The Lafayette City-Parish Council, following more than two and a half hours of discussion Tuesday, tabled a vote on whether to impose a two-year liquor license revocation against downtown night club Karma.
The Independent Weekly has just learned that the Lafayette Housing Authority official in charge of the embattled Disaster Housing Assistance Program, Jonathan Carmouche, is breaking the law every time he gets behind the wheel of an automobile, including LHA-owned vehicles.
The current terms in office of the Lafayette City-Parish Council and City-Parish President Joey Durel will not be extended by one year; a proposal to put a proposition before parish voters doing just that was tabled last night.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation placed New Orleans-based First Bank and Trust under a cease and desist order in July, accusing the institution of unsound banking practices.
The Hub City ranks a respectable 14th among American cities in news/politics website The Daily Beast’s list of the 20 cities most resistant to the recession.
While the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have been reporting a mostly clean bill of health for Gulf of Mexico seafood, oysters have been a bivalve of question.
Jambalaya stuffed in a crepe for breakfast? Turtle cappuccino with truffle spuma and cubes of sherry gelée? Let’s just say I remain curiously skeptical.
Fire and ice. Oil and water. One would think the searing heat of a kiln has little to say to the delicate daisy. But for every flower there is a mass of tender roots, and what better shelter than a beautifully hand thrown pot, hardened in the finishing fire. That’s how the opposites, Lafayette Art Association’s Pyromania and the UL horticulture department’s Festival Des Fleurs come together this weekend, April 5-6, at Blackham Coliseum.
Pyromania, a celebration of all heat-generated art forms, is back for its 13th year. More than 125 artists will be creating works of glass, clay and metal on the grounds surrounding the coliseum. There will be demonstrations of stained and fused glass making, blown glass sculpture and a glass bead workshop. Earth works include Raku firing, clay sculpture, wheel throwing, and firing in all sorts of kilns — paper, woodfire and trash cans. Metalworkers will demonstrate bronze casting, metal smithing and cast iron pouring. There’s a chance to win a hands-on lab in glass bead making, and on Sunday afternoon, clay artists will compete in the Clay Olympics. “It’s a home-grown festival,” director Ty Devalcourt says, “an event for artist to artist collaboration and a great place for those who are fascinated by fire to exchange ideas.”
Meanwhile in the green shade under Blackham’s roof, 85 booths will offer growing things old, new, hybridized and native in the plant world. “Look for the unusual,” says Billy Welsh, horticultural center manager and Festival Des Fleur organizer. “There are always new hybrids of daylilies, and plumeria has become popular.” The plumeria, also known as the flower for making sweet smelling leis, is a native of tropical and subtropical areas of the Pacific Islands, the Caribbean, South America and Mexico. Culinary herbs, Louisiana natives like rose marsh mallow and Turks cap, old fashioned roses and newfangled tools are all part of the flower festival.
Pyromania and Festival Des Fleurs will take place Saturday, April 5, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday, April 6, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Blackham Coliseum, 2330 Johnston St. in Lafayette.
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Fire and ice. Oil and water. One would think the searing heat of a kiln has little to say to the delicate daisy. But for every flower there is a mass of tender roots, and what better shelter than a beautifully hand thrown pot, hardened in the finishing fire. That’s how the opposites, Lafayette Art Association’s Pyromania and the UL horticulture department’s Festival Des Fleurs come together this weekend, April 5-6, at Blackham Coliseum.
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