Historic buildings stand all around us. Next time you’re driving down Pinhook, take a good look at Cafe Vermilionville. The two story building is a rare early 19th century example of French Louisiana architecture remaining on the busy corridor. Both the Acadian Village and Vermilionville house collections of early Louisiana structures. But if you’d like to learn more about our architectural history, Paris-based author Ronald Katz will be speaking tomorrow about the history of French architecture in America. The lecture, sponsored by the Alliance Française de Lafayette, will travel through the heart of French America, from the early Huguenot settlements in New York and South Carolina, down the Mississippi, and to our living French culture in Louisiana. Katz’s 2005 book, French Architecture in America is the basis of his talk, and is filled with illustrations of America’s great buildings, including many here in Louisiana. The talk is at 6:30 p.m., Wednesday October 1, at the Lafayette Economic Authority (LEDA), 211 E. Devalcourt St. The lecture is free to the public. For more information, call the AFL at 261-1002.
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.
Historic buildings stand all around us. Next time you’re driving down Pinhook, take a good look at Cafe Vermilionville. The two story building is a rare early 19th century example of French Louisiana architecture remaining on the busy corridor. Both the Acadian Village and Vermilionville house collections of early Louisiana structures. But if you’d like to learn more about our architectural history, Paris-based author Ronald Katz will be speaking tomorrow about the history of French architecture in America. The lecture, sponsored by the Alliance Française de Lafayette, will travel through the heart of French America, from the early Huguenot settlements in New York and South Carolina, down the Mississippi, and to our living French culture in Louisiana. Katz’s 2005 book, French Architecture in America is the basis of his talk, and is filled with illustrations of America’s great buildings, including many here in Louisiana. The talk is at 6:30 p.m., Wednesday October 1, at the Lafayette Economic Authority (LEDA), 211 E. Devalcourt St. The lecture is free to the public. For more information, call the AFL at 261-1002.
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