It's nearly that time again, and folks are already asking when the Germantown beer walk is.  For those lost in translation, and for others just foggy about the particulars, the walk is the last Saturday in April.  Every year, just right before Derby, the bars of Germantown collectively collaborate and lock down the surrounding streets of the neighborhood and allow people to walk from one bar to the next drinking and carrying on as if this were an everyday event.  It's definitely a neighborhood holiday of sorts, and even a well-known festivity all about the city.

While it seems that these days the trend has shifted from clubby spots serving overpriced drinks and watered down entertainment, The Zeppelin flies under the weak sauce radar, and stays true to what is both good and great about neighborhood bars that still double as a cafe, serve a stiff drink, and provide that home away from home feeling.  There's only a couple of them left in Germantown, and as you venture out into the surrounding zip codes, fewer and fewer still stand strong between the four walls that once held the roof above their patrons.

 

Your voice needs to be heard! This July, "Louisville Magazine" will publish the winners of the 25th annual Best of Louisville Awards. And you can help celebrate the anniversary by filling out a ballot at this link: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/BOL2010.

EarthSave Louisville will be hosting our March monthly potluck event at the German-Paristown Neighborhood Center (next to St. Therese Catholic Church.) Church parking lot across the street and on-street parking. Look for the EarthSave banners; at 1094 E. Kentucky St., 40204. This is a new location. EarthSave Louisville's Phytophile* Potluck-- Saturday, March 13th, 6-8 p.m. Come for the food; stay for the inspiration. * Phytophile: Plant-loving

Pure Germantown is realness, real people, problems, and the issues that plague the lower and middle classes.  It means to be up front, to the point, and to never back down from a fight if one shows its face before you.

During the grey winter months when the ground is frozen and the deciduous trees are bare, motionless, and dormant, I often find myself daydreaming of plush summers. Summers when the stench of the stockyards has crept its way abnormally further than usual, and peaked its putrid head far across the railroad track barriers of our Germantown neighborhood. Summers when the heat has reached ninety or above, and the humidity weighs on you like a soaking wet sweater worn in the sauna.  The same summers that blow the cap

I'll be thirty later this year, but in the 80's when I was growing up in Germantown, we were plucking joint roaches from the missing mortar brick walls of what now is the Nach Bar.  Then, it was Steve & Judy's, a semi-rough biker bar on the wrong side of Goss avenue.  Things have definitely changed since then, but I would say for the better.  Both, with new ownership, and a younger, more diverse crowd, the neighborhood Nach Bar seems to have a new vibrant life surging thru its veins.

"Happy Birthday! Progressive Dinner Tour"! Saturday, February 27th. Reserve your seat today! 502-589-1628

Is it time to celebrate your birthday?! Are you looking for a unique way to surprise a friend on theirs? Bring your friends and your favorite bottle of wine and hop aboard the City Taste Tour luxury shuttle for this months "Louisville's Happy Birthday! Progressive Dinner Tour".

"Happy Birthday! Progressive Dinner Tour"! Saturday, February 27th. Reserve your seat today! 502-589-1628

Is it time to celebrate your birthday?! Are you looking for a unique way to surprise a friend on theirs? Bring your friends and your favorite bottle of wine and hop aboard the City Taste Tour luxury shuttle for this months "Louisville's Happy Birthday! Progressive Dinner Tour".