Over at Pamplona Tapas Bar, the 1920s are roaring back into cocktail glasses. Bartenders have been honing their skills on beautifully balanced cocktails like the Aviation, Corpse Reviver, Vieux Carre, Sazarac, The Last Word, and the sexy Sidecar. Pamplona’s bartenders brew their own ginger beer for Dark and Stormys, and lately, the back bar has begun to resemble an alchemist shop, filled with tincture of violet and elder flower essence, subtle notes that make these cocktails taste like the decadent decade when Prohibition was smashing the whiskey barrels. Saturday, Nov. 14, following ArtWalk, the Cocktail Revival begins at 10 p.m. Don your best flapper attire and get a free cocktail, or pace your drinking, there are half-price drink specials every half hour. Call Pamplona at 232-0070 for details.
Once you’re back on your feet on Sunday, slip on your Ray Bans and slide over to Marcello’s Wine Market Cafe. Gene Todaro is hosting his annual Grand Tasting. That’s 100 bottles of wine. Let Marcello’s take you around the world, from the passion fruit power of the sauvignon blancs of New Zealand to the black pepper and red currant seduction of a big California zin. A little Louis Prima, some Sicilian specialities and super retail deals are all on the ticket. $30 in advance, $40 at the door. Call Marcello’s at 235-1002 for more info.
Is it a crime for citizens to photograph, video, or take notes of a police officer in the line of duty, or a right protected by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution? Locally, such activity, as witnessed recently, will at the very least result in a night spent behind bars.
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.
At Thursday's State of the Economy luncheon, LEDA President and CEO Gregg Gothreaux said PXP has already quietly hired 180 people for its Broussard expansion.
Episcopal School of Acadiana’s Dr. Joshua Caffery, chair of the school’s English Department, is headed to Washington, D.C., and the Library of Congress as the latest winner of the Alan Lomax Fellowship in Folklife Studies.
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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