Tuesday, March 31, at 5 p.m. is the deadline for entries in The Independent Weekly's 2009 INDesign Awards for excellence in architecture, interior design, historic preservation and urban planning. Download the interior design entry form here and the architecture form here.
No license is required for residential projects, but entries for all commercial projects require a Louisiana license. Complete details are included on the entry forms.
Winning projects will be announced in The Independent on Wednesday, April 15, and profiled in a cover story April 29. The awards will be presented as part of the 2009 Smart Growth Lecture on April 30 at The City Club. Charleston, S.C., Mayor Joe Riley will be the keynote speaker at the event. Under Riley’s leadership, Charleston has become recognized as one of the most livable and progressive cities in the U.S.
Tickets for the luncheon are $35 per person or $300 for a sponsored table for eight.
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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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