After nearly 20 years of nonexistence, Scandals is reopening its doors under Rick Broussard and general manager and partner Chad Arnaud. Scandals originally rocked the Hotel Acadiana and was legendary for people arriving for what was ostensibly to be a few cocktails then ending up lampshade-on-the-head wasted, having to then secure a hotel room on the premises. It will be smoke-free. Local celebrity DJs will spin music from 1970 forward. They are hoping to cater to an older, more sophisticated clientele.
Crowne Plaza Hotel is the former Hotel Acadiana, located at 1801 Pinhook Road. There is a restaurant on site so if you do end up one of the lucky folks who gets a room, take heart! You don’t have to try crossing Pinhook and risking certain death to get to Chili’s because Café Raintree is right there in the hotel. Call 233-8120 for more information.
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.
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