The Acadiana Arts Council has announced a one-of-a-kind project that will help improve arts education in Lafayette Parish's public schools and schools across the country. The Community Audit for Arts Education is a joint venture between the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts' and its Partners-In-Education Team in Lafayette (comprised of the AAC, the Lafayette Parish School System and UL Lafayette).
The results of the audit will help Lafayette Parish meet the requirements of Louisiana Legislative Act 175 which will require the development and statewide implementation of a visual and performing arts curriculum in public schools beginning in 2010. Michael Kaiser, president of the Kennedy Center says, "For the first time anywhere, the Kennedy Center will partner with a local school system and local arts organizations to provide a comprehensive and sequential program of arts education. We see great promise for the model that will be developed in Lafayette to be used throughout Louisiana and across the United States."
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.
The Acadiana Arts Council has announced a one-of-a-kind project that will help improve arts education in Lafayette Parish's public schools and schools across the country. The Community Audit for Arts Education is a joint venture between the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts' and its Partners-In-Education Team in Lafayette (comprised of the AAC, the Lafayette Parish School System and UL Lafayette). 
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