The State of Greater Black Lafayette, an organization comprising individuals, businesses and civic groups, will host a forum to explore issue related to African-American churches. “The State of the Black Church in Greater Lafayette” will be held from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday at the Clifton Chenier Center.
According to the organization’s Web site, the SOGBL forum series is designed “to provide timely and reliable assessments of the systemic and specific forces & events affecting the lives of African Americans in the Greater Lafayette community.”
To find out more about the forum or SOGBL, send an e-mail to
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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.
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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