The Fruitarian Meritocracy returns. The sound is kaleidoscopic, optimistic, and celebratory like a rainbow plastered journey into the upper reaches of the heart. There’s a marrow of euphoria flushing through each note – a prism of joy in each crescendo. It’s part afro-rock, part power pop and part world music sock hop. It’s the sound of a Fruitarian meritocracy grinding against the cynicism and firmly entrenched corruption of the modern age. It’s the sound of cotton candy and pop tarts with shows that are a cross between an Up With People pep rally and neo flower power jam.
Lafayette’s Givers play Downtown Alive (!) tonight, hitting the stage with the feather pillow hammer of the gods around 6 p.m. in Parc Sans Souci. Lot of fun. Lot of color. Lot of happy sounds. In addition, ACFM or AOC, whichever they’re calling themselves these days, will be video taping the show with the assistance of audience members, similar to The Beastie Boys’ I Shot That DVD.
And did you know that DTA is sponsored by Cox Communications, Lafayette Coca-Cola and LetsBeTotallyClear.org? Exciting and revelatory, isn’t it?
Be there tonight for Downtown Alive. Next week DTA closes out its season with The Canes.
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.
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.
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