Manny Randazzo King Cakes’ pecan praline took The Times-Picayune/NOLA.com 2012 King Cake Crown, but all of the finalists produced sensational king cakes. Here are the judges’ top-rated offerings at the other five bakeries that readers chose as their favorites. 
Nonna Randazzos
Sucre
Skipping Stones At The Center Of The Earth
Andy Hueller
Bonneville Books
Cedar Forts
ISBN 9781599554884
This book was surprisingly entertaining. The title grabbed my attention, but once I read the beginning, I was grabbed. The story focuses around Calvin Comet Cobble who lives at the Hidden Shores Orphanage, which is located on the shores of Lake Arctic below the earth’s crust. A giant screw was found in the Arctic, and as they unscrewed it, they discovered a giant cavern, part of which gets light and part that is always dark. They build a super max prison on the dark side and an orphanage in the light.
This is beautiful writing, an amalgam of music, syntax and thought working in perfect concert to express a complex but unified idea. What such a sentence presents is a person, a mind on the page, a personality or, to borrow a word that has, sadly, fallen somewhat out of fashion, a sensibility.
WARSAW, Poland A Polish court slapped a fine on a popular singer who bad-mouthed the Bible the latest episode in which authorities grapple with religious defamation in a traditionally Catholic country that is growing increasingly secular. Dorota Rabczewska, a singer who uses the stage name Doda, said in a 2009 interview that she doubted the Bible “because it’s hard to believe in something that was written by someone drunk on wine and smoking some herbs.”
A Warsaw court ordered her Monday to pay a fine of 5,000 zlotys for offending religious feelings.
The case comes months after another Polish court let off a death metal performer, Adam Darski, who tore a Bible during a 2007 performance.
The outpouring of reader love in response to last weeks dispatch about the roast beef po-boys at Parasols and Traceys has slowed to a trickle. One of the more loquacious As for your dreams of any possible future success as a food critic I hope your palate overcomes your pompous attitude stood out. 
It came from a gentleman who found my conclusions, methods and motivations wanting. He helpfully included a link to a piece by a local writer who felt likewise and did something about it.
His name pen name? is Rex Dingler. Last Wednesdays po-boy story compelled him to do the democratic thing and head out for a night of roast beef po-boys.