KBON 101. FM in Eunice is throwing an all-day party on Sunday at Blackham Coliseum in Lafayette. The annual Listener Appreciation Party will feature music from Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys, Roddie Romero and the Hub City All-Stars, Jamie Bergeron and the Kickin' Cajuns, Travis Matte and the Kingpins with Johnnie Allan, Richard LeBouef and Detour, Warren Storm and Willie T - a dozen acts in all - in addition to some surprise special guests. The event kicks off at 10 a.m. and runs until 8 p.m. The cover charge is only $5 per person, and all proceeds benefit Hospice of Acadiana. Food and drinks will be available as well.
Read Nick Pittman's feature on KBON, "C'est KBON." Visit KBON.com for more information.
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.
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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