Louisiana Illuminator
âThis is hallowed groundâÂ
Sybil Morial admires the first marker for the Louisiana Civil Rights Trail unveiled May 3 at Dooky Chase s Restaurant in New Orleans. The trail is a project of the Louisiana Office of Tourism led by Louisiana Lt. Governor Billy Nungesser (pink tie). The markers, shaped like a person carrying a protest sign, were designed by artist Ernest M. English (white jacket). (Screenshot of video from Louisiana Office of Tourism) NEW ORLEANS â Last month, as her audience lunched on fried chicken and mustard greens, Sybil Morial summarized why the first marker for the Louisiana Civil Rights Trail was installed outside the dining roomâs door, in front of Dooky Chaseâs Restaurant.
Bunny Matthews, cartoonist & creator of Vic and Nat’ly, dies at 70
A self-taught artist, Matthews created the fictional New Orleans Yat couple for The Times-Picayune 40 years ago and was also a talented music & feature writer. Author: Dominic Massa / WWL-TV Updated: 12:50 PM CDT June 1, 2021
NEW ORLEANS Bunny Matthews, the prolific New Orleans cartoonist and writer whose iconic Vic and Nat’ly characters illustrated the dialects and quirks of the city’s people for more than 40 years, died Tuesday of complications from cancer. He was 70.
Matthews was diagnosed with a form of brain cancer in 2015. Complications from surgery to remove a tumor in his skull left him with a stroke-like paralysis. He recovered and his cancer went into remission but he suffered more setbacks. His wife Debbie was diagnosed with an aggressive glioblastoma in 2017 and died the following year. When Matthews’ disease returned soon after, his son Jude said
Paul Mainieri Announces Retirement from Coaching
Photo courtesy of LSU
Posted: May 28, 2021 12:20 PM
Posted By: Akemi Briggs
BATON ROUGE, La. – LSU baseball coach Paul Mainieri, who led the Tigers to the 2009 national championship and is No. 1 among active NCAA Division I coaches in career victories, announced Friday that he will retire at the end of the 2021 season.
Mainieri, whose collegiate career spans 39 seasons – including the past 15 years at LSU – will coach the Tigers in the 2021 NCAA Tournament should they receive a berth in the 64-team field. I have been the luckiest guy in the world to have lived out a childhood dream of becoming a college baseball coach, Mainieri said. I ve worked at four wonderful institutions, and it s been the honor of my life to have served as the head coach at LSU for 15 years. To have carried the torch of a program built by Skip Bertman, the greatest college baseball coach of all time, has been a tremendous privilege. It has alwa