- Louisiana author and director of the Creative Writing Workshop at the University of New Orleans M.O. Walsh’s novel “The Big Door Prize'' is being produced as a television series on Apple TV+. Walsh was born and raised in Baton Rouge and his fiction and essays have appeared in notable publications like the Guardian, the New York Times, the Southern Review and others.
- Restaurateur Dickie Brennan, owner of the Bourbon House on Bourbon Street, shares a bourbon anecdote to belatedly celebrate National Bourbon Day on June 14th.