The Lafayette Science Museum Foundation has announced its spring Bach Lunch 2010 season lineup. Going strong for 22 years, Bach Lunch is the popular free lunch hour series featuring different musicians performing every Friday at lunch time in Parc Sans Souci in downtown Lafayette. Lunches are available for purchase from varying local restaurants who sponsor each installment. All proceeds go to the support of the Lafayette Science Museum.
Bach Lunch Spring Line-up 2010
March 5 UL Lafayette World Percussion Ensemble A la Carte Coyote Blues Zeus Downtown
March 12 Les Freres Michot Agave Cantina Edie’s Restaurant Zea Rotisserie & Grill
March 19 BonSoir,Catin Bailey’s Seafood & Grill Broussard’s Cajun Cookin’ Poupart Bakery, Inc.
March 26 Saint Street Aces Edible Arrangements Roly Poly Ruths’ Chris Steak House
April 2 The Howdies Coyote Blues iMonelli Tsunami Sushi
April 9 Cedric Watson & Bijou Creole Chick-Fil-A Creole Lunch House O’Charley’s Restaurant
April 16 The Canes Chris’ Po Boys Ema’s Restaurant Great Harvest Bread Co. Johnson’s Boucaniere
April 23 Festival International de Louisiane (Parc International) Fishtank Ensemble (France/Serbia/US) Antoni’s Italian Café Cena-To-Go Hub City Diner Joey’s Specialty Foods & Catering Popeye’s Famous Fried Chicken & Biscuits Zea’s Rotisserie & Grill Zeus Downtown
The fall season is sponsored by Kleinpeter Farms Dairy, Lafayette Consolidated Government, Acadiana Bottling Company Inc., KRVS. Printing provided by LCVC.
David Calhoun and Elizabeth “EB” Brooks are the first two employees of Lafayette Central Park Inc., the nonprofit charged with turning Lafayette Consolidated Government’s 100-acre Johnston Street Horse Farm property into a passive public park. Calhoun was named executive director, and Brooks is director of planning and design.
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.
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.