A new nonprofit, MeowWOOF Animal Collective Café (2905 E. Simcoe Street), offers a unique community space for spending time with adoptable cats and dogs or your own pets. Guests can enjoy coffee while interacting with freely roaming cats at the cozy cat café. A separate dog patio provides an outdoor-style setting. Two self-wash dog grooming stations and a pet-inspired boutique are among the bonuses of this new community center featuring healthy rescued animals.
Honoring a Prodigious Poet
New Orleans resident Gina Ferrara is Louisiana’s new Poet Laureate. Among her many accomplishments, Ferrara has led The Poetry Buffet featuring monthly readings by Louisiana poets since 2007, a format she plans to implement during her two-year term as Poet Laureate. An English professor at Delgado Community College, Ferrara has five poetry collections and her work has appeared in many journals…