July 29, 2012 - 8:02pm
The writer and journalist discusses China’s plans for aeronautics in his latest book ‘China Airborne’. Join him at the Louisville Free Public Library’s Main branch tomorrow evening, Wednesday, May 23rd, at 7pm.
In the wake of today’s first commercially funded rocket launch in Cape Canaveral, the future of human space travel is inching ever-so tantalizingly close to becoming as casual as a drive to Starbucks. Decades after Man first left footprints on the face of our lone, beloved satellite (...
July 29, 2012 - 8:02pm
Grab a shovel and prepare thy shelter! Sarabande Books presents a reading of reckoning at this month’s 21c Reading Series with the Four Short Story Writers of the Apocalypse. The book bomb drops tonight, Monday, May 21st, at 7:30pm.
The end is nigh. Quickly approaching on swift wings, the looming Apocalypse breathes its wild, gypsy breath into the shivers of our spines. We cannot escape the fierce plunging of hooves into the Earth, the raw, iron might of Death’s steely scythe. Humble pawns in the dance...
July 29, 2012 - 8:04pm
University of Louisville associate professor of history, A. Glenn Crothers, will present his new book, ‘Quakers Living in the Lion’s Mouth’, at The Filson Historical Society tomorrow, Tuesday, May 22nd, at 6pm.
The subject of religion is one that touches quite a tender nerve. The human perception of the divine is a topic that has shaped our relations with each for far more centuries than anyone could care to count – and continues to move and influence our world even in this modern age. ...
April 9, 2012 - 11:15am
In preparation for Earth Day, oceanographer and author, Sylvia Earle, presents her book, ‘The World is Blue’ at Bellarmine University’s Frazier Hall tomorrow, April 10th, at 7:30pm.
With the end of our bunny-tastic frolics still only hours old, the odds are quite good that a multitude of Easter cheer (a.k.a “chocolate”) is just waiting to shed its pastel foils and give you a sugar buzz; and, oh yes, taxes are due soon, as well, are they not? Did anyone make...
July 29, 2012 - 8:07pm
April is National Poetry Month, and Carmichael’s will start the celebration with a host of Kentucky poets featured in the anthology, ‘Bigger Than They Appear: Anthology of Very Short Poems’. Along with the books’ editor, Katerina Stoykova-Klemer, the poetic gang will be at the Frankfort Avenue store Sunday, April 1st at 4pm.
We talk about poetry a lot. And this is good. Good for the heart, mind, soul and cerebral cortex. Breathe in the sweet aroma of the sonnet. Quiver in the sinuous tension of terza rima. Let your inner hippie flow within the cascades of free verse. Bathe in the...
