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u/nibot · 18 pointsr/Louisiana

One of the main things to do in Baton Rouge is to eat delicious food.

  • Enjoy exploring Louisiana Creole cuisine (surprisingly great Wikipedia article!) and Cajun cuisine. Two favorites: blackened redfish, and bread pudding.
  • Eat the incredible seafood poboy (get it with sprouts, and hashbrowns on the side; apply tabasco liberally) at Louie's by LSU (open 24hrs, usually--closed sunday nights?).
  • Be awed by the epic summertime thunderstorms that roll through almost every day around 2pm.
  • Visit the observation deck at the top of the state capitol. It's open till 4pm. Prepare for your visit by reading All The King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (or watch either of the films--the 1949 film won best picture, and the 2006 re-make was filmed locally), a fictionalization of the rise and fall of Huey Long. Pick up a copy of the book at Cottonwood Books.
  • Visit the Louisiana State Museum (by spanish town and the capitol; free).
  • Try to get a tour of the ExxonMobil refinery.
  • Two local obsessions: Raising Canes chicken fingers and LSU Football.
  • Eat pizza at Capitol Grocery in Spanish Town, at 5pm (except Sunday). Sit outside and listen to some locals telling stories. Wander around Spanish Town and Arsenal Park.
  • Run/bike/drive around the LSU lakes. Gawk at the amazing houses.
  • Visit Mike the Tiger at LSU. While you're there, check out the special exhibitions at the LSU library.
  • Eat delicious food at George's restaurant, an incredible dive bar under I-10. Favorites are the burgers (the 'heavy hitter' with avocado), the pastrami and swiss on rye, the ribeye sandwich. Legendary for their shrimp poboys, though I have never had one. Leave a dollar on the tar-encrusted ceiling.
  • Play tennis or golf at City Park or visit the dog park
  • See the crazy snake collection at Bluebonnet Swamp nature center
  • Drink beers, eat red beans and rice, boudin balls, and hushpuppies at the Chimes by LSU. Tin roof amber is a great local beer (it's not on the menu, but they have it!). If it's your first time, start out with an Abita Amber and a fried alligator appetizer.
  • Admittedly it isn't Cafe du Monde, and, after being razed by Walmart, the neighborhood ain't what it used to be, but you can still get your beignet fix at Coffee Call.
  • Visit the new Tin Roof brewery (friday afternoons only) and enjoy free samples.
  • See a show and get dinner at Chelsea's, also in the I-10 overpass area. One favorite is the grilled cheese on foccacia; goes well with a blue moon.
  • Drink coffee at PerksGarden District Coffee (on Perkins Rd) or Highland Coffee (by LSU; always full of lots of studying students).
  • Get a plate lunch at Zeeland Street Market (by Perks). Get the lunch special. On Wednesdays they have the best fried chicken in town. On Fridays get the fried catfish with mac and cheese on the side. Best time to arrive is just before the 12:00 noon crowds. Closed Sunday.
  • Take a date to lunch at Yvette Marie's, a cute low-key restaurant in an antique store. I like the jalapeno chicken sandwich. If you're looking for something more traditional, you can't go wrong with their muffuletta sandwich.
  • Ride in the monthly Critical Mass bike ride with approximately 200 other cyclists through the streets of the city. Last friday of every month, 6:30pm, LSU parade ground/clocktower. See also the bicycle events calendar.
  • Go on a swamp tour with Marcus de la Houssaye (Lake Martin/Breaux Bridge), Ernest Couret (Butte La Rose), or Dean Wilson (Bayou Sorrel- afterwards, take the Plaquemine-Sunshine ferry across the river and eat lunch at Roberto's River Road Restaurant)
  • Read Cherry Baton Rouge to hear about this week's goings-on.
  • Listen to 91.1 KLSU (college radio station) and 89.3 WRKF (NPR affiliate).
  • Find the river road ruins south of LSU.
  • On the first friday of the month, go to Stabbed in the Art.
  • Some other restaurants to look up: Parrain's Seafood; Juban's; Roberto's River Road Restaurant (Sunshine, LA)
  • The Old State Capitol is beautiful, historic, and free to visit. On the river at North Blvd (by the Shaw Center).
  • Stroll on the levee and watch the ships (barges) go by.
  • If you are a civil engineering / geology nerd, you will enjoy reading John McPhee's book The Control of Nature (or read it online) which details the century-long but almost-certainly-doomed effort to control the Mississippi river. If this stuff interests you, drive up and visit the Morganza Spillway and Old River Control, about 1 hour drive north from Baton Rouge (maybe a bit shorter now due to the new Audubon Bridge). There is also the Bonnet Carré Spillway on the way to New Orleans. (Morganza is also the location of the "cafe scene" from Easy Rider; visit The Bear (bar) for some memorabilia.) Check out this beautiful overlay of some old geological maps showing the past courses of the Mississippi river onto Google Maps. Roadside Geology of Louisiana is good too.
  • The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory is about 30 miles east and offers public tours on some fridays and saturdays. Contact them in advance. CAMD operates a synchrotron light source in town (across from Whole Foods); you might be able to get a tour there too.
  • Get a group of friends together, bring a cooler full of beer, and go Tiki Tubing down the Amite River. If Tiki Tubing isn't quite your style, rent a kayak at the Backpacker and take it out on some local river or bayou. They have equipment that will let you carry a kayak on just about any vehicle.
  • Head out to Zydeco Breakfast at Cafe des Amis in Breaux Bridge (1 hr drive west) early Saturday morning (8am). Or the cajun/zydeco dance at Whiskey River Landing Sundays at 4pm, or their neighbor McGee's Landing Sundays at noon (also: airboat rides). Listen to KRVS 88.7 FM on the way over.
  • Tour Laura Plantation and stroll the grounds of Oak Alley Plantation. I've heard Laura Plantation has a much better, more historically-informed tour; skip the tour at Oak Alley and go directly for the mint juleps.
  • Abita brewery, about 1.5 hours east, has free tours
  • Feed the giraffes at Global Wildlife (near Hammond)
  • Get an airplane flying lesson at Fly By Knight (Hammond)
  • Go to Tsunami on the roof of the Shaw Center (art museum) for the best view of the river (thanks BiscuitCrisps). Great place for a drink! Also, check whether any events are going on at the Shaw Center or the co-located Manship Theatre. They often have interesting shows and films.
  • The Cove has this city's best selection of whiskey (thanks malakhgabriel).
u/Noladishu · 3 pointsr/Louisiana

