Food -> Eats FRI, SEP 14 11:23AM by Elizabeth Rose
Tacos galore tomorrow at festival in Opelousas
National Hispanic American Heritage Month runs Sept. 15 to Oct. 15, and the first annual Festival del Taco is a great way to celebrate.
Tomorrow, Sept. 15, gorge on tacos at the first annual Festival del Taco in Opelousas at the Farmers’ Market Pavilion from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. presented by Morado Original and LA REVISTA.
Vendors will travel in from as far away as Baton Rouge to serve up fresh and delicious tacos, including Fiesta Bakery, Amigos, Rio Bravo, Tortilla Soup, Taco San Luis, Kassava, Los Tres Hermanos and Azul Tequila — plus Raspados will be serving snow cones.
To get to the pavilion, take exit 19B on I-49 and travel to Le Vieux Village at 828 E. Landry St.
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.