A & E -> A&E THU, OCT 6 11:59AM by The Independent Staff
Fall in love with Bach Lunch
Un frere Michot
The fall 2011 Bach Lunch concert series commences Friday at Parc Sans Souci in downtown Lafayette. The semi-annual series serves as a fundraiser for the Lafayette Science Museum and features some great regional acts, beginning Friday with the traditional series opener, Les Freres Michot. Lunches are available from a host of popular local eateries, with proceeds benefitting the museum. As always, Bach Lunch is a free event.
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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