Decades ago, if people wanted to hear Cajun or Zydeco music, they had to go to a dancehall or a bar, or they heard it at home. It was not until Festivals Acadiens et Créoles, the original and largest ...

GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo. Mike Henry – aka “Crazy Cajun Henry” – is wild about his heritage.The Louisiana native is joining the Hotel Colorado’s Fat Tuesday celebration to ensure the event is as ...

Rhonda Thompson carries on her mom's passion for art by creating Cajun Clementine, an art mix of Louisiana and cajun culture "I’ve met a lot of people along the way that encourage me besides my mom ...

A Houma TV producer is taking the unique culture of the Houma-Thibodaux area and south Louisiana to a broader audience. The Cajun Culture Channel, the product of Houma native Jaime Johnson, is found ...

There are stellar Cajun restaurants dotted throughout the South, but these eateries are cited time and time again as the best ...

Cajun food is fairly mainstream — and gumbo, jambalaya and bread pudding can be found on restaurant menus nationwide. But one dish – gravy – has remained something of a hidden gem of Louisiana. And ...

In 2001, The Times-Picayune published a series examining Cajun culture in Louisiana - past, present and future. In the past 100 years Cajun culture has stubbornly survived the rush of modernization.

Cajun filmmaker Pat Mire recalls an epiphany of sorts he had at the age of 5 while watching the 1950s sitcom “Ozzie and Harriet” in the farmhouse where he grew up outside of Eunice. He wondered aloud, ...

Since 1972, Festivals Acadiens et Créoles has been serving up the best of Cajun culture to an amassing fan base. The annual festival, held in Lafayette’s Girard Park, delivers a zestful combination of ...

Located in east Texas just shy of the Louisiana border, this peaceful city has a thriving Cajun community, rich history, and ...

For 22 years, the New Orleans French Film Festival has offered local Francophiles a tantalizing taste of cinema from the continent. This year, however, organizers are putting a bit more emphasis on ...