Where Y'at

The southern coast of Louisiana is being lost with the ebb and flow of the Gulf of Mexico; that is indisputable. The most popular way to help people envision that is saying that "Louisiana loses one football field worth of land every 100 minutes." However, why that land is eroding so quickly is hotly debated, and the time that it takes to cut through all the red tape brings more delays to trying to stop the damage. Though more and more...

For those living under a rock, one of New Orleans' main claims to world renown has been its local cuisine, whether it is Creole, Cajun, Soul, or anything in-between. But what makes so many people love New Orleans food? The most obvious answer to that would be the flavor. But what makes the flavor unique? You'll get a different answer depending on whom you ask. My answer, and I'm thinking a lot of locals' answer as well, to that question...

Alvin Schwartz's classic children's horror anthology Scary Stories To Tell in the Dark gets a reasonably fun big-screen adaptation from director Andre Ovredal.
The challenge in adapting book to film is that the stories are all too short even to make a Creepshow or The Twilight Zone style anthology movie. So, screenwriters Dan & Kevin Hageman and Guillermo Del Toro structured a story around five kids in 1968 (led by...

The Kitchen had the makings of an interesting take on mobster movies, but something went wrong somewhere despite good performances and a credible recreation of the 1970s.
The film is set in New York City's Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of 1978, and Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish and Elisabeth Moss play the wives of three of the dumbest low-life Irish criminals on the planet. These guys bungle a robbery and go to the...