Picture a small building in the industrial section of Baton Rouge. Walking in, there is a small main office, a demo room and a workshop filled with tools. All of these spaces have a common feature: guitars...

There is a line between dance and performance. River North Dance Chicago has managed to erase that line and blend the two together to create its own style of art. River North began in 1989 with the goal...

It’s hard to imagine life in today’s fast-paced world without mobile technology. It’s hard to sit down for a conversation, or even a meal, when the possibility of being summoned by a...

New Orleans Comic Con is an important event not only for the guests of “the con,” but also for the many vendors who come to the con to sell their wares. Over the course of the weekend, a great...

Walking into the final day of “The Con,” I expected the crowds to have died down a great deal from the previous days. While the crowds were not nearly as large as the jam-packed previous days,...

At New Orleans Comic Con and many other comic book conventions, often the first thing one notices is the elaborate costumes that many of the con’s attendees wear. These costumes can range from classic...

For Wizard World’s New Orleans Comic Con, dozens of professional comic artists and writers descended upon the city in a celebration of the comic book world. One of those artists was University alumnus...

Hundreds descended upon the New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center this weekend in hopes of letting their nerd flags fly for the New Orleans Comic Con, a three-day look into the best parts of nerd...

Day two was a massive day for New Orleans Comic Con. The difference in the sheer amount of people at the convention center this day was utterly stark. At times the hall seemed close to capacity. It was...

Nestled in various corners of the New Orleans Convention Center, I saw at least five people who were the spitting image of the eleventh doctor, Matt Smith, and ten others that were trying very hard to...

This Sunday won’t be Evan Weiss’s first time in Baton Rouge.   In fact, he’s quite familiar with the city, as he said in a breathy voice over the phone, directly after a long hike...

First impressions count for a lot, and New Orleans Comic Con left quite the impression. Walking into Comic Con on the first day was quite the whirlwind experience. The convention center was massive, and...