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The Advocate
Monday, May 5th, 2025
 
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The first Lafayette coffee festival

BY ADAM DAIGLE | Acadiana Business Editor​ ​ ​

New Orleans entrepreneur Jim Currie says the Lafayette coffee scene is bursting with talent — and exceptional coffee.

He thinks that the Lafayette market is more than ready for a coffee event that will allow consumers, roasters and baristas to interact directly and learn from each other.

The inaugural Lafayette Coffee Festival will be June 14. Coffee connoisseurs should be ready to dive deeper into the world of beans than they ever have before. 

You can read Joanna Brown's story here. 

 
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Where is Bradley Stracener? Five years in and detectives have nothing to go on.

It was a normal Wednesday in Vernon Parish on Oct. 30, 2019, said Toni James. Her son, Bradley Stracener, woke her up after cooking breakfast at her apartment southeast of the central Louisiana city of Leesville. Read more

50 years later, photographs show experiences of Vietnam War refugees in south Louisiana

When photographer Lee Ball arrived in Louisiana from Washington D.C. in 1981, he found himself shooting assignments that were a far cry from the political news he had been used to covering in the nation's capital — or so he thought.  Read more

This Lafayette CEO has a book out on how businesses can best utilize AI

John Munsell, CEO of Lafayette-based AI consulting firm Bizzuka, spoke with Jan Swift of the Discover Lafayette to discuss his newly released book, Ingrain AI: Strategy Through Execution, that offers a practical guide for businesses looking to embed AI into their core operations and culture. Read more

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