The Freetown Hounds skateboard crew hosts the first inaugural Mardi Gras Bowl Jam on Mardi Gras day, Feb. 24. It’ll take place at the newly constructed public skateboard/bmx bowl & ramp park located behind the Goodwill store on Johnston St. There will be both bowl and streets contests as well as free live music provided by Greg Ginn & The Texas Corrugators, The Blessed, Six String Rodeo, and 10-Ton Junkie. Skaters will be out there all day, ripping it up in the new bowl as the parades pass, so if you’re looking for a good spot to watch the parades and keep an eye on your kids, why not combine the two with some inspired skateboarding? Be there—all day on Feb. 24.
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.
The Freetown Hounds skateboard crew hosts the first inaugural Mardi Gras Bowl Jam on Mardi Gras day, Feb. 24. It’ll take place at the newly constructed public skateboard/bmx bowl & ramp park located behind the Goodwill store on Johnston St. There will be both bowl and streets contests as well as free live music provided by Greg Ginn & The Texas Corrugators, The Blessed, Six String Rodeo, and 10-Ton Junkie. Skaters will be out there all day, ripping it up in the new bowl as the parades pass, so if you’re looking for a good spot to watch the parades and keep an eye on your kids, why not combine the two with some inspired skateboarding? Be there—all day on Feb. 24.
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The Freetown Hounds skateboard crew hosts the first inaugural Mardi Gras Bowl Jam on Mardi Gras day, Feb. 24. It’ll take place at the newly constructed public skateboard/bmx bowl & ramp park located behind the Goodwill store on Johnston St. There will be both bowl and streets contests as well as free live music provided by Greg Ginn & The Texas Corrugators, The Blessed, Six String Rodeo, and 10-Ton Junkie. Skaters will be out there all day, ripping it up in the new bowl as the parades pass, so if you’re looking for a good spot to watch the parades and keep an eye on your kids, why not combine the two with some inspired skateboarding? Be there—all day on Feb. 24. 
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