I’ve yet to see a Cajun band that can out rock the Lost Bayou Ramblers. Some people call them LBR. Some just call them Lost Bayou. Growing up in Pilette, brothers Louis and Andre Michot were immersed in roots Cajun music from birth, learning traditional songs and playing music with their family. They eventually formed Lost Bayou Ramblers with bassist Alan Lefleur. After a few line-up changes they drafted Cavan Carruth and Austin drummer “Saber Tooth.” The Lost Bayou Ramblers rock the Blue Moon on Aug. 13.
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.
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