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Sophia Maras’ collection is entitled “Multiples.” She incorporates mixed media, sculpture and installation. This piece, “Storage in a Different Place,” uses the repetition of cubes constructed with maps to explore larger themes of travel, place and belonging.
Transforming the Ordinary into ART
Somewhere in a back shed, Sophia Maras is collecting garbage bags full of plastic bottles and discarded grocery store sacks. “I’m like a bag lady, but I am not just trying to use them up, to expose...
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What's Your Line
Christmas Eve morning in the St. Andre household meant utter chaos for the next 36 hours. It was exhilarating, exhausting…….and insane. There was last-minute shopping for those evasive gifts t...
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Christmas is more than colorful distractions
I have many flaws. The greatest of which is that I am a fan of the University of Alabama. I am from the state of Alabama. I grew up thinking that Bear Bryant could walk on water; after all he ha...
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From left are Diane Doughty, Virginia Webb, Betty Coutee and Dallas Harris. Webb is a skilled florist and designer. She crafted the pine and apple centerpiece in the background. Melrose decorators use as much fresh material as possible. The house is adorned with greens, poinsettias, pecans and pinecone wreaths.
Deck the Halls

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Sampson, driven by Amy Hastings, was in the Festival of Lights parade. Another Natchitoches Carriage Company horse, Patrick, pulled the mayor’s carriage.
Horses find a home in the Natchitoches Carriage Company
By Amanda Franko-Tobin With cobblestone brick, wrought-iron balconies and clip-clopping hooves, the Natchitoches Carriage Company offers a southern alternative to the horse-drawn sleighs of “Jingle...
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Cookbook illustrators can take a bite of cash
Good students and good food, what’s not to love? The George Rodrigue Foundation of the Arts (GRFA) and the Louisiana Restaurant Association Education Foundation (LRAEF) are partnering to promote t...
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Scenes From The Parade

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Innkeeper accrues experience at newly renovated b’n’b
Upon stepping off the porch of the Maison Louisiane, guests are swept away by a feel of old world elegance. Dark wood shelves nestle modern tomes of literature, a stunning Christmas tree illuminat...
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What's Your Line?
Don’t despair if you didn’t get all of your Christmas shopping done on Black Friday; there’s still time. Here’s a great idea for a present and it doesn’t have anything to do with shopping. Many pe...
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Whatever the confusion, Jesus is about love
“For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life” is a well-known passage from Scripture. It comes from John 3: 1...
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