Bouncing into B.R.: LSU men’s basketball coach Johnny Jones has added former Houston Rockets scout David Patrick to his staff. Patrick, whose hiring was announced today, also previously held assistant coaching jobs at St. Mary’s College of California and Nicholls State following a Division I collegiate career, during which he was a member of Syracuse’s 1996 Final Four team before transferring to UL Lafayette, where he played three seasons. He played professionally a total of four years in Australia, England and Spain. Read more about Patrick at the LSUsports.net website here.
To the dome: The Federal Emergency Management Agency has granted the Louisiana Office of Facility Planning and Control $1 million in additional recovery aid to make remaining Hurricane Katrina–related repairs to the Mercedes-Benz Superdome. To date, FEMA has obligated approximately $11.5 billion in public assistance funding for Katrina- and Rita-related recovery work throughout Louisiana and has provided approximately $42.8 million overall to the Superdome, including the most recent grant.
Happy summer solstice! Artist Dave Rhodes has built a miniature version of Stonehenge, the prehistoric English observatory, on an empty lot in the 4000 block of St. Claude Avenue in the Bywater neighborhood of New Orleans. The Times-Picayune reports the replica monument is meant as a gathering site to celebrate the solstice, which is today. Festivities begin at 5 p.m., and observance of the solstice takes place at 6:09 p.m., followed by musical and artistic performances. You can check out the mini Stonehenge, which measures about 8 feet tall, in a video here.
