Gumbo weather indeed. That’s what the temperature is this weekend in New Iberia as the town celebrates soup at the 21st annual World Championship Gumbo Cookoff.
This year, 91 teams, the most in the cookoff’s history will compete in two categories, amateurs, who compete in the seafood, chicken and sausage and melange categories, and professional teams, which compete in the seafood and non-seafood categories.
The cookoff begins with a fais do do Friday, Oct. 8, at 7 p.m. in Bouligny Plaza. Saturday morning starts off with a red beans cookoff. Other food booths will serve “anything but gumbo.” Jamie Bergeron and the Kickin’ Cajuns, Chubby Carrier and the Bayou Swamp Band and Kross Fyre provide live music.
Sunday, the main event begins early in the morning, tasting starts at 11 a.m. Geno Delafose and the French Rockin Boogie and Wayne Toups play bayouside till 4 p.m., when the winners are announced.
David Calhoun and Elizabeth “EB” Brooks are the first two employees of Lafayette Central Park Inc., the nonprofit charged with turning Lafayette Consolidated Government’s 100-acre Johnston Street Horse Farm property into a passive public park. Calhoun was named executive director, and Brooks is director of planning and design.
At Thursday's State of the Economy luncheon, LEDA President and CEO Gregg Gothreaux said PXP has already quietly hired 180 people for its Broussard expansion.
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.
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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