Virgins, Saints and Angels will be having a trunk show March 10-12 at Coco Eros. If you haven't seen the line yet, it is amazing and ornate jewelry designed by combining Mexican artesenia with gothic elements from Mexican religious iconography. It somehow manages to look antiquated and humble, but yet modern and ornate at the same time. With everything from belt buckles, to cuffs, to necklaces and earrings it is hard to stop at just one piece.
Coco Eros is located at340 Kaliste Saloom, call 337.233.3768 for more info. You can check out their website here.
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.
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