Australian artist Rachel Burke suffered personal trauma that left her grieving and, at times, bedridden. She discovered a sense of healing in sharing her story via artworks created with thousands of ...

Cheap plastic beads often end up in landfills and can clog up the city’s 100-year-old drainage system. That’s led to more ...

Today on Louisiana Considered, we hear about the lineup of musicals coming to the Saenger Theatre next season. We also learn ...

New Orleans' efforts to reduce Mardi Gras waste and reuse beads and throws have been ongoing for decades and involve a ...

Observers say that New Orleans may be seeing a culture shift, toward a more sustainable Carnival. This year, one parade – ...

You may remember Perler beads from first or second grade; these small plastic beads are placed into ... [Jon Wilson] sent in an awesome bead pattern generator that takes those color images ...

That is all there is to it. Snip off a bit of filament, feed it into your rotary tool, and run a bead to join parts and shapes or do repairs. Friction welded plastic is shockingly strong ...

Launched in 2023 as a pilot program by the City of New Orleans, the Recycle Dat! initiative has been implementing innovative ...

One set came in a plastic container with 50,000 small water ... If you have any of the water bead sets, you’re being told to dispose of them in the trash immediately.