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The Independent Weekly July 25, 2012

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2012 Annual Manual
Need To Know Your go-to guide for living, working, playing and raising a family in Lafayette. Roads and oil. If anything set Lafayette to becoming the vibrant, bustling city it is today, it’s roads and oil. ... Read More >>

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt?
A nonprofit law clinic that works to free the wrongly convicted is looking into the case of a Lafayette man serving life at Angola. Convicted killer Jackie Lambert is 54 years old. For nearly half his life, since 1986, he has called the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola home. ... Read More >>

PooYie! 7-25-12

C'EST BON
At press time Monday, former congressman and one-time Louisiana Gov. Buddy Roemer, fresh off a failed presidential campaign, was scheduled to testify before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill Tuesday.

PAS BON
Traffic & Transportation Director Tony Tramel is like a patient professor with the City-Parish Council, doing his best to explain in layman’s terms the sundry engineering concepts of his trade.

COUILLON
Gov. Bobby Voucher loves him some airline food. ...
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All the World's a Stage
Now in its 10th year, a Shakespeare camp for youth brings intensity to the AcA. Love’s Labour’s Lost isn’t just another of Shakespeare’s plays about to close out its run at the Acadiana Center for the Arts this weekend. ... Read More >>

Eats 7-25-12
Every week day during EatLafayette, The Independent will spotlight a Dish of the Day; on Wednesdays, our Dish of the Day also becomes the Dish of the Week and is published in the print edition, along with other features spotlighting the local industry. Read more about The Independent’s ongoing EatLafayette coverage and how to participate here. ... Read More >>

Party Girl 07.25.12
The Acadiana Center for the Arts held its 6th annual Gulf Brew fundraiser in Parc International downtown where thousands of attendees sampled more than 150 brews from both local, domestic and foreign breweries. ... Read More >>

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Alex Lege: 'The Cop Watcher'

Is it a crime for citizens to photograph, video, or take notes of a police officer in the line of duty, or a right protected by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution? Locally, such activity, as witnessed recently, will at the very least result in a night spent behind bars.
David Calhoun, ‘EB’ Brooks join Lafayette Central Park

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.
Update: PXP creating 600 jobs averaging 100k

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.
Today in awesome: ESA’s Caffery wins fellowship

Episcopal School of Acadiana’s Dr. Joshua Caffery, chair of the school’s English Department, is headed to Washington, D.C., and the Library of Congress as the latest winner of the Alan Lomax Fellowship in Folklife Studies.
Zachary Barker takes helm of the Opportunity Machine

Zachary Barker continues making waves in Lafayette’s business scene, mostly recently being named director of the Opportunity Machine.

in case you missed it

COOL TOWN 2013

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 curious compact

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.
Pooyie 2012

It's good, it's bad and it's just plain crazy.
Saving Saturday Night

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.
Posthaste vs. HART FORTENBERY

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.