By national standards, for such a small market, the Times-Pic (sometimes nicknamed the Times-Pick-Your-Nose) is actually pretty good.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Times-Picayune

It's won several Pulitzers. The Sun-Herald (Biloxi) is another small paper that's far better than it should be, given how small the market is.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Herald

Getting back to the Times-Pic, Walker Percy once said that it's a sorry little paper, but it's the only thing keeping the politicians from stealing the underwear off the people of Louisiana. James Gill is still there and is generally one of the best opinion writers around. Check out his book for a good history of New Orleans ( http://www.amazon.com/Lords-Misrule-Mardi-Politics-Orleans/dp/0878059164 ).

u/master-of-baiting · 3 pointsr/Louisiana

I'm in the same boat. My father's mother speaks Cajun French and English, while her older sister only really speaks Cajun, but my grandmother grew up getting punished for it so her kids weren't taught. My mother's parents didn't teach the kids french so they could speak in secret, more or less. I've been interested in learning, so I picked up Cajun Self-Taught by Rev. Jules O. Daigle from the library, along with the spoken-word audio CD. I had a little Parisian French in school, so the general mechanics of language and pronunciations are more or less there, and the book serves to as a great guide learning.

u/ThePaisleyChair · 7 pointsr/Louisiana

Movie: In the Electric Mist

Not the greatest movie in the world, but the small town politics, casual depiction of racial divisions, and influence of money really struck me as an honest portrayal of life around here.

Book: All the King's Men, by Robert Penn Warren or if you're more adventurous, the massive Huey Long, by T. Harry Williams

Louisiana's most polarizing son also makes a good lens to study the class and race divisions that exist in the state.

