It’s a bye week for the Saints, all the more reason to attend the other sporting event that obsesses everyone who lives south of I-10. I’m not talking about basketball or duck hunting, although both accurate footwork and being a good shot are components of this grill iron. Grab your wooden spoon and black iron skillet, (figuratively, of course) and head down to the Big Easy for an evening with the baddest boy behind the flame, Anthony Bourdain.
It’s a bye week for the Saints, all the more reason to attend the other sporting event that obsesses everyone who lives south of I-10. I’m not talking about basketball or duck hunting, although both accurate footwork and being a good shot are components of this grill iron. Grab your wooden spoon and black iron skillet, (figuratively, of course) and head down to the Big Easy for an evening with the baddest boy behind the flame, Anthony Bourdain.
Aficionados of food writing will remember when Bourdain roared onto the national scene with his behind-the-butcher-knife tell all, Kitchen Confidential. Outrageously funny and wildly overheated, Bourdain followed with more books, and is currently escorting his fans on a global eating orgy as the star of “Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations,” on the Travel Channel.
His connections with New Orleans began post Hurricane Katrina, when he brought his TV crew to film the struggles of restaurateurs and chefs in the Crescent City. In a recent interview with Times-Picayune food critic Brett Anderson, Bourdain pokes Emeril in the belly and lauds Donald Link’s pork-centric cuisine. It’s a rare opportunity to catch the former chef and current food star in person. Bourdain will be speaking on Thursday night in New Orleans.
Anthony Bourdain kicks off the inaugural New Orleans’ Speakers Series Thursday, Jan. 7, at 7:30 p.m. at the Mahalia Jackson Theater of the Performing Arts. Tickets are $37.50 to $60. To reserve a seat call (800) 745-3000 or go to www.neworleansspeakerseries.com.
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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