Karen Taylor

Feb 1, 2025 | nola.com | Karen Taylor

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Jan 20, 2025 | nola.com | Karen Taylor Gist |Karen Taylor

Carnival season can be loud and brash, crowded and raucus, but the folks at the Garden District Book Shop in New Orleans have found a way to introduce the littlest krewe members to the traditions of the holiday in a gentler way. It's holding storytimes featuring Carnival-themed books, published by the local Pelican Publishing, in January and February. JAN.

Jan 19, 2025 | nola.com | Karen Taylor |John McCusker

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Nov 27, 2024 | nola.com | Karen Taylor

Holding the line Balusters are some of the more genteel musclemen of the building world, holding up porch railings and stair handrails and looking good while they do it. Unlike beams and studs and joists, the real structural foundation pieces that stay out of view and quietly do their backbreaking work, balusters are made to be seen. Part of their job, in fact, is adding some visual oomph to otherwise utilitarian features. How dull homes would look without them.

Oct 31, 2024 | nola.com | Karen Taylor Gist |Karen Taylor

In Louisiana, history isn’t relegated to books. It’s a tangible thing. We see and interact with it every day in many ways, but especially in our architecture. A new hour-long documentary by the Louisiana Architecture Foundation, “Ancestral Artistry: The Influence of Africans & Creoles of Color on Louisiana Architecture,” shines a light on how building practices and the master craftsmen who perfected them developed here by exploring the times that shaped the people. The film will be shown Nov.