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The American Press compiles a list of entertainment events scheduled for Southwest Louisiana. The full list is published online each Thursday night while a condensed guide is printed each Friday in our Marquee section. The deadline for submission is the Monday before the publication date. To have yo ...
By Johnathan Manning / American Press
Michael Sarver wants his next album to reflect the roots of country music. The former “American Idol” contestant is planning on releasing the first single from the new album “I Wanted You to Know” on May 8. The release date for the as-of-yet-unnamed album, is not set. A 19 ...
By Lance Traweek / American Press
The Lake Charles/Southwest Louisiana Convention and Visitors Bureau will kick off National Tourism Week May 5-13 with several events in the Lake Area to raise awareness of tourism’s impact on both the local and state economies. One aspect of the celebration is the 40th anniversary of the Lak ...
By Natalie Stewart / American Press
Calcasieu Parish mayors walked the plank Friday night as Jean Lafitte and his band of pirates took over Lake Charles in an annual rite of the Contraband Days Louisiana Pirate Festival. The event began with cannons being fired from the shore to protect the city from Lafitte and his buccaneers. As ...
By Doris Maricle / American Press
JENNINGS — The Jeff Davis Parish Tourist Commission will put the spotlight on local tourist attractions Saturday during Tourism Day. The event will be held 10 a.m.-2 p.m. at the Louisiana Oil and Gas Park (Exit 64) as part of National Tourism Week. “We want to make people aware of tou ...
By Bill Shearman / Special to the American Press
Bonnie Raitt had an epiphany in 1969 as a college freshman, much to her parent’s chagrin. Raitt, then at Radcliffe, met 65-year-old bluesman Dick Waterman and started playing with and listening to him and other old blues artists. She was so moved, she dropped out of college and moved to Phil ...
By Cliff Seiber / American Press
More music, new entertainment and updated food choices will be the signature of the 55th annual Contraband Days Louisiana Pirate Festival, said Penny Miller, executive director of the festival. The Lake Charles Militia will be gunning to reverse its record of failure in protecting the chief executi ...
By Doris Maricle / American Press
JENNINGS — Area youth will have a chance to take to the skies Saturday as Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) Chapter 541 hosts its 3rd annual Barnstormer’s Air Festival at the Jennings Airport. This year’s festival has been expanded to include the Pistons and Flake Hot Rods ...
ZACHARY (AP) — Zachary police have arrested a 12-year-old on drug charges and a Zachary man on numerous counts involving pirated movies.Police C ...
LAFAYETTE (AP) — Lafayette City-Parish President Joey Durel says he wants to sever ties with the city of Broussard because of bitter disputes wi ...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Neil Young & Crazy Horse will join Green Day as headliners of the 2012 Voodoo Fest on Halloween weekend in New Orleans.Th ...
MONROE (AP) — A West Monroe man has been convicted of negligent homicide in the death of his 2-month-old son, who was killed in June 2009.After ...
NEW YORK (AP) — An arbitration hearing into whether NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has jurisdiction to punish Saints players for the team's boun ...
Former McNeese State tight end R.C.
Slocum was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame on Tuesday for his accomplishments as the head coach at ...
The McNeese State athletic department finished with a budgetary surplus in 2011, the first time it has done so in three years.
That is according to U ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Art Monk of Syracuse, Dave Casper of Notre Dame and Jonathan Ogden of UCLA are among 14 former players who have been selected to ...
The American Press compiles a list of entertainment events scheduled for Southwest Louisiana. The full list is published online each Thursday night wh ...
Boomerang will open the 2012 Downtown at Sundown series on Friday, May 18.
The concert, set for 6-9 p.m., will be held in the street within the 600 b ...
Michael Sarver wants his next album to reflect the roots of country music.
The former “American Idol” contestant is planning on releasing ...
The Lake Charles/Southwest Louisiana Convention and Visitors Bureau will kick off National Tourism Week May 5-13 with several
events in the Lake Area ...
