Whether you’re eagerly anticipating the new Jessica
Simpson movie Blonde Ambition, seeking info on music licensing and
publishing, or in the mood for a documentary examining life in a small town on
the border of Texas and Mexico, iDiDx has something for you. Music, movies, art
and business all converge at the second annual International Digital
In-Development Expo, which kicked off yesterday in downtown Lafayette. Events
including movie premieres, musical performances, short film screenings and panel
discussions continue today and through the weekend. The majority of the expo is free with the exception of a few ticketed events costing no more than $3.
Check ididx.com for a complete schedule. Tomorrow night, iDiDx’s awards
ceremony will honor Louisiana actor Pruitt Taylor Vince as well as comedic writer/actor
and Simpsons mainstay Harry Shearer . Click here to read an interview
with Shearer in this week’s Independent.
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.
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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