The Parish Line: March 21, 2022Marie Elizabeth Oliver celebrates Women's History Month and shares a personal essay she submitted to The Current. Mar 23 22March 23, 2022Article at KRVS
Lettres d'amour: Red Brick RoadFollowing the path to higher learning and purpose, then coming home again In one of my earliest memories, I’m toddling around the concrete edges of the Girard Park duck pond, looking up at my father. He’s in his 20s, with a backpack slung over his… Apr 01 19April 01, 2019Article at My New Orleans
We’ll never let go: our obsession with the last Popeyes buffetA young guy in a Superman T-shirt soars out of Popeyes on the corner of Pinhook and South College roads, flanked by his friends in Ragin’ Cajuns garb — pretty much the crowd you’d expect to see at a fast-food chicken joint at supper time. One of the… Jun 06 18June 06, 2018Article at The Current
Why Carrie Underwood can’t ruin ‘The Sound of Music’Before I knew how to read, I could pick out the pair of VHS tapes by the rainbow-gradient pattern on their cases. Later, I memorized the shape of the words Sharpied down their spines. “The Sound of Music.” I didn’t care that the 1965, 174-minute… Dec 03 13December 03, 2013Article at Washington Post