First off, the Bread Pudding Taste-off is hosted by the same folks who coordinate the boudin taste-off in the fall. The competitiors include 2 Paul’s Radically Urban BBQ, Blue Dog Café, Blue Magnolia, Café des Amis, Poor Boy’s Riverside Inn, Guamas, Johnson’s Boucaniere, Pat’s Downtown, Bonnie Bell’s Bistro, To Your Taste: Custom Cakes and Tsunami. Just like the boudin fest, the public gets to vote on their favorites and there will be a panel of judges from around town. You buy some tickets and you get to eat bread pudding until you explode. Not a bad deal.
The music this week will be performed by The Lee Boys. This family of three brothers plays something called “sacred steel,” which is essentially soulful, bluesy gospel music with electric guitars including lap and pedal steels. The Lee Boys, like many sacred steel players, began playing in their grandfather’s church where he was the reverend.
Once again: it is a non-smoking event and your pet doesn’t want to be at Downtown Alive! because it is hot and they aren’t officially welcome. I stood next to a service dog in training at last week’s DTA and that’s cool. But Muffy doesn’t want to be carried around in a papoose any more than Bullwinkle doesn’t want to scare little children with his mass. I have a dog. I know what I am talking about. If you don’t believe me then please show up for DTA with a floor-length and tightly buttoned fur coat and crawl on all fours so amply drunken or merely clumsy people can accidentally step on your limbs.
Is it a crime for citizens to photograph, video, or take notes of a police officer in the line of duty, or a right protected by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution? Locally, such activity, as witnessed recently, will at the very least result in a night spent behind bars.
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.
Episcopal School of Acadiana’s Dr. Joshua Caffery, chair of the school’s English Department, is headed to Washington, D.C., and the Library of Congress as the latest winner of the Alan Lomax Fellowship in Folklife Studies.
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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