Name your favorite celebrity. Chances are, Erica Courtney has designed jewelry for them. Brad Pitt, Jessica Alba, Madonna, Sandra Bullock, and Julia Roberts are just a few of the mega celebrities that count themselves as her clients. At all of the major awards shows you can find her designs gracing the fingers, ears, necklines and wrists of the glamorous A-listers as they glide down the red carpet in designer frocks.
It is no wonder that the über rich and famous flock to her pieces; they are always fresh, unique, and breathtakingly gorgeous. This year will undoubtedly produce her most stunning collection yet, as Erica is designing new pieces inspired by her recently deceased mother’s vintage jewelry collection.
You can find out more about Erica, a Lafayette native, and her jewelry here.
Erica will be at kiki all day on Tuesday, November 30, and Wednesday, December 1, along with an exciting new collection that surely will not disappoint.
kiki is located at 1910 Kaliste Saloom, in River Ranch. Click here for their website or call 406.0904 for more information.
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.