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Blue Moon Line-Up, 7/31 - 8/2

This week's line-up features the Cypress Bottom Boys, Terry & the Zydeco Bad Boys, and The Figs.

Blue Moon Lineup, 7/24-26

This Weekend, the Blue Moon Saloon has on-stage Wendy Colonna, Kara Grainger, Richard Revue, BEATINPATH, Kevin Sekhani, and Backbone Stew.

Blue Moon Lineup 6/27-29

Friday it's Bon Soir Catin with Horace Trahan & the Huval Doucet Band, Saturday closed for a private party, and Sunday the Heavy Pets will perform.

The Blue Moon Saloon This Weekend

Thursday night, the Blue Moon Saloon and Guest House presents The Racines with Drowsy Maggie; Friday it's Feufollet, and Saturday it's the THE FIRST DAY OF SUMMER with the Summer Time Blues Show featuring Michael Juan Nunez and Keith Blair.

Guy Forsyth CD Release Party

Austin singer/songwriter travels to Acadiana on his new CD release tour at the Blue Moon Saloon, tonight.

Cedric Watson at Blue Moon Friday

Dire Wood CD RELEASE PARTY with Cedric Watson starts 8PM.

Cypress Bottom Boys at Blue Moon

Thursday, April 10th at 8PM, at the Blue Moon Saloon, Acadiana's funkiest outdoor bar...

Interview with Elizabeth Brooks

A few years ago, a student stepped up to work towards making the UL "Horse Farm" a public park for the whole community. While a fierce argument raged through the community, fueled by divisive media commentary, the student heading the effort was meeting politely with President Authément, who welcomed both the student activism and the independence of thought and diversity of opinion, with the open-mindedness, tolerance, and collegiality that the life of the mind demands. She talks about her experiences with ultoday.com.

Interview With John T. Landry

utloday.com interviews the founder and architect of UL's fundraising office, and one of the University's most enthusiastic advocates.

Dr. Jack Damico, Communicative Disorders

ultoday.com interviews Dr. Jack Damico, a world-renowned scholar, and the architect of the rapidly-growing undergraduate, graduate, and research programs in the UL Department of Communicative Disorders

Microchip Center Named for CACS Director

Bayoumi Center for VLSI Design established in Indian hi-tech hub.

Garth Alper Interview

ultoday.com interviews Garth Alper, Interim Department Head of the School of Music.

UL Students Picked Internationally for Cannes Film Festival

Marketing & Hospitality lands 4 students among 18 worldwide for the world's most prestigious film festival.

What is the Goal of Education?

Currently in some circles there is this "new" idea, that education should serve workforce development. In this approach, the primary role of education is to produce workers for the economy-- in essence, employees. Not surprisingly, these arguments generally come from the business community.

Such an approach appears to be insufficient. First of all, if we are engaged in workforce development, then what workers are we developing? For which job shall we train workers? There is a popular slide show claiming that today's graduate will hold 10 to 14 jobs by age 38. What will those jobs be? And even if we knew what they would be, we couldn't possibly train for that many jobs. For which of them should we train our workers?

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Softball's Michael Lotief (Part I)

ultoday.com spoke with Michael Lotief about the Cajuns' remarkable run this year. His wife and Co-Head Coach Stefni sat in and added her thoughts.

Ragin' Cajun Racing Finishes 4th Internationally

The UL Mechanical Engineering Department's Mini-Baja Team returns from Tennessee ranked among world's elite.

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