Entries for The Independent Weekly’s 4th Annual INDesign Awards, honoring excellence in commercial and residential architecture and interior design -- as well as historic preservation -- are due Friday, March 7.
All entries for commercial architecture and interior design require a current Louisiana license. In order to qualify for judging, the project must have been completed in calendar year 2007 in the parishes of Lafayette, Iberia, St. Martin, St. Landry, Acadia and Vermilion. Call Event Manager Robin Hebert directly at 337-769-8604 or e-mail her at
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for more information or to receive an entry form. Return entry forms via e-mail to Robin or by mail to The Independent Weekly, INDesign Awards, 551 Jefferson St., Lafayette, La. 70501.
The winning entries will be published in The Independent Weekly on Wednesday, April 16; details are still being worked out for the April awards luncheon and Smart Growth Lecture.
Is it a crime for citizens to photograph, video, or take notes of a police officer in the line of duty, or a right protected by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution? Locally, such activity, as witnessed recently, will at the very least result in a night spent behind bars.
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.
Episcopal School of Acadiana’s Dr. Joshua Caffery, chair of the school’s English Department, is headed to Washington, D.C., and the Library of Congress as the latest winner of the Alan Lomax Fellowship in Folklife Studies.
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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