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Sound Designer and Theatre senior Devon Lamond (left), Director and Theatre senior Peryn Schmitt (center), and Lighting Designer and Theatre senior Adam Waguepack (right) sit in the audience's seats Monday, April 15, 2013.

Theatre students to debut original wordless play

By Kaci Yoder April 15, 2013

Amid dozens of borrowed, mismatched chairs and a couple of broken-in sofas, a few University students hope to create something as honest as it is unusual. For the past year, four theatre seniors have...

Michael Wayne Atha, known by his stage name Yelawolf, enters the stage April 14, 2013 during Groovin' on the Grounds at the LSU Parade Grounds.

YelaWolf walks off stage, refused to “keep it clean”

By Judah Robinson April 14, 2013

With an estimated crowd of 13,000 attendees, performances, festivities and crime commandeered the Parade Ground at Saturday’s annual free concert Groovin’ on the Grounds. YelaWolf, a rapper...

Lupe Fiasco

Groovin’ will include performances by Lupe Fiasco, Grace Potter, YelaWolf

By Judah Robinson April 11, 2013

Internationally known rapper Lupe Fiasco will take the stage Saturday night at the University’s annual Groovin’ on the Grounds concert, free for students and the public and put on by Student...

Blues Festival preserves blues history

Blues Festival preserves blues history

By Jonathan Olivier April 11, 2013

There was once a time when new, soulful music could often be heard in taverns and clubs in Baton Rouge as musicians crafted innovative songs and styles that weren’t heard anywhere else in the country. ...

FILE - In this Saturday Sept. 21, 2002, file photo, Lilly Pulitzer reacts to cheers after the showing of her spring 2003 fashions in New York, 2002. P ulitzer, known for her tropical print dresses, died in Florida at 81 on Sunday, April, 7, 2013. ( (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Bright patterns, hues define Pulitzer legacy

By Shamiyah Kelley April 11, 2013

Iconic fashion designer Lilly Pulitzer passed away peacefully Sunday in her Palm Beach home at the age of 81. Known for her brightly colored dresses and unique prints, Lilly Pulitzer certainly left her...

This CD cover image released by Universal Republic shows "Overgrown," by James Blake. (AP Photo/Universal Republic)

James Blake takes dubstep to church

By Daniel Catalanello April 11, 2013

On James Blake’s second full-length album, the London-based dubstep-producer-turned-balladeer successfully blends cutting-edge electronic production with traditional singer-songwriting. The classically...

Frugal Fashionista: Outfits for a night out

Frugal Fashionista: Outfits for a night out

By Aggi Ashagre April 10, 2013

As the air gets warmer, there’s almost no better way to spend your weekend than at a music festival or outdoor concert. Luckily, we have great acts coming to our area for this weekend’s Groovin’...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., Thursday, April 4, 2013. Zuckerberg says the company is not building a phone or an operating system. Rather, Facebook is introducing a new experience for Android phones. The idea behind the new Home service is to bring content right to you, rather than require people to check apps on the device. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

Facebook Home depends on users

By Taylor Balkom April 10, 2013

The Facebook phone is almost here, and luckily, it isn’t the one we were looking for. Instead of the long-rumored dedicated handheld, Facebook Home is a custom launcher/home screen for your Android...

Andrew Pharis, President of the LSU chapter of the American Institution of Architecture Students, shows off the mustache inspired invitations to this year's Beaux Arts Ball April 10, 2013 in Atkinson Hall.

Architecture school to throw traditional end-of-semester party

By Kaci Yoder April 10, 2013

Combine a semester of stress, the promise of summer, a theme and about 300 architecture students, and you’ve got Beaux Arts Ball. A tradition of the University’s School of Architecture, each...

Blues musician Don Haney is returning to Baton Rouge to play and record an album with his band Don Haney & The Prime Rib Special on May 3 at the Texas Club.

Blues musician Don Haney will make return to Baton Rouge

By Taylor Schoen April 10, 2013

Thirteen years ago, Don Haney, a University alumnus, was at the peak of his musical career. Haney was a three-time nominee for guitar player of the year by Los Angeles Music Awards, he charted the top...

(Left to right.) Music junior Scott Graves, Interdisciplinary Studies junior John Trufant, Mass Communications junior Andrew Vorniak, and Civil Engineering junior Dom Dejuilio are members of the Levee Daze Band. They will be playing during Grooving on the Grounds on LSU's campus.

Baton Rouge band Levee Daze to open at Groovin’

By Daniel Catalanello April 10, 2013

When Baton Rouge-based band Levee Daze signed up for Battle of the Bands last semester, the members didn’t realize they would end up playing on the same stage as Lupe Fiasco because of it. The band...

Trae Patton/NBC/Associated Press Andrew Rannells as Bryan, left, and Justin Bartha as David in a scene from “The New Normal,” premiering Sept. 11, on NBC.

LGBT television characters lack quality representation

By Marie Chaney April 8, 2013

At the launch of the 2012-13 television season, GLAAD estimated that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender scripted characters comprised 4.4 percent of all scripted series regular characters on the five...