📅 Baton Rouge: Week at a Glance | July 13–19
Why it matters: A consequential week for City-Brooks Park, a packed Saturday and Brit Floyd closes out Sunday night at the River Center.
🗓️ Wednesday, July 15
🍷 Taste Like a Somme—Teaching Kitchen at Main Street Market—6:30 p.m.
- BREADA's Summer Culinary Series continues with Level 3 Sommelier Scott Higgins leading an intimate wine-evaluation class featuring curated charcuterie with seasonal farmers-market ingredients. Limited to 20 guests. $100 per person; $175 per couple. Tickets at breada.org.
🗓️ Friday, July 17
🔍 The Dinner Detective: True Crime Murder Mystery Dinner Show—6-9 p.m. 📍 Crowne Plaza Executive Center, 4728 Constitution Ave.
- Actors hidden among the audience in a present-day true crime mystery—interactive, unscripted and adults only. Tickets from $61.99 at thedinnerdetective.com.
🔠Friday Night Lecture + Evening Sky Viewing—7:30 p.m. 📍 BREC Highland Road Park Observatory, 13800 Highland Road
- Free public astronomy lecture at 7:30 p.m. followed by open sky viewing through BREC's telescopes at 8:30 p.m. Ages 6 and up. Free. Details at hrpo.lsu.edu.
🗓️ Saturday, July 18
🌿 Birding at Burden—7–9 a.m. 📍 LSU AgCenter Botanic Gardens at Burden, 4560 Essen Lane
- Monthly guided tour through Burden's birding loops—320 species recorded on the grounds. $12.51. Registration required at Eventbrite.
🌱 Red Stick Farmers Market—8 a.m.–noon 📍 5th & Main Street, downtown
- Fresh produce, local vendors and community at BR's flagship open-air market. Also runs Thursdays, 8 a.m.–noon, at Pennington Biomedical Research Center.
🎨 Studio Saturday: Nick Bustamante—LASM 📍 Louisiana Art & Science Museum, 100 S. River Road
- Explore oil painting techniques, vibrant color use and creative process before the Then & Now & Always exhibition closes July 19. Led by LASM curator Beth Welch. Last chance to see the show. Details at lasm.org.
🔠Pink Floyd: The Dark Side of the Moon—LASM Planetarium 📍 Irene W. Pennington Planetarium, LASM, 100 S. River Road
- The Rock the Dome Laser Series continues with Pink Floyd's landmark album under the dome. Showtimes and tickets at lasm.org.
🌟 Plus Night—7–10 p.m. 📍 BREC Highland Road Park Observatory, 13800 Highland Road
- Monthly public deep-sky observation session through the observatory's 50-cm reflector and smaller telescopes. Free. Details at hrpo.lsu.edu.
🗓️ Sunday, July 19
🎨 Sundays@4: "The Monsters We Sometimes Become"—4–6 p.m. 📍 Baton Rouge Gallery, 1515 Dalrymple Drive
- Free afternoon programming from the Baton Rouge Gallery's ongoing summer series. Details at batonrougegallery.org.
🎵 Brit Floyd: The Moon, the Wall and Beyond—7:30 p.m. 📍 Raising Cane's River Center Theatre, 220 St. Louis St.
- The world's premier Pink Floyd tribute band performs a career-spanning set. Tickets at the River Center box office.
đź“‹ Government & Civic
🗓️ Tuesday, July 14
🏛️ City-Brooks Park + Lakes Community Meeting—5:30–7:30 p.m. 📍 Independence Park Theatre and Cultural Center
- BREC hosts a second public community meeting on the future of City-Brooks Park and University Lakes. Open to all. Free.
🗓️ Wednesday, July 15
🏛️ Rotary Club of Baton Rouge—noon 📍 Drusilla Place Catering, Drusilla Shopping Center, Drusilla Drive & Jefferson Hwy.
- RedEye co-founder JR Ball presents "The Challenging Governance & Finances of a Multi-City Parish." Open to Rotary members and registered guests. Guest registrations are due by 1 p.m. Monday, July 12. Details at rotarybr.org.
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