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The feasting of Thanksgiving behind us, it's time to look ahead to the celebration of Christmas and seasonal events sponsored by area churches and organizations.
Anyway, the wife has been assigned the task of creating a rich cornbread dressing for the bird. She started early, assembling the ingredients, and it is barely an exaggeration that we had to drive out of state to find some of them.
Construction of the first phase of a new wetlands education center in Houma should be complete by early fall. "Rain has sort of pushed our schedule back, and so we're looking at more of a substantial completion being done in August -- fingers crossed," said Jonathan Foret, executive director of the South Louisiana Wetlands Discovery Center. "If we have weeks and weeks of rain and hurricanes and things like that, then that could back us up a little bit more." The center, on 2.4 acres at 86 Valhi Blvd, near the Houma-Terrebonne Civic Center, broke ground in January. At the time, officials had...
The Rougarou Fest, one of Houma-Thibodaux's largest annual events, has unveiled this year's commemorative poster, created by a Los Angeles-based artist whose body painting has been celebrated around the world. Pashur House has been called "the Picasso of body painting." His poster depicts the mythical, werewolf-like Rougarou strutting through cypress forest surrounded by other swamp dwellers like Beignet the nutria, a guitar-playing alligator and a costumed owl dubbed the "Rougarou Queen." Scheduled Oct. 22-24, the Halloween-themed festival steeped in Cajun lore attracts thousands to dow...
LA SAFE's goal is not just to respond to the crisis, but to give residents agency and hope.