Fete Rouge gears up for 2010
Fete Rouge, the city's biggest culinary festival, is solidifying its plans for this year's celebration of the best that the Baton Rouge Epicurean Society has to offer.
Fifth annual Best of 225 Awards
If you want proof Baton Rouge is a town of traditions, look no further than the Best of 225 Awards.
Sustaining the arts in tough times
This year, the Community Fund for the Arts celebrates 25 years of making a positive impact on our community by supporting arts groups that touch so many local lives.
Baton Rouge gets countryfied
Baton Rouge celebrated its inner cowboy Memorial Day weekend at the inaugural Bayou Country Superfest at Tiger Stadium.
Planting seeds in a food desert
The Slow Food movement waters Old South Baton Rouge
Signature: David Joel Morgan
The key turns with a click, releasing a crisp sucking sound as David Morgan opens the door to the vault.
Rock-n-Sake
With its long wavy bar, split-level dining and splashy, pop art paintings from favorite neighborhood artists like TJ Black, Rock-n-Sake has made quite the first impression as one of several new businesses to open this year in the homegrown shopping and nightlife district blossoming near the Perkins Road Overpass.
Cupcakes and coffee
Are coffee and donuts a passé combination?
Summer sips
Nothing says summer like a cold, fruity alcoholic beverage, be it a Cosmopolitan, mojito, margarita or martini.
Red, White and Pink
Grape Crush
Dempsey’s
Hot Lunch
Kicking it new school
High Top Kicks sign with Dandy Kid
Red Stick Sounds
New compilation captures the many flavors of Baton Rouge music
Trespassing on intellectual property
The Movie Filter
Meet Denise
LSU grad thrives as a Tyler Perry player
Trashcan dreams come true
New production company targets green issues local and international
Character chameleon
Joe Chrest blends in with Hollywood
Art Melt goes to the museum
The Louisiana State Museum downtown is the new site of Forum 35’s annual Art Melt, an all-media juried event for Louisiana artists, on July 16.
Daytrippers
How two friends rediscovered photography and a love for Louisiana
Book Review: Mr. New Orleans: The Life of a Big Easy Underworld Legend
"Baby, I’m so country I was born my own first cousin,” is how Frenchy Brouillette describes his rural beginnings in Marksville, from whence he fled in 1953 at the age of 17.
An Anniversary for Dunces
The iconic Louisiana novel still engages readers, 30 years after it first appeared in printSix lessons of a disaster
Editorial
Second best
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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.
