Health & Fitness

From the vanguard of medical technology to tried and true healthy diet tips, leaders in Acadiana’s health care sector offer all you need to know about living well and living long.

January 18, 2012

Youth Culture

Ten young artists with ties to Acadiana portend a bright future for the Hub City’s art scene.
By Anna Purdy

ArtWalk has been going for 15 years in downtown Lafayette’s galleries, bars, restaurants, retail and service industry shops. The masses mingle, mulling art to buy. Downtown Development Authority has been the major propagator of ArtWalk, but like all good ideas it’s evolved into more than that.

January 11, 2012

What’s the Deal?
Last week’s council leadership  elections were a bizarre and possibly revealing harbinger of the year to come. Is 2012 shaping up to be the Year of the Veto?

By Walter Pierce
Photos by Robin May

January 4, 2012

Leadershift

As a new year dawns on our political landscape, local influence over the Legislature seems precarious at best,
especially compared to Lafayette’s headier days.
By Jeremy Alford   •   Photos by Robin May

It wouldn’t be fair to call Lafayette Parish cursed when it comes to the title of House speaker, but it hasn’t exactly been pumping out gavel-wielders during the long and storied history of the Louisiana Legislature. World class chefs, sure. Accordion players, absolutely. But no speakers of the House, at least in recent times.