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Casket Crafting Monks No Longer Under Fire in Louisiana

Benedictine monks win legal right to continue selling handcrafted caskets

2005’s Hurricane Katrina is, sadly, old news for our media’s short attention span. And for that reason, it’s crucial that we continue to illuminate the storm’s diverse and detrimental repercussions today. The aftermath of Katrina is of Russian-nesting doll proportions; … Continue reading

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Beasts of the Southern Wild by Beinh Zeitlin

An imaginative, engaging film about the death of a way of life

In the opening sequence of Beinh Zeitlin’s Beasts of the Southern Wild, a wildly imaginative independent film set on the Louisiana Gulf Coast, a herd of Ozarks, towering beasts that roamed the earth in the days before the Ice Age, … Continue reading

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