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25/07/2025

Burden Museum & Gardens is a total hidden gem 🪴🌼💐

Here are some free ways to explore it, from StoryTime in the Garden to the annual Arbor Day.

The Burden property houses three entities: the LSU AgCenter Botanic Gardens, the LSU Rural Life Museum and Windrush Gardens. All three host their own happenings and come together under the Burden Museum & Gardens name for efforts and events. From period buildings and artifacts to sprawling paths and...

25/07/2025

Magpie Cafe: Perkins Overpass recently got a glow-up. There’s a new breakfast pop-up at Pelican to Mars: Pet Friendly Bar called Starlight Café. And here’s how you can get in on National Chicken Finger Day.

Tap for the local food news to catch up on ☕🍗

A new breakfast pop-up Starlight Café is slinging breakfast tacos, burritos and sandwiches in the mornings from the Pelican to Mars food truck. The collaboration with House Brew, Envie Smokehouse and Louisiana Sandwich Co. brings boudin, egg and cheese breakfast tacos; Porktoberfest burritos and ta...

25/07/2025

Campbell’s can take a sick day this time, because there’s a new spot serving soups that start with hand-pulling noodles rather than popping the top on a tin can 👀

Tap to check out Noodle Bowl, which recently debuted on South Sherwood Forest Boulevard.

🔗: https://www.225batonrouge.com/food-drink/inside-the-new-noodle-bowl-bringing-chinese-style-hand-pulled-noodles-to-baton-rouge

24/07/2025

LSU head football coach Brian Kelly told a larger-than-usual Rotary Club of Baton Rouge audience Wednesday that the Tigers will take the field this season with the best roster since his arrival in Baton Rouge.

“On paper, this is the best roster that we will put out there,” Kelly says. “It’s not just about names. It’s about individuals that are here through the transfer portal process to win a championship for LSU.”

—Reporting by Greater Baton Rouge Business Report

LSU head football coach Brian Kelly told a larger-than-usual Rotary Club of Baton Rouge audience Wednesday that the Tigers will take the field this season with the best roster since his arrival in Baton Rouge. “On paper, this is the best roster that we will put out there,” Kelly says. “It’s ...

24/07/2025

Award-winning facilities. A collection of more than 2 million items. Hundreds of regular programs and events. The East Baton Rouge Parish Library is an almost limitless resource for local readers 📚

And it draws 301,029 of them—the highest number of active cardholders of any library system in the state. But there’s so much more to the library than cardholders may realize.

Award-winning facilities. A collection of more than 2 million items. Hundreds of regular programs and events. The East Baton Rouge Parish Library (EBRPL) is an almost limitless resource for local readers. And it draws 301,029 of them—the highest number of active cardholders of any library system i...

24/07/2025

New noodle spot 👀🍜 Noodle Bowl opened July 15 on South Sherwood Forest Boulevard, offering hand-pulled noodles made in-house daily by staff, including owner Chen Hai Wang.

Expect fried rice, hibachi plates, stir-fry plates, cold noodle bowls and, of course, noodle soups with savory broths and add-ins like bok choy, scallions, cabbage, beef, shrimp, squid and more.

Campbell’s can take a sick day this time, because there’s a new spot serving soups that start with hand-pulling noodles rather than popping the top on a tin can. Noodle Bowl opened July 15 on South Sherwood Forest Boulevard. Its triangular-shaped building is easy to spot right off of the interst...

24/07/2025

Things to do this weekend in Baton Rouge 🎶🍷🎥

Friday, July 25: Celebrate the release of local band Baby in the 90s' new EP at Chelsea's Live
Saturday, July 26: Join the BROC - Baton Rouge Orthopaedic Clinic for BROC, Rock & Wine at LSU’s Tiger Stadium
Saturday, July 26: Admire the talent of young filmmakers during the Indy Film Festival at BREC’s Independence Park Theatre

Catch a show Friday Celebrate the release of a new indie alternative EP this Friday, July 25, at Chelsea’s Live. South Louisiana rock band Baby in the 90s is celebrating the release of its new EP, Stuck, alongside Shipwrecked and Sunscape. The show will be opened by artist Evie Richard. The show i...

24/07/2025

Last week, Congress approved a White House request to claw back $9 billion in previously approved funding. Most of the funding package was intended for foreign aid, but $1.1 billion would have supported the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

For Baton Rouge’s WRKF, it means losing about $150,000, or 8% of its annual budget, says general manager Paul Maassen.

🔗: https://www.225batonrouge.com/our-city/arts-entertainment/wrkf-and-lpb-brace-for-funding-cuts-following-cpb-funding-clawback

23/07/2025

David Facey, the entrepreneur behind the downtown nightclub Violet and the speakeasy-style Second Story that sits above it, is bringing a Silicon Valley mindset to Baton Rouge’s bar scene.

The LSU grad, who operated Dead Poet before its closure in July 2023, late last month launched the Violet Nightclub app, a platform that’s as much an online hub for his bars’ patrons as it is a data collection engine.

—Reporting by Greater Baton Rouge Business Report

David Facey, the entrepreneur behind the downtown nightclub Violet and the speakeasy-style Second Story that sits above it, is bringing a Silicon Valley mindset to Baton Rouge’s bar scene. The LSU grad, who operated Dead Poet before its closure in July 2023, late last month launched the Violet Nig...

23/07/2025

If you’re looking for high-flying, gravity-defying fun in the Capital Region, trampoline parks have a lot to offer 🤸

Bounce, swing, spin, drop, crash and more at these local spots.

This story was originally published in July 2023. If you’re looking for high-flying, gravity-defying fun in the Capital Region, trampoline parks have a lot to offer. These indoor entertainment venues boast a variety of exhilarating activities for adrenaline lovers of all ages, and are a great way ...

23/07/2025

Late last week, public radio and TV stations nationwide braced for a threat that had been looming for decades: the elimination of federal funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB).

It will impact more than 1,500 public radio and TV stations nationwide, including WRKF-FM 89.3 in Baton Rouge and Louisiana Public Broadcasting, which serves the state.

Late last week, public radio and TV stations nationwide braced for a threat that had been looming for decades: the elimination of federal funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). It finally happened Thursday, July 17, when Congress approved a White House request to claw back $9 bi...