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Cyndi Lauper shows true colors, drops f bomb at Kentucky Derby Festival Pegasus Parade [Family & parenting]

Cyndi Lauper shows true colors, drops f bomb at Kentucky Derby Festival Pegasus
The 2012 Kentucky Derby Festival began with North America's largest fireworks display and ended with an f bomb heard 'round the Watterson when Cyndi Lauper cussed out a microphone tech at today's Pegasus Parade.

The 2012 Kentucky Derby Festival began with North America's largest fireworks display and ended with an f bomb heard 'round the Watterson when Cyndi Lauper cussed out a microphone tech at today's Pegasus Parade.

Photo: YouTube/WAVE 3

Apassionata: The Beginning ends its run in Louisville’s Freedom Hall, as part of the Kentucky Derby Festival, with a standing ovation from the crowd [Equine]

Apassionata: The Beginning ends its run in Louisville’s Freedom Hall, as part of
Apassionata: The Beginning ends its run in Louisville’s Freedom Hall, as part of the Kentucky Derby Festival, with a standing ovation from the crowd. The event was so successful in Louisville more shows are planned in May.

APASSIONATA: The Beginning, the equine theatrical extravaganza that hails from Europe, ended its U.S. debut in Louisville, Kentucky with a standing ovation from its final Sunday afternoon audience.

I went with 47 of my equestrian friends as part of the group ticket promotion Apassionata offered to Louisville area equestrian facilities and organizations, and of course to cover the event for Louisville.com as their Equestrian Beat Writer.

Behind the scenes at Friday's U.S. Bank Derby Festival Great Balloon Rush Hour Race [Family & parenting]

Photos from Friday's U.S. Bank Derby Festival Great Balloon Rush Hour Race [Fami
Notice anything different in the sky on your morning commute? Here's how it got started.

Today's beautiful Louisville spring morning sky was sprinkled with hot air balloons, bobbing overhead in the U.S. Bank Derby Festival Great Balloon Rush Hour Race. Here are photos of them getting started.

Photos: Ryan Armburst

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US Bank Great Balloon Race takes to the skies Saturday [Family & Parenting]

US Bank Great Balloon Race takes to the skies Saturday [Family & Parenting]
Brightly colored balloons make for a gorgeous wake-up call.

**Due to high winds aloft, wet ground, and an unstable atmosphere, the US Bank Great Balloon Race has been canceled.  It will not be rescheduled. **

Wake up early this Saturday morning and witness what promises to be one of the most beautiful Louisville sunrises of the year.

Kentucky Derby Festival's They're Off! Luncheon [Louisville Dot Chic]

They’re Off! was held at The Galt House, this past Friday, April 20, 2012. ESPN’s Erin Andrews was the keynote speaker for the 56th annual luncheon.

“It’s the best time of the year in Louisville. There are so many things going on in the city; I’m just happy to be a part of it” said Gerome Stephens, a Kentucky Derby Festival volunteer at the Kentucky Derby Festival’s They’re Off! Luncheon. Stephens photographed above with KDF volunteers Nick Lynch and Alli Grant.

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Erin Andrews and Sarah Jordan. Photo Courtesy of Sarah Jordan.

Derby Burger Challenge - New KDF Event [Food]

Do you cook a mean burger? Your recipe can bring you fame and prizes!

“I like mine with lettuce and tomato, Heinz 57 and french-fried potatoes.  Big kosher pickle and a cold draft beer,  Well good god almighty which way do I steer for my…Cheeseburger in paradise”  

" Derby Diana" - Diana Ross coming to Louisville Palace 4/26/12 [Music]

Diana Ross will be in town the week before Derby!

Her music is still mixed at clubs and sampled in hip hop, The Legend...The Music...The Voice.  She is simply Ms Ross, and she is coming to town at Kentucky Derby Time.  The Louis

The Great Steamboat Race and Waterfront Wednesday taking place tonight on the river [News]

The Great Steamboat Race has only been rescheduled a few times since racing began in 1963.

This evening, the historic Belle of Louisville will be racing the Belle of Cincinnati on the mighty Ohio River beginning at 6 p.m.

Traditionally, the race is held during the Kentucky Derby Festival, but high water on the river forced KDF officials to postpone the race.

Kentucky Derby nights: A cocktail-laden live-music memoir (part 1 of 3) [Kentucky Derby]

Ahh, the Kentucky Derby season in Louisville. That time of year where....

Ahh, the Kentucky Derby season in Louisville. That time of year where for two weeks most the city’s population negates work, drink the days and nights away and all in the name of horse racing’s classiest two minute affair. As exemplified below by my little drunken buddy who I found all snuggled up in a concrete nook near the corner of 3rd Street and Muhammad Ali at about 11:30 pm.  



At least he wasn’t driving, right?

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