Never got to see Frank and the gang back in the day, working over Vegas crowds like the pros at the top of their game? Or were they before your time? Don’t fear The Rat Pack is Back is here. It’s a song and dance show that replicates the glory days of Frank Sinatra and crew during the height of their popularity on the Las Vegas Strip. Frank, Dino, Sammy, Joey Bishop, and Marilyn Monroe impersonators all show up to give you a taste of what it was like back in the day. With a gigantic bag of timeless show tunes to draw from, you can’t grow wrong. Who wouldn’t want to hear a guy that looks and sounds like Frank Sinatra sing “Where or When” with a great band? I would and I’m seriously not joking. The Rat Pack is Back retro-impersonator show hit the Heymann Center on Monday, Feb. 9 at 7:30 p.m.
In rendering his ruling, District Judge John Trahan all but called the real estate developer a liar for inconsistencies in his accounts of what prompted him to punch a school teacher unconscious.
Frank’s Casing Crew, now doing business as Frank’s International, will make its final appearance on ABiz’s list of the Top 50 Privately Held Companies in Acadiana this year, and once again, it will likely be at the top with more than $1 billion in annual revenues. The 75-year-old company specializing in tubular fabrication and installation services to the oil and gas industry plans to go public this year.
The defeat, or rather highjacking of House Bill 420 in the final days of this year's Legislative Session, say Reps. Vincent Pierre and Terry Landry, is the result of the propaganda spread by one unidentified local media outlet and an unnamed former state Representative, but nothing to do with the original legislation's lack of checks, balances or details.
City-Parish Council Chairman Brandon Shelvin heaped steady doses of condescending ire on a Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Louisiana executive while failing to reveal his financial ties to a BC/BS rival.
Abbeville native David Primeaux was a popular professor until his death late last year, and while he was successful at camouflaging a dark past, he couldn’t outlive it.
Tehmi Chassion’s failure to recuse himself in the school board’s selection of a group health benefits provider raises ‘serious questions’ on whether he violated state ethics law.
He’s a singer. A songwriter. A piano man. A family man. He’s even got his own Wikipedia entry. He’s David Egan. And he knows ancient secrets about the monolithic stones of Stonehenge that he’s not willing to share.