(NEPOTISM ALERT: Santeria frontman Dege Legg is employed by The Independent Weekly and sometimes works here.)
For being an open-air, back-porch venue in the Free Town neighborhood, the Blue Moon Saloon doesn't have too many problems with noise complaints, despite having live music around the clock. But then there's Santeria, who manage to summon the Lafayette Police Department to tell them to turn it down.
Tonight though at the Moon, Santeria does their MTV Unplugged schtick, sans the TV cameras or the Meat Puppets' Kirkwood brothers sitting in with them. Remember before Santeria was rolling in all that dirty Corporate Rock money and they couldn't afford all of those Marshall stacks and pyrotechnics and all they had were acoustic instruments and the only place they could play was in the corner of the Sidebar? Tonight's show is going to be a lot like that - but on your neighbor's back porch.
Check out Santeria tonight at the Blue Moon Saloon. The show starts at 8 p.m. and tickets are $3,000 each or $1,500 with two canned goods.
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.
(NEPOTISM ALERT: Santeria frontman Dege Legg is employed by The Independent Weekly and sometimes works here.)
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