“Star Trek Into Darkness” is like fan-boy fiction on a $185 million budget. It’s reverential, it’s faithful, it’s steeped in “Trek” mythology. It’s also an excessively derivative … Continue reading →

The Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra-linked Irene W. and C.B. Pennington Foundation Great Performers in Concert series has presented many great performances during its first 10 years. Continue reading →

Video games came of age in the 1980s, a decade that was also the heyday of cheesy Hollywood action movies. Thirty years later, you don’t have to look … Continue reading →

His mother told him to pass it on. And he did. He passed it on to his students who became teachers, and they passed it on … Continue reading →

It seems wrong to use a word like ordinary to describe any aspect of Jack Bedell’s poetry. His words are full of evocative metaphors that summon the smell of cane fields burning, the flash of a big redfish at the end of a fishing line, diamonds of light dappling a farm pond on a summer day. Continue reading →