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📅 Baton Rouge: Week at a Glance | August 17–23
Why it matters: Friday is the week's anchor—the 10th anniversary of the August 2016 flood gets a retrospective at the Observatory, Ghostbusters gets the roast treatment at Manship and the West Baton Rouge Museum hosts an evening of spoken word, art and live music just across the
PSC may go nuclear on you
The algorithm will see you now
With AI, Louisiana may accelerate its already aggressive strategy to get rid of hepatitis C.
Field of screens
Illinois is on a run. The size of its new scoreboard is a bet that the team will win many more football games.
A lesson in accountability
Baton Rouge's government is a maze. Chelsea has a map.
Fate of Mike Johnson
If the GOP loses in the midterms, the House Speaker from Louisiana is likely to face one of three fates.
Life after five
An apartment development on an entire block of downtown is inching forward.
The fast and unmonitored
Baton Rouge argues over red light cameras. Evidence from Ontario shows that cameras reduce lawbreaking.
When can we stop talking about Cyclospora?
You would think modern science could have vanquished the nasty parasite by now, along with public discussions of unmentionable things that happen in bathrooms.
Not yet.
The cyclospora outbreak linked to recalled iceberg lettuce from central Mexico has caused more than 6,700 illnesses and 11,500 additional suspected infections
Matt McKay, community builder, died after a long illness
A stake driven into the earth usually tells us where something ends. Matt McKay saw, instead, the place where something might begin.
That was how he understood Ardendale: an ambitious attempt to create a Baton Rouge neighborhood where families of different incomes could live beside one another—and where those
📅 Baton Rouge: Week at a Glance | August 10–16
Why it matters: Two new exhibitions open at LASM Saturday—including the Blue Dog's Baton Rouge debut—and the Perseid Meteor Shower peaks that same night. Friday is impossibly packed with a local film premiere, a flashlight walk through the swamp and a talent competition downtown.
🗓️ Friday, August
Goodbye Cox, hello Spectrum
What the change means for those still using Cox services.
School daze
The heat, the history and the Mardi Gras math behind an ever-earlier school year.
St. George zoning fight heads to court
Justice for a fee
A little-known justice system office keeps the legal system moving, but at a big cost to defendants.
LSU's ranked gauntlet
Let's admit it, the Tiger football team faces a brutal schedule this season. Good luck thinking that will temper expectations.
Live single, keep your jingle
Baton Rouge is the nation's second-most affordable major city for going solo. Even Carrie Bradshaw could afford it here.
Tide and punishment
You need a successful private equity deal to pay for the best seats when LSU plays Alabama
Chili, chocolate and the world's longest flight
Come October 2027, Qantas will fly Sydney to London nonstop, the longest scheduled flight on Earth. The airline spent a decade figuring out how to keep passengers sane for the 22-hour ride.
Nearly a full day in a metal tube is exactly as rough as it sounds. Qantas knows
Hot shot
Scientists just got their best look at the sun’s surface and revealed that it was hiding serious Van Gogh energy.
Astronomers released photos yesterday that were snapped by the National Science Foundation’s Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope in Maui. The images were taken while technicians were fine-tuning
Progress gets detention
Who can you trust?
Given the indictments, firings and very public fumbles, it's a question in search of an answer.
Cross the damn bridge
Plume is the best Indian restaurant in Louisiana, and it isn't in Baton Rouge. It isn't even run by an Indian chef.
The Partnership's unspoken truth
Cheesecake Lab has the formula
Start a conversation about carrot cake and the room warms up. Everybody has a favorite, and everybody knows the place that makes it best.
Mention cheesecake, and the quarreling begins. Cheesecake draws out strong—and strongly negative—opinions. It’s pasty. Gummy. Eggy. Too rich.
But even people who curdle
BREC plots retirement switch
Let the kids play
Louisiana leads other states; the law here requires public schools have recess.