Louisiana Life Magazine November/December 2022

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On The Hunt

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On The Hunt

many, hunting is synonymous with Louisiana culture. But there’s hunting, and then there’s upland hunting.

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vibrant paintings
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memories 18 HOME Sleek
views and handsome finishes
family
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your imagination 56 NATURAL STATE
Parish 60 TRAVELER The Louisiana Holiday Trail of Lights adds two new destinations to lineup 62 FARTHER FLUNG A weekend
the Dallas Arts
must for culture seekers 64 PHOTO CONTEST A striking nature show in a backyard in Reserve. 06 FROM THE EXECUTIVE EDITOR’S DESK The Greatest Speech 10 PELICAN BRIEFS News and updates around the state NOVEMBER/DECEMBER VOLUME 42 NUMBER 6 12 LITERARY
It’s holiday entertaining and gift giving season and we have a round-up of the best books (and gift pairings) for everyone on your list 14 MADE IN
Broussard-based designers Roz LeCompte and Collin Galyean drum up jewelry with a strong musical lineage 18 22 30
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The Greatest Speech

With the new year will come a gubernatorial election, a quadrennial event that is only out- rivaled by the LSU-Alabama game for fan interest. This year the attention should be especially high because Gov. John Bel Edwards is term limited. He can take a well-de served rest in a 50 yard line box seat and watch the players scramble.

We pause though to look back to an earlier election that is one of the most legendary. It was 1928, this year being the 95th anniversary, when politics changed dramatically and when one of the last great moments in political oratory was performed.

Louisiana was a devas tated state that year. In 1927 the state had suffered its worst disaster yet. Known as the Great Flood the water from the Mississippi River, as yet unrestricted by flood control systems, spread across much of the state.

In 1974 Randy Newman released a song about the flood called “Louisiana 1927” which included this poignant verse:

What had happened down there was the wind had changed/Cloud rolled in from the north and it started to rain/It rained real hard and it rained for a real long time/Six feet of water in the streets of Evangeline

That message was already reverberating in ’28 as candidates travelled the state looking for votes. Huey Long, a public service commis sioner from Winnfield had run and lost for the job before, now he was trying again.

He spoke in St. Martiville at the Evangeline Oak, where a legend popularized by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem claimed that an Acadian girl named Evangeline had waited futilely for her departed lover Gabriel to return. Evangeline became a forever symbol of broken promises.

Long seized the setting to touch the hearts of his downtrodden audience.

...Evangeline is not the only one who has waited here in disappointment. Where are the schools you have waited for your children to have, which have never come? Where are the roads and highways that you send your money to build, which are now no nearer than before? Where are the institutions to care for the sick and the disabled?

What a passionate paragraph! The audience members, I hope, braced themselves because Huey Long was moving in for the kill:

Evangeline wept bitter tears in her disappointment, but they lasted only through a single lifetime. Your tears in this country, around this oak; have lasted for generations. Give me the chance at last to dry the tears of those who still weep here.

Huey Long won the 1928 election promising, and frequently delivering, services for the needy, most often funded by taxing the oil industry.

You won’t hear speeches like the Evangeline Oak anymore. For one, people have many alternatives to political rallies as a form of entertainment, plus modern media have changed the delivery. Today, Long’s speech would be whittled to a 10 second sound bite suitable for TV.

Still there are voters looking for solutions in their lives. Promising to dry tears in not far removed from pledging that every man should be a king.

Louisiana Insider

Catch up on the latest podcast episodes

EPISODE 104

Love That Chicken!

You’ve heard the expression “love that chicken!” Well, you might like this colorful interview as well. Al Copeland Jr. shares stories from the new book, “Secrets of A Tastemaker: Al Copeland. The Cookbook. Recipes and Spicy Delicious Memories.” His late dad founded the business best known as Popeyes, which is being honored this year on its 50th anniversary.

Guest: Al Copeland Jr., CEO and chairman of the Copeland foundation

EPISODE 103

Learning About Ourselves – What the Numbers Say

Allison Plyer is an expert on numbers — not the boring kind that we may have experienced in school, but the fascinating statistics that reveal information about our lives and futures, as well as trends in the state. Guest: Allison Plyer, chief demographer for The Data Center

EPISODE 102

Shrimp Boats are Coming

Shrimp may be the most versatile of all seafoods. We crave the jumbo shrimp but small shrimp has a use in gumbo. We eat the crustacean fried, boiled, grilled or topped with a remoulade sauce. It is also an industry with its own unique issues and culture. Guest: Emma Lirette, author of the new book “Last Stand of the Louisiana Shrimpers,”

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EDITORIAL EXECUTIVE EDITOR Errol Laborde MANAGING EDITOR Melanie Warner Spencer ASSOCIATE EDITOR Ashley McLellan COPY EDITOR Liz Clearman WEB EDITOR Kelly Massicot FOOD EDITOR Stanley Dry HOME EDITOR Lee Cutrone ART DIRECTOR Sarah George LEAD PHOTOGRAPHER Danley Romero SALES SALES MANAGER Rebecca Taylor (337) 298-4424 / (337) 235-7919 Ext. 7230 Rebecca@LouisianaLife.com RENAISSANCE PUBLISHING MARKETING COORDINATOR Abbie Whatley PRODUCTION PRODUCTION MANAGER Rosa Balaguer Arostegui SENIOR DESIGNER Meghan Rooney CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTIONS Jessica Armand DISTRIBUTION John Holzer ADMINISTRATION OFFICE MANAGER Mallary Wolfe CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Todd Matherne For subscriptions call 877-221-3512 110 Veterans Blvd., Suite 123 Metairie, LA 70005 (504) 828-1380 128 Demanade, Suite 104 Lafayette, LA 70503 (337) 235-7919 xt 7230 LouisianaLife.com LOUISIANALIFE.COM 7

Kevin Rabalais

Kevin Rabalais, an Avoyelles Parish native, writes and photographs the Natural State series for Louisiana Life. After living for more than a decade in Europe and the South Pacific, he is excited to be back home and to document diverse Louisiana stories. His work has appeared in 64 Parishes, The Australian, the New Zealand Listener, and the Argentine magazine Revista Ñ. He teaches in the Department of English at Loyola University New Orleans.

Cheré Dastugue Coen

WRITER

Cheré Dastugue Coen is a food and travel writer, photographer and author and owner of the whimsical blog, “Weird, Wacky & Wild South.” Her fiction includes two series of Louisiana romances and the “Viola Valentine” paranormal mystery series under the pen name of Cherie Claire. Coen remains passionate about her home state of Louisiana, believing that gumbo, crawfish étouffée and chicory coffee makes all things right with the world.

Stanley Dry

FOOD WRITER

Stanley Dry writes the “Kitchen Gourmet” column for Louisiana Life magazine and is author of The Essential Louisiana Cookbook and The Essential Louisiana Seafood Cookbook and co-author of Gulf South. Formerly senior editor of Food & Wine and founding editor of Louisiana Cookin’ magazine, his articles have appeared in Food & Wine, Travel & Leisure, The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, Boston Magazine and Acadiana Profile, among others.

When history, design, art and culture come together to create a home, that’s when Haylie Smith is most inspired. There are many stories to be told and so much life lived behind the the four walls of "that one house” we get a curious glimpse of when passing from the street. That’s why Smith says she loves getting to explore the homes she documents. The Texas native moved to Louisiana about 8 years ago. She is a graduate of the Art Institute and quickly realized her love for photographing interiors. Follow on Instagram @Haylei_Smith

FOOD PHOTOGRAPHER

Eugenia Uhl’s photographs have been featured in New Orleans Magazine, New Orleans Homes, Southern Accents, Metropolitan Home, GQ Magazine, Essence, Travel & Leisure and Vegetarian Times.

Her clients include Ralph Brennan Restaurant Group, International House Hotel, Volunteers of America, Galatoire’s and Tulane University. She has completed multiple cookbooks, including Commander’s Kitchen for Commander’s Palace and New Orleans Home Cooking by Dale Curry, Pelican Publishing.

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Eugenia Uhl WRITER AND
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Haylei Smith HOME PHOTOGRAPHER
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‘Tis the Season for Sweet Potatoes

The Louisiana Sweet Potato Commission is celebrating its 70th anniversary with various promotions that feature growers. René Simone, director, says it’s been a good year for our nutritious, delicious Louisiana sweet potatoes. The Beauregard harvest usually ends in mid-November. It takes 6-8 weeks after the harvest for sweet potatoes to reach their sweetness peak. Tip: Fresh sweet potatoes should not be stored in the refrigerator; they should be cooked within a week or two after they are purchased. When grilling sweet potatoes, metal skewers speed up the cooking time.

BOYS’ WORMS BAIT BIZ

Two brothers from Quinton — Cole Burton, 5, and Clay Burton, 7 — loved catching fish so much, they built an earthworm bed for fish bait. To their surprise, the worms started multiplying so fast that they began selling them at the Ruston Farmers Market. The launch of Burton Boys Worms, which sells their packaged European Night Crawlers (great bait for everything swimming) has already attracted tackle shops, reporters and avid anglers. “Fish get hooked on our worms!” the boys exclaim (facebook.com/ BurtonBoysWorms).

BROUSSARD Coffee on the Roof

The well-known Lafayette-based java emporium, Jet Coffee, is expanding its footprint with a spacious new Broussard location, bringing a first-of-its-kind rooftop coffee bar to Acadiana. Featuring a floating interior staircase that leads up to a chic rooftop coffee bar with charging stations, the new Jet Coffee is being constructed on a recently sold 2.5-acre property anchoring a 10,000-squarefoot structure slated for the Ambassador Town Center’s Phase 2 development (facebook.com/ jetcoffee).

ACROSS THE STATE

Holiday Trail of Lights Expands

The Louisiana Holiday Trail of Lights, which runs from Thanksgiving until the new year, is adding two new destinations in 2022: Ruston and Logansport. Families find cherished experiences during the annual event that features a collection of neighboring cities along I-20 and I-49 including Natchitoches and Alexandriia/Pineville, ShreveportBossier, Minden, Monroe-West Monroe. Read more in Traveler on page 60. (holidaytrailoflights.com).

DESTREHAN

Plantation’s 50th Annual Festival

Destrehan Plantation’s 50th annual Fall Festival is Nov. 12-13 on River Road featuring a mule barn that promises to captivate the antique collector with distinctive pieces from dealers throughout Louisiana. Activities for kids include pony rides, hand waxing, face painting and fall-themed arts and crafts.

Savor Cajun and Creole favorites while enjoying local bands performing in the verdant picnic area (destrehanplantation.org/ events/upcoming-events).

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Season’s Readings

It’s holiday entertaining and gift giving season and we have a round-up of the best books (and gift pairings) for everyone on your list

Easy Does It

From flips to shrubs, spritzes to smashes, toddies and teas and more, if you’re zero-proof curious, or can’t or don’t want to drink alcohol for any reason, “Craft: The Eat Fit Guide to Zero Proof Cocktails,” the latest publication from Ochsner’s Eat Fit program is a great addition to any home bar or kitchen. With more than 50 recipes of delicious and refreshing nonalcoholic cocktails and mixers (plus guides to barware, garnishes and more) this is a year-round, go-to reference for get-togethers, parties and celebrations.

Author Molly Kimball, mixologist Ethan Skaggs and editor Melanie Warner Spencer (a.k.a. Louisiana Life’s managing editor) make crafting compelling drinks at home a breeze — no booze needed. Hardcover, 160 pages, $22. Gift with: a pretty shaker, a bottle of nonalcoholic bitters (such as Louisiana-based El Guapo) or cheeky cocktail napkins

TRUTH AND JUSTICE

In award-winning novelist James Wade’s third novel, “Beasts of the Earth,” Harlen LeBlanc leads a simple, ordered existence. But when his small-town life, and members of the community around him, is upended by a series of unexpected events, LeBlanc works to defend his friend while uncovering a generation of secrets and stories. LeBlanc’s story becomes intertwined with the history and lives of the people around him and tells a tale of fate, faith, evil and justice. The New York Journal of Books call “Beasts of the Earth,” a “soul-deep exploration of a wounded man in crisis,” and proclaims Wade as “an author of extraordinary merit.” Hardcover, 350 pages, $25.99. Gift with: some cozy Sleepytime tea or hot chocolate to curl up with while reading

MUSIC Living Art

Music is an ever-changing art that ebbs and flows, reflecting new generations and styles, no matter the genre. Zydeco is no exception. “Creole Soul: Zydeco Lives” takes a colorful look at the tradi tions of zydeco, its rich history, current musicians and a new wave of performers and influences. Musician and writer Burt Feintuch, along with fellow folklore expert Jeannie Banks Thomas, capture the Creole zydeco scene through the musicians’ own words and stories, both on stage and off, highlighted by extraordinary photography by Gary Samson. “Creole Soul: Zydeco Lives” puts readers right in the middle of this riotous, ener getic, colorful world, and is a must-have for music fans as well as cultural history buffs. Hardcover, 280 pages, $40. Gift with: a copy of your favorite zydeco album on vinyl

NATURE

Winged Glory

New Orleans writer and local historian Rien Fertel dives deep into the history of our relationship with Louisiana’s state bird, the brown pelican, in his newest book of the same name. “Brown Pelican” takes a look at this iconic, beloved bird, its precarious past and the efforts to save it, and its place in our state history. It is, at once, a look at the natural world and man’s place within it, and an appreciation of this strange, almost dino-like, bird that is forever linked with Louisiana. Paperback, 112 pages, $21.95. Gift with: a membership to the Audubon Society to help protect native wild birds

LITERARY LOUISIANA CULINARY
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Cymbal-ism

Broussard-based designers Roz LeCompte and Collin Galyean drum up jewelry with a strong musical lineage

When Phil Collins and his band Genesis need another batch of designer dominoes for the merch tables on their lavish and longawaited The Last Domino? reunion tour, they don’t realize the vendor supplying these custom metal keepsakes is not a big chain or a fancy factory, but a two-person handcrafted company living out a passion

for music and jewelry design in the heart of Acadiana.

Off a country lane in bayou-adjacent Broussard, and down a gentle slope, sits a modern-angled minimalist home, airy with white walls populated by bold, almost Hockney-esque pandemic paintings.

A workshop, fashioned from a shipping container, towers out back among the gray brush and bramble that frames the lawn in late November. There too is a tired school bus, now rooted in the yard, a still golden monument to a past life of nomadic adventures and winding paths of wonder from gig to gig, one wild memory made after another.

The bus is an old echo that reverberates loudly even now for Roz LeCompte and Collin Gaylean, founders and makers behind Secondline Jewels, their brand that upcycles the alloy of discarded drum cymbals into nearly a hundred chic styles of necklaces, rings, bracelets and

AT A GLANCE

HOMETOWN Dallas, Texas (Collin), and Broussard, Louisiana (Roz)

AGE

Collin is 46, Roz is 44

OCCUPATION

designers

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unisex pieces, each with an iconic music-inspired stage name. There’s the crown-shaped Prince necklace, the electric Bowie Bolts earrings and the curvy Twisted Sister ring.

Iconic drummers like Roger Taylor of Queen and Nick Mason of Pink Floyd and stars like Jon Bon Jovi are just some of their more famous clients and collaborators in this unique take on heavy metal.

While working as the roadie, driver (yes, of the school bus) and merch director for Lafayette band GIVERS a decade ago, in the whirlwind of the band blowing up with MTV and Jimmy Fallon appearances and a sold-out Dirty Projectors tour, Collin took a cymbal that the band’s multi-instrumentalist Tif Lamson had smashed and replaced, using it to fashion his first piece of drum jewelry. This gave LeCompte, a long-time jewelry-maker and painter, an idea.

“Then the light bulb went off,” LeCompte says. “I thought, ‘Why am I not using this material that I’ve been surrounded by my entire life?’”

The daughter of a percussionist and organist, she had worked for years as a massage therapist while trying to launch her passion as a jewelry business to no avail. Suddenly, one creative gift from Galyean, and she knew they had a brand-defining concept. Secondline Jewels was born.

“The first year I used the cymbals I sold more than I had in the 20 years before that,” LeCompte says. “So, I really knew ‘this is it.’”

The duo started with all handcrafted unique pieces, a process that tested the limits and muscles in Roz’s hands and arms, even with her years of massage experience. Now they use power tools, and that precision has helped define their range of character-rich designs found at Dirty Coast and Zele in New Orleans. GIVERS singer Taylor Guarisco helps sell at markets.

“Roz’s dexterity and her vision is insane, she is so good,” Galyean says. “I’ll get back there and get super dirty working with metal. I’ll never be a hand model again.”

Like Dylan going electric, using garbage-bound cymbals is a bold act of sustainability in a culture of fast fashion that is often hurting the environment.

“I love that we are recycling,” LeCompte says. “Not adding to the problem of fast fashion is a lot of fun.”

That creative joy was tested in 2020 as the pandemic almost threatened to pull the plug on live music.

“We were all still blessed because we had to get creative again, in new ways, and we were lucky to have the Genesis project, that gave us something to hold onto,” Galyean. “The amount of hours we spent in the backyard working hard in the middle of uncertainty was intense.”

For LeCompte, the ultimate reward is playing a part in the connections that music and creativity build among the people who share them, whether that’s by a band on stage playing to a joyous crowd, or from someone gifting a well-made piece of wearable art to a friend.

Their jewelry is a past life in a new form, a new attitude. Another echo.

“It never gets old because of the stories and meaning this metal holds,” LeCompte says.

“It’s all about the vibrations for me.” n

Do you enjoy listening to music while you work?

If so, what do you listen to? ROZ: We can always agree on jazz and lately LCD Soundsystem, but sometimes we listen to the band we are making merch for while making their merch. Cheesy but fun. COLLIN: It solidifies the dream becoming reality.

What’s the most common question you get at markets?

COLLIN: ‘Made out of what?!’ or ‘Recycled what?!’ is usually heard right after our explanation of the product.

You have fun with the names of the pieces, inspired by artists or songs. How do you know what name suits the piece best, and what’s your favor ite name you’ve come up with? ROZ: It’s a game, really, like naming children. When you know, you just know. COLLIN: Our collective favor ite is the ‘Mr. Mac’ cufflinks named after Roz’s infamous grandfather, and also a tip of the hat to Dr. John — Mac Rebennack.

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Electric Art

Monroe artist Don Cincone’s vibrant paintings are born of memories

For over six decades, Monroe artist Don Cincone has been on a remarkable journey that has taken him from a sharecropper’s cabin in Richland Parish to San Francisco, New York’s fashion district, movie sets in Hollywood, down to Mexico and back to his native rural North Louisiana.

During that time, Cincone has developed a whimsical painting style that emerged from deep in his childhood memories of gospel spirituals, stories and the African-American experiences of his family living in a then-segregated rural North Louisiana. That background and admiration for early European art has given Cincone a unique vision and body of work.

(Above) Mama Sally’s House, Summertime (Facing page, left) Bell Ringers (Top, right) Don Cincone (Bottom, right) Madonna With Baby

Born in 1936 to sharecroppers on a plantation near Alto, the family moved in 1943 to nearby Monroe where he attended Monroe Colored High School and Carroll High. Fortunately, his principal loved art and formed an art club for his students. It was there Cincone learned drawing and painting techniques. Cincone hoped to continue his art studies at Southern University in Baton Rouge but left after a year. He felt his classes were designed more for art teachers than practicing artists. In 1956 he joined the Army and an exciting world of art opened to him.

“I was sent to Germany and that’s when I was really exposed to world-class art,” he says. “I traveled all the way from Denmark down to Italy, spending a lot of time visiting museums and castles. It was the 1950s and in those days you could walk up to any work, even in the Louvre. In fact, I remember smelling the paint. I was that close.”

There he admired works by French and Italian Renaissance artists, Dutch masters, the Impressionists, Expressionists and other art forms. Those experiences helped create his self-described “eclectic” painting style. In his painting “Madonna With Baby,” for instance, we

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see the typical Renaissance image of a mother caressing her child. The mother’s elongated face with dark eye slits, however, is certainly not European Renaissance but more in the tradition of African sculpture and ceremonial masks. The setting is a Louisiana cotton field.

“I’ve gained from all of those,” he says, “but I finally came to a style that came from the environment that I was born into and grew up in, and the storytelling with my mother and my grandparents and other people that I was around. Hearing those stories and the music sounds when we sang gospel and the music at the end of World War II, and on into rhythm and blues. All of that impacted me profoundly. That is what I felt and that’s what I wanted my art to do.”

In “Mama Sally’s House, Summertime,” his maternal grandmother, Mama Sally, stands in her front yard herding geese. In the background is her home, a small house in Richland Parish built by her parents 30 years after they were freed from slavery.

