| Best Fest! |
 We don’t need national surveys to tell us what we already know: Festival International de Louisiane is pure gold, baby.
Is there a better time to be Lafayette, La.? That’s a rhetorical question. There is not. As you read this on Wednesday, April 25, or thereafter, I’m on vacation — my annual “stay-cation” devoted to doing virtually nothing but Festival International de Louisiane. I’m hoping for mild, dry weather — knock on wood. But if it’s hot and steamy and the heavens open ...
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| Pooyie 04.25.12 |
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
C’est Bon
A controversial bill that critics say would have given privately run, publicly funded charter schools the right to discriminate against gay students is all but dead in the Legislature.
Pas Bon
A Rayne mother is facing four counts of second-degree murder in the deaths of four of her five children, ages 8 and younger, who died late Saturday night in a fire that consumed their mobile home.
Couillon
There’s little dispute the “New Orleans Saints have ...
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| Dark Legacy |
 For hardcore politics, look no further than the Legislature’s ‘legacy’ lawsuit debate.
By Jeremy Alford
The last few years have seen state Sen. Robert Adley, R-Benton, introduce one measure after another to smother the flames created by so-called legacy lawsuits in Louisiana. Legacy lawsuits arise from old — sometimes decades-old — contamination of land by oil and gas drillers. The litigation gets its name because subsequent drillers on contaminated lands “inherit” the liability cr...
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| Eat Your FIL |
 There are seldom times when snacking on fried boudin balls, sampling melt-in-your-mouth catfish smothered in seafood étouffée, indulging in alligator sauce piquante and chasing it with a chicken schawerma wrap would be considered anything short of gluttonous.
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| Clef Notes: That Damn Dickie Landry |
Dickie Landry will have to write an autobiography. If he could project his life clearly, factually and chronologically onto a giant screen — big enough to show all of the highs and lows, adventures, ironies and insights — we would only see it through a cloud of utter mystique.
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| FIND 04.25.12 |
The small-town charm of Louisiana circa 1930 gets a reverent retrospective in a new book by writer Anne Butler and photographer Henry Cancienne.
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| Party Girl 04.25.12 |
More than 25,000 ducks flocked the pools at Red Lerille’s Health & Racquet club for the 22nd annual Great Acadiana Running of the Ducks benefitting the Boys & Girls Club of Acadiana.
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