They got the laser lights. They got the trippy fog machines. They got the wall. They got the props. And the pig. And they got the 9-piece band playing the whole Wish You Were Here album in celebration of its 35th year anniversary. What more do you want? Ok, I guess you want Syd Barret to rise from the grave and play you a whammy bar solo? Probably not going to happen. And it seems unlikely that the remaining members of Pink Floyd will reunite. So you may as well go see the next best thing. It’s almost same thing as Pink Floyd, but with none of the real dudes, but it’s probably pretty cool. Bricks in the Wall: The Pink Floyd Tribute hits Nitetown on tonight, March 5.
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.
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