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Zydeco Neighborhood

Lafayette doesn’t think of itself as divided by neighborhoods but Kevin Ardoin from Fightingville and Tina Shelvin Bingham from McComb Veazey see things differently

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Vintage Churro

Amid the retail apocalypse glimmers of hope and rebirth with businesses like Daniel Esteban’s budding churro empire and Mitzi Guidry’s vintage fashion coffee shop Lilou

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Cajun Hot

When it comes to spicy food there’s hot, Cajun Hot, and Primo Pepper Hot, arguably the world’s hottest. For all other Cajun food there’s Cajun Crate.

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Acadiana’s Family Business

In Acadiana, business is a tradition and tradition is a business – often the family business. There’s a long heritage of musical families around here, dynasties of fiddlers and accordion players handing down the tools and tricks of the family trade to generation after generation.

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