Local radio stations 99.9 KTDY, 97.3 The Dawg, Hot 107.9, Planet Radio 105.1, NewsRadio KPEL 96.5, SportsRadio ESPN 1420 and 960 The Gator have teamed up with The Theater League of Louisiana and Jameson Irish Whiskey to bring you a St. Patrick’s Day evening of live music. NIKLBEER at 5:15 followed by the Molly Ringwalds, then Marc Broussard w/ DJ Digital in between bands all night. The event ends at 10pm.
Jameson will be there selling mixed drinks and beer. All drinks can be purchased via drink tickets, which will be sold at the event.
Tickets are $15 at the gate or $10 in advance. Advanced tickets can be purchased at B.E.D. Niteclub, City Bar Downtown, Grant Street, Tsunami, Legends Downtown, Nitetown, or The Office Bar. Keep your ticket stub to get 2-for-1 drinks specials at these locations no matter where you buy your ticket.
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.
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Plains Exploration and Production, the Houston company Flores has been running since 2002, is building a deepwater Gulf of Mexico warehouse and storage facility on Bernard Road in Broussard.
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.