Tonight is the last of a three part series of "Healing Arts @ the Center," a program offering free alternative health appointments and walk-ins to musicians and artists.
Participating practitioners at the event are Becca Begnaud, traiteur; Katherine Bennett, energy work; Kathy Richard, acupuncture; Bette Vidrine, therapeutic music; and Sandra White, integrated energy therapy.
Practitioners will be available from 4-8p.m. to work with artists and musicians. The event will be held at The Vault in the lower level of the Acadiana Center for the Arts, located at 101 W. Vermillion St. in downtown Lafayette. Appointments can be made ahead of time by calling Rachel at 739-3988, but walk-ins are welcome.
This event is sponsored by the Louisiana Cultural Economy Foundation, A Healing Arts Collective, and Rcnederveld.
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.