Naming names: Bayou Country Superfest organizers released the lineup for the seventh-annual country musical festival today, with Luke Bryan, Eric Church and Jason Aldean topping the list of headline performers. The festival will take place in Tiger Stadium over Memorial Day weekend next year, May 27-29. Along with Bryan, Friday performers include Lady Antebellum and Little Big Town, among others. Church has top billing on Saturday, along with Darius Rucker and Cole Swindell. Among Sunday’s performers are Aldean, Dierks Bentley and Thomas Rhett. Daily tickets range from $33 to $250. See the full lineup and get complete ticket information.
Picking up speed: Cox Communications announced today it is doubling the download speed of the company’s discounted Internet service available to low-income families with school-aged children. Starting Dec. 3, Cox’s Connect2Compete Internet speed will increase to 10 Mbps. Cox will also offer in-home WiFi as part of the monthly $9.95 package. Cox launched the Connect2Compete program in 2012 in an effort to increase student access to the Internet. About 120,000 people are currently benefiting from the program, Cox says, which is available in all 18 states in which Cox does business. The company says it has invested more than $25 million in the program since its launch.
Ready to rumble: Republican U.S. Sen. David Vitter is seeking to gain ground in the Louisiana governor’s race against Democratic state Rep. John Bel Edwards in the first televised debate of the runoff campaign. The hour-long debate will air statewide tonight on Louisiana Public Broadcasting stations beginning at 7 p.m. The debate comes with fewer than two weeks before the Nov. 21 election. Edwards is trying to reverse a trend against his party in Louisiana, which hasn’t elected a Democrat to statewide office since 2008. Vitter has surprisingly lagged behind Edwards in the polls, after a blistering, attack-heavy primary campaign in which he battled two GOP opponents and voters were reminded of his 2007 prostitution scandal. Vitter and Edwards squared off at a tense debate hosted by the Press Club of Baton Rouge on Monday.
