Top 5 Foods of a Starving Artist with Reggie Rodrigue
1. Boxed macaroni and cheese with chicken, hamburger
or deli meat and canned vegetables. 2. Smoked turkey breast sandwiches with chips. 3. Hummus with pita bread, tortilla chips or Zapp's jalapeno chips. 4. A big bag of Munchies (Cheetos, Doritos, Pretzels, etc, mixed together)...all the
major food groups. LOL. 5. A big pot of curried rice with your choice of meat and canned vegetables.
Reggie Michael Rodrigue is an artist, living in Lafayette. Forty-six of his artworks are part of 30 private collections between Lafayette, New Orleans and New York City, and one of his works has been installed in the permanent collection of the Paul and LuluHilliardUniversityArt Museum. He has exhibited at the Louisiana State Archives, the New OrleansWorldTradeCenter, the AcA's Southern Open 2008 (jurored by Peter Frank, art critic for Los Angeles Weekly), the AcA's Sustained Winds Exhibition, Steve Martin Fine Art in New Orleans, and Gallery 549 in Lafayette. He has also received the Paul and Lulu Hilliard/Lafayette Art Association Endowment. His exhibit titled Les Aisles: The Artwork of Reggie Michael Rodrigue will be on display at Gallery R at the April 10 ArtWalk in downtown Lafayette. In addition, J. Matthew Roberts will be providing an original music score for the exhibition.
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.
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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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