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The Round About
I moved to Lake Charles on July 1, 1999 — just in time to witness the closing of the great used record store Zypien’s. In the 15 years since, Lake Charles has had little
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Tommy Chong Explains What Makes Cheech And Chong So Damn Funny
BY BRAD GOINS I was surprised to learn from Tommy Chong that the Oct. 8 Cheech and Chong show at Golden Nugget would include not just comedy and music, but also drama. Why is that?
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What’s Wrong With The American Symphony?
What’s wrong with the American symphony? I think we can find the answers in this season’s schedule for the Symphony of Southeast Texas in Beaumont. The season begins on Sept. 17 with a performance
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Snapshots Of The Flood
There are always a good number of brilliant writers around. But even the most brilliant can’t do justice to a full-scale disaster right after it happens. With the Louisiana Flood, as with Hurricane Katrina,
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Geek Championship
I’m a couple of decades too old to know what the word on the street is. But I have an army of young fans who keep me completely up to date on developments as
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‘I’m 100 Percent About It’
Rusty Metoyer’s ‘Nouveau Zydeco’ Keeps Old Family Traditions Alive Story By Brad Goins • Photos By Lindsey Janies Of his second zydeco CD, In Due Time, Rusty Metoyer says, “I’ve been pushing it hard.” Part of his devotion
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10 Cloverfield Lane
By complete serendipity, which is a fancy word for chance or coincidence, I found another film that — like True Detective — mentions Lake Charles quite often (although, as with True Detective, I’m not
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THE PROVING GROUND
Fort Polk Celebrates 75 Years As America’s Premier Training Facility For Harsh Conditions By Brad Goins On Dec. 7, 1941, Japan conducted a massive attack on Pearl Harbor that would ensure that the United States
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Life And Legends
Local writer Jennifer Reeser has contributed heavily to the new edition of the poetry periodical Life and Legends. Reeser contributes three original poems, as well as two of her translations of formulas used by
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Calcasieu Serialfest
There are three words the Up Fronter loves more than any others: “Mill Creek Entertainment.” Mill Creek is the company that’s released many DVD sets of 50 low-budget films in the horror, sci-fi and
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