By Nathan Coker
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Jan 3rd, 2025
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Profiles by Meredith McKinniePhotography by Kelly Moore Clark BayouLife Magazine asked the community of talented makers to submit their hand-crafted goods for our Making the Mark competition. In the following pages, you will meet this year’s winners in each category: Craft, Art, Jewelry, Fashion, Ins...
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Jan 3rd, 2025
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ARTICLE BY GEORGIANN POTTSPORTRAIT BY KELLY MOORE CLARK After the loss of their son, Lindsey and Brett Braddock founded The Tarver Braddock Foundation to honor Tarver’s memory and to continue his legacy of random acts of kindness. There are times when an entire community catches its breath upon heari...
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Jan 3rd, 2025
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ARTICLE BY STARLA GATSONPHOTOGRAPHY BY KELLY MOORE CLARK H2Greaux has managed to grow into six greenhouses full of herbicide- and pesticide-free lettuce hydroponically, meaning no soil is involved and the resulting crop is cleaner than most grocery store offerings. It’s easy to go without thinking to...
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Jan 3rd, 2025
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REVIEW BY MEREDITH MCKINNIE “But at least she was married to the smartest, funniest man she had ever met, and that counted for everything…” In keeping with my current fascination with historical fiction, I anxiously cracked the new spine of Gill Paul’s 2022 novel The Manhattan Girls. I was intrigued ...
By Nathan Coker
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Jan 3rd, 2025
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REVIEW BY MEREDITH MCKINNIE “The first weapon I ever held was my mother’s hand.” I didn’t so much fall in love with Jesmyn Ward’s novels as I did with the power of Ward’s writing. She tackles hard, gritty subject matter, exposing the underbelly of American reality, and in this novel American history,...
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Jan 3rd, 2025
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article by Vanelis Riveraphotography by Kelly Moore Clark When Mayor Friday Ellis was informed of a group interested in bringing professional ice hockey to Monroe, he was skeptical. In his experience, it’s not uncommon to encounter people in economic development with more ideas than a plan of action....
By Nathan Coker
In Bayou Film
Jan 3rd, 2025
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REVIEW BY TABITHA MCBRIDESCREENING AT TINSELTOWN, WEST MONROE The night of the screening for Acts of Reparation at Tinseltown brimmed with excitement–it is not that often a film made in part by members of the community and for them makes it to the silver screen. Selina Lewis Davidson, the film’s co-d...
By Nathan Coker
In Bayou Kidz
Jan 3rd, 2025
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article by Cindy G. Foust Well, hello BayouLife friends, Romans and Countrymen…and Happy New Year to you and your families. I’ll start with a prayer of thanksgiving for seeing yet another year, my 12th as a feature writer with this great magazine. But, hey, who’s counting? I rarely mention the fact t...
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Jan 3rd, 2025
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by ERIN SHARPLIN LOVE | [email protected] The importance of etiquette has been on my mind lately. I am not sure if it’s because I am doing my best to rear loving, respectful, and happy children, or if it is the constant barrage of negative news and bad attitudes that we all come in contac...
By Nathan Coker
In Bayou Health
Jan 3rd, 2025
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BY SHANNON DAHLUM, FDN-P The urge to go into calorie deprivation mode and hit the gym hard on January 1st is real. If you’re like most Americans, you enjoyed plenty of holiday splurges and now feel like your body has paid the price. It’s easy to believe that if you just force yourself to go […...
