BBR runner Amanda Poehler and her parents, Melanie and Tom Poehler, and Monica Hebert, BBR Creative media buyer
BBR founders Cathi Pavy, Cherie Hebert and Sara Ashy
Guests at BBR’s ribbon cutting mingle in front of a Francis Pavy painting
Tyler May, Joseph Conrad Chase and Zachary May
Sue Kaplan, Karen Daigle and Isabelle Beaullieu
at the Oberon Ball
Lynette Kennedy and Jennifer LeMeunier
Queen Titania LXXX Richelle Dean George, Emma May and Anna Carlisle
Lacey LaHaye and her mom, Debbie Pierce
Carnival season has finally begun (it’s Party Girl’s favorite time of year, don’t you know!), launched with two fabulous balls over the weekend. Party Girl made Oberon early and Rio late, so we’ll start with the popular children’s krewe in this week’s column. For the 80th tableau, the Krewe of Oberon lured guests deep into Shakespeare’s enchanted forest, the setting for the bard’s popular romantic comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream and a nod to the namesake of the krewe on this important anniversary. That’s right — Oberon is the oldest krewe in the city, formed by the Catholic Daughters of St. John’s Parish in 1928, a full 10 years before King Gabriel’s first reign. Party Girl remembers enough of her Shakespeare to know that King Oberon and Queen Titania ruled over the bard’s Fairyland, and the krewe did a terrific job of creating a glittering, magical scene full of magnificent costumes. King Jacob LeMeunier and Queen Richelle Dean George were splendid in silver and purple, and their subjects danced late into the evening at the ball that followed while Party Girl slipped off to Rio. More on that fabulous soiree next week. Mardi Gras to the World!
Louisiana’s vibrant cultural economy is built largely on professional artists and creatives like the folks at BBR. The expansion of the small, women-owned business serves as a testament to the foresight of the partners and the creative talent in the state of Louisiana. The 11-year-old brand communications specialists at BBR Creative opened their beautiful new office space with an artist reception featuring the work of Francis Pavy (whose wife Cathi is one of the firm’s founders). At first, Party Girl was sad to see BBR move from its downtown Lafayette headquarters (just down the street from The Independent) to Rue Beauregard (off Kaliste Saloom behind the LaHaye Eye Center and Acadian Ambulance). But I quickly realized that the agency had outgrown its space and was ready to invest in ownership of a permanent home, where it can expand its staff and continue to create even more award-winning design and marketing campaigns for clients across the country.
In rendering his ruling, District Judge John Trahan all but called the real estate developer a liar for inconsistencies in his accounts of what prompted him to punch a school teacher unconscious.
Frank’s Casing Crew, now doing business as Frank’s International, will make its final appearance on ABiz’s list of the Top 50 Privately Held Companies in Acadiana this year, and once again, it will likely be at the top with more than $1 billion in annual revenues. The 75-year-old company specializing in tubular fabrication and installation services to the oil and gas industry plans to go public this year.
The defeat, or rather highjacking of House Bill 420 in the final days of this year's Legislative Session, say Reps. Vincent Pierre and Terry Landry, is the result of the propaganda spread by one unidentified local media outlet and an unnamed former state Representative, but nothing to do with the original legislation's lack of checks, balances or details.
City-Parish Council Chairman Brandon Shelvin heaped steady doses of condescending ire on a Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Louisiana executive while failing to reveal his financial ties to a BC/BS rival.
Abbeville native David Primeaux was a popular professor until his death late last year, and while he was successful at camouflaging a dark past, he couldn’t outlive it.
Tehmi Chassion’s failure to recuse himself in the school board’s selection of a group health benefits provider raises ‘serious questions’ on whether he violated state ethics law.
He’s a singer. A songwriter. A piano man. A family man. He’s even got his own Wikipedia entry. He’s David Egan. And he knows ancient secrets about the monolithic stones of Stonehenge that he’s not willing to share.
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