Brad Pitt makes it right on the cover of Architectural Digest
It doesn’t hurt that he’s one of the best looking guys on the planet. Brad Pitt and his Make It Right project to help rebuild New Orleans’ lower Ninth Ward is the cover story of the January issue of Architectural Digest. His innovative houses, designed by some of the most influential architects in the world are going up, replacing traditional homes washed away by the flood waters of Hurricane Katrina. With solar panels, tankless water heaters, “green” building elements, and an elevation high enough to withstand another flood, families who lost their houses will return to safer, more sustainable homes. To read the article, click here. You have to register with AD, but it’s free, then you can read the entire story.
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.
It doesn’t hurt that he’s one of the best looking guys on the planet. Brad Pitt and his Make It Right project to help rebuild New Orleans’ lower Ninth Ward is the cover story of the January issue of Architectural Digest. His innovative houses, designed by some of the most influential architects in the world are going up, replacing traditional homes washed away by the flood waters of Hurricane Katrina. With solar panels, tankless water heaters, “green” building elements, and an elevation high enough to withstand another flood, families who lost their houses will return to safer, more sustainable homes. To read the article, click here. You have to register with AD, but it’s free, then you can read the entire story.
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