Beautiful Grand Coteau hosts the 1st Annual Festival of Words from October 15 - 18. It is a four day event that includes poetry, open mic events, storytelling performances, and workshops available to the public. The Festival has something for everyone and includes readings by such authors such as Darrell Bourque, Patricia Cravins, Saddi Khali, Clare L. Martin, Jerry McGuire, John Potier, Lana Maht Wiggins, Reggie Young, and Patrice Melnick.
The festival will also offer classes for children in local schools and workshops for all ages in the evenings. Everyone, young and old, is encouraged to participate and celebrate the beauty of the spoken and written word.
The events will take place at various locations around Grand Coteau and Sunset, including Cafe Azul, the Grand Coteau Ballroom, South St. Landry Community Library, For a list of the events, visit: http://festivalofwords.homestead.com/schedule.html.
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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