Already a haven for antique-seekers and bargain shoppers, Breaux Bridge is upping the ante this weekend with its fifth annual Outdoor Flea Market and City Wide Garage Sale. The day long event will be held in Veteran's Park on Bernard Street across from City Hall from 8 a.m.-4 p.m.
Other events planned for the day include a Zydeco Breakfast at Cafe des Amis and a Cajun jam session at The Coffee Break. The Breaux Bridge Chamber of Commerce says last year's event brought in approximately 10,000 people. For more information, calll Lynn Roy at 277-4517 or Denise Mitchell at 507-3637 or (800) 609-8299.
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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