Discharged from the Army in 1959, Cincone went to Oakland, California. He attended the San Francisco School of Fashion Design and met his wife Katherine Royal from Napoleonville. In 1961, with contacts made by one of his professors, he and Katherine moved to New York where he worked briefly in the fashion industry. After a few months, they returned to California, this time to Los Angeles.

Back on the West Coast, Cincone signed up with the Harry Soicher Gallery, whose stable of 300-plus artists provided decorative paintings for hotel and commercial offices as well as for TV and movie sets. Cincone got a career-making break when his paintings were featured in the 1965 movie “The Art of Love,” starring Dick Van Dyke, James Garner, Elke Sommer and Angie Dickinson.

Oh, by the way, Don Cincone is not his real name. His birth and legal name is Donald R. Wills. Soicher came up with the working name “Don Cincone” because he felt it sounded more European. At Soicher’s urging, Wills signed his still life paintings “D.R. Wills” along with various made up names but reserved the Cincone name for his personal figurative work.

These days, Cincone, who still uses his “nome d’arte,” promotes his own work with the help of family, especially his wife. As to recent work, his paintings feature Civil Rights heroes as well as somber issues in American life today. Yet, he remains opti mistic and it shows in his paintings.

“Justice is still justice,” he says. “There has always been more good will Americans living in this country than ill will Americans. And that’s still true.”

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EXHIBITS

CAJUN

Shawne Major: Schema

Abstract composi tions as metaphors for culture, through Jan. 7. Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum, Lafayette. hilliardmuseum.org

CENTRAL

No Man’s Land: Four Artists from the Neutral Strip

Features four Vernon Parish artists, com memorating 200th anniversary of Louisi ana’s western border with Spanish Texas, through Feb. 18. Alex andria Museum of Art. themuseum.org

PLANTATION

Our Louisiana Artworks from the museum’s perma nent collection, through Jan. 14. Louisiana Art & Sci ence Museum, Baton Rouge. lasm.org

NOLA

Picture Man: Portraits by Polo Silk

Images by acclaimed New Orleans pho tographer Selwhyn Sthaddeus “Polo Silk” Terrell, through Jan. 8. New Orleans Muse um of Art. noma.org

NORTH Christmas Favorites from the Norton Collection

Paintings of snowy scenes to St. Nicholas, Dec. 1 through Jan. 8. R. W. Norton Art Gallery, Shreveport, rwnaf.org

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Designer Farmhouse

Sleek lines, outdoor views and handsome finishes update a family house in St. Francisville

When Hilary and Jerith Naquin renovated their St. Francisville house, they were lucky to have multiple elements in place: a designer they trusted — their good friend Krystal Matthews of Krystal Matthews Design with whom they’d already done previous updates, a small guest house where the couple and their two children could temporarily decamp (along with their master bedroom and a small hunting camp in Mississippi), as well as a clear design direction. Matthews knew the clients’ tastes were sleek and modern with natural, earthy materials. In fact, Hilary took a quiz online that pegged her style as “modern rustic.” Since the property, built in 1991, is home to chickens, goats and miniature horses, rustic-farm-meets- modern -polish, or what Jerith cheekily calls “Gucci Farm,” was a no-brainer.

“They completely trusted me,” said Matthews. “I had a very free hand in the design.”

The Naquins bought the house in 2013 without having ever stepped inside based on the beauty of the secluded four-acre site, which has 200-year-old oaks and two lakes. Several years ago, they began a year of

(Left) Furnishings in the dining room are a modern take on classical forms. (Above) The living room features a vaulted ceiling, NewTechWood for acoustics and a double height brick fireplace. (Right) The homeowners turned an existing outdoor slab into a screened-in patio with a kitchen. The Naquins’ labradoodle, Goldie May enjoys the comfort of the indoor/outdoor living.

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ARCHITECTURE

INTERIOR DESIGN

SQ FOOTAGE

5,225 (including garage, screened in outdoor space, and guest house)

OUTSTANDING FEATURES

Wrap-around windows overlooking the grounds, covered outdoor living space, living room with vaulted ceiling, double height brick wall, and NewTechWood for acoustics, large cabinet pantries for hiding clutter.

pre-planning, followed by a year-long renovation that involved replacing exterior siding with hardy plank and NewTechWood, and gutting the interior. While the footprint remains largely the same, they used an existing porch to enlarge the kitchen, and turned an outdoor slab into a screened-in patio with a kitchen and room for entertaining.

“The outdoor space is the quint essential heart of the property,” said Jerith.

Matthews also designed the barn and workshop as well as the garage.

As architect and designer, Matthews naturally took the setting into account. Outside, the house, tucked away at the end of a gravel road, looks woodsy with its simple, unadorned architecture and metal roof.

“It blends in with nature,” said Hilary.

But as you get closer, the NewTechWood that wraps part of the exterior hints at the modern interior. The updates include lots of outdoor views (Matthews chose the largest windows she could find for the kitchen) and artfully curated finishes that blend rustic

and modern, while also providing contrast and allowing every feature of the house to have an understated impor tance that doesn’t compete with the scenery.

“No single feature is the star of the show,” said Matthews. “They like serene and calm.”

Four different cabinet finishes in the kitchen are strik ingly harmonious. A hiccup in the remodel also added to the beauty of the space. Matthews originally intended to use a tile against the sink-wall, but the wall was unlevel and the horizontal lines would have been noticeably off. Her solution: vertical pieces of marble mixed with strategically placed pieces of metal schluter. The vertical emphasis of the wall, as well as the vertical lines of the cylindrical light fixture, the grain of the pantry cabinets and the cabinetry hardware, have the added benefit of visually raising the eight-foot ceilings.

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(Facing page, top) Vertical lines in the kitchen’s backsplash, cabinetry, lighting, hardware and barstools create the impression of greater ceiling height. The backsplash framing the views of the grounds mixes marble with strategically placed metal schluter. The counters are quartzite. (Facing page, bottom) Matthews designed the bar to showcase Jerith’s collection of whiskey. (Left) Polished contemporary designs in neutral tones meet natural materials of wood and brick in the “organic modern” design scheme. (Bottom, left) The exterior’s simple architecture and metal roof are designed to blend into the setting. (Right) A contemporary dining table and chairs straddle the line between indoors and outdoors on the patio.

Jerith, the CEO of his own executive staffing company, is partial to the softly lit landscape at night and to the reflective bar that Matthews designed for his whiskey collection. Hilary’s favorite part of the redesign are the kitchen windows connecting her to the outdoors and the whir of activity around the house.

“Since I was a boy, I’ve had the dream of living on a farm with animals and space,” said Jerith. “Krystal provided us this very unique way of doing that, combining our love of the city with our lifestyle in the country.” ■

Get Stuffed

Boudin is good on its own, but as a stuffing the possibilities are as endless as your imagination

Iused to say travelers know they have reached South Louisiana when hot boudin is available at roadside gas stations. That was once a reliable indicator, but

I doubt that it still is. Fields of sugar cane and crawfish ponds, which are defining features of the South Louisiana landscape, have been working their way north, and boudin has followed in their wake.

I’m reminded of my favorite radio ad: “I-10 is a long, lonely road without boudin and cracklins from the Best Stop in Scott!” Today you could substitute I-49 for I-10, and no one would bat an eye. Some lament a cultural homogenization that blurs regional distinctions, and I’m one of them, but not when it comes to the geographical spread of boudin. I’m all for it.

ONIONS STUFFED WITH BOUDIN

2 large onions coarse salt 1 or 2 links boudin, depending on size 1 teaspoon bread crumbs 1 tablespoon butter

PLACE unpeeled onions in large pot, cover with water, bring to a boil and boil for 20 minutes. Drain in a colander and rinse under cold water.

PREHEAT oven to 375 F. Peel onions, then cut in half lengthwise. Remove center section of each onion, leaving a shell several layers thick. (Reserve removed sections for another use.) Sprinkle onion shells with salt and stuff with boudin. Place stuffed onions in a baking dish, top with bread crumbs and dot with butter. Pour ½ cup water in dish and bake in preheated oven until browned, about 30 minutes. Makes 4 servings.

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Boudin is made from a seasoned pork and rice mixture that is cooked and stuffed into a sausage casing. But the final product varies greatly from place to place in terms of the ratio of meat to rice, the degree of seasoning, how fine or coarse the meat is ground, the inclusion of liver (or not), and so on. There is also boudin made with crawfish or shrimp or chicken in place of pork. Less common is boudin made with riced cauliflower instead of rice (watch those carbs!).

Boudin is a popular snack often accompanied by a bag of cracklins and a cold beer. It is also a popular breakfast food. Meat markets and stores that sell hot boudin usually open by six or seven in the morning to accommodate the breakfast crowd. In the evening, it’s not unusual to find slices of boudin served on silver trays at cocktail parties. Boudin can also be taken out of its casing, formed into patties and pan fried or broiled.

Most boudin is eaten on its own, but it is also used as a stuffing in pork chops, roasts, chicken and vegeta bles. Then there are boudin balls: boudin is taken out of the casing, formed into balls, battered and deep fried, sometimes with a piece of pepper jack cheese in the center. There are also boudin egg rolls, boudin pizzas, boudin sandwiches, boudin king cakes, boudin burgers, boudin kolaches and smoked boudin, just for starters.

The recipes this month use boudin as a stuffing — for peppers, onions and mushrooms. There is also a recipe for boudin turnovers and one for boudin patties. n

BELL PEPPERS STUFFED WITH BOUDIN

4 large bell peppers Coarse salt

1 or 2 links boudin, depending on size

PREHEAT oven to 350 F and oil a shallow baking dish.

CUT off top of each pepper and reserve. Remove seeds and ribs from peppers. Sprinkle with salt. Using a sharp knife, slit boudin casing. Remove boudin and fill each pepper, without packing. Place peppers in baking dish and replace their tops. Add ½ cup water to dish and bake for 90 minutes. Makes 4 servings.

BOUDIN TURNOVERS

1 cup all-purpose flour

½ teaspoon salt ¹/³ cup shortening or lard 3½-4 tablespoons ice water

1 tablespoon milk

1 link boudin

MIX flour and salt in bowl. Work shortening or lard into flour with your fingertips or a pastry cutter until mixture is mealy. Drizzle in water, mixing with a fork, until dough comes together. Turn out onto a lightly floured surface. Knead a few times and form into a disc. Wrap in plastic film and refrigerate for 30 minutes or more.

BOUDIN PATTIES

2 links boudin

PREHEA t broiler and oil a baking sheet. Slit boudin casing and remove boudin. Form boudin into 4-6 patties and place on baking sheet. Broil until nice and crusty. Using a spatula, turn boudin patties and broil until browned. Makes 4-6 patties.

MUSHROOMS STUFFED WITH BOUDIN

1 pound small white mushrooms 1 tablespoon olive oil

½ teaspoon coarse salt 1 link boudin

PREHEAT broiler and grease a baking sheet. Wash mushrooms and dry thoroughly. Remove stems and reserve for another use. In a large bowl, toss mushroom caps with olive oil and salt. Remove boudin from casing and stuff mushroom caps. Place stuffed mushrooms on baking sheet and broil until nicely browned, about 5-6 minutes. Makes about 3 dozen stuffed mushrooms.

PREHEAT oven to 425 F. On a lightly floured surface, roll dough out to a thickness of ¹/8 inch. Cut out rounds of dough 4-inches in diameter. Combine scraps, roll out again, and cut more 4-inch rounds. You should have 9 to 10 rounds of dough.

FORM boudin into lumps about the size of a large pecan and place one on each round of dough. Moisten edge of dough with water, fold over, and press with fingertips to seal. With the palm of your hand, gently flatten turnover. Place on an ungreased baking sheet. Repeat with remaining rounds of dough. Brush turnovers with milk and bake in preheated oven until browned, about 15 minutes. Remove turnovers to a rack. Serve hot or warm. Makes 9 to 10 small turnovers.

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On The Hunt

For many, hunting is synonymous with Louisiana culture. But there’s hunting, and then there’s upland hunting. James, Jerry and Jim Marcantel — along with special help from bird dogs Sugar and Hank — take us on the hunt for quail and woodcock.

eneath the tall loblolly pines near the Ouiska Chitto Creek in Allen Parish, two dogs hunt to the tune of elec tronic birdsong. Their orange tracking collars chirp in intervals, first from one dog, then from another, until, briefly, the birdsong harmonizes. An occa sional pant and loll of pink tongue, a flash of fur and Sugar and Hank’s paws drum down the dirt road. Then they slip back into the woods, noses pressed to the forest floor. Separately, they enter new currents of scent. Jerry Marcantel turns from the dogs and glances up at the pines that have begun to

whisper with the first winds of a coming storm. Expected to arrive before noon, the front adds urgency to this morning’s hunt. An hour before, in the predawn light of Kinder, it began with a different sense of urgency.

Jerry and his brother James, along with James’ son Jim, have reached the final weeks of the exclamation point on their annual hunting calendar. Dressed in orange vests and orange hats, and carrying .12-, .16- and .20-gauge shotguns, they walk along the edge of the woods, listening to the distant trill of Hank and Sugar’s electronic collars. When the dogs are in motion, the collars chirp every 10 or 15 seconds. When the dogs locate a bird or covey and stop to corner their prey, the sound from these collars — today, programmed to quail song — floods the air.

“Let’s get on down the road,” says Jerry, who works as an adaptive physical education teacher in Kinder.

Getting down this winding dirt road means eventually getting off it. We’re in search of thick forest, the kind that snags the ankles and knees and tackles me upon entry. Jerry laughs. “When you get in the vines,” he says, “that’s when you know you’re in woodcock country.”

Each winter, when these woodland birds migrate mainly from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, Louisiana becomes a wood cock-hunting paradise — at least, that is, for those in the know. You don’t need to travel far in Louisiana — a glance at most license plates will do it — for a reminder of the social and cultural significance of hunting in our

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state. Deer and duck, dove and rabbit, turkey, squirrel: Many hunters pass through these seasons like secular Stations of the Cross. As in any tribe, though, there are varieties of hunters. These range beyond proficiency. The Marcantels are upland hunters. This signifies the hunting of non-waterfowl game birds such as pheasant, grouse, grey partridge and quail. Today, Jerry, James and Jim — with vital help from Hank and Sugar — hunt for woodcock.

You could live your entire life in Louisiana and never see one of these broad birds with its brown plumage, distinct beak (slightly curved and as long as an average adult’s forefinger), five-inch stature, and 20-inch wingspan. Bulbous and neckless, with their short tail and broad, rounded wings,

LEFT Hank, Jim Marcantel’s German shorthaired pointer, searches for quail in Kisatchie National Forest. RIGHT Jim hunts with his grandfather’s .16-gauge Remington 1100.

they look like they’ve been pieced together from different species as some kind of hoax. Woodcock are a lot like Natchez, Mississippi — you don’t just stumble upon either one on your way to somewhere else. They typically reveal themselves only to those who seek them, often at great lengths, and there’s a prerequisite to getting there. For upland hunting, the requisite is a canine partner with PhD-level skills.

This may be why even many zealous bird hunters pay little attention to Louisiana’s annual woodcock season, which runs from Dec. 18 to Jan. 31. Yet the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) reports that, on average, “about 5,000 hunters harvest more than 22,400 woodcock each season.” While those numbers may seem large, consider that there are 400,000 total paid hunting license holders in Louisiana. Then consider that, according to the LDWF, Louisiana registers the highest number of wintering woodcock in the United States. Now try to remember the last time your neighbor invited you over for confit de woodcock.

“This is one of the best-kept secrets in Louisiana,” says Jim, a physical therapist and former decathlete at McNeese State University. We’ve moved down the road, per his Uncle Jerry’s directive and per the neces sities of upland hunting, hurrying along as birdsong now intensifies from Hank’s collar. This tells Jim that his four-year-old German shorthaired pointer has cornered a woodcock. Jim slips into the thick forest, pushing vines aside as he searches for Hank. At last, we

find him, motionless, in a small clearing. Jim comes within 15 feet of Hank, who shivers with excitement.

“He’s birdy,” Jim says, grinning and proud as Hank holds the woodcock in place, preventing an escape route. The fact that I can’t see, much less smell, the woodcock elicits even more respect for Hank. Fifteen minutes into this hunt, he’s given a master class in the trick — make that art — of upland hunting.

Upland hunters move constantly and purposefully through the habitat. They rove in the wake of a dog or dogs whose intelli gence, work ethic and stamina prompt me to reconsider our ranking in the natural order. To begin at the beginning of upland hunting, then, means to find a good dog. You then have to train the dog to locate a bird — or, in the best circumstances, an entire covey — and hold the bird or birds in place. Amateur or untrained dogs are prone to spook birds, flushing them before the hunter arrives and has time to move into position for an unobstructed shot. A bird dog might be 15 feet from its quarry while holding it in place. Meanwhile, the hunter could be hundreds of yards from the dog. The upland hunter must close that gap without startling the bird.

Across the clearing from Jim and on the other side of Hank, Jerry steps into position. For safety measures, the Marcantels go in two at a time. This time, James stays on the road. “Hey!” Jim shouts, signaling his position. James, a retired high school football coach whose forty-plus seasons yielded three Louisiana state championship appearances and one

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victory, responds in kind. Jim signals Hank to flush the bird. Two shotgun blasts shock the air.

“Dead bird, Hank,” says Jim. “Dead bird.” Hank leaps and slaloms through bushes and vines, seeming to make a 90-degree turn in midair before he plunges behind a bush. He rises with the woodcock in his mouth, which he presents to Jim. Less gratified by this experi ence than eager for another, Hank begins a new search, leaving Jim to admire the woodcock. His satisfaction with the bird in hand shifts to future pleasures, specifically tonight’s menu.

“I like to use the whole bird, rather than just the breast,” Jim says. That decision has become, for him, a gesture of respect for his quarry.

Jim is from South Louisiana, where visitors express surprise at the number of men they find in front of stoves, merry in their aprons. In each of his four woodcock hunting seasons, Jim has expanded his repertoire, experimenting with different recipes that he concocts in the off months. A few weeks ago, he flambéed several woodcocks whole with their insides preserved. He made pâté out of their innards and topped everything off with a whiskey sauce. For that meal, Jim made a radical decision. He served the birds on toast. “That’s how you know it’s not a South Louisiana dish,” he says. “It would have been served on rice. The coup de grâce is to split the head down the middle and to scoop the brains out with the end of your spoon.”

Non-hunters should be forgiven for mistaking hunting as an activity that involves the shooting of wild animals for food or sport. Another ethos sends hunters out into inclement weather before dawn to walk and wait and walk some more or to board boats where they shiver or sweat, sometimes both within the span of a few minutes, only to wait and wait some more. And there’s one singular trait inherent among hunters that you won’t find in our state slogan. This is about community and comradery. It’s about the contin uation of culture.

The Marcantels form a textbook example of this. Two of nine siblings, James and Jerry, have been hunting together all of their lives. Their father died when they were boys, so Jim never knew his paternal grandfather. “Hunting and fishing have always been a way to feel a physical connection to him,” says Jim, who hunts with the .16-gauge shotgun — a 1960s Remington 1100 — that his grandfather bought for James and which he used for decades before handing it down. This heirloom of family history and identity ensures that the past echoes in the present of every hunt.

Jim has hunted with his father and uncle for as long as he can remember. After a lifetime of duck hunting, he decided around his 30th birthday that it was time for

ABOVE German shorthaired pointer Sugar delivers a woodcock to Jerry Marcantel.

RIGHT Hank prepares for a training session in which Jerry and Jim have hidden caged pigeons. FACING PAGE Jim describes hunting as a way to feel a physical connection to his grandfather.

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a new challenge. He started reading about upland hunting. The first step, he learned, would be to find a good bird dog. He identi fied one breed, German shorthaired pointers, whose temperament fit his own hunting interests. His hope, unexpressed at the time, would be to train the dog under his Uncle Jerry’s guidance. Several weeks into his search, however, he received news that Jerry’s bird dog had just died. Without his uncle’s expertise, Jim didn’t know if he would be able to proceed. He approached his father about what he should do.

“Give him a while,” James suggested.

From James, Jim had long since learned the art of patience. “Fish slow,” James would say on their fishing trips when Jim was a boy. “If you think you’re fishing too slow, slow down some more.”

“That seems to me a pretty good rule for life,” Jim says. While he gave Jerry time to mourn, Jim continued his search for the right dog. He thought he wanted a female, usually less stubborn and easier to train than males, he says, but then he found Hank and, Hank being one of those love-at-first-sight dogs, he took him home. Months passed. He called Jerry.

“What you need to do,” Jim said, “is get another dog. We’ll train them together.” He told Jerry that he had expected to pay $1,000 or more, but then he had found Hank for $250. Still grieving, still uncertain about whether he could muster the energy required to train a new dog, Jerry gave Jim what he thought was a near-impossible task. “If you can find another one that cheap, I’ll do it.”

