Jared Stepp and Eric Smith, who for the past four years have operated the Apple certified repair business My Digital Phoenix in Lafayette, are opening an Apple retail store at 4415 Ambassador Caffery Parkway in mid-January (next to Buffalo Wild Wings in the Super Target shopping center).
Called the Orchard, the store will look and feel just like an official Apple Store, says Frankie Russo of Potenza Creative, the local ad agency helping to roll out the new concept.
Visitors to the Orchard will have the opportunity to test-drive Apple's entire suite of products, from the MacBook and MacBook Pro to Apple's full line of desktop computers, including the Mac Pro, iMac and Mac mini. Knowledgeable experts will be on hand to answer any questions and help customers learn to use the equipment, and the Orchard's seven Apple certified technicians will also service all of the electronic items it sells (with iPhone servicing offered later in the year).
Russo says the Lafayette store is one of only three Apple resellers nationwide that is able to personalize any Mac product. "It's a high-tech digital engraving process that basically tatoos any image [or name] onto the back of these items," he says. Additionally, training programs will be offered for customers and students in local schools.
The opening date has not yet been set, but the store will launch with special offers and promotions for the first customers. Stay tuned to the INDsider for an update on the Orchard's opening.
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.
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