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JR Ball

JR Ball

Baton Rouge

JR spent nearly three decades shaping business and political coverage in Baton Rouge. He was executive editor of Baton Rouge Business Report, spent 4 years with The Times-Picayune/NOLA.com, managing the statewide digital news initiative.

Snap judgement

Snap judgement

For those keeping score at home, LSU and its boosters ponied up roughly $44,056 each time someone snapped the ball last Saturday during Lane Kiffin’s return to Oxford. Whether they got their money’s worth is a call for the governor and those eight-figure boosters in the

Get in on the joke

Get in on the joke

GWAR has turned fake blood, alien monsters and heavy metal into something approaching a cultural institution.

A mom away from home

A mom away from home

Rent-a-mom services are becoming the latest college craze.

📅 Baton Rouge: Week at a Glance | Sept. 21–27

📅 Baton Rouge: Week at a Glance | Sept. 21–27

Why it matters: Wednesday is the week's cultural fulcrum—Weird Al and GWAR both hit Baton Rouge the same night. Thursday brings the BREC Commission's City-Brooks verdict, Farm Fête and Jason Carter at Manship. Friday explodes with five simultaneous options. Saturday closes with silent film

Respect the Grove, by damn

Respect the Grove, by damn

Friends, RedEye readers and Tiger Nation, lend me your ears; I come not to bury Ole Miss—that's for Saturday—but to praise the Grove. Pray hear me out: Understand that the good people of Oxford will be mixing a cocktail of anger, betrayal and "Et tu,

Sasaki's conservancy call

Sasaki's conservancy call

A new nonprofit could run City-Brooks Park, University Lakes and Wampold Beach—if BREC, LSU and the city-parish agree.

Kiffin's the circus, not the show

Kiffin's the circus, not the show

History suggests a head coach's success is directly tied to the quality of his coordinators.