Despite the fact that March 3 was the DVD release date for In the Electric Mist, the film, starring Tommy Lee Jones, is being held over one more week. Based on the James Lee Burke novel In the Electric Mist With Confederate Dead, the film was shot over a four month period in the spring of 2007, on location in New Iberia. At one time slated to be screened at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, release dates were pushed back for nearly a year, and then co-producer Deborah Dobson Bach announced the independent film would be released straight to DVD. Critics speculated that the film was fatally flawed.
However, when In the Electric Mist opened at the Grand Theatre 10 in New Iberia on Feb. 18, it received rave reviews from locals, who were as involved in friend spotting as they were evaluating the film. Most people said they had to go back to watch the plot unfold. Originally scheduled for a one week run, In the Electric Mist has been held over for a third week, and will finally close on March 13, giving locals a last opportunity to see it on the big screen.
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.
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.
Despite the fact that March 3 was the DVD release date for In the Electric Mist, the film, starring Tommy Lee Jones, is being held over one more week. Based on the James Lee Burke novel In the Electric Mist With Confederate Dead, the film was shot over a four month period in the spring of 2007, on location in New Iberia. At one time slated to be screened at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, release dates were pushed back for nearly a year, and then co-producer Deborah Dobson Bach announced the independent film would be released straight to DVD. Critics speculated that the film was fatally flawed. 
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