Mukul Verma
How to do Hot Art Cool Nights right
Five thousand people. Free admission. Government Street. This Friday. Here's how not to enjoy it.
New plants at lake have a purpose
Along the City Park Lake shoreline, something is coming back to life—or more precisely, being brought back. The University Lakes restoration project, aimed at returning the lakes to something closer to a natural state, is now far enough along that you can actually see it: wild indigos and primrose
LSU's Black enrollment boom
African Americans are nearly 20% of total enrollment. To make that so, the university got out of its own way.
The fifth of mayhem
Cinco de Mayo is not a Baton Rouge holiday. No one gets the day off. No courthouse closes. There is no parade, unless you count the slow procession of SUVs inching toward a margarita machine.
Forget Valentine's Day. Forget Pi Day. Forget whatever the restaurant industry invented to
The tap paradox
Baton Rouge tap water just got an A. So why do people still buy water in bottles?
Proposed St. George Schools: by the numbers
13,807: That's the number of school-age children in the City of St. George, according to a 2025 ESRI Business Analyst estimate. The East Baton Rouge Parish School System estimates about 8,400 of its students live in St. George.
The 5,400 gap suggests the city&