Couture de la Fleur stuns with live flower fashion show

Couture de la Fleur stuns with live flower fashion show

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Brielle Pourciau, a textile, apparel design and merchandising junior, shows off her gown during Couture de la Fleur, where fashion meets flora, hosted by the LSU College of Agriculture and Mendel University of the Czech Republic at the LSU AgCenter Botanic Gardens on Oct. 11, 2017. (Kate Roy/The Daily Reveille)

The Daily Reveille | October 12, 2017

An event feature on Couture de la Fleur, a floral-inspired fashion show hosted by LSU in partnership with the Mendel University of the Czech Republic. Students from LSU and the Mendel University designed runway looks using fresh flora and fauna, including bromelias, Spanish moss and chrysanthemums.

 

Local barber and LSU Museum of Art work to improve youth literacy

Local barber and LSU Museum of Art work to improve youth literacy

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The Museum of Art outreach program, Line 4 Line, lets Jeremiah read a book in exchange for a free haircut on Monday, Oct. 2, 2017 at O’Neil’s Barber and Beauty Shop on Acadian Thruway. (Isabella Allen/The Daily Reveille)

The Daily Reveille | October 5, 2017

A local interest feature on O’Neil Curtis, a local barber, and his literacy and arts nonprofit Line 4 Line. The nonprofit originated from a partnership with the LSU Museum of Art, who continue to supplement the program’s literacy elements with arts education.

Boogie Nights: Since childhood, Jonathon ‘Boogie’ Long has worked for the title ‘King of the Blues’

Boogie Nights: Since childhood, Jonathon ‘Boogie’ Long has worked for the title ‘King of the Blues’

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(Sean Gasser/DIG Baton Rouge)

Cover feature I wrote on Baton Rouge blues musician Jonathon “Boogie” Long, who was named Guitar Center’s 2011 “King of the Blues.” Long is currently working on two new albums; the first is a blues album with southern rock edge and the second is more of a slow burn, a soul-baring country and folk passion project.