The Cinema on the Bayou Film Festival hits downtown Lafayette this week with four days of independent film screenings and industry related schmooze and shenanigans. Participating venues include Acadiana Center for the Arts, Cite des Arts, LITE, Pack & Paddle and the Lafayette Parish South Regional Library. Filmmakers will be in attendance from New Orleans, Shreveport, Austin, New York, and Toronto, Canada. Films include Aaron Walker's Bury the Hatchet, Harry Shearer's The Big Uneasy, as well as Disfarmer: A Portrait of America, Win Riley's Walker Percy: A Documentary Film, Shreveporter William Joyce's The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore, Tim Watson's The Music's Gonna Get You Through, and Carnivalesque Films' Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo and many others.
Cinema on the Bayou will take plays Jan. 26-30 in downtown Lafayette. For more information on Cinema on the Bayou, pick up tomorrow's issue (Jan. 26) of The Independent Weekly.
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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