Within days, Jim found Sugar, the last dog of a litter whose mates had all sold for $1,250. Since Jim had fulfilled his end, Jerry agreed to consider meeting nine-month-old Sugar. “The owners had kept her apart so that she

LEFT Sugar scans for teal near Kinder. RIGHT Jim prepares to bag his first woodcock of the day’s hunt. FACING PAGE Jim and his father, James Marcantel, plan their quailhunting route in Kisatchie.

would bond with whoever bought her,” Jerry says, smiling as Sugar brushes past. Unlike Hank, she takes brief breaks for rubs. “And did we bond. It happened at first sight. I bought her as a Christmas present to myself.”

Sugar leaps onto the road, weaving past Hank. The two dogs work with intensity and purpose, seeming to sense the coming storm, seeming to know that this hunt will be cut short, and they don’t want to be the ones who disappoint.

“These dogs,” Jerry says, “they’re the main story.”

Amonth earlier, on a quail hunt with Jim and James in the Vernon Unit of Kisatchie Na tional Forest, Ronald Stine ex pressed a similar sentiment. “Sometimes I don’t even fire my gun,” said Ronald, Jim’s former teammate at McNeese and one of the Marcantels’ regular hunting partners. “I just like to watch the dog work.”

Jim nodded. “He’s the main guy.” Just then, Hank leapt, changing direction in mid-air.

“That’s the Hank special,” Ronald said. “He does these 180s.”

“He must sleep for days afterward,” I said. “Oh, he’s definitely a house dog when he’s not working,” Jim said. “He gets hair all over the couch.”

You can now attach a GPS to a dog’s collar to record its movements, but other than that electronic collar, Jim keeps his gear minimal. On that hunt in Kisatchie, we walked seven miles. With all of his zigzagging, Hank must have run something close to a marathon. As we watched him work, Ronald told a story about a recent quail hunt in Kansas. Spent by the end of the day, he fell into bed only to find that Hank — knocked out, legs hanging limp over the edge — had already claimed it.

Since there was no sign of quail that day in Kisatchie, stories about past hunts filled the air. Some seemed apocryphal, but that might be because Ronald is a deadpan storyteller. Early on his first upland hunting trip with Jim, Ronald stepped aside to relieve himself. At the sound of his zipper, a covey of quail took flight. He had already joked, during that first hunt, that ducks were too easy, and now this. Such luck didn’t continue. Since then,

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LEFT Jerry speaks of bird dogs as “the main story” in upland hunting. He bought Sugar as a Christmas present to himself.

FACING PAGE Jim ends a successful woodcock hunt.

upland hunting has met the challenge he and Jim originally sought.

By that point on our hunt in Kisatchie, Hank had been working solo for three hours, relentless in his search for quail. James, Jim, and Ronald trailed behind, listening to the silent forest as they wound past trees downed during Hurricane Laura, which struck 18 months before. Jim had proof of a different soundscape. He opened a video on his phone and raised the volume to let me hear what he and Hank had experienced a few weeks earlier on a preseason recon naissance trip. Cacophonous birdsong of northern bobwhite quail — more brigade than covey — filled the air.

While the LDWF estimates that “approx imately 800 quail hunters harvest approx imately 2,500 wild quail each year in Louisiana” during the annual Nov.19 to Feb. 28 season, hunters have begun to notice a decline in quail populations. There are many theories for this. The LDWF states, “This population decline is primarily due to habitat degradation from past farming and intensive pine management.” James suggests that pesti cides such as ant poison, which make quail eggs brittle, are also to blame. He mentions Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring” (1962), merely utters the author’s name and title, but it’s enough to conjure the landmark book that urges us to face the environmental effects of indiscriminate pesticide use. Another theory for the decline in numbers: As Louisiana farms grow larger, quail habitat decreases.

The declining numbers were apparent in Kisatchie. Hours passed while Hank worked but found no quail. The elusive quarry causes the hunters to fall back into storytelling mode.

“We found a needle in a haystack right off the bat,” Jim said, remembering their first upland hunt, three years before. Five minutes into the woods, before the sound of Ronald’s zipper, they stumbled on a healthy covey of quail.

“What is this?” Ronald asked, a question as much about the quantity of birds as it had been about the few upland hunters he knew, as in ‘Why isn’t everybody doing this?’” In their next several hunts, however, they didn’t see a single quail. “This is nothing short of suffering,” Ronald said. “But duck hunting is too easy.” He let a moment pass. “I’m going to step aside to relieve myself,” he said. “Y’all wait for the birds.” Then he paused again before turning to walk away. “You’re welcome.”

Amonth later in Allen Parish, Hank and Sugar continue their relentless pursuit of woodcock.

The song from their collars quickens. Within seconds, Jim and Jerry stand 10 feet behind Sugar. “Hey!” Jim calls, to which James, once again at a safe distance, follows suit.

The bird flushes. Jim and Jerry aim and fire. It’s a kill, but they go back and forth about who earned it. Each compliments the other on the good shot until Jerry eventually bags the bird. Soon, Jim finds James and offers a different compliment. “Your fish was very good last night,” he says.

James had hosted a jam session for a friend who attends Notre Dame Seminary in New Orleans. Jim’s mother’s 90-year-old uncle played fiddle with Jim on guitar, while James fried bass. It lasted until nearly 11 p.m., and neither father nor son can believe that they woke up in time for the hunt.

“You haven’t shot yet,” Jim says.

“No,” says James.

“What are you waiting on?”

“Birds.”

He may have one last chance before the storm, now that Sugar has gone birdy. With one paw, she points at a woodcock, her tail wagging like a poked spring door stopper. This, Jerry says, is called flagging. “It’s not unknown,” he says, “but you prefer the tail

not to move at all. It’s more about style than hunting. It doesn’t affect the birds.” He says it with affection. Jerry and James each fire once, but this time, the woodcock eludes them.

For several minutes without success, they track it through the forest. Then Jim stops and rests his shotgun against a pine. “I’m going to take this extra layer off,” he says. Before the final syllable is out, a woodcock flushes.

“That’s where I thought it was,” James says.

“Oh, that’s where you thought it was?” Jim says.

The front, predicted to come through two hours ago, has yet to arrive, but the wind holds steady. Through intermittent drizzle, the Marcantels in their orange vests and hats press deeper into the darkening forest. By now, Hank and Sugar’s collars blend with the sounds of these woods. Then a new one arises.

“Whispering pines,” Jim sings. “Whispering pines.”

James then repeats the line, softer, slower than his son.

“I remember you had those Johnny Horton records,” Jim says, to which James nods. “Each of his songs is a history lesson — ‘Sink the Bismarck,’ ‘The Battle of New Orleans.’” Then Jim resumes his song — “Whispering pines, whispering pines” — and for a moment, while Hank and Sugar lead the Marcantels onward, a new harmony arises. n

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1514 Jefferson Highway, 3rd Floor New Orleans (504) 842-4721

Daniel Fontenot

Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center 5231 Brittany Drive Baton Rouge (225) 769-0933

Robert Greer

East Jefferson General Hospital

4200 Houma Boulevard, 2nd Floor Metairie (504) 454-4102

Steven Gremillion

Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center 7777 Hennessy Boulevard Medical Plaza II, Suite 1000 Baton Rouge (225) 767-3900

Robert Hendel Tulane Medical Center

1415 Tulane Avenue, 4th Floor New Orleans (504) 988-6113

Keith Hickey St. Bernard Parish Hospital 8050 West Judge Perez Drive, Suite 2500 Chalmette (504) 277-0886

Babu Jasti Lane Regional Medical Center 6550 Main Street, Suite 1000 Zachary (225) 654-1559

Ravi Kanagala Lakeview Regional Medical Center 101 Judge Tanner Boulevard, Suite 300 Covington (985) 867-2100

Edmund Kerut West Jefferson Medical Center

1111 Medical Center Boulevard, Suite N613 Marrero (504) 349-6810

Stephen LaGuardia West Jefferson Medical Center

1111 Medical Center Boulevard, Suite N613 Marrero (504) 349-6800

Carl Lavie

Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans

1514 Jefferson Highway, 3rd Floor New Orleans (504) 842-4135

Robert Martin WK Pierremont Health Center

1811 East Bert Kouns

Industrial Loop, Suite 210 Shreveport (318) 212-3858

Nakia Newsome

Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center 8888 Summa Avenue Baton Rouge (225) 769-0933

Stephen Ramee

Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans

1514 Jefferson Highway, 3rd Floor New Orleans (504) 842-3727

Fernando Ruiz

Ochsner Lafayette General Medical Center

441 Heymann Boulevard Lafayette (337) 289-8429

Jay Silverstein

Lakeview Regional Medical Center

101 Judge Tanner Boulevard, Suite 300 Covington (985) 867-2100

Iqbal Singh

WK Pierremont Health Center 1811 East Bert Kouns Industrial Loop, Suite 210 Shreveport (318) 212-3858

Frank Smart University Medical Center New Orleans

3700 St. Charles Avenue, 5th Floor New Orleans (504) 412-1520

Christopher Thompson Lake Charles Memorial Hospital

1717 Oak Park Boulevard, 2nd Floor

Lake Charles (337) 494-3278

Hector Ventura

Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans

1514 Jefferson Highway, 3rd Floor New Orleans (504) 842-4721

Christopher White Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans 1514 Jefferson Highway, 3rd Floor New Orleans (504) 842-3724

John Winterton

WK Pierremont Health Center

1811 East Bert Kouns Industrial Loop, Suite 210 Shreveport (318) 212-3858

Kenneth Wong

Thibodaux Regional Medical Center 102 Twin Oaks Drive Raceland (985) 837-4000

Kevin Young Lake Charles Memorial Hospital 1717 Oak Park Boulevard, 2nd Floor Lake Charles (337) 494-3278

Royce Yount

Ochsner Baptist Medical Center 2820 Napoleon Avenue, Suite 230 New Orleans (504) 894-2608

CHILD & ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY

Ashley Weiss

Tulane Medical Center 4000 Bienville Street, Suite G New Orleans (504) 988-0301

Charles Zeanah Jr Tulane Medical Center 131 South Robertson Street New Orleans (504) 988-5405

CHILD NEUROLOGY

Allison Conravey Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans 1319 Jefferson Highway New Orleans (504) 842-3900

Kenneth Habetz

Our Lady of Lourdes Women’s & Children’s Hospital 4704 Ambassador Caffery Parkway Lafayette (337) 470-5920

Stephen Nelson Jr Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans 1315 Jefferson Highway New Orleans (504) 842-3900

Ann Tilton

Children’s Hospital New Orleans

200 Henry Clay Avenue New Orleans (504) 896-2888

Maria Weimer

Children’s Hospital New Orleans

200 Henry Clay Avenue, Suite 3040 New Orleans (504) 896-9319

CLINICAL GENETICS

Hans Andersson Tulane Medical Center 1430 Tulane Avenue New Orleans (504) 988-5101

Duane Superneau

Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center 8415 Goodwood Boulevard, Suite 202 Baton Rouge (225) 765-8988

COLON & RECTAL SURGERY

Louis Barfield

Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center 7777 Hennessy Boulevard, Suite 206 Baton Rouge (225) 767-8997

Richard Byrd Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center 7777 Hennessy Boulevard, Suite 206 Baton Rouge (225) 767-8997

Brian Kann

Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans

1514 Jefferson Highway, 4th Floor New Orleans (504) 842-4060

Sean Mayfield East Jefferson General Hospital

3100 Galleria Drive, Suite 303 Metairie (504) 456-5108

Yasheka Nicholson Riverside Medical CenterFranklinton, LA 809 Riverside Drive Franklinton (985) 795-4208

Joshua Parks Ochsner Medical CenterNorth Shore 1000 Ochsner Boulevard Covington (985) 875-2828

Jennifer Silinsky East Jefferson General Hospital 3100 Galleria Drive, Suite 303 Metairie (504) 456-5108

Jacquelyn Turner Tulane Medical Center 1415 Tulane Avenue, 6th Floor New Orleans (504) 988-5110

H. David Vargas Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans 1514 Jefferson Highway, 4th Floor New Orleans (504) 842-4060

Andrew Werner Willis-Knighton Medical Center 1811 East Bert Kouns Industrial Loop, Suite 430 Shreveport (318) 424-8373

Charles Whitlow

Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans 1514 Jefferson Highway, 4th Floor New Orleans (504) 842-4060

DERMATOLOGY

Robert Benson 180 North 5th Street Ponchatoula (985) 370-7546

Erin Boh Tulane Medical Center 1415 Tulane Avenue, 5th Floor New Orleans (504) 988-1700

Elizabeth Bucher East Jefferson General Hospital 1615 Metairie Road, Suite 101 Metairie (504) 644-4226

Tamela Charbonnet Thibodaux Regional Medical Center 327 Bayou Gardens Boulevard Houma (985) 876-5000

David Clemons CHRISTUS Highland Medical Center 9007 Ellerbe Road Shreveport (318) 222-3278

William Coleman III 4425 Conlin Street Metairie (504) 455-3180

Julie Danna Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans 2005 Veterans Memorial Boulevard Metairie (504) 842-3940

Mary Dickerson 10154 Jefferson Highway Baton Rouge (225) 927-5663

Adrian Dobrescu East Jefferson General Hospital 6042 Magazine Street New Orleans (504) 899-6652

Scott Dunbar 5326 O’Donovan Drive Baton Rouge (225) 769-7546

Helene Erickson

Ochsner Medical CenterNorth Shore 105 Medical Center Drive, Suite 303 Slidell (985) 639-3777

Patricia Farris

701 Metairie Road, Suite 2A205

Metairie (504) 836-2050

Eric Finley Touro Infirmary Suite 240 New Orleans (504) 896-2255

Jill Fruge

Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center 7855 Jefferson Highway Baton Rouge (225) 214-3199

Lee Grafton

Thibodaux Regional Medical Center 327 Bayou Gardens Boulevard Houma (985) 876-5000

Nicole Harrell Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center 5326 O’Donovan Drive Baton Rouge (225) 416-5109

Laurie Harrington Lane Regional Medical Center 20474 Old Scenic Highway Zachary (225) 654-1124

Mara Haseltine East Jefferson General Hospital 3100 Galleria Drive, Suite 203 Metairie (504) 226-7873

Patricia Hickham 4141 Bienville Street, Suite 108 New Orleans (504) 962-7771

Deirdre Hooper 3525 Prytania Street, Suite 501 New Orleans (504) 895-3376

Leah Jacob

Tulane Medical Center 1415 Tulane Avenue, 5th Floor New Orleans (504) 988-1700

Kathryn Kerisit Ochsner Baptist Medical Center 4100 Canal Street New Orleans (504) 703-2750

Stephen Klinger 2600 Belle Chasse Highway, Suite 202 Gretna (504) 393-7393

Jeffrey Lackey Tulane Medical Center 1415 Tulane Avenue, 5th Floor New Orleans (504) 988-1700

Keith LeBlanc East Jefferson General Hospital 1615 Metairie Road, Suite 101 Metairie (504) 644-4226

Alan Lewis

Tulane Medical Center 4421 Chastant Street Metairie (504) 570-6370

Kristen Losavio 5326 O’Donovan Drive Baton Rouge (225) 769-7546

Mary Lupo East Jefferson General Hospital 145 Robert E. Lee Boulevard, Suite 302 New Orleans (504) 288-2381

Christel Malinski St. Tammany Parish Hospital 64040 Highway 434, Suite 103 Lacombe (985) 202-3376

W. Trent Massengale 163 Burgin Avenue Baton Rouge (225) 313-4560

Julie Mermilliod Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans 1514 Jefferson Highway, 11th Floor New Orleans (504) 842-3940

Sharon Meyer Touro Infirmary 3434 Prytania Street, Suite 310 New Orleans (504) 897-5899

Andrea Murina Tulane Medical Center 1415 Tulane Avenue, 5th Floor New Orleans (504) 988-1700

Jeffrey Poole Children’s Hospital New Orleans 111 Veterans Boulevard, Suite 406 Metairie (504) 838-8225

Marilyn Ray Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans 2005 Veterans Memorial Boulevard Metairie (504) 842-3940

Ashley Record Lane Regional Medical Center 4801 Mchugh Road, Suite C Zachary (225) 658-4065

Nicole Rogers East Jefferson General Hospital 3100 Galleria Drive, Suite 201 Metairie (504) 315-4247

Richard Sherman 3627 Magazine Street New Orleans (504) 899-7159

Erik Soine 1441 Ochsner Boulevard Covington (985) 400-5551

Martha Stewart 4060 Lonesome Road Mandeville (985) 727-7701

Laci Theunissen Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center 7855 Jefferson Highway Baton Rouge (225) 214-3199

TOP DOCTORS

Diane Trieu

West Jefferson Medical Center

1525 Lapalco Boulevard, Suite 20 Harvey (504) 517-2025

Suneeta Walia Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans

1514 Jefferson Highway, 11th Floor New Orleans (504) 842-3940

Jordan Whatley 5326 O’Donovan Drive Baton Rouge (225) 769-7546

Laura Williams Tulane Medical Center 1415 Tulane Avenue, 5th Floor New Orleans (504) 988-1700

Katy Wiltz

Ochsner Baptist Medical Center 2633 Napoleon Avenue, Suite 1020 New Orleans (504) 891-8004

Ann Zedlitz 5305 Flanders Drive Baton Rouge (225) 778-7540

DIAGNOSTIC RADIOLOGY

Christopher Arcement Children’s Hospital New Orleans

200 Henry Clay Avenue New Orleans (504) 896-9566

Scott Beech Tulane Medical Center 1415 Tulane Avenue New Orleans (504) 988-5263

Raman Danrad University Medical Center New Orleans 2000 Canal Street New Orleans (504) 568-4647

Paul Gulotta

Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans 1514 Jefferson Highway New Orleans (504) 842-3000

Anthony Modica Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans

1514 Jefferson Highway New Orleans (504) 842-3470

Brett Roberts

Ochsner Medical CenterWest Bank 1516 Jefferson Highway New Orleans (504) 842-6406

Bradley Shore

4241 Veterans Memorial Boulevard, Suite 100 Metairie (504) 883-5999

David Smith University Medical Center New Orleans

2000 Canal Street New Orleans (504) 702-5700

Bradley Spieler University Medical Center New Orleans

2000 Canal Street New Orleans (504) 568-4647

William Tiemann Terrebonne General Health System 8166 West Main Street Houma (985) 873-4115

ENDOCRINOLOGY, DIABETES & METABOLISM

Sandra Dempsey 1727 Imperial Boulevard Lake Charles (337) 310-3670

Gary Field 7373 Perkins Road Baton Rouge (225) 246-9240

Vivian Fonseca Tulane Medical Center 4720 South I-10 Service Road West, Suite 101 Metairie (504) 988-8050

Lane Frey

Thibodaux Regional Medical Center 726 North Acadia Road, Suite 3300

Thibodaux (985) 493-3080

Robert Galagan Tulane Medical Center 4720 South I-10 Service Road West, Suite 101 Metairie (504) 988-8050

Robin Kilpatrick

Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center 5428 O’Donovan Drive Baton Rouge (225) 300-1076

Joseph Murray Jr East Jefferson General Hospital 3901 Houma Boulevard, Suite 103 Metairie (504) 455-1300

Brandy Panunti Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans 1514 Jefferson Highway New Orleans (504) 842-4023

Marideli Scanlan West Jefferson Medical Center 1111 Medical Center Boulevard, Suite S850 Marrero (504) 349-6824

Joel Silverberg

Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center 7373 Perkins Road Baton Rouge (225) 769-4044

Gabriel Uwaifo Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans 2750 East Gause Boulevard Slidell (985) 639-3777

FAMILY MEDICINE

Ariel Aguillard Ochsner Medical Center - Kenner 5950 Bullard Avenue, Suite 101 New Orleans (504) 354-4188

Danielle Angeron Terrebonne General Health System 496 Corporate Drive Houma (985) 262-1639

Luis Arencibia

East Jefferson General Hospital 4315 Houma Boulevard, Suite 100

Metairie (504) 602-9975

Becky Batiste Ferrier North Oaks Medical Center 15813 Paul Vega MD Drive Hammond (985) 230-2778

Gayle Beyl North Oaks Medical Center 17199 Spring Ranch Road, Suite 200 Livingston (844) 277-8669

Gary Birdsall Cut Off (985) 632-5222

Joseph Breault Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans 1401 Jefferson Highway New Orleans (504) 842-4747

Donald Brignac

Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center 5428 O’Donovan Drive, Suite B Baton Rouge (225) 330-0480

Kelly Cahill

Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical CenterLafayette 3220 Kaliste Saloom Road Lafayette (337) 470-3370

