September 21, 2012 - 11:07am
Because there are other royals worth watching besides the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. Brush up on your Russian history and uncover the captivating story of Catherine the Great as Robert Massie presents ‘Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman’ at the Louisville Free Public Library’s Main branch next Thursday, September 27th, at 7pm.
Even in this modern age, the allure of royalty still manages to hold some mystique. While much of our fawning and fandom now falls to the celebrities of stage and screen (and their incredibly sordid lives), the fascination with the ancient human institution of monarchy continues to find favor...
September 17, 2012 - 10:57am
Because what teenager isn’t obsessed with Edgar Allan Poe? Catch the next installment in Kelly Creagh’s popular young-adult trilogy tomorrow, Tuesday, September 18th, at Carmichael’s Bookstore at 7pm.
I, like any other self-respecting sub-adult human, enjoyed a pronounced “Poe Phase” as I came of age. The dark and confusing subterranean world of adolescence finds a twisted and kindred soul in Edgar Allan Poe’s work – the Master of Symbolism. How can an awkward...
September 13, 2012 - 3:38pm
Thinking that attorneys-at-law are all ‘Law & Order?’ Think again. Louisvillian Beverly Detroy brings the remarkable relationship between two men to life with her new book ‘Fox & Dad.’ Join her tomorrow, September 14th, at Carmichael’s at 7pm.
I am here presented with a subject that feels somewhat like home base for me. A subject that I feel I have earned a certain amount of life expertise. I know know this. Therefore, it is impossible for me to write cohesively about my experiences. Not without a substantial...
September 10, 2012 - 4:10pm
Sporting a new book, Stuart Sanders will spotlight the battle of Perryville, Kentucky at The Filson Historical Society tomorrow, Tuesday, September 11th. Catch a presentation of ‘Perryville Under Fire: The Aftermath of Kentucky’s Largest Civil War Battle’ at noon.
We don’t live in a war zone. Of course the semantics of this statement could be easily argued for the alternative depending how the parameters of “war zone” are defined, but, for all intents and purposes, it can be agreed that our current River City landscape is free of any...
August 31, 2012 - 11:53am
Local writer, Dianne Aprile, presents the new look book, ‘A Landscape and Its Legacy: The Parklands of Floyd’s Fork’ celebrating Louisville’s greenest and greatest natural city spaces. Catch her at Carmichael’s Bookstore tomorrow, Saturday, September 1st, at 4pm.
I am a city girl. Sort of. I am a city girl in the same way that the squirrels living my 100+ year-old Bradford Pear are city squirrels. I am a physical denizen of concrete and metal and brick and glass and asphalt. The whole shebang of sirens, disembodied human chatter and...
