Never one to miss out on the party scene, Party Girl arrived just before the birthday girl made her entrance. Turning 40 should always come with a bang (not that Party Girl knows what it is like to turn 40). Indeed this party was perfect for Stacey Fabre, the multi-talented jewelry designer and commercial real-estate agent extraordinaire who had no idea what her friends were scheming in November when she graciously accepted a dinner invitation at Agave. Stacey nonetheless showed up dressed to the nines in a full-length mink coat to yells of "Surprise!" And she was indeed surprised. Everyone looked fashionably festive, but Stacey stole some of the buzz adorned with her birthday tiara and of course was the center of attention all night. Party-goers kept their energy up with plenty of margaritas and quesadillas before the bash soon turned into a trolley hopping good time. A Good Times Trolley was waiting to take the birthday girl and her posse wherever she wanted to go, all of us willing to brave the chilly temperatures. Besides, a couple of drinks can warm up anyone. Restaurant Zeus on Ambassador Caffery was one of the many stops that was particularly memorable: all of us shared the spotlight belly-dancing and cutting up for the restaurant's clientele. To complete the evening the party continued at Agave Restaurant where most of us danced the night away. Who knew gallivanting around town could stir up such festive spirit on a cold, damp November night.
A much bigger party that's just as much fun, MidSouth Bank's fall Harvest Dance at the Cajundome Convention Center seems to get better every year. The fun-filled event is attended by MidSouth Bank's Select 50 customers and their guests ' which always includes the Dancing Queen, aka Party Girl. This year's event attracted what has to be some of the best dancers in the state Â' more than 700 of them. MidSouth Bank also hires several professional dancers to assist anyone hoping to learn a few new moves, and as usual, the Joe Douglas Band performed superbly ' with guests consistently telling (with a bit of a threatening tone) event planner Judy Wade not to ever even think about changing the band. The highlight of the event, which features jitterbug, waltz and line dance competitions that are open to anyone who wants to participate, is a grand prize drawing for a $1,200 voucher from Mary Broussard Tours. The lucky winner was Harold W. Poe. This year's winners in the waltz category were: first place, Pete and Cecile Begneaud; second place, Willis Touchet and Jane Bowman; and third place, Lurlean and Oswald Barras. In the jitterbug competition, Audrey and Joe Harris took top honors, followed by Kathy and Steve Regan and Tracie Bordelon and Mark Montet. The line dance champ was Jane Janise, followed by Helen Bienvenu and Mary Ellen Duhon.
Is it a crime for citizens to photograph, video, or take notes of a police officer in the line of duty, or a right protected by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution? Locally, such activity, as witnessed recently, will at the very least result in a night spent behind bars.
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.
Episcopal School of Acadiana’s Dr. Joshua Caffery, chair of the school’s English Department, is headed to Washington, D.C., and the Library of Congress as the latest winner of the Alan Lomax Fellowship in Folklife Studies.
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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