Honored: Blues legend Buddy Guy will be honored on Friday in the Lawton Room at Tiger Stadium at 2 p.m. as part of the unveiling of a historic marker in his honor marker in his hometown of Lettsworth. The marker will be a part of the Mississippi Blues Trail project, which creates a tour through the heart of blues music. Read a 225 interview from 2013 with the famed musician.
Gator-aid: Here’s a fashion trend that’s good news, if you’re an alligator in Louisiana: Prices for skins are down to less than half what they were just five years ago, making for a slow wild harvest. The director of the state’s alligator program estimates that about 18,000 were taken from the wild this year. Jeb Linscombe of the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries says low demand has cut prices to between $7 and $8 a foot for the past two years. That’s the lowest since the recession cut prices to $7.50 a foot in 2009. Read the full story.
Rebound: Oil prices surged as Saudi Arabia and Russia extended their pact to manage the market and Canada’s largest producing province ordered unprecedented output curbs, Bloomberg reports. After their worst month in a decade, prices in New York and London advanced more than 5% this morning. Although Russia and Saudi Arabia have yet to confirm any fresh cuts, their leaders’ agreement over the weekend opens the door for a deal at OPEC’s meeting this week in Vienna. Read the full story.
