By Nathan Coker
In Bayou Pages
Oct 1st, 2024
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review by Meredith McKinnie “Every time I remember that my mother is dead, it feels like I’m colliding with a wall that won’t give. There’s no escape, just a hard surface that I keep ramming over and over, a reminder of the immutable reality that I will never see her again.” Michelle Zauner’s meditat...
By Nathan Coker
In Bayou Film
Oct 1st, 2024
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review by Tabitha McBride “But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?” – Coraline Jones Though the temperature still hovers around ninety degrees in Louisiana, autumn’s refreshing breeze waits just right around the corner. Even if the weather isn’t cooperating, we get into th...
By Nathan Coker
In Bayou Artist
Oct 1st, 2024
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article by STARLA GATSONphotography by KELLY MOORE CLARK Natalie Armstrong loves juxtaposition – she is a collage artist, layering images on top of each other on wood panels. Her current works blend burlesque with the bayou. Natalie Armstrong loves juxtaposition, the concept Merriam-Webster define...
By Nathan Coker
In Bayou Icon
Oct 1st, 2024
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ARTICLE BY GEORGIANN POTTSPHOTOGRAPHY BY KELLY MOORE CLARK For many in our region – and well beyond – William Stanley “Stan” Humphries is a hero (and not just for football). Many remember his years playing football at Northeast Louisiana University (now the University of Louisiana at Monroe). There h...
By Nathan Coker
In Bayou Eats
Oct 1st, 2024
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article by Meredith McKinniephotography by Kelly Moore Clark This new eatery brings New Orleans fare to the Northeast Louisiana community combining down south ingredients and big easy charm. For Wendy Borrow and Faisal Ali, the restaurant industry is a way to give back to the community and be among t...
By Nathan Coker
In Bayou Health
Oct 1st, 2024
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by Shannon Dahlum, FDN-P Plastics are ubiquitous in the environment and in our daily lives. From plastic bags to water bottles to food packaging, plastics are pervasive. They’re present in many of the products we apply to our skin, and even our stretchy yoga pants are made with them. Once plastics ar...
By Nathan Coker
In Bayou Kidz
Oct 1st, 2024
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article by Cindy G. Foust Happy fall, y’all! I literally wait a whole year to be able to start my column with that. But here we are, in somewhat sweltering temperatures and we are supposed to be excited about making s’mores and watching football. Wait. I am excited about watching football, especially...
By Nathan Coker
In Bayou Outdoors
Oct 1st, 2024
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article by Dan Chason I miss my times as a kid where we spent our free time fishing, hunting and my other area of expertise; which was hunting for soda bottles. That’s right kids, soda bottles. You see back in those days recycling consisted of turning in the glass soda bottles or “Coke” bottles and...
By Nathan Coker
In Bayou Home
Oct 1st, 2024
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ARTICLE BY MARÉ BRENNANARCHITECT LEE LEDBETTERLANDSCAPE ARCHITECT BRIAN SAWYER When philanthropists and community pillars Dawn and Harlan Sager decided to build on property that had been in the family for four generations, the couple hired Lee Ledbetter to begin the design of their family’s dream hom...
By Nathan Coker
In Bayou Outdoors
Sep 2nd, 2024
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article by Dan Chason I can remember when I started deer hunting at the young age of 15. I borrowed a .35 Whelen rifle and embarked on a mission I knew nothing about. I didn’t belong to a hunting club so my hunting was limited to public WMA’s including D’Arbonne National Refuge. It’s fairly close t...
