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This Saturday, join The Helis Foundation John Scott Center for another installment of Pass It On Open Mic Showcase. Pass It On has been an incubator for many of this city’s finest artists, spanning poetry, music, and visual art. eventbrite.com/e/pass-it-on-o…

Happy birthday Satchmo! Louis Armstrong was born today in 1901 in New Orleans. The seminal jazz figure grew up in a neighborhood known as “back of town,” near the present-day corner of Tulane Avenue and Broad Street. 64parishes.org/entry/louis-ar…

Last call! 🗞 If you want our special issue on Louisiana calamities and catastrophes, today is the final day to subscribe and get guaranteed delivery. To sweeten the deal, we're offering 5 issues for the price of 4 when you subscribe or renew online. 64parishes.org/subscribe

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie has played an important role in Louisiana history and culture, especially Cajun culture, despite the fact that Longfellow existed outside of Cajun culture and never visited Louisiana. 64parishes.org/entry/legend-o…

For National Lighthouse Day we're shining a light on Louisiana's lighthouses, which were among the state’s most visually dynamic buildings when they were built in the 1800s. 64parishes.org/entry/lighthou…

#9 of our 10 most popular magazine articles is "Buddy Bolden's Blues" by James Karst, which considers whether a simple vitamin deficiency caused the jazz pioneer’s mental illness. 64parishes.org/buddy-boldens-…

Today in 1903, ragtime, early jazz, and brass band trumpeter Andy Anderson was born in Mandeville. Though a relatively obscure figure in early jazz history, Anderson's roles as bandleader and composer brought him much local fame during his lifetime. 64parishes.org/entry/andy-and…

For more than 70 years, the Mohawk Tavern Seafood Restaurant in Monroe has been serving diners with an atmosphere that feels like a perfect time capsule of the 1950s. 64parishes.org/where-the-loca…

Today marks seven years since catastrophic flooding hit 56 of Louisiana's 64 parishes. The storm dropped 7.1 trillion gallons of rain, roughly three times the amount of water left behind by Hurricane Katrina. 64parishes.org/entry/2016-flo…

⚜New⚜ in the encyclopedia: An oil drilling accident at Lake Peigneur resulted in a sinkhole that sucked down barges, rigs, and 65 acres of land, and even temporarily created a 150-foot-waterfall. 64parishes.org/entry/lake-pei…

Clocking in at #8 of our top 10 most popular magazine articles on 64parishes.org is Francophone Louisiana, in which Christophe Landry teases apart the diversity of French spoken in the state. 64parishes.org/francophone-lo…

Today is National Acadian Day in Canada! (But we're celebrating it, too, for obvious reasons.) Cajuns are descendants of Acadian exiles from Canada's maritime provinces–Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island–who migrated to Louisiana. 64parishes.org/entry/cajuns