Since it was first announced in The Independent Weekly, my wife and I looked forward with anticipation to John Barry's lecture. We had read his book, Rising Tide, and from that exposure we viewed Mr. Barry as a respected historian. Knowing of his current involvement in New Orleans in the aftermath of Katrina we felt he would be very capable of drawing parallels ' and divergences ' between the causes and effects of the 1927 flood and Katrina. We fully expected that he would have something useful to say about applying the lessons learned in 1927 to the current situation. We hoped that he would present some vision of how the Katrina aftermath might play out and what we as Louisiana citizens might do to influence the outcomes.
Instead, we got an ill-prepared harangue that consisted largely of a sales pitch for his current book and his personal political views. We learned very little about the causes of the New Orleans/St. Bernard/Plaquemine flood and possible future preventive solutions that might be developed. We left the lecture very disappointed in both the lecturer and the content of his talk.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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