Tickets are on sale for the production An Invitation to the King’s Ball at 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 17, at the Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church Family Life Center, 9700 Scenic Highway.Single tickets are $25, $40 for … Continue reading →

Robert Warrens speaks of the minimalist movement while considering his painting, “Wild Hog.”It’s a painting he created in 1975, when art critics were praising the genre, which pared art down to its simplest, more pure state.Continue reading →

A compilation of arts events for the week ahead.SUNDAY, FEB. 12Double Bass Fest: 8 a.m., LSU School of Music Recital Hall, Dalrymple Drive, on campus. Free.‘harriet tubman’ drama interprets underground … Continue reading →

TOUCH AND GO By Thad NodineUnbridled Books,$16.95 softcoverKevin, the narrator of this road trip novel, lives in … Continue reading →

The 6th annual Celebration of Writers and Readers, sponsored by the Friends of the West Feliciana Library, will be 8:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 25, at Hemingbough Conference Center, 10101 La. 965 in St. Francisville.Authors will … Continue reading →

What jazz was in the 1920s, rhythm and blues was in the 1950s, and hip-hop was in the 1980s, are what ragtime was at the turn of the 20th century: on the cutting edge, music played in not-so-savory … Continue reading →

LIFE UPON THESE SHORES:LOOKING AT AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY, 1513-2008By Henry Louis Gates Jr.Knopf, $50Americans of African descent … Continue reading →

A memorial service to honor John Dennis, who died Jan. 27, will take place at 11 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 18, in the Claude L. Shaver Theatre, located in the LSU Music & Dramatic Arts Building on Dalrymple Drive … Continue reading →

Lt. Gov. Jay Dardenne has announced the installation of 264 highway signs throughout the 14-parish Atchafalaya Heritage Area. The sign installation started in October and will conclude in the spring, a news release said.“The Atchafalaya … Continue reading →

The Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra will welcome pianist Anton Nel to the capital city for the first time as soloist for its Entergy Masterworks VI concert at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 16, in the Baton Rouge River Center … Continue reading →

Don’t take Ira Gershwin’s lyrics literally.Plenty of love songs have been written, and at least one is for you. Opera Louisiane will make sure of that on Valentine’s Day, because you can start the morning off … Continue reading →

Baton Rouge Community College will host its second annual Gospel Festival at 5 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 16, in the Magnolia Performing Arts Pavilion on campus. This event will feature prominent gospel groups from the Baton … Continue reading →

Bitterness has a way of blighting a life, picking it apart like a swarm of locusts and leaving little in its wake.Sadly, Troy Maxson is too narrow in his point of view to see it.Continue reading →

The West Baton Rouge Museum, 845 N. Jefferson Ave., Port Allen, will present the Flying Geese Productions’ Off-Broadway show The Resurrection of Harriet Tubman for Literacy, a one-woman performance by Melissa Waddy-Thibodeaux, at 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 12.Continue reading →

Drop cloths are removed, the neon marquee flickers to life and Club Swing radiates in the glow of its former splendor.For one last night.Because the wrecking ball will make way for the new, … Continue reading →

The Louisiana Art & Science Museum, 100 S. River Road, has scheduled several events in February:• 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 5, First Sunday featuring poet and LSU Professor John D. Pizer and poet and … Continue reading →

A KILLER LIKE MEBy Chuck HustmyreDorchester Publishing, $14 softcoverA serial killer is terrorizing New Orleans. No one has really … Continue reading →

A compilation of arts events for the week ahead.SUNDAY, FEB. 5ava leavell haymon poetry reading, book signing: 2 p.m., Louisiana Art & Science Museum, 100 S. River Road. Poet, playwright … Continue reading →

In celebration of Black History Month, the Louisiana Center for the Book in the State Library is hosting an event featuring author, researcher, scholar and educator Freddi Williams Evans.Evans will present her book … Continue reading →

Nonfiction CUBAN STORIES, ABOUT PEOPLE, TERRACES, FOOD, REVOLUTION, AND GOOD-BYES By Maria Martinez AenlleSelf-published, $10 paperbackContinue reading →

It’s finally back.In the LSU Student Union Theater, that is.The LSU School of Music will stage its Concert Spectacular there for the first time in, well, how many years?It almost seems … Continue reading →

MISS PEREGRINE’S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN By Ransom RiggsQuirk Books, $17.99There aren’t enough original ideas … Continue reading →

Large, small, powerful, interesting.Just when you thought an appropriate description escaped you, it starts coming at you in single phrases.Let’s see, Jesús Moroles’ work is new. It’s fun. It’s strong, and it’s musical.Continue reading →

The Baton Rouge Arts Market returns from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday, Feb. 4, at 5th and Main streets. The market features more than 60 artists from Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas and Florida.There will also … Continue reading →

If only Drew and Joanna Battles could speak to Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy somewhere beyond the theater wings.And well past the pages of every novel with Jane Austen’s name printed on the cover.They might … Continue reading →

The coolest part is when the rabbit’s face becomes your own.It happens when you lift the cup to your mouth for a sip of coffee or tea or whatever it is you’re drinking at the time.Continue reading →

THE MAP AND THE TERRITORYBy Michel Houellebecq, translated by Gavin BowdAlfred A. Knopf, $26.95; 269 pp.Originally published as La Carte … Continue reading →

If you’ve never boarded the Creole Queen in New Orleans for a scenic ride on the Mississippi River, now’s a good time.The paddlewheeler recently launched its Sunday Bubbly Brunch.From 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m., guests can indulge in a classic New Orleans style brunch buffet and libations while listening to the cool tunes of The Yat Pack and cruising the river.

A compilation of arts events for the week ahead.Sunday, Jan. 29salute to satchmo: 11 a.m. brunch seating, Stage Door Canteen, National World War II Museum, 945 Magazine St., New Orleans. Musical tribute … Continue reading →

The Opelousas Museum and Interpretive Center will feature works of art by four African-American artists for Black History Month. The exhibition opens with a reception from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 2, and will run through … Continue reading →

WASHINGTON — Photographer Annie Leibovitz says she has come back from some dark days and revived her creativity with a new photography project now on view at the Smithsonian American Art Museum that marks … Continue reading →

Mary Frances Berry, former chair of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and the Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought at the University of Pennsylvania, will speak on the topic, “Making A Difference Where You Are: … Continue reading →

Cyber technology ushered in new behavior standards and manners for socializing and interacting with others, standards which may even include crafting an online alter ego.A new theatrical musical comedy Virtually Me! examines this burgeoning dynamic within … Continue reading →

8 Fluid Ounces: National Juried/Invitational Ceramic Cup Exhibition will open Wednesday, Jan. 25, in the LSU School of Art’s Alfred C. Glassell Jr. Gallery in the Shaw Center for the Arts, 100 Lafayette St. … Continue reading →

The river is out there, beyond the warm hues of the stained glass and over the levee.And Rolland Golden has never painted it.He sits in the back of the House chamber in Louisiana’s Old … Continue reading →