Andree Caillet

Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical CenterLafayette 3220 Kaliste Saloom Road Lafayette (337) 470-2636

Rafael Cortes-Moran Ochsner Medical Center - Kenner 2120 Driftwood Boulevard Kenner (504) 443-9500

Edwin Dennard Tulane Lakeside Hospital 4720 South I-10 Service Road West, Suite 101 Metairie (504) 988-8050

Indira Gautam

Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical CenterLafayette 502 Lafayette Street Youngsville (337) 857-3512

R. Paul Guilbault III Lakeview Regional Medical Center 521 Asbury Drive Mandeville (985) 630-9618

Clarissa Hoff Tulane Medical Center 2800 Veterans Memorial Boulevard, Suite 140 Metairie (504) 988-0501

Ted Hudspeth Ochsner Medical CenterNorth Shore 41676 Veterans Avenue Hammond (985) 543-3600

Daniel Jens Ochsner Medical CenterNorth Shore 3235 East Causeway Approach Mandeville (985) 875-2828

Kenneth Johnson CHRISTUS St. Frances Cabrini Hospital 2812 Highway 28 East Pineville (318) 528-3355

Vernilyn Juan Touro Infirmary 3434 Prytania Street, Suite 105 New Orleans (504) 897-8240

Karrie Kilgore Acadia General Hospital 345 Odd Fellows Road Crowley (337) 783-7004

Oladapo Lapite Glenwood Regional Medical Center 306 Stone Avenue Monroe (318) 323-1040

Sunshine Little

Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical CenterLafayette 3824 Northeast Evangeline Thruway, Suite B Carencro (337) 470-3280

Azikiwe Lombard Ochsner Medical CenterWest Bank 3401 Behrman Place New Orleans (504) 371-9355

Nathalie MascherpaKerkow St. Tammany Parish Hospital 201 St. Ann Drive, Suite B Mandeville (985) 898-4001 Elizabeth McLain Suite 2400B Lafayette (337) 703-3330

Darrin Menard 202 Westgate Road Lafayette (337) 232-1802

Joseph Orgeron Ochsner Medical CenterNorth Shore 1000 Ochsner Boulevard Covington (985) 875-2828

Catherine Pechon St. Tammany Parish Hospital 1520 Highway 22 West Madisonville (985) 898-4001

Rade Pejic Tulane Medical Center 200 Broadway Street, Suite 230 New Orleans (504) 988-9000

Cassandra Pillette Ochsner Lafayette General Medical Center 4906 Ambassador Caffery Parkway, Building M, Suite 1302 Lafayette (337) 571-1111

Radha Raman 8708 Oak Street New Orleans (504) 865-0805

Timothy Riddell Ochsner Medical CenterNorth Shore 1000 Ochsner Boulevard Covington (985) 875-2828

Ronald Slipman Tulane Lakeside Hospital 4720 South I-10 Service Road West, Suite 101 Metairie (504) 988-8050

Kiernan Smith Tulane Medical Center 200 Broadway Street, Suite 230 New Orleans (504) 988-9000

Paul Stringfellow Acadia General Hospital 345 Odd Fellows Road Crowley (337) 783-7004

Rachana Sus Tulane Medical Center 4720 South I-10 Service Road West, Suite 101 Metairie (504) 988-8050

James Tebbe Jr. Tulane Medical Center 3525 Prytania Street New Orleans (504) 865-5700

Kimberly Tran Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical CenterLafayette 4650 Ambassador Caffery Parkway, Suite 101 Lafayette (337) 470-7870

Ryan Truxillo St. Bernard Parish Hospital 8050 West Judge Perez Drive, Suite 3100 Chalmette (504) 304-2800

Priya Velu Ochsner Baptist Medical Center 5300 Tchoupitoulas Street, Suite C2 New Orleans (504) 703-3070

GASTROENTEROLOGY

Stephen Abshire Ochsner Lafayette General Medical Center 1211 Coolidge Boulevard, Suite 303 Lafayette (337) 232-6697

Humberto Aguilar Willis-Knighton Medical Center 3217 Mabel Street Shreveport (318) 631-9121

Irfan Alam 4212 West Congress Street, Suite 2400E Lafayette (337) 984-4350

Richard Awtrey Jr. Touro Infirmary 2820 Napoleon Avenue New Orleans (504) 267-1135

James Balart 7373 Perkins Road Baton Rouge (225) 246-9240

Charles Berggreen Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center 9103 Jefferson Highway Baton Rouge (225) 927-1190

Richard Broussard Ochsner Lafayette General Medical Center 439 Heymann Boulevard Lafayette (337) 269-0963

Natalie Bzowej Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans 4429 Clara Street, Suite 600 New Orleans (504) 842-3925

Vernon Carriere East Jefferson General Hospital 4224 Houma Boulevard, Suite 400 Metairie (504) 456-8020

George Catinis East Jefferson General Hospital 4224 Houma Boulevard, Suite 400 Metairie (504) 456-8020

Stephanie Cauble 7373 Perkins Road Baton Rouge (225) 246-9240

Sean Connolly Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans 1514 Jefferson Highway New Orleans (504) 842-4015

Bryan DiBuono Ochsner Medical CenterNorth Shore 1850 Gause Boulevard East, Suite 301 Slidell (985) 639-3777

Abdul El Chafic Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans 1514 Jefferson Highway New Orleans (504) 842-4015

Virendra Joshi Touro Infirmary 3434 Prytania Street, Suite 110 New Orleans (504) 897-8005

Sarath Krishnan West Jefferson Medical Center 1111 Medical Center Boulevard, Suite S450 Marrero (504) 265-9582

Rebekah Lemann Ochsner Baptist Medical Center 2820 Napoleon Avenue, Suite 720 New Orleans (504) 896-8670

Martin Moehlen Tulane Medical Center 1415 Tulane Avenue, 6th Floor New Orleans (504) 988-5344

T. Ryan Palmer Willis-Knighton Medical Center 2551 Greenwood Road, Suite 350

Shreveport (318) 212-8710

David Pellegrin Terrebonne General Health System 8120 Main Street, Suite 200

Houma (985) 851-5206

Scott Pollack West Jefferson Medical Center 1111 Medical Center Boulevard, Suite S450 Marrero (504) 265-9582

TOP DOCTORS

Daniel Raines

Ochsner Medical Center - Kenner

180 West Esplanade Avenue, Suite 200 Kenner (504) 464-8500

Nathaniel Ranney St. Tammany Parish Hospital

131-B Cherokee Rose Lane Covington (985) 871-1721

Fredric Regenstein Tulane Medical Center 1415 Tulane Avenue, 6th Floor New Orleans (504) 988-5344

Jason Reina North Oaks Medical Center 16061 Doctors Boulevard, Suite B Hammond (985) 542-1334

Gary Reiss West Jefferson Medical Center 1111 Medical Center Boulevard, Suite S450 Marrero (504) 265-9582

Janak Shah Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans 1514 Jefferson Highway New Orleans (504) 842-4015

Shamita Shah Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans 1514 Jefferson Highway New Orleans (504) 842-4015

James Smith Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans 1514 Jefferson Highway New Orleans (504) 842-4015

Douglas Walsh Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center 9103 Jefferson Highway Baton Rouge (225) 927-1190

GYNECOLOGIC ONCOLOGY

Destin Black

Willis-Knighton Medical Center 2600 Kings Highway, Suite 420 Shreveport (318) 212-8727

Pui Cheng

Touro Infirmary 3434 Prytania Street, Suite 320 New Orleans (504) 897-7142

Anthony Evans Woman’s Hospital 500 Rue de la Vie, Suite 410 Baton Rouge (225) 216-3006

Chad Hamilton Ochsner Baptist Medical Center 2820 Napoleon Avenue New Orleans (504) 842-4165

Jessica Shank Tulane Medical Center 150 South Liberty Street New Orleans (504) 988-6300

HAND SURGERY

Kelly Babineaux East Jefferson General Hospital

3601 Houma Boulevard, Suite 300 Metairie (504) 412-1240

Ellis Cooper Specialists Hospital Shreveport 1500 Line Avenue, Suite 100 Shreveport (318) 635-3052

John Hildenbrand IV Thibodaux Regional Medical Center 726 North Acadia Road, Suite 1000 Thibodaux (985) 625-2200

Barton Wax West Jefferson Medical Center 920 Avenue B Marrero (504) 349-6804

Claude Williams IV East Jefferson General Hospital 2731 Napoleon Avenue New Orleans (504) 897-6351

HEMATOLOGY

Chancellor Donald Tulane Medical Center 4720 South I-10 Service Road West Metairie (504) 988-5435

Maissaa Janbain Tulane Lakeside Hospital 4720 South I-10 Service Road West Metairie (504) 988-5433

Nakhle Saba Tulane Medical Center 150 South Liberty Street New Orleans (504) 988-6300

Hana Safah Tulane Medical Center 150 South Liberty Street New Orleans (504) 988-6300

HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE MEDICINE

Sonia Malhotra University Medical Center New Orleans 2001 Tulane Avenue New Orleans (504) 702-3669

INFECTIOUS DISEASE

Katherine Baumgarten Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans 1514 Jefferson Highway New Orleans (504) 842-4005

Sandra Kemmerly Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans 1514 Jefferson Highway New Orleans (504) 842-4005

Alfred Luk Tulane Medical Center 1415 Tulane Avenue, 5th Floor New Orleans (504) 988-5030

David Mushatt Tulane Medical Center 1415 Tulane Avenue, 5th Floor New Orleans (504) 988-5030

Obinna Nnedu Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans 1514 Jefferson Highway New Orleans (504) 842-4005

John Schieffelin Tulane Medical Center 1415 Tulane Avenue, 5th Floor New Orleans (504) 988-5030

Philip Yeon Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System - New Orleans 2400 Canal Street New Orleans (800) 935-8387

INTERNAL MEDICINE

Michael Alexander Ochsner Lafayette General Medical Center 461 Heymann Boulevard Lafayette (337) 289-8717

Jennifer Bertsch Touro Infirmary 3700 Saint Charles Avenue, 4th Floor New Orleans (504) 897-7007

Leo Blaize III Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center 7777 Hennessy Boulevard, Suite 7000 Baton Rouge (225) 765-8829

David Borne University Medical Center New Orleans 3700 St. Charles Avenue, 2nd Floor New Orleans (504) 412-1366

Chester Boudreaux Thibodaux Regional Medical Center 142 Rue Marguerite Thibodaux (985) 446-2131

Wartelle Castille Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical CenterLafayette 4811 Ambassador Caffery Parkway, 3rd Floor Lafayette (337) 470-3100

Pedro Cazabon Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans 1401 Jefferson Highway New Orleans (504) 842-4747

Brian Clements Lake Charles Memorial Hospital 4345 Nelson Road, Suite 201 Lake Charles (337) 494-6800

Jan Cooper New Orleans East Hospital 5646 Read Boulevard, Suite 200 New Orleans (504) 372-5100

Samuel Danna Ochsner Baptist Medical Center 2820 Napoleon Avenue New Orleans (504) 897-4250

Steven Granier Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans 1401 Jefferson Highway New Orleans (504) 842-4747

Jonathan Gugel University Medical Center New Orleans 2001 Tulane Avenue, 2nd Floor New Orleans (504) 962-6330

C. Ray Halliburton Jr. Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center 7777 Hennessy Boulevard, Suite 7000 Baton Rouge (225) 765-8829

Robert Hernandez Willis-Knighton Medical Center 8001 Youree Drive, Suite 400 Shreveport (318) 212-3456

Susan Ieyoub Lake Charles Memorial Hospital 4345 Nelson Road, Suite 201 Lake Charles (337) 494-6800

James Jackson Willis-Knighton Medical Center 2551 Greenwood Road, Suite 410 Shreveport (318) 621-2929

Mark LaFuria Lake Charles Memorial Hospital 2770 3rd Avenue Lake Charles (337) 494-6800

Bryan LeBean Sr. Ochsner Lafayette General Medical Center 2930 Moss Street, Suite B Lafayette (337) 261-0559

Christopher Lege Touro Infirmary 3434 Prytania Street, Suite 460 New Orleans (504) 897-7999

Marlowe Maylin Tulane Medical Center 1415 Tulane Avenue New Orleans (504) 988-5800

Bradley Meek Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center 8119 Picardy Avenue Baton Rouge (225) 214-3638

Timothy Nicholls Willis-Knighton Medical Center 2551 Greenwood Road, Suite 410 Shreveport (318) 621-2929

Robert Occhipinti Touro Infirmary 3434 Prytania Street, Suite 460 New Orleans (504) 688-7627

Susan Ovella

Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center 728 West 11th Avenue Covington (985) 730-7195

Katherine Pearce Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center Primary Care for Women 5131 O’Donovan Drive, Suite 201 Baton Rouge (225) 374-0220

Isis Smith University Medical Center New Orleans 2000 Canal Street New Orleans (504) 962-6338

Karen Smith Lafayette (337) 504-7979

James Soignet Thibodaux Regional Medical Center 142 Rue Marguerite Thibodaux (985) 446-2131

Erica Tate University Medical Center New Orleans 2001 Tulane Avenue, 2nd Floor New Orleans (504) 962-6330

David Tran Lakeview Regional Medical Center Suite A Covington (985) 400-5483

INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOLOGY

Farhad Aduli Lakeview Regional Medical Center 20 Starbrush Circle, Suite A Covington (985) 777-7000

Murtuza Ali Touro Infirmary 2000 Canal Street, 2nd Floor New Orleans (504) 702-5200

Chad Dugas Thibodaux Regional Medical Center 1320 Martin Luther King Drive Thibodaux (985) 446-2021

Peter Fail Terrebonne General Health System 225 Dunn Street Houma (985) 876-0300

Leonard Glade Touro Infirmary 3715 Prytania Street, Suite 400 New Orleans (504) 897-8276

Anand Irimpen Tulane Medical Center 4720 South I-10 Service Road West, Suite 101 Metairie (504) 988-6113

George Isa Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans 1000 Ochsner Boulevard Covington (985) 875-2828

J. Stephen Jenkins Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans 1514 Jefferson Highway, 3rd Floor New Orleans (504) 842-3724

Pramod Menon Lakeview Regional Medical Center 39 Starbrush Circle Covington (985) 871-4155

Pradeep Nair Terrebonne General Health System 225 Dunn Street Houma (985) 876-0300

Christopher Paris St. Charles Parish Hospital 107 Maryland Drive Luling (985) 308-1604

Rajan Patel

Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans 1514 Jefferson Highway, 3rd Floor New Orleans (504) 842-3724

Andrew Rees

Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center 7777 Hennessy Boulevard Medical Plaza II, Suite 1000 Baton Rouge (225) 767-3900

Madhur Roberts Tulane Medical Center 1415 Tulane Avenue, 4th Floor New Orleans (504) 988-6113

Frank Wilklow Touro Infirmary 3715 Prytania Street, Suite 400 New Orleans (504) 897-8276

MATERNAL & FETAL MEDICINE

Paul Dibbs

Ochsner Lafayette General Medical Center 105 Corporate Boulevard Lafayette (337) 593-9099

Chi Dola Tulane Lakeside Hospital 4720 South I-10 Service Road West, Suite 302 Metairie (504) 988-8070

Cecilia Gambala Tulane Lakeside Hospital 4720 South I-10 Service Road West, Suite 302 Metairie (504) 988-8070

Debora Kimberlin Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans 2700 Napoleon Avenue New Orleans (866) 624-7637

Robert Moore Woman’s Hospital 100 Woman’s Way Baton Rouge (225) 924-8338

Gabriella Pridjian Tulane Lakeside Hospital 4720 South I-10 Service Road West, Suite 302 Metairie (504) 988-8070

MEDICAL ONCOLOGY

Bassam Abi-Rached CHRISTUS St. Frances Cabrini Hospital 2108 Texas Avenue, Suite 3061

Alexandria (318) 442-2232

Bryan Bienvenu

Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center 4950 Essen Lane, Suite 500 Baton Rouge (225) 767-1311

Brian Boulmay University Medical Center New Orleans 2000 Canal Street New Orleans (504) 702-3311

B.J. Brooks Jr

Ochsner Medical CenterBaton Rouge 10310 The Grove Boulevard

Baton Rouge (225) 761-5200

Vince Cataldo

Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center 7777 Hennessy Boulevard, Medical Plaza 2, Suite 6000 Baton Rouge (225) 757-0343

John Cole Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans

1514 Jefferson Highway, 3rd Floor New Orleans (504) 842-3910

Bridgette Collins-Burow Tulane Medical Center 150 South Liberty Street New Orleans (504) 988-6300

Manish Dhawan Willis-Knighton Medical Center

850 Olive Street, Suite 8 Shreveport (800) 222-4107

James Ellis West Jefferson Medical Center 4513 Westbank Expressway Marrero (504) 349-6360

David Hanson

Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center 4950 Essen Lane, Suite 500 Baton Rouge (225) 767-1311

Jodi Layton Tulane Medical Center 150 South Liberty Street New Orleans (504) 988-6300

Brian Lewis Tulane Medical Center 150 South Liberty Street New Orleans (504) 988-6300

David Oubre

North Oaks Medical Center 15799 Professional Plaza Drive Hammond (985) 419-0025

Prakash Peddi Willis-Knighton Medical Center 2600 Kings Highway, Suite 340 Shreveport (318) 212-8620

Steven Saccaro

Ochsner Lafayette General Medical Center 1211 Coolidge Street Lafayette (337) 289-8400

A. Oliver Sartor

Tulane Medical Center

150 South Liberty Street New Orleans (504) 988-6300

Francisco Socola Tulane Medical Center

150 South Liberty Street New Orleans (504) 988-6300

Scott Sonnier

Touro Infirmary 1401 Foucher Street, 1st Floor New Orleans (504) 897-8970

Derrick Spell

Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center 4950 Essen Lane, Suite 500 Baton Rouge (225) 767-1311

Srikanth Tamma Ochsner Medical Center - Kenner 200 West Esplanade Avenue, Suite 313 Kenner (504) 842-7690

Christos Theodossiou Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans 1514 Jefferson Highway, 3rd Floor New Orleans (504) 842-3910

Ashish Udhrain Thibodaux Regional Medical Center 608 North Acadia Road Thibodaux (985) 493-4346

Gary Von Burton Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport 1405 Kings Highway, Box 33932

Shreveport (318) 675-7737

NEPHROLOGY

A. Brent Alper Jr. Tulane Medical Center 1415 Tulane Avenue, 6th Floor

New Orleans (504) 988-5344

Adrian Baudy IV Tulane Medical Center 1415 Tulane Avenue, 5th Floor New Orleans (504) 988-1001

Jing Chen Tulane Medical Center 1415 Tulane Avenue New Orleans (504) 988-5030

Raynold Corona

Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center 5131 O’Donovan Drive, Suite 100

Baton Rouge (225) 767-4893

Mitchell Hebert

Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center 5131 O’Donovan Drive, Suite 100 Baton Rouge (225) 767-4893

Ashwin Jaikishen East Jefferson General Hospital 4409 Utica Street, Suite 100

Metairie (504) 457-3687

Marwan Kaskas Willis-Knighton Medical Center 2501 Greenwood Road Shreveport (318) 631-1584

Hui Jin Kim

West Jefferson Medical Center

1111 Medical Center Boulevard, Suite N511 Marrero (504) 349-6301

Trac Le

West Jefferson Medical Center

1111 Medical Center Boulevard, Suite N511 Marrero (504) 349-6301

Richard O’Donovan St. Francis Medical CenterMonroe, LA 711 Wood Street, Suite A Monroe (318) 323-8847

Angela Reginelli Touro Infirmary 3434 Prytania Street, Suite 300 New Orleans (504) 897-4425

Michael Roppolo Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center 5131 O’Donovan Drive, Suite 100 Baton Rouge (225) 767-4893

Catherine Staffeld-Coit Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans 1514 Jefferson Highway, 1st Floor New Orleans (504) 842-3925

Federico Teran Tulane Medical Center 1415 Tulane Avenue, 5th Floor New Orleans (504) 988-1001

Daniel Tveit Ochsner Medical CenterNorth Shore 664 Robert Boulevard Slidell (985) 646-0360

Allen Vander Thibodaux Regional Medical Center 604 North Acadia Road Thibodaux (985) 446-0871

James Yegge Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center 5131 O’Donovan Drive, Suite 100 Baton Rouge (225) 767-4893

Sousan Zadeh North Oaks Medical Center 42388 Pelican Professional Park Hammond (985) 318-1549

NEUROLOGICAL SURGERY

Mohammad Almubaslat St. Tammany Parish Hospital 100 Mariners Boulevard, Suite 1 Mandeville (985) 400-3210

Peter Amenta Tulane Medical Center 1415 Tulane Avenue, 5th Floor New Orleans (504) 988-5561

