So, Lafayette evidently won the ‘Tastiest Town’ competition
If the publisher and senior editor of Southern Living magazine are coming to Lafayette to tell us we came in second or third in the mag’s Tastiest Town of the South competition, well, things could get ugly.
If the publisher and senior editor of Southern Living magazine are coming to Lafayette to tell us we came in second or third in the mag’s Tastiest Town of the South competition, well, things could get ugly. Let’s assume we won.
Those Southern Living high muckety-mucks will be center stage at a reception on Thursday, March 15, at the Acadiana Center for the Arts downtown to announce the winner of the competition. Lafayette Convention & Visitors Commission Executive Director Gerald Breaux tells us, “I think y’all might want to be there,” although the actual winning city’s identity is evidently embargoed until next week.
The on-line competition pitting Lafayette against much larger competitors like New Orleans and Louisville, Ken., closed last month and Southern Living has been mum on the winner, although for most of the competition the mag kept a running tally on its website and Lafayette was outpacing its competitors.
The winning city will be profiled in the April issue of the magazine — no doubt a healthy boost to Lafayette’s hospitality industry that comes on the heels of Lafayette being named a “Best of the South” for food by cartography purveyors Rand McNally.
There will soon be a whole lot of shakin’ going on at Benny’s Sportshack Supplement Depot, a new concept by Opelousas native Benny Nele. Located at 2002 Johnston St., the supplement shop, smoothie bar and café, featuring hot off the press paninis and wraps, plans to open in late May.
Philip deMahy Sr., a once respected New Iberia ad exec, was sentenced May 2 to spend the next two years (he faced up to 100 years) in a state penitentiary after state and federal investigators found dozens of images depicting children engaged in lewd sexual acts on his personal computer.
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 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.
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.
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.
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