Wednesday, October 19, 2011

The race for lieutenant governor is the nastiest around — and A portal into THE steamy three-way fight for the heart of the state GOP.
By Jeremy Alford

Sexual harassment, extramarital affairs, drug use and prostitutes. In the white-hot race for lieutenant governor, these are the issues you haven’t heard much about. But they’re out there in the political ether, being floated to reporters and editors by operatives hoping the allegations will make their way into he

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Repealing the Lafayette Home Rule Charter and returning to separate governments for the city and parish of Lafayette is an ideological exercise that everyone — no matter their political stripe — should support. It cuts to one of the most fundamental tenants of democracy: representation. It is rankly unjust that people who do not live in the city Lafayette, who are neither subject to its property tax nor stakeholders/customers of its utility system, would have a v
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Wednesday, October 19, 2011

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The first Bowl Championship Series ranking of college football teams released Sunday has the UL Lafayette Ragin’ Cajuns ranked 32nd in the country...

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The Democratic State Central Committee has entered the fray in the increasingly contentious House District 39 race...

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We have to hand it to Jamie LaBranche.

Located in the heart of downtown, the Lafayette Science Museum wants to be Lafayette’s epicenter for everything science and beyond.
By Emily Henagan  •  Photos by Robin May

The Lafayette Science Museum’s curators and employees’ ingenuity is illuminated by the Dinosaurs exhibit and 2011 Museum of Fear. However, the newly installed administrator, Kevin Krantz, and his team of innovative science buffs have no intentions of stopping there.

Yeah, it’s a Barbara Mandrell tune, but it describes Randy Travis to a T. By Walter Pierce

Country music superstar Randy Travis didn’t get a cellular phone until he was 51 years old. Randy Travis is 52 now — indicative of just how “old school” he is.

...and the roar of the crowd
By David Egan

The phone rings violently at 5 a.m., just when I have finally found sleep. It takes some confused moments to figure out that I’m in a Dallas hotel room, following a Bluebirds gig with the Flett Brothers. “Mr. Egan, there’s been a vandalism involving your vehicle. The police are here.”

Let’s not quibble, okay? Marcelle Bienvenu is the Queen of Cajun Cooking. She has a food column, she’s written many cookbooks, she teaches cooking and she schools other celebrity chefs about what’s what in our cuisine. So who better to be a judge at the 4th Annual Boudin Cook-Off?

What began as a small brewery producing 1,500 barrels a year in 1986 has evolved into a brew institution that brews more than 130,000 barrels of beer a year and is sold in 46 states and Puerto Rico.

It was the perfect evening to celebrate the upcoming wedding of Katy Knutson and Jacob Naomi. A Cajun-style fish fry was hosted by Steve and Patty Smith and Nancy Naomi and Carol Smith at the Teche Drive home of Steve and Patty.