Alan Appley Ochsner Lafayette General Medical Center 155 Hospital Drive, Suite 100 Lafayette (337) 235-7743

Charles Bowie The Spine Hospital of Louisiana 10101 Park Rowe Avenue, Suite 200 Baton Rouge (225) 769-2200

Jason Cormier Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical CenterLafayette 1200 Camellia Boulevard, Suite 400 Lafayette (337) 534-8680

Frank Culicchia West Jefferson Medical Center 1111 Medical Center Boulevard, Suite S-750 Marrero (504) 340-6976

Robert Dallapiazza Tulane Medical Center 101 Judge Tanner Boulevard, Suite 402 Covington (985) 951-3222

Aaron Dumont Tulane Medical Center 1415 Tulane Avenue, 5th Floor New Orleans (504) 988-5561

Christopher Maulucci Tulane Medical Center 1415 Tulane Avenue, 5th Floor New Orleans (504) 988-5561

Justin Owen AVALA Hospital 76 Starbrush Circle Covington (985) 400-5778

Bryan Payne Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System - New Orleans 2400 Canal Street New Orleans (504) 507-2000

Manish Singh Touro Infirmary 3798 Veterans Memorial Boulevard, Suite 200 Metairie (504) 454-0141

John Steck West Jefferson Medical Center 1111 Medical Center Boulevard, Suite S-750 Marrero (504) 340-6976

Lori Summers Lakeview Regional Medical Center 15739 Professional Plaza Hammond (985) 419-7767

Marcus Ware Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans 1514 Jefferson Highway New Orleans (504) 842-4033

NEUROLOGY

Rana Abusoufeh Tulane Medical Center 101 Judge Tanner Boulevard, Suite 402 Covington (985) 951-3222

Bridget Bagert Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans 1514 Jefferson Highway, 7th Floor New Orleans (504) 842-3980

Kevin Callerame

Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center 5247 Didesse Drive Baton Rouge (225) 215-2193

Elizabeth Crabtree Tulane Medical Center 1415 Tulane Avenue, 5th Floor New Orleans (504) 988-5561

Gerard Dynes Jr

Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center 7373 Perkins Road Baton Rouge (225) 769-4044

Ramy El Khoury Lakeview Regional Medical Center 648 Crestwood Boulevard Covington (985) 205-1744

John England University Medical Center New Orleans 478 South Johnson Street, 5th Floor New Orleans (504) 412-1517

Thomas Gann Jr. Ochsner Medical CenterNorth Shore 1341 Ochsner Boulevard Covington (985) 875-2828

Edward Haight 128 Neuroscience Court Gray (985) 917-3007

Neda Hidarilak Tulane Medical Center 1415 Tulane Avenue, 5th Floor New Orleans (504) 988-5561

Jamie Huddleston Ochsner St. Anne General Hospital 141 Twin Oaks Drive Raceland (985) 537-2666

Vijayakumar Javalkar Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport 1541 Kings Highway Shreveport (318) 626-4300

Jessica Kraker Tulane Medical Center 1415 Tulane Avenue, 5th Floor New Orleans (504) 988-5561

Thomas Krefft 64301 Highway 434 Lacombe (985) 882-4500

Michele Longo Tulane Medical Center 101 Judge Tanner Boulevard, Suite 402 Covington (985) 951-3222

Jesus Lovera Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport 478 South Johnson Street, 5th Floor New Orleans (504) 412-1517

Demetrius Maraganore Tulane Medical Center 101 Judge Tanner Boulevard, Suite 402 Covington (985) 951-3222

Archibald Melcher II East Jefferson General Hospital 3800 Houma Boulevard, Suite 325 Metairie (504) 885-7337

Uma Menon Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans 1514 Jefferson Highway New Orleans (504) 842-3980

Piotr Olejniczak University Medical Center New Orleans

478 South Johnson Street, 5th Floor

New Orleans (504) 412-1517

Pedro Oliveira Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center 7373 Perkins Road Baton Rouge (225) 246-9240

Sarah Perez Tulane Medical Center 101 Judge Tanner Boulevard, Suite 402 Covington (985) 951-3222

Holly Rutherford Tulane Medical Center 1415 Tulane Avenue, 5th Floor

New Orleans (504) 988-5561

Justin Salerian Tulane Medical Center 1415 Tulane Avenue, 5th Floor

New Orleans (504) 988-5561

Morteza Shamsnia Tulane Medical Center 1415 Tulane Avenue, 5th Floor

New Orleans (504) 988-5561

Richard Zweifler Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans 1514 Jefferson Highway, 7th Floor

New Orleans (504) 842-3980

OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY

Gary Agena St. Tammany Parish Hospital

Madisonville (985) 845-7121

Rodney Armand Willis-Knighton Medical Center

2400 Hospital Drive, Suite 240

Bossier City (318) 212-7931

James Barrow

CHRISTUS Ochsner Lake Area Hospital 4150 Nelson Road, Building G, Suite 6 Lake Charles (337) 656-7876

William Beacham North Oaks Medical Center 15748 Medical Arts Plaza Hammond (985) 542-0663

Elizabeth Blanton West Jefferson Medical Center

515 Westbank Expressway Gretna (504) 366-7233

Rebecca Boudreaux

Woman’s Hospital 500 Rue de la Vie, Suite 100

Baton Rouge (225) 201-2000

Randall Brown

Woman’s Hospital 500 Rue de la Vie, Suite 100

Baton Rouge (225) 201-2000

TOP DOCTORS

Francis Cardinale Our Lady of Lourdes Women’s & Children’s Hospital 4640 Ambassador Caffery Parkway Lafayette (337) 984-1050

John Carter Willis-Knighton Medical Center

2400 Hospital Drive, Suite 240

Bossier City (318) 212-7931

Robert Cazayoux Terrebonne General Health System 852 Belanger Street Houma (985) 851-6800

Nicole Chauvin Woman’s Hospital 500 Rue de la Vie, Suite 100

Baton Rouge (225) 201-2000

Rachel Chua CHRISTUS Ochsner Lake Area Hospital 4150 Nelson Road, Building G, Suite 5 Lake Charles (337) 419-0900

Diana Clavin Slidell Memorial Hospital 1150 Robert Boulevard, Suite 360 Slidell (985) 781-4848

Richard Clement Terrebonne General Health System 852 Belanger Street Houma (985) 851-6800

Leslie Coffman Glenwood Regional Medical Center 401 McMillan Road West Monroe (318) 387-3113

David Darbonne Lake Charles Memorial Hospital Lake Charles (337) 474-3883

K. Leslie Dean Willis-Knighton Medical Center 2600 Kings Highway, Suite 420 Shreveport (318) 212-8727

Ryan Dickerson Woman’s Hospital 500 Rue de la Vie, Suite 100 Baton Rouge (225) 201-2000

Louis DuTriel Touro Infirmary 3434 Prytania Street, Suite 130 New Orleans (504) 897-7580

Bradley Forsyth Lake Charles Memorial Hospital 1890 West Gauthier Road, Suite 140 Lake Charles (337) 480-5570

Jill Gibson St. Tammany Parish Hospital Covington (985) 898-5990

Veronica Gillispie Ochsner Medical Center - Kenner 200 West Esplanade Avenue, Suite 501 Kenner (504) 464-8506

Gina Gomez Willis-Knighton Medical Center 2400 Hospital Drive, Suite 240

Bossier City (318) 212-7931

Amy Grace Tulane Lakeside Hospital 4720 South I-10 Service Road, Suite 205 Metairie (504) 779-8282

J. William Groves Jr Lake Charles Memorial Hospital Lake Charles (337) 480-5530

Renee Harris Woman’s Hospital 500 Rue de la Vie, Suite 310 Baton Rouge (225) 201-0505

Eduardo Herrera Tulane Lakeside Hospital 4720 South I-10 Service Road West, Suite 302 Metairie (504) 988-8070

Kaitlin Hoover Woman’s Hospital 500 Rue de la Vie, Suite 310 Baton Rouge (225) 201-0505

Ellen Kruger Ochsner Medical CenterWest Bank 120 Ochsner Boulevard Retina (504) 391-8896

Ann Marie Lafranca Woman’s Hospital Baton Rouge (225) 928-5951

Elizabeth Lapeyre Ochsner Baptist Medical Center 2700 Napoleon Avenue New Orleans (504) 842-4155

Opal LeBlanc Our Lady of Lourdes Women’s & Children’s Hospital Lafayette (337) 769-3444

George Morris IV Ochsner Baptist Medical Center 2700 Napoleon Avenue New Orleans (504) 842-4155

Amber Naresh Tulane Lakeside Hospital 200 Broadway Street, Suite 230 New Orleans (504) 988-9000

Charles Padgett Ochsner Lafayette General Medical Center Lafayette (337) 233-7524

Angela Parise Ochsner Baptist Medical Center 2700 Napoleon Avenue New Orleans (504) 842-4155

Rebecca Perret Touro Infirmary 3434 Prytania Street, Suite 130 New Orleans (504) 897-7580

Benny Popwell CHRISTUS Highland Medical Center 1455 East Bert Kouns Industrial Loop, Suite 306 Shreveport (318) 798-4400

Margaret Roberie Ochsner Baptist Medical Center 2700 Napoleon Avenue New Orleans (504) 842-4155

Anne Rodrigue Thibodaux Regional Medical Center 604 North Acadia Road, Suite 500 Thibodaux (985) 448-1216

Christopher Rodrigue Thibodaux Regional Medical Center 604 North Acadia Road, Suite 500 Thibodaux (985) 448-1216

Janet Ross Touro Infirmary 3525 Prytania Street, Suite 206 New Orleans (504) 897-8281

William Sargent Ochsner Baptist Medical Center 2700 Napoleon Avenue New Orleans (504) 842-4155

Michelle Stutes Our Lady of Lourdes Women’s & Children’s Hospital Lafayette (337) 769-3489

A. Collins Thibodeaux Our Lady of Lourdes Women’s & Children’s Hospital 4630 Ambassador Caffery Parkway, Suite 208 Lafayette (337) 981-6100

Nancy Thomas Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans 71380 Highway 21 Covington (985) 875-2828

Terrie Thomas Woman’s Hospital 500 Rue de la Vie, Suite 310 Baton Rouge (225) 201-0505

Amy Truitt Ochsner Medical Center - Kenner 200 West Esplanade Avenue, Suite 501 Kenner (504) 464-8506

Kerry Tynes CHRISTUS Highland Medical Center 1455 East Bert Kouns Industrial Loop, Suite 306 Shreveport (318) 798-4400

Amy Vaughan Tulane Medical Center 4720 South I-10 Service Road West, Suite 104 Metairie (504) 988-2160

Vu Anh Vuong Ochsner Medical CenterWest Bank 120 Ochsner Boulevard, Suite 360 Gretna (504) 391-8896

Donna Waters Touro Infirmary 3434 Prytania Street, Suite 320 New Orleans (504) 897-7142

Anna White Ochsner Baptist Medical Center 2700 Napoleon Avenue New Orleans (504) 842-4155

Michael Wiedemann Ochsner Medical Center - Kenner 200 West Esplanade Avenue, Suite 501 Kenner (504) 464-8506

Felton Winfield Jr. Touro Infirmary 3700 St. Charles Avenue, 5th Floor New Orleans (504) 412-1520

OPHTHALMOLOGY

Kyle Acosta St. Tammany Parish Hospital 185 Greenbriar Boulevard Covington (985) 898-2001

Frank Culotta Jr

Ochsner Lafayette General Medical Center 1101 South College Road, Suite 304 Lafayette (337) 232-2710

George Ellis Jr. Children’s Hospital New Orleans 200 Henry Clay Avenue, Suite 3104 New Orleans (504) 896-2888

H. Sprague Eustis Jr Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans 1514 Jefferson Highway, 10th Floor New Orleans (504) 842-3995

Donald Falgoust CHRISTUS Ochsner St. Patrick Hospital 1980 Tybee Lane Lake Charles (337) 477-0963

Scott Gauthreaux

Ochsner Lafayette General Medical Center 1101 South College Road, Suite 304 Lafayette (337) 232-2710

Joshua Groetsch Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans 2800 Veterans Memorial Boulevard, Suite 125 Metairie (504) 833-5573

Thomas Heigle Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center 7777 Hennessy Boulevard, Suite 4000 Baton Rouge (225) 766-7441

David Hinkle Tulane Medical Center 1415 Tulane Avenue, 4th Floor New Orleans (504) 988-5831

John Hinrichsen CHRISTUS Highland Medical Center 1400 East Bert Kouns Industrial Loop 1st Floor, Suite 103 Shreveport (318) 222-8402

Keith Kellum Physicians Medical Center 446 Corporate Drive Houma (985) 872-5577

Ronald Landry East Jefferson General Hospital 4324 Veterans Memorial Boulevard, Suite 102 Metairie (504) 455-9825

Kirk LeBlanc Ochsner Lafayette General Medical Center Lafayette (337) 234-8533

Celeste Luke Avoyelles Hospital 108 Medic Drive Marksville (318) 253-9766

Charles Lyon Willis-Knighton Medical Center 836 Olive Street Shreveport (318) 222-8421

Rebecca Metzinger Tulane Medical Center 1415 Tulane Avenue, 4th Floor New Orleans (504) 988-5831

Marilu O’Byrne 1580 West Causeway Approach, Suite 3 Mandeville (985) 624-5573

Patrick O’Sullivan University Medical Center New Orleans 2800 Veterans Memorial Boulevard Metairie (504) 264-9428

Jane Olson Baton Rouge (225) 766-0005

Allen Pearce

Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center 7777 Hennessy Boulevard, Suite 4000 Baton Rouge (225) 766-7441

Robert Wallace III 4110 Parliament Drive Alexandria (318) 448-4488

Nano Zeringue 900 Canal Boulevard, Suite 3 Thibodaux (985) 448-3353

ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY

William Accousti

Children’s Hospital New Orleans

200 Henry Clay Avenue New Orleans (504) 896-9569

Rasheed Ahmad

Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center 8080 Bluebonnet Boulevard, Suite 1000 Baton Rouge (225) 924-2424

Steven Atchison Specialists Hospital Shreveport

1500 Line Avenue, Suite 100

Shreveport (318) 635-3052

Jeffrey Balazsy Lake Charles Memorial Hospital 1717 Oak Park Boulevard, 3rd Floor Lake Charles (337) 494-4900

Robert Bostick III AVALA Hospital 3001 Division Street, Suite 204 Metairie (504) 541-5800

Joseph Broyles

Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center 7301 Hennessy Boulevard, Suite 200 Baton Rouge (225) 766-0050

Scott Buhler

East Jefferson General Hospital 3600 Houma Boulevard Metairie (504) 233-0986

Robert Butler

Ochsner Medical CenterNorth Shore 104 Medical Center Drive Slidell (985) 639-3777

Matthew Cable University Medical Center New Orleans 2000 Tulane Avenue New Orleans (504) 702-5700

Paul Celestre

Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans 1514 Jefferson Highway, 5th Floor New Orleans (866) 624-7637

Christopher Cenac Terrebonne General Health System 1001 School Street Houma (985) 868-1540

Roderick Chandler Jr. AVALA Hospital 1200 Pinnacle Parkway Covington (985) 674-1700

George Chimento

Ochsner Baptist Medical Center

1514 Jefferson Highway, 5th Floor New Orleans (504) 842-3970

Wesley Clark West Jefferson Medical Center 920 Avenue B Marrero (504) 349-6804

David Clause

Opelousas General Health System-Main Campus 4015 I-49 South Service Road

Opelousas (337) 942-6503

Anna Cohen-Rosenblum University Medical Center New Orleans 2001 Tulane Avenue New Orleans (504) 702-3000

Geoffrey Collins West Calcasieu Cameron Hospital 1625 Wolf Circle Lake Charles (337) 905-7100

Kevin Darr

Lakeview Regional Medical Center 19343 Sunshine Avenue Covington (985) 892-5117

Vinod Dasa Ochsner Medical Center - Kenner 200 West Esplanade Avenue, Suite 701 Kenner (504) 412-1705

Gabriel Dersam

Our Lady of Lourdes Women’s & Children’s Hospital 4704 Ambassador Caffery Parkway Lafayette (337) 470-5920

Frank DiFazio St. Bernard Parish Hospital 8050 West Judge Perez Drive, Suite 3200 Chalmette (866) 624-7637

Robert Easton

Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center 8080 Bluebonnet Boulevard, Suite 1000 Baton Rouge (225) 924-2424

Henry Eiserloh III

Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center 8080 Bluebonnet Boulevard, Suite 1000 Baton Rouge (225) 924-2424

Patrick Ellender

Thibodaux Regional Medical Center 726 North Acadia Road, Suite 1000 Thibodaux (985) 625-2200

Paul Gladden Tulane Medical Center 1415 Tulane Avenue, 4th Floor New Orleans (504) 988-2177

Joseph Gonzales Children’s Hospital New Orleans 200 Henry Clay Avenue New Orleans (504) 896-2888

John Googe Specialists Hospital Shreveport 1500 Line Avenue, Suite 100 Shreveport (318) 635-3052

Harold Granger 4809 Ambassador Caffery Parkway, Suite 200 Lafayette (337) 988-8855

Craig Greene

Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center 8080 Bluebonnet Boulevard, Suite 1000 Baton Rouge (225) 924-2424

R. Bryan Griffith Jr Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center 8080 Bluebonnet Boulevard, Suite 1000 Baton Rouge (225) 924-2424

Lawrence Haber Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans 1514 Jefferson Highway, 5th Floor New Orleans (504) 842-3970

Richard Harrell Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport 4481 Viking Drive Bossier City (318) 626-2593

Michael Hartman Ochsner Medical Center - Kenner 200 West Esplanade Avenue, Suite 701 Kenner (504) 412-1705

J. Marshall Haynie Specialists Hospital Shreveport 1500 Line Avenue, Suite 100 Shreveport (318) 635-3052

Wendell Heard Tulane Lakeside Hospital 202 Janet Yulman Way New Orleans (504) 988-8476

Stephen Heinrich Tulane Lakeside Hospital 2121 Ridgelake Drive Metairie (504) 832-4033

Michael Alan Hinton Lake Charles Memorial Hospital 230 West Sale Road Lake Charles (337) 477-5252

Gregor Hoffman Ochsner Baptist Medical Center 2731 Napoleon Avenue New Orleans (504) 897-6351

Val Irion Specialists Hospital Shreveport 1500 Line Avenue, Suite 100

Shreveport (318) 635-3052

Jeremy James AVALA Hospital 76 Starbrush Circle Covington (985) 400-5778

R. William Junius III East Jefferson General Hospital 3600 Houma Boulevard Metairie (504) 233-0986

Peter Krause University Medical Center New Orleans 2000 Canal Street New Orleans (504) 702-4400

John Logan 29301 North Dixie Ranch Road Lacombe (985) 871-4114

Christopher Marrero University Medical Center New Orleans 2000 Canal Street New Orleans (504) 702-4400

James Mautner Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans 1514 Jefferson Highway, 5th Floor New Orleans (504) 842-3970

McCall McDaniel St. Tammany Parish Hospital 71211 Highway 21 Covington (985) 893-9922

Gleb Medvedev Tulane Medical Center 1415 Tulane Avenue, 4th Floor New Orleans (504) 988-2177

Mark Meyer

Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans 1514 Jefferson Highway, 5th Floor New Orleans (504) 842-3970

Chad Millet

Ochsner Baptist Medical Center 2731 Napoleon Avenue New Orleans (504) 897-6351

Thomas Montgomery Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical CenterLafayette 1301 Camellia Boulevard, Suite 102 Lafayette (337) 235-8007

Edward Morgan Willis-Knighton Medical Center 7925 Youree Drive, Suite 200

Shreveport (318) 212-3610

Mary Mulcahey Tulane Medical Center 202 Janet Yulman Way New Orleans (504) 988-8476

David Muldowny Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical CenterLafayette 1103 Kaliste Saloom Road Lafayette (337) 234-5234

Julie Neumann

Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center 7301 Hennessy Boulevard, Suite 200 Baton Rouge (225) 766-0050

John Noble Jr CHRISTUS Ochsner St. Patrick Hospital 1747 Imperial Boulevard Lake Charles (337) 721-7236

Michael O’Brien

Tulane Lakeside Hospital 4720 South I-10 Service Road West Metairie (504) 988-8476

R. Field Ogden Ochsner Baptist Medical Center 2731 Napoleon Avenue New Orleans (504) 897-6351

H. Reiss Plauche St. Tammany Parish Hospital 19343 Sunshine Avenue Covington (985) 892-5117

David Pope

Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center 7301 Hennessy Boulevard, Suite 200 Baton Rouge (225) 766-0050

Catherine Riche

Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center 8080 Bluebonnet Boulevard, Suite 1000 Baton Rouge (225) 924-2424