Song: "Louisiana 1927," by Randy Newman or the cover by Aaron Neville and India Arie

It was written in 1974 about a devastating flood in 1927, but it's all too relevant to 2005.

u/bobspelledbackwards2 · 9 pointsr/Louisiana

Buy this:
https://www.amazon.com/Cookbook-Louisiana-Lafayette-Junior-League/dp/0935032029
It’s Junior League of Lafayette’s cookbook originally published in the 70s or 80s. It’s basically everybody’s grandma’s best recipes

EDIT: first printed in 1967 now in it’s 30th printing

u/ex_bestfriend · 3 pointsr/Louisiana

Gumbo Ya-Ya

Which is a collection of folk tales collected from 1930-1940 for the WPA Writers' Project and thoroughly entertaining. I will throw a caution out for the blatant racism/classism of Louisiana in the 1930's, but it's totally worth it.

u/melance · 3 pointsr/Louisiana

I would highly recommend John Folse's The Encyclopedia of Cajun & Creole Cuisine. It's very expensive but it's enormous (850 pages and 700 recipes) and worth every penny because it also includes a lot of history and information on the cajun and creole cultures.

u/bruce656 · 1 pointr/Louisiana

This is the model I have which was recommended to me in r/coffee. I like it. It seems to produce a lot of fines, but they mostly stick to the sides of the canister so they're easy to scoop out. But I can't tell the difference with them included, anyway.

u/[deleted] · 3 pointsr/Louisiana

Pick up the book "50 Hikes in Louisiana", it's the bible for LA hikers. It lists all of the trails in LA with detailed maps and descriptions of the trails. Also, join your local hiking club and sign up for group hikes through local outfitters.

http://www.amazon.com/50-Hikes-Louisiana-Backpacks-Edition/dp/0881505986

u/DrinkMoreCodeMore · 1 pointr/Louisiana

A portable battery pack will recharge your phone 3-4x times before it's exhausted.

Anker 20,000mAh is around ~$35 and only weighs 0.78lbs. Easily can be thrown into your backpack or bag and takes up little space. It's almost 2018, you need to step your tech game up.

>charges the iPhone 7 almost seven times, the Galaxy S6 five times or the iPad mini 4 twice.

u/thomasbrasdefer · 2 pointsr/Louisiana

The other answer is a mish-mash of right and wrong...

Casinos have always been frowned upon in Louisiana, because gambling bad in Christian consciousness. For most of the 20th century it was especially problematic because organized crime took control of casinos, so they were generally considered a public nuisance.

In the 80s, Native American tribes with reservations had lost pretty much any kind of federal aid under Reagan. Some were thriving though: the California tribes that operated bingo parlors (broke people like to gamble), which California sought to shut down (broke people getting broker is no good for the economy). Tribes argued that because they live on Federal Land, not within the states, they should be allowed to gamble since there's no Federal law against gambling. The Supreme Court decided in their favor in California v. Cabazon Band of Mission Indians (1987).

When this became known, tribes across the country started to explore having casinos and it grew pretty fast. And at the same time, Bernie Goldstein, whose family were tug boat operators in Missouri, started to lobby state governments with access to federal waterways such as Iowa and Mississippi to operate casinos on the rivers. The laws passed in 1990 along the same template: gambling is allowed off-land IF local communities approved. Iowa, Mississippi and Illinois were the first, and Goldstein's Isle of Capri casinos were the first on the water.

Buddy Roemer passed the gambling control act in Louisiana in 1991, which only allowed 15 casino licences statewide, so Casino Rouge opened in 1994, then Belle of Baton Rouge and Isle of Capri Lake Charles opened right after. The "corruption" stuff comes when allowing casino licences - BR originally had one, but owners lobbied to have two (funny enough, now they have the same owner). The case of Harrah's is usually mentioned because one developer had money to build, but another developer (Harrah's) got the licence for New Orleans but they were broke. They had a stalemate, but eventually Edwin Edwards figured out that these were tourism dollars leaving the state, and forced the two companies to merge, Harrah's eventually opened in 1999.

edit: check out this book if you're interested in the subject: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0615847781/