Downtown Alive! kicks off Festivals Acadien et Creole Friday with the Lost Bayou Ramblers and Cedric Watson in Parc International. Like demented archeologists, the Lost Bayou Ramblers have kept the ancient flame of old time Cajun music alive while barreling into the future with experimentation, creative spirit and an unbeatable live show. Former Texas native Cedric Watson moved to Louisiana to study the ways and means of Cajun and Creole culture. In the process, he formed his own band and won over the Acadiana region, the world and people's minds with accomplished fiddle and accordion playing paired with his Cajun Julio Iglesias romantic ballads.
Dowtown Alive kicks off tonight, Oct. 8, at Parc International in downtown Lafayette. DTA starts at 6 p.m. and runs till about 8 p.m.
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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