| Passing the Bar |
 What a few local experts in the area of wine, liquor and beer have to say about having spirits.
by Anna Purdy
Photos by Robin May
Booze. Hooch. Vino, hard liquor, spirits, beer and malted liquor — call it what you want but chances are you might drink it occasionally, and if you do it means you probably graduated from Mad Dog 20/20 to a nice Powers whiskey.
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| KRVS’ Spizale signing off |
| Dave Spizale, general manager of KRVS 88.7 FM, is retiring in mid-June.
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| The Pay Raise Session |
Forget everything you think you know about what’s going on in Baton Rouge.
By Jeremy Alford
Gov. Bobby Jindal and the Louisiana Legislature are focusing on education during this year’s regular session. Partly, it’s so that our children can grow up and be schooled real good like and see increases in their take-home pay.
But by the time the final gavel comes crushing down in early June, we may just learn that the session had a dual purpose: to pad the public salaries of officials far and...
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| Pooyie 03.21.12 |
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
C'est Bon
With little surprise but with much fanfare Lafayette proudly accepted the sobriquet “South’s Tastiest Town” last week during a reception at the Acadiana Center of the Arts.
Pas Bon
Political payback has a long, bipartisan history in state politics, so it came as little surprise last week when Rep. Harold Ritchie, D-Bogalusa, was canned from his post as vice chairman of the House Committee on Insurance by Speaker Chuck Kleckley.
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| The Chosen One |
 You may call them scrap yards or junk yards, but Joseph Jilbert considers them shopping malls. What are nuts and bolts to everybody else are gold nuggets to Jilbert. Such is the point of view of a scrap metal sculptor.
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| Find 03.21.12 |
Andy Cornett’s final recording is a good one. The 61-year-old Lafayette blues harpist/bass player died Feb. 24 after a brief illness. Although Andy had been in poor health for more than a year, he did manage to blow some fine harp on Rue Boogaloo’s recently released self-titled debut.
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| Party Girl 03.21.12 |
We were anticipating an emotional introduction of the happily engaged couple, but Kiki Frayard really threw us all for a loop.
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