Focusing On Flora and Fauna
Over the last seven years photographer LeeAnn Hepler of Patterson has traveled the remote back roads and levees of St. Mary Parish at those golden moments after sunrise or before…
Theatre + Art
Bringing Paintings To Life
The famed Mexican muralist Diego Rivera once said a mural “is like a poem in colors.” Artist Connie Harris of St. Gabriel in Iberville Parish has gained a large following, painting her own poems “in colors” on the walls of…
Lost and Found
Historians love to write about the Acadian diaspora, and Longfellow tells us of their “wonder and sadness.” Now, Lafayette artist Cecilia O’Keefe Neustrom shows us the faces of their “Cajun” descendants who live across the prairies and along…
Broadway in Lafayette Announces How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Legally Blonde & More with the 2022-23 Season
LAFAYETTE, La (press release) – Broadway in Lafayette is back with SIX amazing shows for the 2022 – 2023 Season live at the Heymann Performing Arts Center. Broadway in Lafayette will bring the best of touring broadway direct from New…
Music Makers
For several years, the Illinois-born singer-songwriter Andrew Bird has been travelling into natural and urban landscapes — the Coyote Gulch canyon of Utah, say, or under the Glendale-Hyperion Bridge in Los Angeles — to compose music that he bases…
PASA Performances Begin September 20
LAFAYETTE, La (press release) – Performing Arts Serving Acadiana (PASA) launches its first season, staging a comeback as one of the first to reopen the Heymann Performing Arts Center this September with nationally and internationally acclaimed performing arts entertainment.…
Iberia Film Festival Returns
NEW IBERIA, La (press release) – The Iberia Film Festival, sponsored by the Iberia Performing Arts League (IPAL), will be held Nov. 14, 2020 at the Essanee Theater (126 Iberia St.) in downtown New Iberia. Covid-19 precautions will be in…
Traveling Louisiana: Spring Adventures
Color has returned to Louisiana after a memorable cold winter, and residents across the state are welcoming spring with open arms and open windows. As life returns to the teeming bayous and flowering gardens, life also returns to communities…
Beyond the Surface
The environment is the driving force behind Thibodaux woodworker David Bergeron’s work
Michel Varisco
Photographing the shifting and fragile Louisiana landscape
Ebb & Flow Festival
Providing a permanent place for culture in Baton Rouge
Spring Festivals
The awe-inspiring diversity of Louisiana is easily taken for granted. A quick survey of the state’s spring festivals — Louisiana is home to more annual festivals than there are days in the year — is an apt reminder that there’s…
Louisianians of the Year
Meet eight people who are changing lives, making a difference in their profession, contributing to the state culture in big ways and making Louisiana proud
The Queen Passed On, But the Queen Lives On
New Orleans’ Mardi Gras Indian queen’s legacy continues with her children and grandchildren
Fall Festivals
Load up the car and hit the road to enjoy one of these four eclectic festivals throughout the state
Bayou Hopping
The woodland waterways of northeast Louisiana offer a world of adventure seemingly little changed since the days of De Soto, Mark Twain and Audubon. Here gators glide, pelicans preen, frogs hop, turtles bask on stumps and part-sunken logs while impossibly…
South Market District
A Guide to the Newest Neighborhood
Pond to Pot
A CRAWFISH TALE
Unfinished Business
Despite her lengthy, celebrated career deemed worthy of a reflective lecture series, Lafayette artist and professor Chryl Savoy isn’t done creating just yet.
Meet Zydeco Radio
A new generation of Lafayette musicians incorporates old-school grooves.
Bringing Dead Man Walking To Life
A story of redemption, told through opera, comes to New Orleans.
Small Performers, Big Talent
For Kerry Onxley, Artistic Director of The Children’s Theatre Company of Lake Charles and Westlake High School, the show has gone on… and on, and on, and on.
Around Acadiana
Gatherings, carnivals and activities around Acadiana.
The Work of Artist Amy Guidry
Lafayette-based artist Amy Guidry draws up a decades-old conceptual approach to address important issues in the here and now.