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Mayor Roach Honors Leaders in the Arts
On Friday, October 11th, in the Benjamin W. Mount Auditorium at Central School, the Arts Council of SWLA and the City of Lake Charles recognized the contributions of the creative workforce during the annual Mayor’s Arts Awards. Mayor Randy Roach presented awards to eight area leaders in the arts. Photographer Lindsey Janies, who has »
Creative, Collaborative, Local
The Beautiful Legacy Of The Lake Charles Civic Ballet Is Poetry In Motion By Brad Goins As the Lake Charles Civic Ballet moves into its 45th year, it keeps “a very clear vision of creativity …” says longtime supporter Kelley Saucier. “What is most interesting about the Civic Ballet is that they create »
The Last Ride Of Cowboy John, Black Bart And The Infamous Leroy
By Todd C. Elliott Nothing lassoed kiddies of the “baby boom” generation like television. Southwest Louisiana children wrangled around their TV sets six days a week to catch a small, Port Arthur-based, NBC-affiliate TV station with the call letters KPAC. Kids tuned in from 1957 to 1972 for the Circle 4 Club to watch the »
Grand Design
The Great Altar’s Journey To The Cathedral Of The Immaculate Conception Story By Brad Goins • Photos By Victor Monsour There was a time — long ago — when it was feared that the large marble altar in the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in downtown Lake Charles would never be complete. At »
JENNIE FINCH: READY FOR A NEW CHALLENGE
Former Softball Olympic Medalist Jennie Finch Trained With Local Ironman Dave Park To Prepare for The Aquafor Triathlon in NYC, Then Bested Her Goal Time By 15 Minutes By Karla Wall What does a two-time Olympian do to get back in shape after having her third child? Train for a triathlon, naturally. »
Southern Hugs
By Pierre Fontenot If you’re in the vicinity of my age you might have a similar memory of first-time realizing that a lot of people in America don’t hug each other. I know. Kind of like my grandfather, getting his head around the idea that man really had landed on the moon. Just »
Cove Lane Project: I’m Happy
You’ve seen de television commercial for Fed Ex about folks at dat company who are all happy because dar product got delivered to dar customer az promised. So de customer iz happy an’ all de employees say, “I’m happy.” Well, I’m happy I finally fount somebody who could set de record straight on dis »
The New iPhones
By Vic Wukovits It’s that time of year again, and on Sept. 20, Apple released the latest iPhone to the world. This year, we got a little something different, as two different models were released: the iPhone 5s and the iPhone 5c. The successor to the iPhone 5, the iPhone 5s is the »
