When festivals return, so will breakout opportunities for Lafayette musicians
Festival after festival is announcing its live return. Musicians are getting back an important launching pad.
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Arts + Culture
FEASTival of Delights: Bringing back your Festival favorites all month long
For FEASTival, your favorites are back, and they’re offered at local restaurants for an entire month.
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How Corey Ledet learned a language to connect with his lineage
Multi-tasking is old hat for Ledet. But singing in Kouri-Vini is a new adventure.
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Leaving lockdown behind, Lafayette musicians look ahead from limbo
Musicians face the prospect of another year of lost opportunities, revenue streams and their social and professional identities
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Reflections on Race: Will we stand together?
People in this city want what is right; however, their silence is complicity. We must move to mobilize their voices for the sake of this city. We must hear the silent voices of hurt, shame and embarrassment of what our city has become.
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Leap of Faith: Lafayette’s newest immigrant restaurants plant deeper roots during the pandemic
A string of next generation immigrant restaurateurs are defying the pandemic and taking a leap of faith to more established addresses in the Lafayette dining scene.
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Reflections on Race: The sharecropping Fuseliers
Each February, we hear stories of Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr., and other civil rights icons. We must also talk about trailblazers in our own families.
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Seeking refuge and renewal, venerable Lake Charles restaurants set up shop in Lafayette
Either divine guidance or cosmic providence sent Luna Bar & Grill and Mama Reta’s to set up shop in Lafayette after one natural disaster and in the middle of another.
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Renovation and reinvention: What it’s like to open a restaurant in mid-pandemic Lafayette
Custom build outs for visionary concepts like Grocery Tavern & Delicatessen, Tchoup’s MidCity Smokehouse and Vestal take time. In a pandemic, they take even longer.
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Say hello (again) to the Great Boudini, Lafayette
Acadiana’s French immersion students are about to make a new animated friend. But he’s an old pal for many of their parents.
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New year, new leadership at Vermilionville
After a historically chaotic year, two trailblazing women are stepping in to help make headway with Vermilionville and its parent organization, Bayou Vermilion District.
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Conversation: Is it a king cake?
Parades may not be rolling in 2021, but arguing about king cake is a tradition that can survive any calamity.
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