Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Nine civic groups have been speaking up for the silent voices who slip through the cracks in Lafayette’s public education system, and a majority on the school board are listening. By Heather Miller

When nine local civic groups coalesced to face the state of public schools in Lafayette Parish, their message was as emphatic then as it is today: Toss the notion that our poorest kids can’t learn. We can’t — and won’t — wait 30 years for a sizable increase in
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Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Outgoing District 6 Councilman Sam Doré lost badly on Oct. 22. He couldn’t be more thrilled.  By Walter Pierce

It seemed last Tuesday on the patio at Legends on Bertrand Drive as City-Parish Councilman Sam Doré endorsed District 6 hopeful Jared Doise, that Doré wasn’t so much passing the baton to the candidate he hopes will succeed him on the council as he was tossing a hot potato to the nearest shmuck. I don’t mean that Doise is a shmuck...

November 16, 2011

C'est Bon
Give ’em hell, Buddy. Former Louisiana congressman and Gov. Buddy Roemer is doing nothing to attune his anti-corporate-money campaign message to the GOP squawk box.

Pas Bon
District 44 state House candidate Vince Pierre refused to answer a pair of questions at a debate Monday on the UL campus, not because they were “gotcha” questions but rather because they were posed by a representative of this newspaper.

Couillon
Speaking of squawk boxes: Did you hear the one a

Local theater troupe Acting Up (in Acadiana) kicks off a year of activities celebrating the world’s most famous bard. By Erin Z. Bass

Led by Amy Waguespack, Acting Up (in Acadiana)’s Summer Youth Shakespeare Ensemble started in 2001. Waguespack had created a similar program at the University of Maine and wanted to introduce kids in Lafayette to William Shakespeare when she moved to town. Now, 10 years later, the theater camp is filled to capacity and has been so successful that Waguespack,

BY ‘CREOLE’ I MEAN ...
Let’s establish the ground rules for Craig Bauer’s fascinating new history, Creole Genesis: The Bringier Family and Antebellum Plantation Life in Louisiana ($20, UL Press) — the term “Creole” used by Bauer refers to people of European ancestry who were born in the New World...

The Grinch, the Yat and the Weasel ... And how Joe McMahan saves the Western World

Stick around long enough in this business and lots of dots get connected. I met Steve Conn at one of his Crossroads shows at Vermilionville where he, Sonny Landreth and Michael Doucet played a packed house and took no prisoners...

The new dish to try downtown is at Guamas. Its Cuban nachos are new in every way. 

Guamas was one of the only Latin restaurants in Lafayette when married owners Julieta Tarazona and Rueben Mesa opened the original location off St. Mary Street near campus. It makes nine years this April that Guamas moved to its downtown location at 302 Jefferson St. tantalizing the uninitiated and the regulars alike in South American and Cuban cuisine.

The sinners came out to play nice, and the saints tucked growing horns under costumes at the first Acadiana Center for the Arts’ Saints & Sinners Bash on Nov. 3.