The Driver’s Cut
Macan executive demos from $67,900
- Macan executive demos from $67,900
- LSU 2–0, Oxford waiting
- Cayenne Electric, 105 colors
- Vals on Perkins
- Steel Daytona, polar white
- $150 off a brake job
September in Baton Rouge is not a season. It is a negotiation. The heat gives a little ground in the evening, football takes the weekend hostage, and somewhere around six o’clock the light finally makes a car look the way its designers meant it to.
We’re going to start where you actually start. Money.
On the Lot
Macan executive demos from $67,900
Macan executive demos · Harris Porsche
On the Lot
Macan executive demos from $67,900
New-car condition. Pre-owned Porsche prices. These 2026 Macan executive demos already took the first careful miles so you don’t have to pay new for them — Porsche Approved, from $67,900, and there aren’t many.
Cayenne · Harris Porsche
Two Cayenne executive demos, priced to leave
A Cayenne S at $110,900, stock PPA015. A Cayenne at $106,070, stock 26P098. Executive demos, which is the polite way of saying the store put the first miles on them so you could put the rest. Two of them. That is the whole inventory of this particular deal — no back room, no “let me check.”
Three Taycans, in stock now
A Taycan 4, a 4 Black Edition, and a 4S — stocks 26P155, 26P174, 26P142. The electric Porsche that argues its case in the first thirty feet and never stops. Three on the floor, three different tempers. Come find out which one is yours.
Side note, for the one who leases: there’s a Macan EV GTS at $1,699 a month — 39 months, $10,000 due at signing, Welcome to Porsche Credit. The GTS is the one they sharpened for the driver.
Vehicle prices before the $436 documentation fee. Approved credit; tax, title and fees extra; any lease personalized at sale.
On Saturday · LSU
LSU 2–0, and Oxford is waiting
LSU Tigers · vs No. 8 Ole Miss · Saturday 7:30 CT
On Saturday · LSU
LSU 2–0, and Oxford is waiting
Two games, two beatings. Clemson left Tiger Stadium on the wrong end of 51–10. Louisiana Tech went home 45–14. That’s how you open a season — and that’s how Lane Kiffin, in his first fall running LSU, gets a top-ten team and the benefit of nobody’s doubt just yet.
Because the doubt lives in Oxford. This Saturday, September 19, the Tigers go on the road to No. 8 Ole Miss — 7:30 kickoff, the first real weight of the year, and the first time we find out whether September was scheduling or something meaner.
And yes — the injury report is already its own circus. LSU listed quarterback Sam Leavitt as doubtful early in the week (sore throwing shoulder), then moved him to questionable. Ole Miss, per ESPN’s Pete Thamel, is not buying the drama: the Rebels’ staff is planning as if Leavitt plays, reading Kiffin’s availability sheet as classic pre-game smoke. Whether it’s real shoulder or Oxford mind games, the national TV will sort it out under the lights. Get through that and it doesn’t get easier: No. 9 Texas A&M comes to Tiger Stadium the following Saturday, September 26, also 7:30, with actual rivalry teeth in it. Two ranked opponents in eight days. That’s the fight.
On Saturday · Southern University
Jaguars at Mumford — the other Saturday that matters
Southern University Jaguars · Ace W. Mumford Stadium
On Saturday · Southern University
Jaguars at Mumford — the other Saturday that matters
Across town at Ace W. Mumford, the Jaguars are 1–2 and playing the week that still counts as local. This Saturday’s opponent is Louisiana Christian — home, 7:00 p.m. — the kind of date you show up for before the SWAC road gets loud. Next week they go to Jackson State. Homecoming is October 3 against Arkansas–Pine Bluff.
Same city. Same Saturday calendar. LSU owns the national TV; Southern owns the neighborhood — and Mumford on a fall night is its own cathedral. Don’t treat one as the undercard of the other. In Baton Rouge, both kickoffs are the point.
- LSU · Sat 19 at No. 8 Ole Miss · 7:30 p.m. CT · ESPN
Add to iCalGoogle Calendar - Southern · Sat 19 vs Louisiana Christian · Mumford · 7:00 p.m. · ESPN
Add to iCalGoogle Calendar - LSU · Sat 26 vs No. 9 Texas A&M · Tiger Stadium · 7:30 p.m. CT
Add to iCalGoogle Calendar - Southern · Sat 26 at Jackson State · 7:00 p.m.
Add to iCalGoogle Calendar - LSU · Sat Oct 3 vs McNeese · Tiger Stadium · 7:45 p.m. CT
Add to iCalGoogle Calendar - Southern · Sat Oct 3 vs Arkansas–Pine Bluff · Homecoming · 7:00 p.m.
