Artist, entrepreneur, community activist, political instigator and court jester George Marks can add another title to his list of epithets. The Arnaudville native has been appointed by Gov. Bobby Jindal to the Louisiana State Arts Council.
Marks has been mixing it up since he came home to Arnaudville in 2003, spearheading an artists community that would provide studio and living space for artists-in-residence along the banks of Bayous Teche and Fusillier. Following his lead, galleries, studios, dance clubs and workshops popped up in Arnaudville like mushrooms after a summer rain.
The 24-member Louisiana State Arts Council addresses arts-related issues of importance to Louisiana and approves grants awarded by the Louisiana Division of the Arts. Marks was nominated by Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu.
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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