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Richard Linklater is a Texan, make no mistake about that.

One thing that is synonymous with the Zulu parade is the Zulu coconut. The coveted Mardi Gras throw is something everyone wants to walk away with.

The California company that purchased the Tivoli Place apartment building on St. Charles Avenue in New Orleans has plans to spend $35 million rehabilitating the historic building.

BATON ROUGE - Friday Night, the Krewe of Artemis will roll through Downtown Baton Rouge. Twenty-two floats will be in the parade, which features more than 30 schools and organizations. The krewe captain and founder Joanne Harvey says its been amazing to watch the community show up over the last 23 years.

If you are a Southerner — or your parents were — it is almost certain you grew up with this mythology in your home, your school and your church. Challenging that story may seem to challenge everything.

NEW ORLEANS — I recently revisited the city of New Orleans, 45 years after receiving my last academic degree from Tulane University. In my first report, I wrote about the opera Blue that we attended there, as well as a visit to the Laura Plantation a few miles up the Mississippi River.

The building was designed by the noted architectural firm Curtis and Davis.

This is in response to Diane Berthelots recent letter on the LSU rape case.

From Bonnie and Clyde to Upstairs Lounge mass murder to the assassination of Huey P. Long, take a look back in time on Friday the 13th.

Confederate monuments started to go up across Virginia at a time when lynching cases were peaking and the state enacted a constitution that disenfranchised Black voters.