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2018 McNeese Season Preview
Story By Rick Sarro • Photo By Jesse Hitefield If you say something enough times, it becomes a fact. Find your message or narrative, repeat, rinse and repeat again. It’s an adage that’s been around a long time and it works. Keep spouting off clichés at every opportunity and eventually they hold value. In sports »
Pearls Cast Before Swine
Love is a pearl. Other nice words too: friendship, loyalty, good intentions and sincerity, patience, and second chances beyond the count. Unselfishness is a pearl. By the act we acknowledge equality; by the best of the act we offer the last slice…even still hungry. Time is a pearl. We only »
A Night At The Symphony
My wife Cathy and I recently went to see the Lake Charles Symphony’s thoroughly entertaining production of “Shaken Not Stirred — The Music of James Bond.” The Symphony performed with Jeans ‘N’ Classics: a Canadian group that specializes in combining world-class rock musicians and symphonies to put on shows that appeal to a young »
It Only Takes One Big Bass
There is nothing like the very first time. Mitch Granger and Stephen Lane partnered up recently for a spring turkey adventure neither will ever forget. Mitch had scored a few birds previously, but never in the state of Louisiana. This was also his first attempt to seduce a gobbler with a call. Also, this »
What’s The Song In That Commercial?
I guess if one were looking for a single symbol of Southwest Louisiana, Community Coffee would do as well as any. Even people who don’t drink it routinely see the logo and coffee dispensers. There’d be few SWLAans indeed who hadn’t picked up a free cup at some event or public gathering place. A »
Lunar Eclipse
Dave Evans On The End Of Luna Live & The Expansion Of Luna Bar and Grill Story By Justin Morris Photos of Dave Evans by Chris Brennan I met Dave Evans sometime in late 2004 or early 2005. I’d heard of him. I had lots of musician friends in those days, some of whom had played »
Down-Home Louisiana Comfort Food
Chef Brock Granger’s Braised Chicken With Mustard And Olives By Karla Wall Chef Brock Granger, room chef at Ember Grille and Wine Bar in L’Auberge, is a SWLA native farm-boy through and through. Raised on a small farm in Lacassine, he learned to cook, as most people here do, by watching his mother in »
Precious Memories
They cross my Facebook feed frequently, someone posting a picture of the dearly departed, wishing them a Happy-Birthday-in-heaven kind of thing, and often, in the comments is a quote something like this, “…not a day goes by that I don’t think of you…” Both my parents are dead. I don’t think of them every »
Tio Juan’s Fresh Tacos And More
By Mario Pacetti A couple of weeks back, I had a chance to stop and check out the tacos at Tio Juan’s Fresh Tacos and More in the Evans Corner Store at 2211 B Ryan St. during a quick lunch. I had been in shortly after the venue opened, but I was just grabbing »
Any One Of These
If you’ve been tested by betrayal, by death, by meeting your flaws, and still you are, and still you be… If you’ve ever folded down, crumbled, all alone and nobody to impress, and in that moment you prayed a bumbling, fumbling prayer of bleeding honesty… If living has purpose… If you know who you »
