The Bad Roads take the stage tonight at Vermilionville as part of the Louisiana Crossroads music series. The band rocked Lake Charles in a live broadcast on KRVS 88.7 FM. Tonight, the Roads make it back into Lafayette with their south Louisiana rock. The Bad Roads are Buz Clark on vocals, Bruce MacDonald and Briant Smith on electric guitar, Steve Morrow on bass, and Danny Kimball on drums and vocals. Special guests will be David Egan on the keyboard and Pat Breaux on the sax.
Advance tickets to tonight's show and another performance tomorrow night at the Sliman Theater in New Iberia are $10. You can order them online, charge by phone at (337) 233-7060, or pick them up at the Acadiana Center for the Arts in downtown Lafayette.
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.