UL is anticipating a packed house at Cajun Field for its home football opener against the Southern University Jaguars. The new inter-state rivalry, which offers a chance to catch Southern's famed "Human Juke Box" marching band, kicks off at 6 p.m. tomorrow. Southern has sold out its 6,000 allotted tickets for the game and has also rented out the entire Cajun dome parking lot for its fans.
UL Sports Information Director Daryl Cetnar says ticket sales have been steady, but there are still plenty available. Fans can order tickets through any Ticketmaster outlet, online or by phone. The Cajun dome box office will be selling tickets today until 4 p.m. And tomorrow, UL is opening up all its ticket box offices early, at 10 a.m., for game day sales.
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.