Michael Robichaux Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center 8080 Bluebonnet Boulevard, Suite 1000 Baton Rouge (225) 924-2424

Jason Rolling St. Tammany Parish Hospital 19343 Sunshine Avenue Covington (985) 892-5117

Seth Rosenzweig Iberia Medical Center 500 North Lewis Street, Suite 280 New Iberia (337) 235-8007

Fernando Sanchez Tulane Lakeside Hospital 4720 South I-10 Service Road West Metairie (504) 988-8476

Cambize Shahrdar Jr Willis-Knighton Medical Center 7925 Youree Drive, Suite 200 Shreveport (318) 212-3610

William Sherman Jr Tulane Medical Center 4921 Airline Drive Metairie (504) 889-2663

Leslie Sisco Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans 1514 Jefferson Highway, 5th Floor New Orleans (504) 842-3970

Craig Springmeyer CHRISTUS Highland Medical Center 1455 East Bert Kouns Industrial Loop, Suite 210 Shreveport (318) 798-4623

Malcolm Stubbs

Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical CenterLafayette 1103 Kaliste Saloom Road Lafayette (337) 234-5234

Andrew Todd Ochsner Baptist Medical Center 2731 Napoleon Avenue New Orleans (504) 897-6351

Robert Treuting Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans 1514 Jefferson Highway, 5th Floor New Orleans (504) 842-3970

Scott Tucker West Jefferson Medical Center 920 Avenue B Marrero (504) 349-6804

Meredith Warner 9373 Baringer Foreman Road Baton Rouge (225) 754-8888

Matthew Williams

Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical CenterLafayette 108 Rue Louis XIV Lafayette (337) 235-8007

Jeffrey Witty North Oaks Medical Center 15813 Paul Vega, MD Drive, Suite 100 Hammond (985) 230-2663

Robert Zura University Medical Center New Orleans 2000 Canal Street New Orleans (504) 702-4400

OTOLARYNGOLOGY

John Alldredge

Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical CenterLafayette 225 Bendel Road Lafayette (337) 232-2330

Ronald Amedee Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans 1514 Jefferson Highway, 4th Floor New Orleans (504) 842-4080

Moises Arriaga

Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center 7777 Hennessy Boulevard, Suite 709 Baton Rouge (225) 765-7735

John Beatrous St. Tammany Parish Hospital 350 Lakeview Court, Suite A Covington (985) 845-2677

James Broussard Thibodaux Regional Medical Center 604 North Acadia Road, Suite 101 Thibodaux (985) 446-5079

Kathy Chauvin St. Tammany Parish Hospital 350 Lakeview Court, Suite A Covington (985) 845-2677

James Connolly St. Tammany Parish Hospital 1420 North Causeway Boulevard Mandeville (985) 327-5905

Lisa David Ochsner Lafayette General Medical Center 109 Rue Fontaine Lafayette (337) 266-9820

Karuna Dewan Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport 1606 Kings Highway Shreveport (318) 212-9440

Maria Doucet

Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical CenterLafayette 4630 Ambassador Caffery Parkway Building A, Suite 402 Lafayette (337) 989-4453

Jason Durel

Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical CenterLafayette 225 Bendel Road Lafayette (337) 232-2330

Brytton Eldredge Ochsner Lafayette General Medical Center 109 Rue Fontaine Lafayette (337) 266-9820

Adil Fatakia West Jefferson Medical Center 1151 Barataria Boulevard, Suite 3100 Marrero (504) 407-2240

Paul Friedlander Tulane Medical Center 150 South Liberty Street New Orleans (504) 988-6300

Gerard Gianoli 1401 Ochsner Boulevard, Suite A

Covington (985) 809-1111

John Guarisco

Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans 1514 Jefferson Highway, 4th Floor New Orleans (504) 842-4080

Christian Hasney Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans 1514 Jefferson Highway, 4th Floor New Orleans (504) 842-4080

Neal Jackson Tulane Medical Center 1415 Tulane Avenue, 5th Floor New Orleans (504) 988-5561

Jeffrey Marino Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans 1514 Jefferson Highway, 2nd Floor New Orleans (504) 842-4080

Kevin McLaughlin St. Tammany Parish Hospital

350 Lakeview Court, Suite A Covington (985) 845-2677

Nancy Mellin North Oaks Medical Center 42401 Pelican Professional Park

Hammond (985) 542-9155

Timothy Molony Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans

1514 Jefferson Highway, 4th Floor New Orleans (504) 842-4080

Brian Moore

Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans 1514 Jefferson Highway, 2nd Floor New Orleans (504) 842-4080

Cherie-Ann Nathan Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport 1501 Kings Highway Shreveport (318) 675-6262

TOP DOCTORS

Phillip Noel Abbeville General Hospital 100 Phoenix Drive Abbeville (337) 898-3700

Daniel Nuss

Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center 4950 Essen Lane, Suite 400 Baton Rouge (225) 765-1765

Jacques Peltier North Oaks Medical Center 15813 Paul Vega, MD, Drive, Suite 301 Hammond (985) 230-2778

Gerard Pena Ochsner Medical CenterNorth Shore

2050 Gause Boulevard East, Suite 200 Slidell (985) 646-4400

Elisabeth Rareshide Ochsner Baptist Medical Center 2820 Napoleon Avenue, Suite 820

New Orleans (504) 314-4420

Patricia Scallan

Our Lady of the Lake Children’s Hospital 8080 Bluebonnet Boulevard, Suite 2121 Baton Rouge (225) 767-7200

Chad Simon Houma (985) 872-0423

Collin Sutton 8080 Bluebonnet Boulevard, Suite 2222 Baton Rouge (225) 769-2222

Justin Tenney

Thibodaux Regional Medical Center 604 North Acadia Road, Suite 101 Thibodaux (985) 446-5079

James White Jr.

Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical CenterLafayette 1039 Camellia Boulevard Lafayette (337) 993-1335

Guy Zeringue III

Thibodaux Regional Medical Center 604 North Acadia Road, Suite 101 Thibodaux (985) 446-5079

OTOLARYNGOLOGY/ FACIAL PLASTIC SURGERY

R. Graham Boyce Lakeview Regional Medical Center

350 Lakeview Court, Suite A Covington (985) 845-2677

J. Kevin Duplechain Ochsner Lafayette General Medical Center Lafayette (337) 456-3282

H. Devon Graham III Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans 2820 Napoleon Avenue, Suite 820 New Orleans (504) 897-4455

Jason Guillot St. Tammany Parish Hospital 1420 North Causeway Boulevard Mandeville (985) 327-5905

Laura Hetzler

Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center 4950 Essen Lane, Suite 402 Baton Rouge (225) 765-1982

Christian Jacob Touro Infirmary 2427 St. Charles Avenue New Orleans (504) 895-7642

Jeffrey Joseph Ochsner Lafayette General Medical Center 1000 West Pinhook Road, Suite 201A Lafayette (337) 237-0650

Lisa Morris

Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center 4950 Essen Lane, Suite 402

Baton Rouge (225) 765-1982

Thomas Moulthrop Tulane Medical Center 2427 St. Charles Avenue New Orleans (504) 895-7642

Parker Velargo 2633 Napoleon Avenue, Suite 920 New Orleans (504) 533-8848

Sean Weiss Touro Infirmary Suite 408 Metairie (504) 814-3223

PAIN MEDICINE

C. Ann Conn 187 Greenbriar Boulevard, Suite A Covington (985) 345-7246

Joseph Crapanzano Jr. East Jefferson General Hospital 4320 Houma Boulevard, 6th Floor Metairie (504) 503-4109

Hazem Eissa Ochsner Baptist Medical Center 2820 Napoleon Avenue New Orleans (504) 842-5300

Mohamed Elkersh North Oaks Medical Center 42131 Veterans Avenue Hammond (985) 345-7246

Sean Graham Baton Rouge General Medical Center 5408 Flanders Drive Baton Rouge (225) 769-5554

Suneil Jolly Touro Infirmary 3434 Houma Boulevard, Suite 301 Metairie (504) 276-7334

Eric Lonseth East Jefferson General Hospital 4213 Teuton Street Metairie (504) 327-5857

Kevin Martinez Touro Infirmary 3798 Veterans Memorial Boulevard, Suite 200 Metairie (504) 454-0141

Ross Nelson III Specialists Hospital Shreveport 1534 Elizabeth Avenue, Suite 201 Shreveport (318) 629-5505

Jimmy Ponder Jr 123 Frontage Road-A Gray (985) 580-1200

Ronald Segura 141 Lakeview Circle Covington (985) 231-6751

Patrick Waring East Jefferson General Hospital 701 Metairie Road, Suite 2A310 Metairie (504) 455-2225

PATHOLOGY

Shams Halat Tulane Medical Center 1415 Tulane Avenue New Orleans (504) 988-5224

Matthew Stark Children’s Hospital New Orleans 200 Henry Clay Avenue New Orleans (504) 896-9817

PEDIATRIC ALLERGY & IMMUNOLOGY

Andrew Abreo Children’s Hospital New Orleans

200 Henry Clay Avenue, 1st Floor New Orleans (504) 896-9589

John Carlson Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans

1514 Jefferson Highway New Orleans (504) 842-6742

Cathryn Hassett Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans

1514 Jefferson Highway New Orleans (504) 842-6742

Sandhya Mani Our Lady of the Lake Children’s Hospital 8200 Constantin Boulevard, 3rd Floor Baton Rouge (225) 765-5500

Theron McCormick Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center 8200 Constantin Boulevard, 3rd Floor Baton Rouge (225) 765-6834

Lawrence Montelibano Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans

1514 Jefferson Highway New Orleans (504) 842-6742

PEDIATRIC CARDIOLOGY

Sergio Bartakian Children’s Hospital New Orleans

200 Henry Clay Avenue New Orleans (504) 896-9751

Tamara Bradford

Children’s Hospital New Orleans

200 Henry Clay Avenue New Orleans (504) 896-9751

Michael Brumund

Children’s Hospital New Orleans

200 Henry Clay Avenue New Orleans (504) 896-9751

Michael Crapanzano

Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center 8200 Constantin Road, Suite 200 Baton Rouge (225) 767-6700

Ivory Crittendon III

Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans

1319 Jefferson Highway New Orleans (504) 842-5200

Kelly Gajewski

Children’s Hospital New Orleans

200 Henry Clay Avenue New Orleans (504) 896-9751

Rufus Hixon III

Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center 8200 Constantin Road, Suite 200 Baton Rouge (225) 767-6700

Mudar Kattash Lake Charles Memorial Hospital

2005 Southwood Drive Lake Charles (337) 562-2293

Thomas Kimball

Children’s Hospital New Orleans

200 Henry Clay Avenue New Orleans (504) 896-2888

James Krulisky

Children’s Hospital New Orleans

200 Henry Clay Avenue New Orleans (504) 896-2888

Katherine Lindle

Ochsner University Hospital & Clinics 1016 Coolidge Street Lafayette (337) 443-6100

Victor Lucas

Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans

1319 Jefferson Highway New Orleans (504) 842-5200

Scott Macicek

Children’s Hospital New Orleans

200 Henry Clay Avenue New Orleans (504) 896-9751

Hans Mulder

Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans

1319 Jefferson Highway New Orleans (504) 842-5200

Shannon Powell

Children’s Hospital New Orleans

200 Henry Clay Avenue New Orleans (504) 896-9751

Steffan Sernich

Children’s Hospital New Orleans

200 Henry Clay Avenue New Orleans (504) 896-2888

Patricia Thomas Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans 1319 Jefferson Highway New Orleans (504) 842-5200

Jason Turner Children’s Hospital New Orleans 200 Henry Clay Avenue New Orleans (504) 896-9732

Michael White Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans 1319 Jefferson Highway New Orleans (504) 842-5200

Song-Gui Yang

Children’s Hospital New Orleans

200 Henry Clay Avenue New Orleans (504) 896-2888

Thomas Young Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans 1319 Jefferson Highway New Orleans (504) 842-5200

PEDIATRIC CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE

Cara Lasley Children’s Hospital New Orleans

200 Henry Clay Avenue New Orleans (504) 896-9732

PEDIATRIC ENDOCRINOLOGY

Stuart Chalew Children’s Hospital New Orleans 200 Henry Clay Avenue New Orleans (504) 896-2888

Janna Flint Wilson

Our Lady of Lourdes Women’s & Children’s Hospital 4704 Ambassador Caffery Parkway, 2nd Floor Lafayette (337) 470-5920

James Gardner Jr.

Our Lady of the Lake Children’s Hospital 8200 Constantin Boulevard, 4th Floor Baton Rouge (225) 765-5500

Ricardo Gomez

Children’s Hospital New Orleans

200 Henry Clay Avenue New Orleans (504) 896-2888

Chantal Lutfallah

Our Lady of the Lake Children’s Hospital 8200 Constantin Boulevard, 4th Floor Baton Rouge (225) 765-5500

PEDIATRIC GASTROENTEROLOGY

Patricio Arias Valencia

Children’s Hospital New Orleans

200 Henry Clay Avenue New Orleans (504) 896-2888

Ilana Fortgang Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans 1315 Jefferson Highway New Orleans (866) 624-7637

Brent Keith

Children’s Hospital New Orleans

200 Henry Clay Avenue New Orleans (504) 896-2888

Brian Morris

Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans 1315 Jefferson Highway New Orleans (504) 842-3900

PEDIATRIC HEMATOLOGYONCOLOGY Tammuella ChrisenterySingleton

Ochsner Medical CenterNorth Shore 2053 Gause Boulevard East, Suite 200 Slidell (985) 259-8045

Craig Lotterman

Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans 1315 Jefferson Highway New Orleans (504) 703-2218

Lolie Yu

Children’s Hospital New Orleans

200 Henry Clay Avenue New Orleans (504) 896-9740

PEDIATRIC INFECTIOUS DISEASE

Michael Bolton

Our Lady of the Lake Children’s Hospital 8200 Constantin Boulevard, 4th Floor Baton Rouge (225) 765-5500

Margarita Silio

Children’s Hospital New Orleans

200 Henry Clay Avenue New Orleans (504) 896-2888

PEDIATRIC NEPHROLOGY Diego Aviles

Children’s Hospital New Orleans

200 Henry Clay Avenue New Orleans (504) 896-2888

Samir El-Dahr

Children’s Hospital New Orleans

200 Henry Clay Avenue New Orleans (504) 896-2888

Ihor Yosypiv

Children’s Hospital New Orleans

200 Henry Clay Avenue New Orleans (504) 896-2888

PEDIATRIC OTOLARYNGOLOGY

John Carter

Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans

1514 Jefferson Highway New Orleans (504) 842-4080

Adele Evans

Children’s Hospital New Orleans

200 Henry Clay Avenue New Orleans (504) 896-2888

Belinda Mantle

Children’s Hospital New Orleans

200 Henry Clay Avenue New Orleans (504) 896-2888

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Kimsey Rodriguez

Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans

1514 Jefferson Highway New Orleans (504) 842-4080

PEDIATRIC PULMONOLOGY

Scott Davis

Children’s Hospital New Orleans

200 Henry Clay Avenue New Orleans (504) 896-2888

Adrienne Savant Children’s Hospital New Orleans

200 Henry Clay Avenue New Orleans (504) 896-9436

Kristin Van Hook Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans

1315 Jefferson Highway New Orleans (504) 842-3900

PEDIATRIC SURGERY

Vincent Adolph Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans

1514 Jefferson Highway New Orleans (504) 842-3907

Mary Brandt

Children’s Hospital New Orleans

200 Henry Clay Avenue New Orleans (504) 896-2888

Mark Brown

Willis-Knighton South & The Center for Women’s Health

2508 Bert Kouns Industrial Loop, Suite 310 Shreveport (318) 212-5880

Deiadra Garrett

Our Lady of Lourdes Women’s & Children’s Hospital

4704 Ambassador Caffery Parkway Lafayette (337) 470-5920

Rodney Steiner Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans

1514 Jefferson Highway New Orleans (504) 842-3907

David Yu

Children’s Hospital New Orleans

200 Henry Clay Avenue New Orleans (504) 896-2888

Jessica Zagory

Children’s Hospital New Orleans

200 Henry Clay Avenue New Orleans (504) 894-5562

PEDIATRIC UROLOGY

Frank Cerniglia Jr.

Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans

1514 Jefferson Highway, 4th Floor New Orleans (504) 842-4083

Aaron Martin

Children’s Hospital New Orleans

200 Henry Clay Avenue, Suite 3030 New Orleans (504) 896-2888

Joseph Ortenberg

Children’s Hospital New Orleans

200 Henry Clay Avenue New Orleans (504) 896-2888

Christopher Roth

Children’s Hospital New Orleans

200 Henry Clay Avenue, Suite 2309 New Orleans (504) 896-2888

PEDIATRICS

Mamatha Ananth Touro Infirmary 3001 Division Street, Suite 206 Metairie (504) 267-9001

Brian Bailey

Our Lady of Lourdes Women’s & Children’s Hospital

5000 Ambassador Caffery Parkway Building 12 Lafayette (337) 989-5061

John Barbara III Children’s Hospital New Orleans

2201 Veterans Memorial Boulevard, Suite 300 Metairie (504) 833-7374

Anne Boudreaux

Thibodaux Regional Medical Center 142 Rue Marguerite Thibodaux (985) 449-7529

Jennifer Boustany

Our Lady of Lourdes Women’s & Children’s Hospital 4630 Ambassador Caffery Parkway, Suite 102 Lafayette (337) 989-2322

Laura Boykin Ochsner Baptist Medical Center

4901 Veterans Memorial Boulevard Metairie (504) 887-1133

William Britton St. Tammany Parish Hospital

7020 North Highway 190, Suite C Covington (985) 871-7337

Danielle Calix

Ochsner Medical Center - Kenner

13100 River Road Destrehan (985) 764-6036

Courtney Campbell

Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center 8415 Goodwood Boulevard, Suite 202 Baton Rouge (225) 765-8013

Terry Cummings Tulane Medical Center 200 Broadway Street, Suite 230 New Orleans (504) 988-9000

Theresa Dise

Children’s Hospital New Orleans

4740 South I-10 Service Road West, Suite 200 Metairie (504) 894-5479

Robert Drumm

Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center 7373 Perkins Road Baton Rouge (225) 769-4044

Patrice Evers

Tulane Medical Center 4740 South I-10 Service Road West, Suite 200 Metairie (504) 894-5479

Robert Faucheux St. Tammany Parish Hospital 1520 Highway 22 West Madisonville (985) 773-1600

Bernard Ferrer 569 Enterprise Drive Houma (985) 872-6405

Jill Fitzpatrick Ochsner Medical CenterNorth Shore 3235 East Causeway Approach Mandeville (985) 875-2828

Emily Hobson Willis-Knighton Medical Center 2225 Line Avenue Shreveport (318) 221-2225

Jennifer Hogan Ochsner Medical CenterBaton Rouge 10310 The Grove Boulevard Baton Rouge (225) 761-5200

Lynne Holladay Willis-Knighton Medical Center 1717 East Bert Kouns Industrial Loop Shreveport (318) 212-2920

Michael Judice Our Lady of Lourdes Women’s & Children’s Hospital 4630 Ambassador Caffery Parkway, Suite 102 Lafayette (337) 989-2322

Linda Keefer St. Tammany Parish Hospital 1520 Highway 22 West Madisonville (985) 773-1600

Reita Lawrence

Children’s Hospital New Orleans

3100 Kingman Street Metairie (504) 887-6355

Joshua LeBlanc St. Tammany Parish Hospital 1305 West Causeway Approach Mandeville (985) 674-2227

Sharon Lilly St. Tammany Parish Hospital 7020 North Highway 190, Suite C

Covington (985) 871-7337

Janine Lissard Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans 9605 Jefferson Highway, Suite J River Ridge (504) 703-3270

Betty Lo-Blais University Medical Center New Orleans 3700 St. Charles Avenue, 2nd Floor New Orleans (504) 412-1366

Jamar Melton Baton Rouge General Medical Center 7373 Perkins Road Baton Rouge (225) 763-4888

Tara Mitchell

Ochsner Medical CenterNorth Shore 2370 Gause Boulevard East Slidell (985) 639-3755

Nancy Mula St. Tammany Parish Hospital 7020 North Highway 190, Suite C Covington (985) 871-7337

M. Nora Oates

Children’s Hospital New Orleans

3525 Prytania Street, Suite 602 New Orleans (504) 897-0744

Hina Patel

Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center 8415 Goodwood Boulevard, Suite 202 Baton Rouge (225) 765-8013

F. Douglas Patterson 169 Del Norte Avenue Denham Springs (225) 791-7337

Henry Peltier

Thibodaux Regional Medical Center 604 North Acadia Road, Suite 200 Thibodaux (985) 448-3700

