A & E -> A&E TUE, OCT 30 11:00AM by IND Monthly Staff
Get spooked with UL symphony
The annual UL Lafayette Symphony Orchestra Halloween Concert will be held at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Angelle Hall auditorium. Under the capable direction of Michael Blaney, the symphony focuses on mysterious and unsettling selections from the world of classical and popular music.
Selections for tonight’s concert include musical highlights from James Bond, Raider of the Lost Arc, Danse Macabre and Prokofiev’s Romeo & Juliet, in addition to a world-premiere performance of Eric Sharp’s Renegade Convergence featuring dancers from the UL Performing Arts Department.
Admission in $8 for adults and free for those age 17 and younger and for UL students, faculty and staff with ID. Proceeds benefit the university’s orchestra program. Call 482-6012 for details.
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.