“Mon Cher Camarade,” a new film by Lafayette cinematographer Pat Mire, will screen tonight at LITE. Six years in the making, the documentary highlights the role of French-speaking Cajuns during World War II. Because of their language, Cajuns were employed as translators for the American troops in France and as part of the French Resistance, working behind the lines in German-occupied France. Locals like retired Brigadier General Robert LeBlanc of Abbeville and Mire’s late father, Felix Mire, who served in France, were interviewed for the film. The screening begins at 8 p.m. at LITE, and is scheduled to air on Louisiana Public Broadcasting on Dec. 9 at 8 p.m.
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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