Kathryn Quarls St. Tammany Parish Hospital 7020 North Highway 190, Suite C Covington (985) 871-7337

Pamela Richard Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans 3235 East Causeway Approach Mandeville (985) 875-2828

Rayne Schexnayder

Ochsner Baptist Medical Center 4901 Veterans Memorial Boulevard Metairie (504) 887-1133

Nicole Sheldon Children’s Hospital New Orleans 4740 South I-10 Service Road West, Suite 200 Metairie (504) 894-5479

Edward Sledge Jr Ochsner Medical CenterBaton Rouge 10310 The Grove Boulevard Baton Rouge (225) 761-5200

Catherine Spiller

Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center 5000 O’Donovan Boulevard, Suite 404 Walker (225) 369-8100

Sylvia Sutton

Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center 8415 Goodwood Boulevard, Suite 202 Baton Rouge (225) 765-8013

Elizabeth Theriot Ochsner Baptist Medical Center 4901 Veterans Memorial Boulevard Metairie (504) 887-1133

Jenny Thomas Lake Charles Memorial Hospital 600 Cypress Street Sulphur (337) 527-6371

Wanda Thomas Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport 1541 Kings Highway Shreveport (318) 626-0050

Quynh-Anh Tran 8250 West Judge Perez Drive

Chalmette (504) 279-5547

Deepa Vasireddy Woman’s Hospital 7053 Johnston Street Lafayette (337) 210-5043

Mark Waggenspack

Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center 7373 Perkins Road Baton Rouge (225) 769-4044

Eric Weil

Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center 8415 Goodwood Boulevard, Suite 202 Baton Rouge (225) 765-8013

Stephen Weimer Tulane Medical Center 4740 South I-10 Service Road West, Suite 200 Metairie (504) 894-5479

PHYSICAL MEDICINE & REHABILITATION

Mary Nell Anderson 18161 East Petroleum Drive

Baton Rouge (225) 754-8888

Jacques Courseault Tulane Lakeside Hospital 202 Janet Yulman Way New Orleans (504) 988-8476

Jenness Courtney III Minden Medical Center 9045 Ellerbe Road, Suite 107 Shreveport (318) 424-4224

Todd Cowen 726 North Acadia Road, Suite 2600 Thibodaux (985) 447-9922

Aaron Karlin Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans 1000 Ochsner Boulevard Covington (985) 875-2828

Justin Lundgren Touro Infirmary 3798 Veterans Memorial Boulevard, Suite 200 Metairie (504) 454-0141

Craig Morton CHRISTUS Ochsner St. Patrick Hospital 1747 Imperial Boulevard Lake Charles (337) 721-7236

Gregory Stewart Tulane Lakeside Hospital 202 Janet Yulman Way New Orleans (504) 988-8476

Jeffrey Watkins Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans 1221 South Clearview Parkway New Orleans (504) 842-3998

PLASTIC SURGERY

Stephen Antrobus Baton Rouge (225) 763-9611

Benjamin Boudreaux 3401 East Causeway Approach Mandeville (985) 237-6050

Abigail Chaffin Tulane Medical Center 4720 South I-10 Service Road West, Suite 100 Metairie (504) 988-8100

Jeffrey Claiborne 3401 East Causeway Approach Mandeville (985) 237-6050

Stephen Delatte Jr Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical CenterLafayette 100 Drury Lane Lafayette (337) 269-4949

Frank DellaCroce St. Charles Surgical Hospital 1717 St. Charles Avenue New Orleans (504) 899-2800

Michael Friel

Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans 1315 Jefferson Highway New Orleans (504) 842-5338

John Guste

Thibodaux Regional Medical Center 3900 Veterans Memorial Boulevard, Suite 200 Metairie (504) 475-1248

Michael Hanemann Jr Baton Rouge General Medical Center 5233 Dijon Drive Baton Rouge (225) 766-2166

M’liss Hogan St. Tammany Parish Hospital 4212 Bluebonnet Boulevard, Suite A Baton Rouge (225) 399-0001

David Jansen Tulane Medical Center 3900 Veterans Memorial Boulevard, Suite 200 Metairie (504) 455-1000

Kamran Khoobehi 3901 Veterans Boulevard Metairie (504) 779-5538

TOP DOCTORS

John Lindsey East Jefferson General Hospital

4228 Houma Boulevard, Suite 500 Metairie (504) 885-4508

Stephen Metzinger East Jefferson General Hospital 3223 8th Street, Suite 200 Metairie (504) 309-7061

Timothy Mickel St. Francis Medical CenterMonroe, LA 903 North 2nd Street Monroe (318) 388-2050

Michael Moses Children’s Hospital New Orleans New Orleans (504) 895-7200

Barron O’Neal CHRISTUS Highland Medical Center 2210 Line Avenue, Suite 204 Shreveport (318) 221-9671

Kenneth Odinet Jr Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical CenterLafayette Lafayette (337) 234-8648

Ernest Clyde Smoot III CHRISTUS Ochsner Lake Area Hospital 4150 Nelson Road, Building A-2 Lake Charles (337) 478-5577

Hugo St. Hilaire Ochsner Baptist Medical Center 3601 Houma Boulevard, Suite 300 Metairie (504) 412-1240

Scott Sullivan Jr St. Charles Surgical Hospital 1717 St. Charles Avenue New Orleans (504) 899-2800

Ravi Tandon Tulane Medical Center 3900 Veterans Memorial Boulevard, Suite 200 Metairie (504) 455-1000

Taylor Theunissen Baton Rouge General Medical Center 5233 Dijon Drive Baton Rouge (225) 218-6108

Christopher Trahan St. Charles Surgical Hospital 1717 St. Charles Avenue New Orleans (504) 899-2800

Simeon Wall Jr CHRISTUS Highland Medical Center 8600 Fern Avenue Shreveport (318) 795-0801

Matthew Wise St. Charles Surgical Hospital 1717 St. Charles Avenue New Orleans (504) 899-2800

PSYCHIATRY

Renee Bruno Woman’s Hospital Baton Rouge (225) 615-8102

Degan Dansereau New Orleans (504) 897-0201

Morgan Feibelman 400 Poydras Street, Suite 1950

New Orleans (504) 322-3837

Jennifer Greco 400 Poydras Street, Suite 1950 New Orleans (504) 322-3837

Holly MacKenna 1900 South Carrollton Avenue New Orleans (504) 356-1624

Nicholas Pejic 1301 Antonine Street New Orleans (504) 899-1682

Larry Warner Jr. Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center 10517 Kentshire Court Baton Rouge (225) 456-2884

PULMONARY DISEASE

Ramsy Abdelghani Tulane Medical Center 1415 Tulane Avenue, 7th Floor New Orleans (504) 988-8600

Christine Bojanowski Tulane Medical Center 1415 Tulane Avenue, 7th Floor New Orleans (504) 988-8600

Warren Botnick Natchitoches Regional Medical Center 601 Keyser Avenue Natchitoches (318) 214-5770

Bennett deBoisblanc University Medical Center New Orleans 2000 Canal Street New Orleans (504) 702-5057

Glenn Gomes Ochsner Medical CenterBaton Rouge 10310 The Grove Boulevard Baton Rouge (225) 761-5200

Ronald Hammett Glenwood Regional Medical Center 102 Thomas Road, Suite 107 West Monroe (318) 329-8479

Mark Hodges

Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center 7373 Perkins Road Baton Rouge (225) 769-4044

Stephen Kantrow Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans 1514 Jefferson Highway New Orleans (504) 842-4055

Ross Klingsberg Tulane Medical Center 1415 Tulane Avenue, 7th Floor New Orleans (504) 988-8600

Gary Kohler Lake Charles Memorial Hospital 2770 3rd Avenue, Suite 350 Lake Charles (337) 494-2750

Joseph Lasky Tulane Medical Center 1415 Tulane Avenue New Orleans (504) 988-8600

Carol Mason Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans 200 West Esplanade Avenue, Suite 701 Kenner (504) 412-1705

Michael McCarthy 7373 Perkins Road Baton Rouge (225) 246-9240

Nereida Parada Tulane Medical Center 1415 Tulane Avenue New Orleans (504) 988-8600

Kevin Reed Baton Rouge General Medical Center 8585 Picardy Avenue, Suite 516 Baton Rouge (225) 381-2755

Shigeki Saito University Medical Center New Orleans 2000 Canal Street New Orleans (504) 702-5057

Judd Shellito Ochsner Medical Center - Kenner 200 West Esplanade Avenue, Suite 701 Kenner (504) 412-1705

Victor Thannickal Tulane Medical Center 2000 Canal Street 2nd Floor, Zone A New Orleans (504) 988-7800

Robert Walter Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport 1501 Kings Highway Shreveport (318) 212-9440

RADIATION ONCOLOGY

Kendra Harris Tulane Medical Center 150 South Liberty Street New Orleans (504) 988-1070

Andrew Lauve Baton Rouge General Medical Center 3401 North Boulevard Baton Rouge (225) 387-7280

James Maze Lake Charles Memorial Hospital Radiation Oncology 1701 Oak Park Boulevard Lake Charles (337) 494-2121

Paul Monsour East Jefferson General Hospital Department of Radiation Oncology 4204 Houma Boulevard, Suite 100 Metairie (504) 454-1727

Perri Prellop Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical CenterLafayette 4809 Ambassador Caffery Parkway, Suite 100 Lafayette (337) 769-8660

Stephen Wilt Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical CenterLafayette 4809 Ambassador Caffery Parkway, Suite 100 Lafayette (337) 769-8660

Charles Wood

Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center 4950 Essen Lane Baton Rouge (225) 271-5269

Ellen Zakris Touro Infirmary 1401 Foucher Street New Orleans (504) 897-8387

REPRODUCTIVE ENDOCRINOLOGY/ INFERTILITY

P. Ronald Clisham Tulane Medical Center 4770 South I-10 Service Road West Metairie (504) 454-2165

Peter Lu Touro Infirmary 800 North Causeway Boulevard, Suite 2C Mandeville (985) 892-7621

Belinda Sartor 4770 South I-10 Service Road West Metairie (504) 454-2165

John Storment

Our Lady of Lourdes Women’s & Children’s Hospital 206 East Farrel Road Lafayette (337) 989-8795

David Vandermolen Willis-Knighton Medical Center 2401 Greenwood Road Shreveport (318) 841-5800

Lindsay Wells Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans 4321 Magnolia Street New Orleans (504) 891-1390

RHEUMATOLOGY

Angele Bourg 7373 Perkins Road Baton Rouge (225) 246-9240

Ronald Ceruti Jr 7373 Perkins Road Baton Rouge (225) 246-9240

Elena Cucurull 7373 Perkins Road Baton Rouge (225) 246-9240

William Davis Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans 1514 Jefferson Highway, 5th Floor New Orleans (504) 842-3920

Bobby Dupre

Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center 7777 Hennessy Boulevard, Suite 501A Baton Rouge (225) 765-6505

Madelaine Feldman Touro Infirmary 2633 Napoleon Avenue, Suite 530 New Orleans (504) 899-1120

Harmanjot Grewal

Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center 7777 Hennessy Boulevard, Suite 501A

Baton Rouge (225) 765-6505

Khanh Ho

Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center 7777 Hennessy Boulevard, Suite 501A Baton Rouge (225) 765-6505

Chandana Keshavamurthy Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans 1514 Jefferson Highway, 5th Floor New Orleans (504) 842-3920

James Lipstate Ochsner Lafayette General Medical Center 4212 West Congress Street, Suite 2300A Lafayette (337) 237-7801

Jennifer Malin Ochsner Lafayette General Medical Center 4212 West Congress Street, Suite 2300A Lafayette (337) 237-7801

Joseph Nesheiwat 7373 Perkins Road Baton Rouge (225) 246-9240

Robert Quinet Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans 1514 Jefferson Highway, 5th Floor New Orleans (504) 842-3920

Sean Shannon Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center 7777 Hennessy Boulevard, Suite 501A Baton Rouge (225) 765-6505

Karen Toribio Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans 1514 Jefferson Highway, 5th Floor New Orleans (504) 842-3920

Tamika Webb-Detiege Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans 1514 Jefferson Highway, 5th Floor New Orleans (504) 842-3920

SLEEP MEDICINE

Matthew Abraham Lake Charles Memorial Hospital 1701 Oak Park Boulevard Lake Charles (866) 337-2536

Phillip Conner 4820 Lake Street Lake Charles (337) 310-7378

Dwayne Henry Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center 7777 Hennessy Boulevard, Suite 501B Baton Rouge (225) 765-3456

SPORTS MEDICINE

Timothy Finney Ochsner Baptist Medical Center 2731 Napoleon Avenue New Orleans (504) 897-6351

Deryk Jones

Ochsner Medical Center - Kenner 1221 South Clearview Parkway, Building B New Orleans (504) 736-4800

Christine Keating Ochsner Baptist Medical Center 2820 Napoleon Avenue New Orleans (504) 842-2000

Michael McNulty IV Ochsner Baptist Medical Center 2731 Napoleon Avenue New Orleans (504) 897-6351

Scott Montgomery Ochsner Medical Center - Kenner 1221 South Clearview Parkway, Building B New Orleans (504) 736-4800

Felix Savoie III Tulane Lakeside Hospital 202 Janet Yulman Way New Orleans (504) 988-8476

SURGERY

Kofi Atiemo Tulane Medical Center 1415 Tulane Avenue, 6th Floor New Orleans (504) 988-5344

William Bisland Jr Ochsner St. Anne General Hospital 604 North Acadia Road, Suite 207 Thibodaux (985) 446-1763

John Bolton Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans 1514 Jefferson Highway, 3rd Floor New Orleans (504) 842-4070

Jason Breaux

Ochsner Lafayette General Medical Center 1211 Coolidge Boulevard, Suite 404 Lafayette (337) 703-6390

Ari Cohen Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans 1514 Jefferson Highway, 1st Floor New Orleans (504) 842-3925

Alfred Colfry III Touro Infirmary 3434 Prytania Street, Suite 410 New Orleans (504) 608-9790

Robert Cummiskey III West Jefferson Medical Center 1151 Barataria Boulevard, Suite 4100

Marrero (504) 349-6713

Jacob Daigle St. Tammany Parish Hospital 606 West 11th Avenue Covington (985) 892-3766

Matthew French Our Lady of the Lake Surgical Hospital 7015 Highway 190 East Service Road, Suite 200 Covington (877) 691-3001

George Fuhrman

Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans

1514 Jefferson Highway, 2nd Floor New Orleans (504) 842-4070

Michael Hailey Woman’s Hospital 500 Rue de la Vie, Suite 201

Baton Rouge (225) 751-2778

Mark Hausmann

Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center 7777 Hennessy Boulevard, Suite 612

Baton Rouge (225) 769-5656

Mark Hebert

Thibodaux Regional Medical Center 604 North Acadia Road, Suite 207 Thibodaux (985) 446-1763

Hoonbae Jeon Tulane Medical Center

1415 Tulane Avenue, 6th Floor

New Orleans (504) 988-5344

Emad Kandil Tulane Medical Center 1415 Tulane Avenue, 6th Floor New Orleans (504) 988-5110

Richard Karlin Our Lady of the Angels Hospital 433 Plaza Street, Suite 3 Bogalusa (985) 730-7030

Henry Kaufman IV

Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical CenterLafayette 4809 Ambulatory Caffery Parkway, Suite 410 Lafayette (337) 470-4881

Mary Killackey

Tulane Medical Center 1415 Tulane Avenue, 6th Floor New Orleans (504) 988-5344

Thomas Lavin

AVALA Hospital

7015 Highway 190 East Service Road, Suite 200 Covington (877) 690-2884

Shauna Levy Tulane Medical Center 1415 Tulane Avenue, 6th Floor New Orleans (504) 988-5110

Daniel Linarello AVALA Hospital 19065 Dr. John Lambert Drive

Hammond (985) 345-2727

Shawn McKinney University Medical Center New Orleans 2000 Canal Street New Orleans (504) 702-3311

William Moss CHRISTUS Ochsner Lake Area Hospital 4150 Nelson Road, Building G, Suite 3 Lake Charles (337) 656-7873

Anil Paramesh Tulane Medical Center 1415 Tulane Avenue, 6th Floor New Orleans (504) 988-5344

James Redmann

Our Lady of the Lake Surgical Hospital 7015 Highway 190 East Service Road, Suite 200 Covington (877) 691-3001

William Richardson Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans 1514 Jefferson Highway, 2nd Floor New Orleans (504) 842-4070

Philip Schauer

Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center 6400 Perkins Road, Building D Baton Rouge (225) 330-0497

Richard Shimer

Lake Charles Memorial Hospital 2770 3rd Avenue, Suite 120 Lake Charles (337) 494-4868

Kevin Sittig

Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport 1606 Kings Highway Shreveport (318) 212-9440

Jonathan Taylor 7373 Perkins Road Baton Rouge (225) 246-9240 W. Terral AVALA Hospital 1200 Pinnacle Parkway Covington (985) 674-1700

Sarah Thayer Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport 1501 Kings Highway Shreveport (318) 626-0050

James Williams Our Lady of the Lake Ascension 2647 South Saint Elizabeth Boulevard, Suite 215 Gonzales (225) 743-2455

Gazi Zibari Willis-Knighton Medical Center 2751 Albert Bicknell Drive, Suite 2B Shreveport (318) 212-8350

THORACIC & CARDIAC SURGERY

Charles DiCorte Ochsner Medical CenterNorth Shore

1000 Ochsner Boulevard Covington (985) 875-2828

Harry Donias Glenwood Regional Medical Center 503 McMillan Road, 2nd Floor West Monroe (318) 329-3475

Eugene Kukuy

Touro Infirmary 3525 Prytania Street, Suite 418 New Orleans (504) 210-4280

Jose Mena Ochsner Medical CenterNorth Shore

1000 Ochsner Boulevard Covington (985) 875-2828

P. Eugene Parrino Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans 1514 Jefferson Highway, 2nd Floor New Orleans (504) 842-3966

Amit Patel Baton Rouge General Medical Center 8401 Picardy Avenue Baton Rouge (225) 308-0247

Benjamin Peeler Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans 1514 Jefferson Highway New Orleans (504) 842-5200

Timothy Pettitt Children’s Hospital New Orleans 200 Henry Clay Avenue New Orleans (504) 896-3928

Vyas Rao Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport 1501 Kings Highway Shreveport (318) 626-0614

C. Swayze Rigby Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center 7777 Hennessy Boulevard, Suite 8001 Baton Rouge (225) 490-7224

UROGYNECOLOGY/ FEMALE PELVIC MEDICINE & RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY

Margie Kahn Tulane Lakeside Hospital 4720 South I-10 Service Road West, Suite 302 Metairie (504) 988-8070

Leise Knoepp Ochsner Baptist Medical Center 2700 Napoleon Avenue New Orleans (504) 842-4155

William Kubricht III Baton Rouge General Medical Center 8080 Bluebonnet Boulevard, Suite 3000 Baton Rouge (225) 766-8100

Antonio Pizarro WK Pierremont Health Center 8001 Youree Drive, Suite 370 Shreveport (318) 212-3680

UROLOGY

Angelo Annaloro Jr Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center 7777 Hennessy Boulevard, Suite 2004 Baton Rouge (225) 769-2500

Stephen Bardot Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans 1514 Jefferson Highway, 4th Floor New Orleans (504) 842-4083

Kenneth Blue III

Baton Rouge General Medical Center 8080 Bluebonnet Boulevard, Suite 3000 Baton Rouge (225) 766-8100

Thad Bourque Ochsner Lafayette General Medical Center 120 Rue Louis XIV, Building 2 Lafayette (337) 233-6665

Erik Castle Tulane Medical Center 1415 Tulane Avenue, 3rd Floor New Orleans (504) 988-5271

Donald Elmajian WK Pierremont Health Center 8001 Youree Drive, Suite 350 Shreveport (318) 212-3369

Christopher Fontenot Ochsner Lafayette General Medical Center 120 Rue Louis XIV, Building 2 Lafayette (337) 233-6665

Jon Glass West Jefferson Medical Center 1111 Medical Center Boulevard, Suite N703 Marrero (504) 934-8100

Wayne Hellstrom Tulane Medical Center 1415 Tulane Avenue, 3rd Floor New Orleans (504) 988-5271

L. Spencer Krane Tulane Medical Center 1415 Tulane Avenue, 3rd Floor New Orleans (504) 988-5271

Stephen LaCour East Jefferson General Hospital 3601 Houma Boulevard, Suite 302 Metairie (504) 412-1600

Melissa Montgomery Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans 1514 Jefferson Highway, 4th Floor New Orleans (504) 842-4083

Harold Neitzschman III Slidell Memorial Hospital 1150 Robert Boulevard, Suite 350 Slidell (985) 641-3742

