The next new thing in LA is old hat for La. Boiled crawfish restaurants are popping up in Los Angeles’ Little Saigon, a Vietnamese enclave, teaching a whole new group of eaters how to suck the heads and pinch the tails. The LA Times reports that Dada Ngo and her husband Sinh Nguyen previously lived in Arlington, Texas where crawfish boils were common. When she moved to Little Saigon, densely populated with noodle shops, she decided to inject a little of the Cajun flavor she loved into a culture that was already crazy about seafood. Her restaurant, the Boiling Crab, caught on in a big way, with lines out the door every night. Rapidly, at least a dozen boiling joints, some run by New Orleans Vietnamese residents who as Katrina evacuees found refuge in Little Saigon, have popped up in the area. Thousands of pounds of live crawfish are imported to LA weekly, and the model of Cajun-spiced mudbugs served on paper-covered tables like the best seafood patios of Acadiana is catching on from San Jose to San Francisco.
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.
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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