Some people may think they just don’t have a “green thumb” when it comes plants, but the origins of the phrase tells us something different. One theory says “green thumb” came out of the reign of King Edward I in…
In the summer of 1960, John Kennedy Toole lived in a small apartment on the corner of Convent and Lafayette streets in Lafayette. His friend and fellow writer Joel L. Fletcher remembers him describing it in Conradian metaphor as “a…
In the movie world, the term “summer blockbuster” means a successful feature film with a big budget and promise of an escape from the summer heat. Most of these movies are made on a Los Angeles set or filmed in…
“Every painting is a note in a song, or a rain drop in a hurricane that cannot be truly appreciated without taking Pavy’s oeuvre into account,” writes Benjamin Hickey, curator of exhibitions at the Hilliard Art Museum, in the opening…
Most of us have heard about masked revelers chasing chickens and gathering ingredients for a gumbo during Cajun country Mardi Gras, but what happens after the masks come off? Communal gumbos are a traditional end to long runs through the…
