Present your INDStyle Fashion Awards ticket and try on a pair of regular priced boots to get *20 percent off the purchase of any fall/winter item at Brother's. Check-in with a comment on Facebook while in store and receive an additional 5 percent off the same item.
Honoring six of the city’s most fashion-forward men and women plus a music celebrity, the IND Style Awards and Big Hair Ball will be held Wednesday, Sept. 19 at the Acadiana Center for the Arts. The pre-party featuring live music and a cash bar begins at 6:30 p.m. The show begins at 7:30 p.m. in the James Moncus Theater at the AcA.
A limited number of VIP tickets are available at $75 and include runway seating and a complimentary cocktail. Theater-style seating is $45, available from participating retailers who also have in-store promotional tie-ins to the IND Style Awards. Standing rooom only tickets are $20 apiece.
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.
Philip deMahy Sr., a once respected New Iberia ad exec, was sentenced May 2 to spend the next two years (he faced up to 100 years) in a state penitentiary after state and federal investigators found dozens of images depicting children engaged in lewd sexual acts on his personal computer.
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.