Creole News

Longtime French Quarter resident and activist attorney Stuart Smith received the Elizebeth T. Werlein Award, the highest honor given by the Vieux Carre Commission, when the commission presented architectural awards last week for the second time since Hurricane Katrina .

The 2012 Opelousas Spice & Music Festival Queens were crowned last week. They are: Lady Opelousas Spice and Music, Elizabeth Landry of Port Barre; Miss Opelousas Spice & Music Festival Quee, Ariel Gradnigo; Teen Miss Opelousas Spice and Music Queen, Kenya Gradnigo of Opelousas; and Ms.

The 29th annual Mudbug Madness Festival is back and with a bigger dose of Cajun heritage this Memorial Day weekend - filled with around-the-clock live zydeco music and Louisiana's famous foods served any and every way imaginable.

Boiled, spicy and red-hot for summer, Mudbug Madness offers 80,000 pounds of crawfish to festivalgoers.

When you investigate the life of a rapist based on a decades-old case file, you don't expect to be confronted by the rapist's family member.

The social fabric of Mauritius is premised on a very strong conscious sense of multiculturalism.

The 8th annual Opelousas Spice & Music Festival is coming up soon. It's a blend of great Louisiana music, Cajun, Zydeco, Swamp pop and authentic Cajuna and Creole food! The festival is June 1st and 2nd in South City park in Opelousas.

The 29th Annual Mudbug Madness Festival will take place Memorial Day weekend, May 24-27, in downtown Shreveport's Festival Plaza.

I'm looking forward to my first meal at Restaurant R'evolution , and only partly because a preview of the menu, given to the media last week, filled nine printed pages of single-spaced, legal-sized paper.

Two weeks ago, as New Orleanians were preoccupied by the start of the 2012 New Orleans Jazz Fest , the city of Los Angeles was marking the 20th anniversary of the riots that tore through the city following the acquittal of police officers videotaped beating Rodney King.

LAFAYETTE, LA The community is invited to join the Bayou Vermilion District's Vermilionville as they celebrate their annual Creole Culture Day on Sunday, June 10 from 10 a.m. 5 p.m. at their historic park.

"I have been making artichoke balls for years by a very old recipe," C.N. writes.

Louisiana just turned 200 and all around the state, there will observances, throughout the month of May, which began with a birthday celebration Monday at the State Capitol in Baton Rouge.

Where can you find the sound of music by Mason Granade's band floating across Phillips Bayou on a perfect spring Sunday afternoon .

Those who saw mass migration from Mexico as a threat and those who did not all agreed on one thing:... As part of the state's 200th birthday celebration, Lt.