A review committee has recommended City-Parish President Joey Durel award a $390,000 contract to provide GPS monitoring of city vehicles to GPS Insight of Scottsdale, Ariz.
Calling it “the most challenging of the seven budgets I have sent to the council for consideration,” City-Parish President Joey Durel Thursday unveiled a 2010-2011 budget that totals roughly $610 million dollars and includes notable new commitments to Lafayette’s cultural and recreational life.
A story in the August issue of ABiz, published Wednesday, incorrectly identified the school involved in the high-profile case concerning a school counselor’s alleged inappropriate relationship with a minor student.
I’m not so sure the heads of the Environmental Defense Fund, the National Audubon Society and the National Wildlife Federation would appreciate being compared to Machiavelli.
The Lafayette City-Parish Council will receive City-Parish President Joey Durel’s proposed budget for the 2010-2011 fiscal year during a meeting Thursday evening in the council auditorium.
Thinking of making a major purchase? You might want to wait till the first weekend in August, when you can forgo the 4-cent state sales tax on the first $2,500 you spend.
The Greater Lafayette Chamber of Commerce is bringing its Energy Division back into its programming, promoting and protecting not only the oil and gas industry but also now encouraging the development of alternative sources of energy.
The Times Picayune has been traveling Cajun country's "smoked meat highway," through its contributing writer, also Independent Weekly staffer, Mary Tutwiler.
When architecture professor Hector LaSala challenged his students with a project to build life-size portraits of themselves out of garbage, he didn’t know what to expect. His instructions included the preamble to the United States Constitution and a requirement to use cast-off elements. “It was a combination of coming up with who you are and the need to make something beautiful out of garbage,” says LaSala. “There is so much waste in our lives. In the future, that waste will need to be used. This was our chance to encounter the future now.”
The students responded with sculptures of such high artistic value that LaSala called Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum curator Lee Gray to schedule a show. “It is strong enough to fill the big gallery,” says Gray. The pieces join a long tradition of modern sculpture that echoes the works of such artists as Degas, Magritte, Giacometti, and Butterfield — both in gesture and by the elements of their composition.
Students used a vast palate of materials — scrap aluminum, Plexiglas, bamboo, wire, bicycle parts, motherboards, hoses, crab nets, a mailbox, sponges, vines, corks, fabric, car parts and driftwood to create boxers, dancers and musicians. Many of the works incorporate elements of the made and natural world interwoven, such as a maiden constructed of aluminum mesh and dried reeds, or a new father holding an infant. The father’s loins are fashioned from a dictionary, the child’s brain a sea sponge.
The artwork’s first rate, and the exhibit showcases the enormous talent in the student body in UL’s Art and Architecture school, as well as the creative leadership of the faculty. With only three more weeks to run, it’s well worth the effort to take a trip to the beautiful blue-lit museum on St. Mary Boulevard.
We The People, a collection of more than 60 sculpture self-portraits by second- and third-year architecture and interior design students, runs through Sept. 6 at the Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum, 710 E. Saint Mary Blvd., Lafayette, Tuesday through Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is $5 and free for UL students and faculty. Free admission is also offered from 10 a.m. to noon, and on Friday for people 40 and over. Visit museum.louisiana.edu or call 482-2278 for more information.
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