Starting at noon Sasha Masakowski brings her New Orleans jazz style to downtown. She’s won the Big Easy Music Award for “Best Emerging Artist of 2009” as well as being an oft-nominated favorite of Offbeat magazine “Best Female Vocalist,” “Best Emerging Artist,” and her album being nominated for “Best Contemporary Jazz Album.”
Masakowski is part of the musical Masakowskis — her father is Blue Note label artist Steve Masakowski of Astral Project and is the current endowed chair of the Jazz Studies Department at the University of New Orleans.
Today’s Bach Lunch picnic choices are Bailey’s Seafood & Grill, Tsunami Sushi and Trynd, as well as, and I quote, “the return of the ‘Hot Dog Man!’” I want his food without knowing anything more than that. Grub served from 11:30 a.m. until around 1 p.m.
Chairs and blankets are welcome. If you feel like a bout of altruism, remember as you eat that all the proceeds go to benefit the Lafayette Science Museum.
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.
Philip deMahy Sr., a once respected New Iberia ad exec, was sentenced May 2 to spend the next two years (he faced up to 100 years) in a state penitentiary after state and federal investigators found dozens of images depicting children engaged in lewd sexual acts on his personal computer.
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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