A little over 40 years ago, four friends in the seventh grade were sitting on and around a bench in Our Lady of Fatima’s playground area waiting for school to start. They did this almost every single ...

After World War II, rural Vermilion Parish had few options when it came to communications. But the Turnley family changed that when it bought a telephone company in the 1950s. ...

Gather ‘round boys and girls, and I’ll tell you a tale as old as time. You’ve heard this one a million times. Local boy goes to school, becomes a surgeon, and … buys an old grocery store and turns it ...

Like all ventures, it must start with an idea. This was simply a craving for a great beignet in the middle of the night. ...

You think you’ve had chicken wings just about every way imaginable? Hang on … you’ve never had this. The Gurus take the bones out of chicken wings, stuff them with an incredible eloté (Mexican street ...

Le’Bachi Yaki is not a Cajun name, but it’s becoming as natural a part of Lafayette as any Boudreaux or Thibodeaux. What, or who, is a Le’Bachi Yaki anyway? It turns out that it means delicious dinner...

BREAD PUDDING INGREDIENTS: 1½ loaves French bread10½ ounces white sugar3 eggs1 tablespoon baking powder1 teaspoon vanilla extract1 teaspoon banana extract2 teaspoons cinnamon½ teaspoon nutmeg⅓ pound ...

From the wetlands and prairie fields of Vermillion Parish comes one of Lafayette’s favorite singer-songwriters, Dustin Dale Gaspard. He started late in the game, relatively speaking. But once he picke...

The Ruins of Rome and the surrounding area of Italy are second only to the United States in the number of movies that are filmed there on location. Nearly 7 million people around the world travel to R...

When World of Hyatt purchased nine historic warehouses on Magazine Street to develop a boutique property in New Orleans in 2016, the hospitality company was deliberate about incorporating its vibrant ...

Back around 1996, recent graduate and former LSU basketball player Jason Cormier was trying to figure out what’s next. He had played semi-professional basketballand was working two jobs at the time – ...

Crystall Corroy is an artist whose style of painting is more than a visual representation of an object or a scene. She paints intuitively, using her emotions to guide color and layers of textured oils...