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TUE, APR 10 12:00AM by Dominick Cross

20 Years of Marching Funk

Ceux Qui Marchent Debout, celebrating two decades of touring and performing, is returning to Festival International de Louisiane for the fourth time when Festival gets up and running for the 26th year in downtown Lafayette April 25-29.

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TUE, APR 3 3:12PM by Leslie Turk

Wrist Watch

LivingIND1-small Dive into summer style with a splash of arm color.

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TUE, MAR 27 5:03PM by Dominick Cross

It's the Culture, Stupid

LivingInd1 The vast majority of New Jersey Italians aren’t at all like what’s broadcast to the country on the reality show Jersey Shore. Likewise, there’s more to Louisiana Cajuns than America sees on Swamp People.

And it’s such stereotypes folklorist and filmmaker Conni Castille counters with her award-winning documentaries.

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MON, MAR 19 4:49PM by Dominick Cross

The Chosen One

You may call them scrap yards or junk yards, but Joseph Jilbert considers them shopping malls. What are nuts and bolts to everybody else are gold nuggets to Jilbert. Such is the point of view of a scrap metal sculptor.

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TUE, MAR 13 3:44PM by Dominick Cross

A Change in Perspective

LivingInd1 Fate, or simply life itself, has a way of changing one’s chosen course. And that’s not necessarily a bad thing, either.

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David Calhoun, ‘EB’ Brooks join Lafayette Central Park

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.
Update: PXP creating 600 jobs averaging 100k

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.
Zachary Barker takes helm of the Opportunity Machine

Zachary Barker continues making waves in Lafayette’s business scene, mostly recently being named director of the Opportunity Machine.
Remembering Ricky Rees

The veteran police officer remembered by friends for his large and small acts of kindness will be laid to rest Wednesday.
Shakin' at the Shack

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.

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COOL TOWN 2013

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 curious compact

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.
Pooyie 2012

It's good, it's bad and it's just plain crazy.
Saving Saturday Night

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.
Posthaste vs. HART FORTENBERY

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.