Lafayette’s Skate Spot does a killer job of keeping kids occupied with positive activities like skateboarding and freestyle BMX riding. Tonight, March 22, Rick Thorne'sGrindz and Rhymez Tour, hits The Skate Spot. The demo-type event features live music from The Nerostotles and Rick Thorne’s band Good Guys Wear Black, a pro BMX and skateboard demo (Monster Energy and Famous Stars and Straps), and a BMX and skateboard contest. It’s free event. No admission cost. Bring the kids out for some positive aggression at Skate Spot. The show starts at 6:30 p.m. For more info, call 981-6566.
The Skate Spot? 4317 Johnston Street Lafayette, LA? (337) 981-6566?
Is it a crime for citizens to photograph, video, or take notes of a police officer in the line of duty, or a right protected by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution? Locally, such activity, as witnessed recently, will at the very least result in a night spent behind bars.
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.
At Thursday's State of the Economy luncheon, LEDA President and CEO Gregg Gothreaux said PXP has already quietly hired 180 people for its Broussard expansion.
Episcopal School of Acadiana’s Dr. Joshua Caffery, chair of the school’s English Department, is headed to Washington, D.C., and the Library of Congress as the latest winner of the Alan Lomax Fellowship in Folklife Studies.
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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