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Gallery: Scenes From the Main Street Family Mash

This weekend Bicycle Lafayette hosted their first event, the Main Street Family Mash, a mass bike ride for all ages through downtown Lafayette, in conjunction with the Fall Riverside Bike Polo Tournament. The Lafayette Police Department helped with the ride and Lafayette Mayor Tony Roswarski came out to support the event. Photos were kindly donated…

Endorsement: For president — Barack Obama

This week the Journal and Courier endorsed Mitt Romney for president. The takeaway: while the editorial board had high hopes during Obama’s first term, he didn’t accomplish everything he promised, so we might as well go with the other guy. The J&C was dismissive of the adversarial congressional environment, where the last four years have…

Can a Music Video Make Your City Desirable?

Fort Wayne, Indiana, has been on the bad end of some press lately, from being named the fattest and dumbest city in the nation, to the most riddled with cholesterol. Ouch. This, along with the ever-present issue of brain drain, inspired a promotional campaign that pulled together the city’s hip-hop scene to make a video…

Take Me To Your Liter

Attached is the latest play on the soda vs. pop maps that clutter up your Facebook wall. The point of the exercise is less about how we name our food and more about how to use technology to map geographic variations, in this case tracking a language variation related to a common household purchase on…

Window Shopping

Out and about this week, I had the opportunity to drop by a handful of charming local shops. American Treasures and One Earth Gallery This Lafayette staple carries a variety of Native-American and international fair trade items, including a huge array of hand-crafted gold and silver jewelry. Genevee’s StudioThis full-service salon also has a vintage…

Sticking Around Lafayette

In 2010, novelist Patricia Henley wrote a thoughtful piece for the Smithsonian magazine on how she came to the Lafayette area, her decision to make this her home, and the persistent conversation among other Indiana writers who are “always trying to decide whether to go or stay.” I happened across this essay again the other…

Happy Fourth of July!

Have a happy Independence Day, folks. We hope to see you downtown for the free annual Stars & Stripes show at Riehle Plaza, 200 N. Second Street in downtown Lafayette, featuring live music at 7pm and fireworks a little after 10pm. It’s going to be a hot one again, with temperatures in the 90s. Stay…