Grade: C- For a video game to be great, it needs to be a perfect storm of many different elements. The gameplay needs to be smooth and dynamic, the storyline has to be interesting and the graphics have...

Grade: A- There are no contradictions within Schoolboy Q’s debut album, “Oxymoron.” The album is vulgar, aggressive and entertaining in a manner that only Schoolboy Q can deliver. Songs...

The spirit of Mardi Gras has flocked to Baton Rouge. The Spanish Town parade encourages people to fill the streets with beads, laughter and pink flamingos. The Spanish Town parade gained its name from...

Mardi Gras is rearing its masked head to Louisiana again, and for many it’s the equivalent of a fifth season. The trees begin sprouting dangling bead necklaces, and the smell of king cake wafts through...

On Fat Tuesday, king cake is hailed as the chief of all desserts. It should come as no surprise that its alcoholic counterpart, the king cake shot, has built a reputation as the king of all Mardi Gras...

Fans of Beck are able to easily to plot out his career in an array of high points. With each album, he has been able to change his style, moving from novelty rap to folk to orchestral movements to club-worthy...

Grade: C- Bleeding Rainbow trickled into the music scene last January with the experimental lo-fi indie rock release “Yeah Right.” The band followed that album this week with “Interrupt,”...

Cassie England was always a little different. Born with dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa, a rare and painful skin condition that affects one in a million people, Cassie never let her condition stop her...

The Gulf Coast has long been considered a hotspot for gambling, and for the first time ever, the Mid-State Poker Tour arrived in Baton Rouge to host an exhibition tournament last weekend at the Belle of...

For one man, the New York City subway has become a symbol for lackluster city humdrum. That man is James Murphy. He is known for his role in the band LCD Soundsystem, a recently retired project Murphy...

When the great outdoors are mentioned, images of shows such as “Dual Survival” and “Man vs Wild” often come to mind, but Louisiana native Coltin Calloway used his love of nature...

In an era when ironic and cynical humor reign supreme, Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer are breathing life and honesty back into comedy with their new television show “Broad City.” They held...