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Writers' Guild of Acadiana monthly meeting will be held at 7 p.m. June 30 at Barnes & Noble.

Several local businesses are hosting blood drives throughout the month to help insure an adequate blood supply for our community and to celebrate 30 years of saving lives.

After his aides said for weeks that New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin's recent "economic development trip" to China and Australia would be financed almost entirely by third parties, Nagin on Wednesday revealed that City Hall covered expenses incurred in Shanghai by the mayor, his wife and four city employees and expects to be repaid by an unnamed ...

Jefferson Parish sheriff's deputies say two women allegedly stole $325,000 worth of books from one chain in Louisiana and Mississippi - and sold them all to one textbook reseller.

Book talk with Martin Baton Rouge Community College on Florida Boulevard will host an author book talk with Mark E. Martin at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 28, at the Magnolia Library, second floor.

Being a native of South Louisiana, I have heard the stories repeatedly of artists, writers and musicians visiting the state, falling in love with some aspect of our culture and heading home to pack up.

New Orleans Sanitation Director Veronica White has managed to keep a low profile since news broke early this month that she gave thousands of City Council e-mail files to a local lawyer before the city attorney could review them for sensitive information.

Tim Gautreaux, professor emeritus and writer in residence at Southeastern, has been named the recipient of the 2009 Louisiana Writer Award by the Louisiana Center for the Book, part of the State Library of ...

Adam Knapp, head of the Baton Rouge Area Chamber, told the Baton Rouge Press Club today that recent threats to higher education funding reveal a "deeper problem" with the state's funding structure for public ...

Art aficionados will have a chance to visit with a local artist this weekend in his studio.

William 'Saint' Barnett has published his first novel, 'Perhaps Heaven,' under the pen name John David Saxxon.

For readers, 2008 is a year to remember, with new books from such perennial best-selling authors as Anne Rice and Michael Lewis, the third wave of post-Katrina books, a number of lively and sure-to-be classic ...

For those of you with one desire to write but a long list of reasons not to, now's the perfect time to make that resolution to throw away the list of doubts and plant your butt at the keyboard.

Last year, USA Today and New York Times best-selling author Wendy Corsi Staub began a series of teen novels set in the town of Lily Dale, New York, the birthplace of the Spiritualist Movement and today a haven ...