🚔 NOPD partnered with Crystal Hot Sauce in a new effort to recruit officers through branded bottles in restaurants. (The Times-Picayune 🔒)
🏗️ The Lower 9th Ward is "facing an onslaught of catastrophic projects that could be more permanently damaging" than Hurricane Katrina, The Nation writes.
💔 A preschool classroom in Shreveport, Louisiana, is mourning the loss of a student who was among seven siblings fatally shot by their father. (AP)
🏡 Suleika Jaouad and husband, Jon Batiste, renovated a 200-year-old farmhouse. They jokingly refer to their aesthetic as Tunisiana. (Garden & Home home tour)
Batiste also cut up with Ina Garten in a new episode of her cooking show. His mom's advice: Your red beans water should look like the swamp. (Facebook)