Louisiana

On North Solomon Street in Mid-City New Orleans, a big warehouse and yard hold stacks of old doors,…

By Nolan Frey · Oct 5

When a big-box craft chain pulls out of a market, the glue sticks and yarn skeins do not…

By Camille Roth · Oct 5

Plenty of people walk into The Little Needlepoint Shop in Lafayette needing one skein of thread. A good…

By Nolan Frey · Oct 5

On Saturday mornings in Breaux Bridge, people two-step between breakfast tables before most towns have finished their coffee.…

By Camille Roth · Oct 5

The Creole Nature Trail runs about 180 miles through southwest Louisiana, looping from Sulphur and Lake Charles down…

By Nolan Frey · Oct 4

A swamp monster is not the obvious choice for a festival mascot, which is exactly why this one…

By Laura Benton · Oct 4

A big-box craft store can sell you a bolt of fabric, but it cannot open up a jammed…

By Camille Roth · Oct 4

Halfway down the 700 block of Royal Street, a doorway glows red and blue against the old French…

By Nolan Frey · Oct 4

I have eaten at restaurants with water views before, but none made me set my fork down just…

By Laura Benton · Oct 4

A proper scone has no need for drama. Give me a tender center, a little crumble, and something…

By Laura Benton · Oct 4

The general store opened last year, but the community behind it has been here since 1937. I drove…

By Laura Benton · Oct 4

Thibodaux has a church on Canal Boulevard that many visitors compare to the big-city cathedrals of the country.…

By Camille Roth · Oct 4

Some Mardi Gras costumes stand taller than the people wearing them, and a few hundred of them now…

By Nolan Frey · Oct 3

Some festivals feel like a stage dropped into a park. This one feels woven into the riverfront itself,…

By Laura Benton · Oct 3

Out on LA-21 in rural Bush, a parking lot overflows onto the grass three nights a week. The…

By Camille Roth · Oct 3

On weekend mornings at the corner of Chartres and St. Ann, a jazz trio warms up while St.…

By Nolan Frey · Oct 3

Tiny trains have a strange way of making time disappear. One minute you are examining a locomotive, the…

By Dane Ashford · Oct 3

A wildlife rescue visit begins differently from most outings: the goal is not entertainment, but helping a frightened…

By Laura Benton · Oct 3

Dinner feels different when the walk to your table passes old buildings, live oaks, and gardens that look…

By Dane Ashford · Oct 3

Near Bayou St. John in New Orleans, a Greek Orthodox cathedral fills its Sunday mornings with unaccompanied voices,…

By Nolan Frey · Oct 2

Long before Decatur Street had a name, people were already trading goods on this bend of the Mississippi.…

By Camille Roth · Oct 2

The plan is always the same: pop in for twenty minutes, glance at a few booths, and get…

By Nolan Frey · Oct 2

About twenty minutes outside Shreveport, a small nonprofit observatory turns off nearly every light it can and lets…

By Camille Roth · Oct 2

Two floors of records sit inside Euclid Records on Chartres Street in the Bywater, and most people who…

By Nolan Frey · Oct 1

When Hancock Fabrics shut its stores in 2016, a lot of Louisiana sewists lost the one place in…

By Camille Roth · Oct 1

Some Saturdays start with a quick errand and end hours later with a stack of paperbacks under your…

By Nolan Frey · Oct 1

Some festivals feel borrowed from somewhere else. This one could only belong to cattle country, where show rings,…

By Dane Ashford · Oct 1

On the side of a church in Treme, a simple monument asks people to stop and remember those…

By Camille Roth · Oct 1

On Jefferson Street in downtown Lafayette, a small diner called Sunday’s still builds root beer floats, Italian cream…

By Nolan Frey · Sep 30

On a spring morning in 1934, a stolen Ford rolled south out of Gibsland and never made it…

By Camille Roth · Sep 30

Mayhaw jelly, beeswax candles shaped like bunnies, and jars of chow chow all share shelf space inside a…

By Nolan Frey · Sep 30

At the end of a long Louisiana highway, the land begins to feel almost optional. Marsh stretches toward…

By Laura Benton · Sep 30

New Orleans after dark feels less like the city is winding down and more like it is changing…

By Laura Benton · Sep 30

A trail drops into a ravine thick with pines plus palmettos that block the sun until the rock…

By Dane Ashford · Sep 30

I almost drove past it because the sign is small plus the building sits back from the road…

By Dane Ashford · Sep 30

Nothing prepared me for the scale of this thing. Photos online made the crawfish look impressive, but standing…

By Laura Benton · Sep 30

You only needed one skein of navy cotton and a size 8 needle. Then the shelf of hand-dyed…

By Nolan Frey · Sep 29

My trunk was full of homemade jam jars before I reached the third market on my list. I…

By Laura Benton · Sep 29

Two great fires swept through New Orleans in the 1700s, and one French colonial building on Chartres Street…

By Camille Roth · Sep 29