This is what the Acadiana Center for the Arts is meant for: a home-grown arts production featuring modern dance, original choreography and a live musical score written by a local composer. It all comes together with two productions Saturday night of “I’ve Stopped Having that Dream I’ve Been Having.”
The dance installation is primarily the work of Paige Krause, artist-in-residence at the AcA. The production features music by Philippe Landry, set design by Marla Kristicevich and lighting design by Brian Schneider. Dancing to Krause’s choreography are Esther Winn Burley, Jamie Faulk, Brian Guidry, Kara St. Clair and Chad Trahan.
The performances are free and will take place at 6:15 p.m. and 7:15 p.m. in the AcA’s James D. Moncus Theater. The Second Saturday ArtWalk will be taking place simultaneously downtown.
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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