The music of French composers Ravel, Debussy, Chaminade and Chopin will fill the air this evening at Angelle Hall on the UL campus. Renowned pianist Emily Yap Chua will perform Debussy’s “Estampes, ” Ravel’s “Valses Nobles et Sentimentales, ” and the “Berceuse” and “Barcarolle” by Chopin among other works. “It’s all beautiful music,” says Dr. Chan Kiat Lim, keyboard professor in the UL School of Music. Lim and Chua are old college friends; they studied together at the College-Conservatory of Music at University of Cincinnati in 1997. Ten years later, Lim discovered his friend, a professor of music at Randolph College in Lynchburg, Va., was touring internationally, and he invited her to be a guest pianist at the university. Tomorrow morning, Chua will teach a master class from 10-11:30 a.m., open to the public, at Angelle Hall. Tonight, the program begins at 7:30 p.m., in the Ducrest-Gilfry Auditorium at Angell Hall. Admission is $10, $5 for students, or free with a UL ID.
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.
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.
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.
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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