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On the Road
105 colors, and doors that open themselves
Cayenne Electric · model year · Porsche
105 colors, and doors that open themselves
Porsche put out the model-year update on the Cayenne Electric on September 16, and it reads less like a spec bump than a dare to specify one exactly the way you want it. Paint to Sample lands on the car, which pushes the palette to 105 shades — thirteen standard, and then the long tail where the money and the imagination go. Delgada Green stitching if you’re feeling it. An extended interior style package if you’re feeling it more.
Two things are worth stopping on. First: electrically operated doors, all four, a Porsche first — sensors, and it’ll close itself off the Digital Key, the seatbelt, or the brake pedal. Gimmick or grace note, you decide, but it’s new. Second, and more useful: Porsche Wireless Charging, up to 11 kW at roughly 90 percent efficiency, a pad on the car meeting a pad on the ground, no cable, no ritual. It’s rolling out in stages — orderable in Europe first — but it’s real hardware, not a slide.
Then the theater: massage seats paired with 4D audio — sixteen air cushions and six actuators per front seat, five programs. It applies to the Cayenne Electric SUV and the Coupé both. None of it is on the Macan executive demo upstairs. That’s fine. Different appetite.
On the Table
Vals on Perkins
Vals · 7242 Perkins Road
Vals on Perkins
The pink building on Perkins used to be Rock Paper Taco. Now it’s Vals — the New Orleans taco house that opened its first Baton Rouge room this summer and does not want to be filed under Tex-Mex. Traditional Mexican cooking, a horseshoe bar, $5 tacos on the menu, and margaritas squeezed like they mean it.
Come for the elotes, the shrimp quesadilla, the sweet potato or cauliflower taco if you’re ordering for the table. Stay for the bar — the partners also run Cure in New Orleans, so the drink half of the room is not an afterthought. Happy hour daily, 4 to 6. Casual, loud enough, no dress code.
On the Town
The Wild Pour, Sunday the 20th
Baton Rouge · late September into early October
The Wild Pour, Sunday the 20th
The BREC Zoo after hours, 2:30 to 5:30 on Sunday, September 20 — beer, wine, spirits and restaurant bites spread across the grounds once the animals have the place mostly to themselves. Twenty-one and up, which tells you the tone. It’s the rare Sunday-afternoon plan that asks nothing of you but that you show up thirsty and leave slower than you came.
- Sun 20 Opéra Louisiane: Life, Liberty, and Laughs! Manship, 3 p.m. From $51.50. Show
Add to iCalGoogle Calendar - Sun 20 The Wild Pour, BREC Zoo, 2:30–5:30. 21+. Tickets
Add to iCalGoogle Calendar - Thu 24 Farm Fête, Main Street Market, 6–9. Chefs and farms; $125. Event
Add to iCalGoogle Calendar - Sun Oct 4 The Lone Bellow, Manship, 7 p.m. From $46. Show
Add to iCalGoogle Calendar - Wed Oct 7 Alfredo Rodriguez Band feat. Pedrito Martinez, Manship, 7:30. From $56. Show
Add to iCalGoogle Calendar - Through Jan Reflections: The Art of George Rodrigue, LASM. lasm.org
On the Wrist
The steel Daytona in polar white enamel
Rolex Daytona · Watches & Wonders 2026
The steel Daytona in polar white enamel
Rolex spent this year’s Watches & Wonders quietly making the steel Daytona harder to walk past. The headline is the dial: grand feu enamel, all white — the polar reading of the old panda — fired glass rather than paint, which is why it’ll look exactly like this in forty years while lacquer yellows and cracks. It’s the kind of restraint that costs more than flash.
Then Rolex did the thing it almost never does and put a window in the back. The exhibition caseback shows Calibre 4131, joining the ice-blue Platinum and the Le Mans as the only Daytonas that let you watch it run. There’s platinum in the details too — the bezel ring, the caseback ring, and the tachymeter markings themselves, laid down in PVD platinum on an anthracite Cerachrom bezel and oriented vertically, 12-to-6, a deliberate vintage lean instead of the usual sweep. Forty millimeters of Oystersteel, 100 meters of water resistance, and a Superlative Chronometer rating Rolex just tightened with three new tests for magnetism, reliability, and sustainability.
It’s a chronograph built like it intends to outlast the wrist. Most of them do.
On the Workbench
$150 off a genuine Porsche brake job
Service · Harris Porsche
$150 off a genuine Porsche brake job
A car that leaves the lot fast is only worth trusting if it stops the same way. So before the season gets loud, bring it in.
$150 off a complete Porsche brake job with genuine Porsche components. A free alignment check with any scheduled service (no centerlock). And $30 off a Porsche brake flush — the maintenance nobody brags about and everybody needs.
Book service 225-754-1500 Service & parts
Porsche Design · in-stock only
The watches in the case
If you’re already at the counter: ask what’s sitting in the Porsche Design case this week. In-stock only. Not a catalog sale.