As the winter winds to a quiet (seriously, it was 70 degrees last week…) close and the days grow to accommodate our diurnal natures in a gray and glorious light, many of us will soon be out on the prowl to lubricate our social lives.  With our soft, tropical bodies, most human animals tend to favor the warm breezes and sultry nights that accompany the evening glows of spring and summer (I am not generally one of these people; I am cold and aloof.  You wouldn’t like me).  Spring makes people twitterpated – poetic, blithe and bonny – and while our

There was once a dark time in our nation’s past. Come to think of it, there have been plenty of dark times in our nation’s past: the Civil War, the Cold War and McCarthy’s witch hunts, the Nixon administration... and Prohibition. The 1920s have become very romanticized in our minds - this was the time of flappers, speakeasies, and snappily-dressed gangsters. Al Capone himself is said to have frequented the Seelbach right here in Louisville.

Today and tomorrow are the last days this summer to grab some delicious gelato from the Proof Gelato Cart, located downtown at the corner of 7^th and Main Street. All summer the friendly servers of Proof on Main have been providing passersby with wonderfully creamy frozen goodness. The Gelato Cart’s season officially ends today, but it will also be out Friday evening from 5:00 to 9:00 for the First Friday Trolley Hop.

Louisville’s Urban Bourbon Trail is expanding its tour of whiskey distilleries and must-visit bourbon stops.  The trail, which sends whiskey lovers on a mission to visit a variety of Louisville bars and restaurants, recently added Ramsi’s Café on the World, Buck’s Restaurant, Equus & Jack’s Lounge, Corbett’s: an American place, and Asiatique.