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The Priest Who Told Patton To Shut Up And Other Interesting, Surprising, Wondrous And Bizarre Stories And Facts From DeRidder
The Biggest Pine — Ever! (Maybe) When timber men first came to the DeRidder area in large numbers in the 1890s, they claimed that a pine tree they’d located in the DeRidder area was the world’s
Read More »Zombie Mania
Turned Into Zombies By The School System, Two Local Educators Retired … And Began Churning Out Zombies Of Their Own Jeanice Thibodeaux Biondini and Charlotte Comeaux both devoted full careers to the educational
Read More »Down De Stretch Day Come
A few months ago, we used de racin’ term dat usta be de slogan for Evangeline Downs in Lafayette — “Il son partit” — which means dar day go. An’ dat’s what all de
Read More »Scary And Really, Really Fast
We’re living in a time when we don’t have to watch disaster movies to see suspenseful stories about fast-spreading scary diseases. My story on such diseases (“The Scaries,” Lagniappe, Oct. 2, p. 36), demonstrated
Read More »Gutsy Arts Move At MSU
Since it was written in 1999, Sarah Kane’s play 4.48 Psychosis has been considered one of the most controversial works of experimental theater. It’s almost impossible to believe that it’s being staged in a
Read More »THE SCARIES
Looking For Something To Worry About? How About A Rash Of Creepy Diseases? Perhaps you’re the sort who starts worrying (at least a little) when you here that a serious new disease is
Read More »On Maury Povich
recently saw an episode of the Maury Povich show. First to appear on the show was an obese woman. It was hard to guess her age; she might have been 30. She didn’t appear
Read More »Coastal Snow. Be Prepared.
I hear there’s been a little press around Southwest Louisiana about what supplies area law enforcement agencies may have gotten from the Pentagon. To bring a new perspective to this coverage, I thought I
Read More »ON HOARDERS
The practice of watching recent seasons of television shows on DVD or streaming video has grown in tandem with the decisions of several networks, such as HBO, Showtime and AMC, to lavish huge budgets
Read More »Score 1 For Lafayette
In the hypothetical ongoing rivalry between Lake Charles and Lafayette, the latter city just carved another notch in its belt. The first passengers from Denver, Colo., arrived in the Lafayette airport on July 18.
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