We’ll never let go: our obsession with the last Popeyes buffet
It’s the last of its kind. A local love turned national legend. More importantly, Lafayette’s Popeyes buffet is the fabric of our lives.
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Arts + Culture
How I learned to stop worrying and love the Jeopardy! buzzer
Contributor Rex Moroux — realtor by day, raconteur by night — relives the anguish and near triumph of his bout with the buzzer on Jeopardy!
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Death to comfort zones Joel Greene III of Bridge Ministries of Acadiana says family is what you make it.
A “product” of Four Corners, Joel Greene III says family is what you make it. Through her work as director of Bridge Ministries of Acadiana, she’s building a big one.
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Lynda Frese: A figure in the natural world
Exploring the meaning of sacred space
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Celebrating the Junior League of Lafayette The original angel investors
Take a minute to think about where you go when you want to experience art in Lafayette. Where do you bring your children to spark their creativity? Chances are, the Junior League had a hand in creating it.
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Will this Downtown venue fill the rock and roll gap? A new club takes a stab at restoring Lafayette's lost tour stop glory.
The Pearl, a planned venue affiliated with New Orleans music house One Eyed Jacks, will open Downtown this spring, the third stage announced or opened in the district in the last year.
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A Zydeco Heiress Sandra Davis of the Broussard Sisters Juré explains why tradition matters.
Sandra Davis of the Broussard Sisters Juré explains why tradition matters.
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Finding Magic In Kolkata
Author Shome Dasgupta’s latest collection of short stories hearkens to the slum-world surrealism of Gabriel García Márquez. Kolkata is Dasgupta’s Columbia.
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Fiction: Samosa
The following story appears in Anklet and Other Stories, a collection of short fiction by Lafayette-based author Shome Dasgupta published in 2017.
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The Gopsel According To Jane Jacobs
What communities like Lafayette have learned about city building from the pioneering urbanist.
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Not Far From The Tree
I told Greg Guirard I wanted my table to rise from the swamp. I wanted creatures to delight my grandchildren. I wanted art.
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Big Oil And The Deep Story
In her nonfiction bestseller, sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild dives into bayou country, where systematic industrial pollution has devastated residents so completely they’ve come to accept environmental blight as an unavoidable fact of life.
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