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May 5, 2024 | 
theadvocate.com | Jack Barlow
What sort of house can you get for $150,000 in Baton Rouge? Ask Lisa Clingan. The Baton Rouge real estate agent helped film an episode of HGTV's popular "House Hunters" show late last year. Her clients for the show came from Los Angeles, though one-half of the couple was originally from Louisiana. "He moved to California, got married, and he and his husband moved back to have a fresh start and live close to his family," Clingan said.
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Apr 22, 2024 | 
nola.com | Jack Barlow
Whether dealing with social media or unusual office spaces, Jared Lamb does things differently. Lamb is the head of school at BASIS Baton Rouge Materra. Soon after arriving from New Orleans in 2022, he heard about a problem: There wasn't enough space at the school for a conference room. "We're a school of over 800 students and we didn’t have shared meeting spaces or conference rooms available," he said. "I volunteered.
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Apr 22, 2024 | 
theadvocate.com | Jack Barlow
Whether dealing with social media or unusual office spaces, Jared Lamb does things differently. Lamb is the head of school at BASIS Baton Rouge Materra. Soon after arriving from New Orleans in 2022, he heard about a problem: There wasn't enough space at the school for a conference room. "We're a school of over 800 students and we didn’t have shared meeting spaces or conference rooms available," he said. "I volunteered.
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Apr 21, 2024 | 
theadvocate.com | Jack Barlow
Whether dealing with social media or unusual office spaces, Jared Lamb does things differently. Lamb is the head of school at BASIS Baton Rouge Materra. Soon after arriving from New Orleans in 2022, he heard about a problem: There wasn't enough space at the school for a conference room. "We're a school of over 800 students and we didn’t have shared meeting spaces or conference rooms available," he said. "I volunteered.
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Apr 18, 2024 | 
newsbreak.com | Jack Barlow
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Apr 18, 2024 | 
theadvocate.com | Jack Barlow
Chances are you've heard this one before. A Curious Louisiana reader is wondering whether Baton Rouge's often stunning sunsets have a less than beautiful source: Namely, chemicals released into the air from local petrochemical plants. Questions about human pollutants affecting sunsets are neither new nor limited to Louisiana. They often rate a mention when it comes to big cities, most notably that king of urban smog, Los Angeles.
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Apr 16, 2024 | 
theadvocate.com | Jack Barlow
This year's Baton Rouge Blues Festival has a powerful lineup, with plenty of leading lights from around town and further afield. The performer list is so strong that no matter who you end up catching you can't go wrong: Still, in the interests of mixing it up, we decided to highlight four nonheadliner acts that are worth checking out.
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Apr 12, 2024 | 
theadvocate.com | Jack Barlow
The annual Friends of the LSU Libraries Book Bazaar is, for local book lovers, a pretty big deal. Every year, people descend on LSU's Parker Coliseum to sift through tens of thousands of books across the event's three days. As expected, people started turning up early. By 8:45 a.m. on Friday morning a line stretched from the front door to about a quarter of the way around the building. More than 100 people were waiting. At the front of the line were Joe and Susan Phillips from New Orleans.
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Apr 9, 2024 | 
theadvocate.com | Jack Barlow
This month, Jack's Place, in Port Allen, celebrates 100 years in business. Every single one of those has been under the banner of the Saia family. Since 2018 the bar has been run by third generation owners Jerry and Jill Saia. Jerry, who said he had been around the bar since he was "knee high to a duck," is following directly in his father Sam's footsteps. "One of my goals was to bring Jack's to 100 years," he said.
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Apr 9, 2024 | 
nola.com | Jack Barlow
Dealing with a serious illness is all consuming. One nonprofit strives to give people suffering life-altering illnesses a much-needed break. Baton Rouge-based Dose of the Coast takes people dealing with cancer and other similar illnesses out for a day on the water. Patients — who are referred to as VIPs — can go on a variety of excursions, including fishing trips, kayak tours and sailboat cruises. Family members also head along for the ride.
