Bringing it all back home
Lincoln Center CEO returns to revitalize BR Arts Council
2010: innovate or suffocate
For people who are naturally motivated and tend to be proactive, the New Year brings a chance to improve your life and to craft the “new you.”Clowns no more
The road to the Super Bowl goes through New Orleans this year thanks to the Saints stellar season.
Turning the bus around
CUNEYT DOKMEN, 32, Principal, Kenilworth Science and Technology Magnet School
Wearing her story
ELIZABETH HARVEY, 24, Storyville creative director
Barfield doesn’t disappoint
TIM BARFIELD, 45, Chief development officer for Amedisys Inc.
Holding it together
TOMMY SPINOSA, 58, Developer of Rouzan and Perkins Rowe
Singing the blues
SYREETA NEAL, 29, Recording artist
Capturing the action
PATRICK MULHEARN, 34, Director of studio operations, Celtic Media Centre2010 People to Watch
Portraits of nine Baton Rougeans—five men and four women—worth watching in the new year.
Painting is thinking
DIANE HANSON, 32, Award-winning artist
Timothy Muffitt’s pop music faves
Timothy Muffitt is in his 11th season as music director and conductor of the Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra, but he’s been a Led Zeppelin fan for a lot longer than that.
30seconds with Jamie Griffin
Next up for Progress Is...: Smaller steps
LSU strikes gold—twice
January 2010
Ravenous appetites
Hot mobile apps making life fun, easier
Baby rhino rare and beautiful
BREC’s Baton Rouge Zoo is home to one of only three black rhinos born in captivity anywhere in the world in the past two years.
This man knows what radio towers are broadcasting—by looking at them
To most of us, radio towers are background objects, like telephone poles or cell phone towers.
Q: What’s behind Lyceum Dean’s vault door?
A: History.What’s up at the LSU Lakes? YOLOboarding
On a blustery October day, a motley group of shorts-sporting, Teva-toting water enthusiasts raided the banks of University Lake to compete in YOLO Board racing.
Teen style with a purpose
The students of Baton Rouge Magnet High School will be host their 3rd annual charity fashion show, Spectrum 2010, Jan. 15th at the Baton Rouge High auditorium.
Jimmy and Susan Beck, Grapetree Bay, St. Croix
Long Distance
The LSU Lakes are dying. Can they be saved?
With a slight shove, the kayak slips the banks around Stanford Pier.
The game changer
The tedious life of an EA video game tester
Baton Rouge tries the coop
Tastier, healthier eggs are the goal of urban chickens
Healthy campers
Boot camps gain popularity, make fitness a group goal
Signature: Dr. Robert Muhumuza
"I knew I would come to the United States since 1969. I sat in my living room and watched Neil Armstrong land on the moon.”
Hotty Toddy
Sip
When burgers go gourmet
‘We wanted to elevate the status of the burger,” says Louis DeAngelo, owner Louis DeAngelo’s Casual Italian Dining.
Bottle and bun
Grape Crush
The Little Village on Airline
Hot Lunch
Enoteca Marcello’s
When Marcello’s Wine Cellar owner Gene Todaro opened Enoteca Marcello’s Wine Bar this past April, where the alternately loved and loathed Southdown’s Lounge had stood for decades, it capped the completion of an extreme makeover at the Southdowns Village shopping center on Perkins Road.
God only knows
New documentary reveals divinely inspired outsider artists
Starting the dialogue
Jewish Film Fest returns
Change of venue
When concerts are closer to home
They made pop records out of my Research Turtles!
Director Wes Anderson’s influential hand has touched the music world over the past three years.
Riffs: Chad Townson, local artist
on meeting a long-admired artist
See you at the Salon
Baton Rouge Gallery’s surreal event returns
Book Review: More of This World or Maybe Another
When Barb Johnson read one particular line from her story “Killer Heart” at the Louisiana Book Festival in her measured, reassuring voice, I felt like she had reached across audience members’ heads in front of me and punched me in the stomach.Three resolutions for a better 2010
Editorial
Don’t blast ATC for enforcing the law
The old Huey Long adage about it not mattering what they say about you in the press as long as your name is spelled correctly certainly is an arguable antidote.Multimedia
How to master the fish fillet
Step-by-step instructions for filleting fresh fish, which is a particularly useful culinary skill for those of us fortunate enough to live in southeast Louisiana.
Social media style
With our cover story featuring 25 must-follow Twitter accounts in Baton Rouge, and examining the growing social media site's impact on the local community, we wondered what Twitter might look like in the flesh—living, breathing, fashionable flesh. Prices are approximate, and price and availability are subject to change. (Styling: Erin Mehta)
Bad Guys, Good Eats! Pop-Up Dinner at Restaurant IPO
Chef and 225 contributor Jay D. Ducote and Chef Chris Wadsworth hosted the Bad Guys, Good Eats! dinner at Restaurant IPO Wednesday night. The dinner was themed around famous movie villains, pairing cocktails and ales with plates of food resembling famous baddies like The Joker, Lord Voldemort, Hannibal Lector, and many others. The highlights of the night were the three middle courses—a black bean soup laced with blood sausage to signify Lord Voldemort, a brace of coneys on black eyed peas resembling Sauron, and lamb medallions atop a fava bean puree to pay homage to the famous favorite of Hannibal Lector.
Summer Crush
Elizabeth Arkley Hammett, a local nursing student and Fur Ball co-coordinator, and her husband Grey Hammett III, who works in commercial real estate, will take you through our summer guide. And they'll look good while doing it, too. Where noted, their clothes and accessories are available from local retailers.
