Chef Paul Mudge of Jolie’s Bistro took home the first-ever Golden Six Pack and Brew Cup awarded this week at Stan’s Downtown following the Brewmaster’s Dinner, an event honoring VIPs and sponsors who back the Acadiana Center for the Arts’s annual GulfBrew, a celebration of the music, food and spirits of the Gulf Coast, on tap for July 25 at Parc International. The dinner served as a competition between six of Acadiana’s best chefs, charged with created one course each in a six-course meal and paring it with a fine beer.
Mudge’s malted chocolate cake with caramelized bananas paired with Brooklyn Summer Ale edged out Holly Goetting of Charley G’s, who married Bacon Squared with Maudite. Ashley Roussel of Zea took the bronze; her Crispy Duck Confit was washed down with Hook & Ladder Backdraught Brown.
All the beers used in the competition will be featured at GulfBrew 2009. Taster tickets to the festival are $25; non-taster tickets are $15. Tickets can be obtained at gulfbrew.com or by calling the AcA at 233-7060.
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.
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.
Chef Paul Mudge of Jolie’s Bistro took home the first-ever Golden Six Pack and Brew Cup awarded this week at Stan’s Downtown following the Brewmaster’s Dinner, an event honoring VIPs and sponsors who back the Acadiana Center for the Arts’s annual GulfBrew, a celebration of the music, food and spirits of the Gulf Coast, on tap for July 25 at Parc International. The dinner served as a competition between six of Acadiana’s best chefs, charged with created one course each in a six-course meal and paring it with a fine beer. 
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