Scott Neusetzer

Ochsner Lafayette General Medical Center 120 Rue Louis XIV, Building 2 Lafayette (337) 233-6665

Sunil Purohit St. Tammany Parish Hospital 71207 Highway 21 Covington (985) 892-6811

William Roth Ochsner Lafayette General Medical Center 120 Rue Louis XIV, Building 2 Lafayette (337) 233-6665

Ayme Schmeeckle 7373 Perkins Road Baton Rouge (225) 246-9240

Farjaad Siddiq Lake Charles Memorial Hospital 1715 Wolf Circle Lake Charles (337) 480-7499

Walter Simoneaux Jr. Thibodaux Regional Medical Center 504 North Acadia Road Thibodaux (985) 447-5667

Jeremy Speeg Ochsner Lafayette General Medical Center 120 Rue Louis XIV, Building 2 Lafayette (337) 233-6665

Raju Thomas Tulane Medical Center 1415 Tulane Avenue, 3rd Floor New Orleans (504) 988-5271

Richard Vanlangendonck Jr. Touro Infirmary 3434 Prytania Street, Suite 450 New Orleans (504) 897-7196

Howard Woo Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans 1514 Jefferson Highway, 4th Floor New Orleans (504) 842-4083

VASCULAR & INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY

Dennis Kay Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans 1514 Jefferson Highway New Orleans (504) 842-3470

Dee Malkerneker Ochsner Medical CenterWest Bank 1514 Jefferson Highway New Orleans (504) 391-5177

Richard Marshall Tulane Medical Center 1430 Tulane Avenue, Suite 8065 New Orleans (504) 988-1200

VASCULAR SURGERY

Hernan Bazan Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans 1514 Jefferson Highway, 5th Floor New Orleans (504) 842-4070

Clayton Brinster Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans 1514 Jefferson Highway, 5th Floor New Orleans (866) 624-7637

Michael Conners III Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center 7777 Hennessy Boulevard, Suite 1008 Baton Rouge (225) 766-0416

P. Michael Davis Jr

Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center 7777 Hennessy Boulevard, Suite 1008

Baton Rouge (225) 766-0416

Racheed Ghanami Ochsner Lafayette General Medical Center 5000 Ambassador Caffery Parkway Building 1, Suite 100 Lafayette (337) 534-4444

Christopher LaGraize Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical CenterLafayette 129 Rue Louis XIV Lafayette (337) 289-9700

John Luke III

Ochsner Lafayette General Medical Center 129 Rue Louis XIV Lafayette (337) 289-9700

Samuel Money

Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans

1514 Jefferson Highway, 5th Floor New Orleans (504) 842-4072

Andrew Olinde Baton Rouge General Medical Center 8888 Summa Avenue, 3rd Floor Baton Rouge (225) 769-4493

Steven Pike

Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical CenterLafayette 129 Rue Louis XIV Lafayette (337) 289-9700

Malachi Sheahan West Jefferson Medical Center 4500 10th Street, Suite B Marrero (504) 412-1960

W. Charles Sternbergh III Ochsner Medical CenterNew Orleans 1514 Jefferson Highway, 5th Floor New Orleans (504) 842-4070

Stephen White

CHRISTUS Highland Medical Center 1455 East Bert Kouns Industrial Loop, Suite 202 Shreveport (318) 798-4484

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Traveling Around Louisiana

Just as in the beloved children’s book, Cajun Night Before Christmas, the holiday season brings a special magic to Louisiana, a state known for its unique traditions, love of family, and joie de vivre.

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November and December are lovely months to roam the state and get better acquainted with its cultural offerings and diversity. Destinations across Louisiana— museums, cities, and parishes—welcome visitors and residents to enjoy the season with new art and history exhibits, spectac ular holiday displays, exceptional dining, holiday shopping opportunities, and more. The following destinations all offer oppor tunities for family friendly fun or a weekend escape with friends. Plan your fall or winter Louisiana adventure today and experience the revelry and merriment that comes with this special time of year.

Whether it is football you crave, high-speed drag racing, historic plantation homes, scenic views of the Mighty Mississippi or a fun festival, West Baton Rouge Parish has it all.

While in Port Allen, visit the West Baton Rouge Museum and view its current exhibit, Billie Holiday at Sugar Hill, which provides a glimpse into a weeklong run of performances at the Newark, New Jersey, nightclub Sugar Hill. Stroll the museum’s six-acre grounds, visiting its historic buildings and learning about life on a sugarcane plantation.

Get a taste of the area’s hometown cooking at one of the parish’s unique restaurants offering a rich palette of flavors refined by generations of area families. Stay at one of the many moderately priced, family-friendly accommodations, conveniently located off I-10, while attending one of the area’s many fall and winter festivals.

Visit WestBatonRouge.net for details and event dates, or stop in and delight in a cup of West Baton Rouge Parish’s locally roasted coffee at Exit #151.

From vibrant murals to public sculptures to free museum admission, revel in the arts across New Orleans courtesy of The Helis Foundation with its Art for All program. The Helis Foundation provides access to the city’s rich visual arts scene for visitors and locals to New Orleans whether they’re strolling along Poydras Street to view Poydras Corridor Sculpture Exhibition, a collection of 16 sculptures by renowned local and international artists, or enjoying Unframed, Downtown’s first multi-mural exhibition of large-scale artwork.

Louisiana residents may enjoy free admission to some of New Orleans’ most beloved cultural institutions on select days year-round, including Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans Botanical Garden, Contemporary Arts Center, and Louisiana Children’s Museum. To learn more, visit TheHelisFoundation.org. #ArtforAllNOLA

NNothing makes you feel the magic and warmth of the winter season quite like the sparkling holiday lights that welcome families as they gather together in celebration. With the Louisiana Holiday Trail of Lights, families can experience the magic again and again while visiting a variety of nearby destinations all aglow across Northwest and Central Louisiana. Plan your holiday visits to Shreveport-Bossier, Minden, Ruston, Monroe-West Monroe, Logansport, Natchitoches, and Alexandria/ Pineville and create new memories with your loved ones this year.

Each location offers its own distinct brand of fun with family friendly events and attrac tions. The Old World charm of twinkling historic downtowns, delightful carriage rides, photos with Santa, and exciting fireworks, parades, and entertainment all add to the joy of the season and can be experienced across multiple weeks and weekends in November and December. For more information on each destination and to find themed itineraries for area-specific dining and shopping, visit holi daytrailoflights.com.

As the holidays near, Ruston and Lincoln Parish offer Louisiana families and visitors festive celebrations that highlight the creativity and charm of the region. From shopping opportunities to drive-through displays, November and December are full of events.

The holiday shopping season kicks off November 10-12 with Ruston’s Annual Holidays in Cedartown and Downtown Ruston’s Holiday Open House on November 17. Following Thanksgiving, Christmas spirit goes into high gear with the Kickoff to Christmas on November 26 in Downtown Ruston’s Railroad Park—with the flip of a switch, all of downtown will be aglow for the holidays.

December 1-3, Lincoln Parish Park will host Lincoln Lights Up the Pines, a drivethrough light display perfect for all ages. You can also experience Downtown Ruston’s Sip and Stroll on December 8 and Cookies with Santa on December 10, bringing fun for the whole family and plenty of perfect picture opportunities. Finally, the week of December 19-23, families are invited to Dixie Center for the Arts’ Christmas Movie Series complete with popcorn and drinks (pajamas strongly encouraged).

(Left) Downtown Minden Fireworks (Below) Chartreuse Pear, located in Downtown Ruston, offers an eclectic mix of home decor items, furniture, custom bedding, rugs, and original art.

For more information on these attractions and events, visit experienceruston.com. ■

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Knowledge of Place

Biologists Amy and Kelby Ouchley live their life’s work in Union Parish

The home Amy and Kelby Ouchley built in Rocky Branch, 14 miles north of West Monroe, contains no curtains. Biologists, naturalists and authors, the Ouchleys have spent their lives seeking intimacy with nature. Their home’s tree-level vantage provides the sensation of being always outdoors. From a living room window, they examine one of their two bigleaf magnolias. Its leaves grow to 30 inches. The creamy white flowers bloom more than two feet wide.

(Above) Amy and Kelby Ouchley noticed negative effects of the navigation al project 20 years ago. (Above right) The couple explores Pasaw Island. (Right) Amy admires a leaf from one of her two bigleaf magnolias.

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“We watch that tree like most people watch TV,” Amy says.

The Ouchleys live on 12 acres of intact mixed upland hardwood and pine forest. The land they’ve named Heartwood consists of this and 60 more acres. In 2007, it received official state recognition as a Certified Habitat. When they want to leave this paradise for another, the Ouchleys need travel only half a mile from their front door.

“Sometimes we put our kayaks in right here,” Kelby says as we pull off Highway 143 and into D’Arbonne National Wildlife Refuge. In this 1.2 million-acre watershed, the floodplain spans three miles. For several months each year, water levels rises as much as 20 feet. It’s mid-August and dry, so rather than paddle, we walk — or at least I do. The Ouchleys prowl. That’s one way Kelby describes his adventures in the wild in his latest book, “Bayou D’Arbonne Swamp: A Naturalist’s Memoir of Place” (2022).

The Ouchleys have just celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary, and for more than 30 of them they’ve

prowled here together. Kelby has explored this place his entire life. “All my ramblings as a boy were however far I could hike or paddle in a day’s time,” he says. Many brought him here.

In the small details, the Ouchleys unearth wonder, the way, for instance, that tree varieties change in the swamp, much as they do in the mountains, depending on elevation. Rather than discerning differences from alpine vistas, however, perceiving changes here often means looking down.

“It’s a subtle beauty,” Amy says of the swamp. “You have to be a better looker than in other places.”

A negligible ascent, sometimes only several inches, means a change from overcup oak to willow oak. Continue rising and different oaks flourish: nuttal and water, swamp chestnut. Through this landscape, the Ouchleys feel their way, bending to caress overcup oak acorns before continuing to Old Mill, site of a late 19th-century sawmill. The water, black and smooth, is at low stage. This, Kelby notes, is artificial and due to a U.S. Army Corps of

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• D’Arbonne National Wildlife Refuge was established in 1975 to protect bottomland hardwood forest and provide winter habitat for migratory waterfowl. In his latest book, “Bayou D’Arbonne Swamp: A Naturalist’s Memoir of Place” (2022), Kelby Ouchley writes, “I cannot choose just one favorite bird that inhabits D’Arbonne Swamp. You must allow me several. However, in the avian guild no species embodies the essence of a southern swamp more than the wood duck.”

• In times of normal or above-average rainfall, the bottomland hardwood forest of D’Arbonne National Wildlife Refuge becomes an important overflow area for the Ouachita River floodplain. During the highwater season (usually JanuaryMay), nearly 90% of the refuge floods.

• Amy Ouchley’s books include “Swamper: Letters from a Louisiana Swamp Rabbit” and “Let’s Go Fishing: An Aquatic Education Activity Guide for Upper Elementary Grades.” She is an illustrator of “Bayou D’Arbonne Swamp: A Naturalist’s Memoir of Place,” in which Kelby Ouchley writes, “Together in nature we have acted as each other’s seeing-eye biologists for five decades.”

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FLORA Pondberry, Ozark Chinquapin, American alumroot

FAUNA White-breasted nuthatch, summer tanager, prothonotary warbler

Engineers navigational project to maintain a 9-foot depth on the Ouachita River. Kelby began noticing its environmental effects 20 years ago.

“We started seeing unnatural mortality in large stands of willow oak,” he says. “Several hundred acres in one area would die. The 9-foot channel raised the water table under trees that were not adapted to having such a high water table. They can tolerate flooding, but on a 12-month basis if they can’t dry out enough, their roots no longer function.”

From Old Mill, we climb to Pasaw Island, a place that is, for the Ouchleys, the heart of D’Arbonne. “We say over and over we wish we could have been here 100 years ago,” Amy says. “We’ve been fortunate to live here for 30 years. We’ve grown into the sense of place.”

After we accidentally startle a great blue heron, Kelby identifies a slaty skimmer dragonfly. Since his 2008 retire ment from the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, he’s written seven books, including “American Alligator: Ancient Predator in the Modern World” and two volumes of “Bayou-Diversity,” both subtitled “Nature and People in the Louisiana Bayou Country,” using spare time to become a dragonfly expert.

(Left) These overcup oak acorns will grow into saplings in a swamp’s lowest elevation. (Below) The Ouchleys have explored D’Arbonne for decades and recently spotted their first sparassis spathulate, or cauliflower mushroom. (Right) In 1890, the Tributary and its cargo of 300 cotton bales caught fire on this sharp bend of Bayou D’Arbonne.

On their prowl, the Ouchleys discuss writers who have devoted their lives to understanding landscape and local culture, among them Annie Dillard, John McPhee and Barry Lopez, who writes, “If I were to now visit another country, I would ask my local companion … to tell me the names of things and how, traditionally, they have been fitted together in a community.” Anyone seeking such understanding is fortunate to find the Ouchleys and their work. They carry the knowledge of this place. They also feel it.

“Whether we want to be or not,” says Kelby, “our well-being is connected to our environment — globally and locally.” This recognition puts us one step closer to witnessing the poetry and grace of the natural world at our doorstep. n

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Get Lit This Season

The Louisiana Holiday Trail of Lights adds two new destinations to lineup

The Louisiana Holiday Trail of Lights, a connec tion of cities along Interstates 20 and 49 that promote the holidays to visitors and residents, have added two new destinations. Ruston and Logansport join the festivities in Shreveport-Bossier, Minden, Natchitoches, Alexandria-Pineville and MonroeWest Monroe.

This “marketing cooperative partnership” in central and north Louisiana began in 1992 and has been morphing for years. Now, the Trail will broaden in east Louisiana to include the college town of Ruston and head west from Shreveport to Logansport, a bookend of sorts on Interstate 20.

“The Holiday Trail of Lights is such a unique partner ship that allows all of us to come together and leverage the amazing holiday offerings we have all across the northern part of Louisiana to provide a more cohesive and engaging experience for visitors,” said Amanda Carrier, president and CEO of Experience Ruston. “We feel like the addition of Ruston and Logansport really ties the trail together and gives visitors even more incentive to hit the road and experience all the holiday festivities that our area of the state has to offer.”

Each town promotes its holiday events, everything from Christmas parades and Santa visits to special attractions such as the American Rose Center’s annual “Christmas in Roseland.”

(Top) The Bakowski Bridge in Shreveport (Bottom) Natchitoches Christmas Festival

The seven cities are within a day’s drive of each other and the Trail may be enjoyed for a day or stretched into a long weekend. For a complete schedule of events, visit holidaytrailoflights.com or follow the Trail on Facebook and Instagram by searching Holiday Trail of Lights.

Here are a few events to start planning your itinerary.

LOGANSPORT

This Sabine River town kicks off the holidays Saturday, Nov. 19, with a holiday train ride, fireworks, parade and entertainment. Other events in the Parish include the Grand Cane Christmas Parade and Grand Cane Holiday Tour of Homes on Dec. 3, holiday performances at the BackAlley Theatre in Grand Cane, Christmas parades in Mansfield and Stonewall on Dec. 10 and the Keachi Christmas Musicale Dec. 18.

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When in Logansport, be sure to check out its many restaurants, the Riverfront Park with its wooden boardwalk to the Sabine River, the iconic Bucking Horse statue gracing a downtown business, the historic 1882 cemetery and the Louis Moses Rose gravesite, the only survivor of the Alamo.

RUSTON

The home town of Louisiana Tech (and a short drive from Grambling) starts things rolling on Thursday, Nov. 17, with the Downtown Holiday Open House, but the “Kickoff to Christmas” celebration follows on Saturday, Nov. 26, with a tree-lighting ceremony, horse-drawn carriage rides, a visit from Santa and more in the heart of Ruston. Ruston Community Theatre’s annual holiday play at the Dixie Theatre stage happens on the first weekend in December, as well as Lincoln Parish Park’s annual Lincoln Lights Up the Pines drive-through light display. The park’s holiday attraction features thousands of lights,

festive displays and decked out vintage campers. Then on Thursday, Dec. 8, it’s the Holiday Sip & Stroll.

NATCHITOCHES

Louisiana’s oldest city has been celebrating the holidays in a big way since 1927, and this year will be no different. The 96th annual Natchitoches Christmas Festival begins on Saturday, Nov. 19, when officials “Turn on the Holidays” to more than 300,000 lights and set pieces, many located right on Cane River Lake. The fun runs through Jan. 6, 2023, with fireworks every Saturday in December, live concerts, the Holiday Tour of Homes, a parade, holiday market and more. There’s the festive Northwestern State University Gala Nov. 30-Dec. 2, a holiday boat parade on Dec. 10 and actual snow on the downtown riverbank on Dec. 17. It’s too much to list here so visit www.natchitocheschristmas.com for the complete schedule. n

SHREVEPORT

The Bakowski Bridge of Lights, formerly known as the Texas Street Bridge in downtown Shreve port, will be decked with 13,000 LED lights that can be programmed with custom designs. The annual holiday fireworks display will be ignited from the bridge this year with a custom light show set to music.

As for the popular Christmas in Rose land, we understand there will be even more light displays this year to be com plemented by night ly entertainment by area church choirs, musical groups, bell choirs, dancers and storytellers. This an nual fundraiser with its hot chocolate and Santa visits is perfect for families.

Texas Chic

A weekend jaunt to the Dallas Arts District is a must for culture seekers

Art and architecture lovers in search of a city break should look no further than skyscrap er-peppered Dallas, which boasts an enormous urban arts district. Weighing in as one of the largest in the nation, the artsy expanse stretches for 19 contiguous blocks, occupying some 68 acres. Within it rise a plethora of buildings designed by award-winning architects (the largest such trove in the world), as well as museums, performance venues, clever shops, creative restaurants and much more. Known as the Dallas Arts District, the area occupies the northeast corner of downtown.

STAY

For an aesthete’s consummate getaway, choose the Thompson Dallas, which matches your passion for the arts with its own dedica tion to stylish pursuits. Located in downtown Dallas’ The National, formerly the circa 1965, design-centric First National Bank building, the redo project is the largest adaptive reuse project in the history of Texas at $460 million. Awash in art and eye-catching curi osities, opulent and hip at once, the hotel features 219 rooms/suites and two splurge-worthy pent houses. A rooftop pool, spa and extraordinary eateries, such as Catbird, a jewelbox restaurant and bar on the 18th floor with riveting views, Monarch — a Danny Grant

Italian hotspot, and Kessaku on the 50th floor, a sake and cocktail lounge.

EAT AND DRINK

Hit Casablanca Bar & Lounge for an exotic escape into the evening. Its Moorish design and craft cocktails promise to delver you into another realm. Their boozy teas, ideal for crowds, rule. Try Mary Poppins Would, infused with gin, ginger black tea and mint syrup. The Woolworth, which houses in a former five and dime store, loves a gaggle of guests. With your gang, dip into satisfying fare such as crab nachos and lobster fondue, while you sip cocktails — such as the Bond Girl, concocted with truf fle-washed Greek vodka and garnished with a blue cheese olive. Zen and elegant Tei-An showcases the artistry of Japanese food, philosophy and culture, fitting well into your weekend away’s theme.

SHOP

(Right to Left) The Thompson Dallas rooftop pool; The Dallas Museum of Art; Casablanca Bar & Lounge

SEE GO AND DO Stick with your arty motif and metaphorically paint your way through the Dallas Arts District. You might listen to a Telemann concerto at the sleek Myerson Sympony Center, cry through a Meyerson love story at the Winspear Opera House and be awed by beautiful moves of the the Dallas Black Dance Theatre. Ogle any of 24,000 works of art, which run the gamut of 5,000 years of culture and eras at the Dallas Museum of Art, one of the largest art museums in America. Within the garden-like Nasher Sculpture Center, see how nature frames the majesty of sculptures by artists as diverse as Nic Nicosia and Cy Twombly. To ponder graceful secular and religious pieces from the Far East, wander the Crow Collection of Asian Art. Visit Lighthouse Artspace, home to Immersive Monet & The Impressionists.n

Fashion and design reign as functional art. Wear art after shopping at MARKET, a chic women’s clothing concept store in Highland Park Village. Stun ning Forty Five Ten features Dallas-luxelines, such as Rosie Assoulin, Erdem and Khaite. Grange Hall wows as a menagerie of fashion, jewelry, comestibles, acces sories and more. Un common Market has an array of objects, each as mesmerizing as the next, ranging from home decor to furniture. Whimsical Zsa Zsa’a Unique Boutique brings cheer with items from toys to pet accessories to books to aprons. Men and women go wild over the premium denim options at Indigo 1745. Fill the coffers at Mosaic Makers Collective which sells baby clothes, bath products, apparel, jewelry and more.

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