacy

Peaches Records

A record store acts as a musical and social nexus

Trying to Pocket the Key

Grant’s Canals and the assault on Vicksburg

Springtime in New Iberia

Arts and culture blossom by the Teche

Heirloom Variety

A St. Martin Parish farmer keeps Acadian brown cotton growing

"Drink Your Juice, Shelby"

Natchitoches stars as a thinly veiled version of itself in Steel Magnolias

It’s More Than Just Great Bass Fishing

Toledo Bend Reservoir is a keeper

Louisiana’s National Champion

No, not LSU (but close)

Fais Do Do: Louisiana Lullabies

A collection of songs for children in Louisiana French

Traditions in Wood

Cabinetmaker Greg Arceneaux brings artistry and heritage to his craft

Plas Johnson

A prolific session musician with a sound all his own

Leather Britches Smith

The labor rebel and mythic outlaw of Beauregard Parish

Oh, Casanova

How a Cleveland R&B song became a New Orleans brass band staple

The Thing That Ate Abbeville (Kind Of)

Things that go bump in the Louisiana night

The Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience

Opening this year on Howard Avenue in New Orleans

Lighting Up Louisiana

Bevolo celebrates seventy-five years

Resetting the Stage

When audiences eventually return to the Official State Theatre of Louisiana, they’ll find it better off than it’s been in a long time

Heart of a Tiger

How a Monroe man’s legacy nurtures community, economy, and international relations

Unalaska, Heroic Dog of Antarctica and Ouachita Parish

Member of Admiral Byrd’s expedition perished in Monroe

William Haney and Haney’s Big House

An African American businessman ran a popular Ferriday nightclub

Indian Peace Medals

European powers used awards to keep Native allies on their side

Chapel in the Woods  

Carmel’s Rock Chapel offers visitors a fascinating peek into the history of DeSoto Parish

St. Pierre et Miquelon 

These small islands are the last vestige of once-sprawling New France

The Lang House

A resurrected Anglo-Creole fixture in Mandeville

The Canary Islands 

Louisiana’s Isleños trace their roots to a storied archipelago 

Morgus the Magnificent

New Orleans’s answer to Elvira and Joe Bob Briggs 

Images of the Anthropocene

Hannah Chalew’s art for our time

The Bank of Pollock

One of Louisiana’s most endangered buildings

Hungarian Settlement 

Central Europeans in Livingston Parish

John Fred and His Playboy Band

Radio staple “Judy in Disguise” has Baton Rouge roots

Taking the Waters

Belle Cheney Springs—the southern Saratoga

A New Chapter at the Louisiana State Exhibit Museum

Renovations refresh a lesser-known Shreveport museum

Angola: Fact and Fiction

Plentiful stories about the prison have cemented misunderstandings

Spy Boy Toy

A new medium for Mardi Gras Indian culture

St. Joseph’s Day

The Sicilian roots of a local feast

Pays d’Illinois and Pays d’en Haut

French colonization leaves cultural traces in the Midwest

Stained Glass, Geodes, and Fossils

The multimedia art of Karen Bourque

Shreveport Sluggers

The history of professional baseball in Shreveport

Reenacting the German Coast Uprising

Performance artist Dread Scott and an army of volunteers commemorate resistance to slavery in recent performance piece

The Lake Charles Special

Record producer Eddie Shuler welcomed weirdness into Goldband Studio

A Love Letter to Tensas Parish

A sculptor remembers a riverside boyhood

Preserving Our Roots

John Coykendall’s life in plants

A Studio in the Woods

How artists are making science more accessible  

Humanities Enhance Medical Education

Creating place and purpose in a new medical school

Hitting All the Right Notes

The Wideman International Piano Competition is music to the ears

Stuck in Their Craw

An iconic Louisiana species takes Berlin

Melrose Plantation

A rare example of an Afro Creole-owned plantation

Emma Wakefield-Paillet, MD

The first African American woman in Louisiana to earn a medical degree and practice medicine

DeRidder’s Gothic Jail

The “Hanging Jail” in Beauregard Parish offers architectural history and decades of ghost stories

The Shreveport Water Works Museum

A North Louisiana site preserves engineering history

Cuts to Culture

Budget woes threaten the capital’s cultural institutions

An Ignominious Anniversary

2019 marks three hundred years since the arrival of the first slave ships in Louisiana

C’est Si Triste Sans Lui

Silk art by Megan Barra

Acadian Modernism

Architect John Desmond made a modernist style just for Louisiana

Look at Little Sister

Linda Gail rocks her way out of Jerry Lee’s shadow

From Dolls to High Heels

Making quinceañeras in Union Parish

King Creole Turns 60

On location in New Orleans, Elvis staked his claim as an actor

Illuminated Wonderlands

The Alexandria Museum of Art exhibits the work of Hari & Deepti in Winter 2018

Byway Blues

Mable John and the power of home