Library staff Elizabeth Richardson and Mary Mabile demonstrate the art of making "Rainbow Fish" during a Make and Take Craft at the Ascension Parish Library's Donaldsonville Branch Wednesday. The library offers crafts and programs throughout the summer. 

A group uses beads to make jewelry during a program at the Ascension Parish Library's Donaldsonville branch led by staff member Amanda Hebert July 1. The library offers crafts and programs throughout the summer.

The City of Donaldsonville, the Donaldsonville Downtown Development District and Speakabox Entertainment will present a star-spangled event featuring a spectacular fireworks display and world class musical talents July 3rd from 4 - 10 p.m. at Crescent Park.

Come enjoy BBQ, jambalaya, fried fish, hamburgers, beverages, souvenirs and much more in a hometown historic setting overlooking the mighty Mississippi River.

In 2005 the Super Bowl halftime show was performed by The Rolling Stones, whose ages one can detect only via carbon-dating methods. This year the featured band was The Who, who are so old they looked and sounded like pterodactyls on Lipitor.

In 2007, Dr. David Dosa wrote an essay for The New England Journal of Medicine about a cat at the Steere House nursing home in Providence, R.I., who apparently had the ability to sense when a patient was going to die. The media picked up the story and almost overnight, Oscar the cat became an international phenomenon.

It feels like a bit of undead overload to be reviewing “Zombieland” so soon after writing about the zombie flick “Pontypool” in this space, but while “Pontypool” is a nasty little thriller, “Zombieland” — despite the occasional burst of violence — is definitely a comedy.

Thought, scribbles and stolen text-message jokes regarding Super Bowl XXVLXVIXCSI, which ended in a satisfying win for an iconic American city that has endured unfathomable hardships.

A class act from beginning to end, “The Last Station” chronicles a late-in-life period of Leo Tolstoy, most of it taking place in and around the vast country estate of the then “most celebrated writer in the world.”

Can you imagine being stuck 50 feet up on a chairlift? Now imagine that everyone but you and your two friends have gone home and won’t return for four days at the earliest. Oh, and there’s a blizzard bearing down and hungry wolves licking their chops in hopes that you’re foolish enough to jump.

It was easy to get swept away in the pure romance of “Dear John” until the wheels fell off in the last act.

When a guy in the audience threw up, Adam Green knew his movie was a success.

To soothe what ails his aching psyche, Barry Kerch needs no antidepressant pill or psychiatrist's couch - just a drum kit and concert stage. The prescription of live rock also aids other members of Shinedown. Their emotion-roiling songs not only please fans but serve as a catharsis for the quartet, whose personal foibles often serve as inspiration for lyrics. For them, a live concert functions as a massive support group that helps Shinedown shed angst.

Maybe it’s because I’m a dad myself, but flicks with vengeful fathers have been added to my list of not-so-guilty popcorn-movie pleasures.

Taylor Swift is talented (more so for her songwriting), but c’mon people. She is not very good live. In fact, her Grammy performance Sunday was anything but swift. I was embarrassed for Stevie Nicks. Swift ruined “Rhiannon” by singing off-key.

Oscar nominees Christopher Plummer and Helen Mirren chew the scenery at will in "The Last Station," an account of the final year in the life of “War and Peace” author Leo Tolstoy.