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Spring In Louisiana
Dear Louisiana, you do narrow us down. Even with school out, you make us do math in summer, multiplying heat x humidity. Your falls aren’t official. It can still be 80 at Thanksgiving, and the only tree that does any leaf color is that pesky tallow tree, not even native here. If it weren’t »
The Pendulum Swings To Pink: The Feminization Of America
How It Was: 1960’s, my brother yelps, wasp got him. Grown men are near. Mr. Murphy, the oldest man, reached into his mouth and pulled out his spit soaked chew of tobacco and slapped it on the wasp sting. Positioned my brother’s hand on it, grunted, “Hold it.” That was it. Ten seconds. Back »
We Love You, Pumpkin
A Farewell To Brian Moore By Justin Morris It’s never easy for members of any community to say goodbye to one of their own. For the Southwest Louisiana music community, in many ways, it may never have been harder. We all woke up on the morning of February 7 to the news that »
Fruit Of The Valley
SHS Class of ’83, full of quality kids, my sister had hopes of giving the commencement speech. She came hope dejected, told our father that they’d “only” given her the benediction… Hear her father respond – – “They’ve chosen you to speak to God on behalf of all the student body. What could be »
Hey Mickey!
Mickey Smith, Jr.: Grammy Nominated Sax Mam, Music Teacher, & Children’s Book Author Story By Justin Morris • Photos By Elizabeth Medwick You know, I didn’t come from an explicitly musical family. I was inspired by the music my parents enjoyed and pursued it ravenously as I got older. I chased all of those »
Sharing Her Culture Through Food
Local Food Truck Sensation Hailift Li Has Won Hearts (And Stomachs) With Her Friendly Smile And Authentic Asian Food Chef’s Spotlight • By Karla Wall Unless you’ve been under a rock, as the saying goes, for the last couple of years, you’ve heard of Hailift Li’s food truck, Hi-licious. Li has become known in »
Do I Believe In My Book?
I have a marketing degree. Turns out I hate selling…things I don’t believe in. Armed with my college sheepskin, I ventured off to Dallas to enter the Land of Adults. I got a job selling. I was enthusiastic, until I realized I was selling 3rd best. There’s a daily death with that kind »
LVVRS
Hangin’ With Justin Morris I love a good mystery. I like an idea that creeps into the back of one’s mind and makes him want to know more. In an age of instant information, those little curiosities seem to come much fewer and farther in between. One such curiosity found its way to me this »
Cultural Appropriation And The Intolerant Left
Megyn Kelly was recently fired by NBC. The stated reason was that in an on-air round table discussion about appropriate Halloween costumes, Kelly seemingly defended “cultural appropriation” when she noted that wearing “blackface” or “whiteface” was “OK when I was a kid as long as you were dressing like a character.” Kelly will not »
Kennedy Activates Campaign Team
By Jeremy Alford and Mitch Rabalais An actual announcement may or may not be forthcoming, but various bits and pieces for a gubernatorial bid by U.S. Sen. John Kennedy are being put together. According to senior campaign staffers, Kennedy met with advisors late last month and has since cleared media consultant »
