A & E -> A&E THU, OCT 4 11:00AM by IND Monthly Staff
Bach, DTA launch downtown weekend
Les Freres Michot
Get your weekend rolling on a musical note in downtown Lafayette Friday. The tunes begin at noon at Parc Sans Souci when Les Freres Michot kick off the Fall 2012 Bach Lunch concert series. The Michot clan has become a Cajun music institution in Acadiana and have become the traditional Bach Lunch series openers. The music lasts an hour. Lunches — $5 for Lafayette Science Museum members, $6 general public — will be provided by Chris’ Po-boys and iMonelli on a first-come, first-served basis beginning at 11:30 a.m.. Back Lunch is a bi-annual concert series that raises funds for the Lafayette Science Museum Foundation.
Downtown Alive is a double whammy this week, combining the music of popular variety band 5th Avenue with a homecoming pep rally for UL. Concession sales begin at 5:30; the music cranks up at 6. Concession sales help keep DTA free, so please leave the ice chests at home.
There will soon be a whole lot of shakin’ going on at Benny’s Sportshack Supplement Depot, a new concept by Opelousas native Benny Nele. Located at 2002 Johnston St., the supplement shop, smoothie bar and café, featuring hot off the press paninis and wraps, plans to open in late May.
Philip deMahy Sr., a once respected New Iberia ad exec, was sentenced May 2 to spend the next two years (he faced up to 100 years) in a state penitentiary after state and federal investigators found dozens of images depicting children engaged in lewd sexual acts on his personal computer.
This year’s Cool Town issue is all about people who are not native to South Louisiana but made a conscious decision to be here, to be among us, to participate in our culture and contribute to it.
A shelved ordinance transferring $200,000 from a northside drainage project to a south Lafayette development may not break any laws, but it stinks to high heaven.
An effort to restore a shuttered dancehall and document other vacant or razed honky-tonks could serve as a model for saving an endangered species of entertainment.
Lafayette’s gene pool has been host to a long line of eccentric characters who have blurred the lines between crazy, genius, disturbed and curiously entertaining.