BET YOU CAN’T EAT JUST ONE
Even if butter won’t melt in your mouth, these creamy mints will. Gambino Bakery’s butter mints are an elegant old-fashioned treat. First manufactured commercially in 1932 by Katherine Beecher in her Manchester, Pa., candy company, butter mints are a time honored treat, the kind of sweet your grandmother would have hidden away for special visitors. Gambino’s, a historic New Orleans bakery with a branch here in Lafayette, makes them fresh. A generous package costs $4.95. Call 406-9066 for more info. — Mary Tutwiler
A.O.C. THIS NEW SHIRT
This year, Acadiana Open Channel celebrates 25 years of bringing Lafayette some of the most original, thought-provoking and endearingly eccentric TV on air. One easy way to lend your support to the station, and its mission to keep local programming alive, is by purchasing an A.O.C. T-shirt. The station sells T-shirts with its classic A.O.C. face logo, and now it’s also offering new shirts promoting its latest initiative, the Acadiana Center for Film and Media, a digital arts venue and media literacy organization. Shirts sell for $20 and can be purchased at the A.O.C. office downtown at the corner of Lee Avenue and Main Street. — Nathan Stubbs
SHOTGUN WINE TASTING
Guns and alcohol. Not a good mix, unless you’re Abbeville’s John Putnam, musing on how he’s going to cook his specklebelly. Or if you are Putnam’s hunting buddy, Bjorn Larson, who owns two vineyards in Napa Valley. Thunder and lightning! Hunting and fishing! Shotguns and wine! A brand new label, Gauge Wines, is the embodiment of that epiphany in a duck blind. “Two things I have the most experience with are hunting and drinking,” Putnam says. “So it just kind of came together.” They teamed up with Larson’s childhood friend, winemaker Trent Moffett of Moffett Vineyards. The two first offerings are 12 Gauge Cabernet Sauvignon, and 20 Gage Chardonnay. On their Web site, www.gaugewines.com, Gauge describes the company’s cab as smooth, bold and delectable, and calls the chardonnay crisp, dewy and creamy. Gauge Wines should hit the Lafayette market this week, at about $12 a bottle. — MT
In rendering his ruling, District Judge John Trahan all but called the real estate developer a liar for inconsistencies in his accounts of what prompted him to punch a school teacher unconscious.
Frank’s Casing Crew, now doing business as Frank’s International, will make its final appearance on ABiz’s list of the Top 50 Privately Held Companies in Acadiana this year, and once again it will likely be at the top with more than $1 billion in annual revenues. The 75-year-old company specializing in tubular fabrication and installation services to the oil and gas industry plans to offer shares of its stock to the public for the first time.
The defeat, or rather highjacking of House Bill 420 in the final days of this year's Legislative Session, say Reps. Vincent Pierre and Terry Landry, is the result of the propaganda spread by one unidentified local media outlet and an unnamed former state Representative, but nothing to do with the original legislation's lack of checks, balances or details.
City-Parish Council Chairman Brandon Shelvin heaped steady doses of condescending ire on a Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Louisiana executive while failing to reveal his financial ties to a BC/BS rival.
Abbeville native David Primeaux was a popular professor until his death late last year, and while he was successful at camouflaging a dark past, he couldn’t outlive it.
Tehmi Chassion’s failure to recuse himself in the school board’s selection of a group health benefits provider raises ‘serious questions’ on whether he violated state ethics law.
He’s a singer. A songwriter. A piano man. A family man. He’s even got his own Wikipedia entry. He’s David Egan. And he knows ancient secrets about the monolithic stones of Stonehenge that he’s not willing to share.
BET YOU CAN’T EAT JUST ONE
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