• ads

Features

By Cassie Livingston
In Bayou Kidz
Jul 29th, 2020
0 Comments
1155 Views
No Matter Where You Are article by Cindy G. Foust Happy August BayouLife friends and family as we continue our pilgrimage through this pandemic crisis. Anyone else growing their own food and stockpiling toilet paper in preparation for the apocalypse? Just kidding…my daughter and I have a small herb g...
By Cassie Livingston
In Bayou Icon
Jul 29th, 2020
0 Comments
8926 Views
article by GEORGIANN POTTS and photography by KELLY MOORE CLARK In 1963, Billy Edd Wheeler wrote “Jackson”, a song made popular in 1967 when Johnny Cash and June Carter recorded it. The most memorable line in the song described a love match that was “hotter than a pepper sprout.” Anyone who has taste...
By Cassie Livingston
In Bayou Beats
Jul 2nd, 2020
0 Comments
2702 Views
If you have frequented live music events in Northeast Louisiana for the past thirty years, chances are that you’ve seen a barrel chested bear of a man, bandana clad, wearing a sleeveless plaid button down, jean shorts, signature work boots, shredding an electric guitar with a lit cigar in his mouth. ...
By Cassie Livingston
In Bayou Kidz
Jul 2nd, 2020
0 Comments
1160 Views
Let’s Be a Part of Changing the World, One Word at a Time article by Cindy G. Foust Happy Independence Day month readers as I write this month’s column wishing I was more “independent,” but, alas, I find myself writing my column as I convalesce in my big comfy chair. That’s right readers, it seems [&...
By Cassie Livingston
In Bayou Eats
Jul 2nd, 2020
0 Comments
2824 Views
This month’s BayouEats feature, SHAW NUFF BBQ, isn’t just a story of good barbecue, it’s a story of service to humanity. Owner and Pit Master, SAM SHAW, hasn’t just made barbecue a meal, he’s made a life out of it. PHOTOGRAPHY BY KELLY MOORE CLARK | ARTICLE BY VANELIS RIVERA I’m your Michael Jordan o...
By Cassie Livingston
In Bayou Outdoors
Jul 2nd, 2020
0 Comments
1633 Views
ARTICLE BY DAN CHASON I have often said that if I could only take three lures bass fishing they would be a Wobblehead, a Texas rigged worm and a frog. That is a broad statement when you look down the rows of a tackle store and see every wiggling, rattling shaking bait in every color […]...
By Cassie Livingston
In Bayou Artist
Jul 2nd, 2020
0 Comments
2780 Views
Serendipitous: that’s the word artist BROOKE CASSADY uses to describe the many moments that brought her to Louisiana Tech University this past year. Rather than a clear-cut path, Brooke has followed many offshoots that ultimately led her to settling in Monroe and becoming Visiting Assistant Professor...
By Cassie Livingston
In Bayou Pages
Jun 5th, 2020
0 Comments
1741 Views
NIGHTSTANDS & COFFEE TABLES REVIEW BY MEREDITH MCKINNIE “These crises and catastrophes had braided the four of them together, like vines around a trunk. Easy to believe those bonds hid no malice in their grip; easy to believe they could hold forever.” Holsinger’s novel explores the ties that bind...
By Cassie Livingston
In Bayou Pages
Jun 5th, 2020
0 Comments
1846 Views
NIGHTSTANDS & COFFEE TABLES REVIEW BY MEREDITH MCKINNIE “We’re submerged, all of us. You, me, the children, our friends, their children, everybody else…The plain fact is that we will be carried along by the Lazy River, at the same rate, under the same relentless Spanish sun, for ever, until we ar...
By Cassie Livingston
In Bayou Kidz
Jun 5th, 2020
0 Comments
1112 Views
article by Cindy G. Foust Happy June to my QuaranTEAM community. I hope this month finds each of you safe and healthy as well as your family and friends. Here at the Foust house we are doing what most of you are likely doing, and that’s “phasing” back in to our lives, albeit those lives […]...