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Fat Friday Trolley Hop: The heat wave edition [Visual arts]
The Fat Friday Trolley Hop gets underway with another entertaining round of featured stops along Louisville's Historic Frankfort Avenue. It's expected to be a hot one, with heat indices hanging out around 100F.
Glassblower Jonathan Swanz is blowing up in the best way [Visual Art]
Jonathan Swanz, a New Albany High School graduate, is now one of the leading glass artists in the region. He specializes in decorative art, complex functional sculpture, and architectural glass.
Renaissance Fun Park offers summer family fun [Sports]
When I start to think about summer sports that dominated my childhood here in Louisville, a couple things come to mind: pickup basketball with the mantra “no blood, no foul,” street hockey- minus the skates because come on who am I fooling, I can’t go more than three inches before face planting with those things.
Encore: Hot enough to bake cookies on your dashboard? [Colleges]
With yesterday’s 116 °F heat index, plenty of jokes about frying eggs on the sidewalk abounded, but there is such a thing as too many eggs—and they wouldn’t be the most appetizing things, either. Put the sun’s power to work for you with this account from Bellarmine nursing instructor Nicki Swiderski, who baked cookies in her car while enjoying the air conditioning of her Highlands office.
Bellarmine summer camp means cool fun for kids, teens [Colleges]
School’s out, and it’s time for fun! But with temperatures already breaking heat records, playing outside may not be the most attractive option. Fortunately, Bellarmine University’s School of Continuing & Professional Studies offers summer youth enrichment programs in art, drama, writing, science, music and more for kids from age 7 to 17 wanting to expand their horizons.
Waterfront Wednesdays return to Harbor Lawn [Music]
By now, you’ve probably worn a t-shirt in the evening and have spent countless hours, and tissues, trying to find the balance between a runny nose and complete congestion. Summer in Louisville is beginning. While allergies are an all-to-well-known rite of the changing of the seasons here, a fun annual tradition is gearing back up as well. WPFK and The Waterfront Development Corporation are bringing back Waterfront Wednesdays on April 27 with performances by Ohio pop quartet Walk the Moon, Texas singer and songwriter Sara Jaffe, and local electro-pop group The Deloreans.
For those not fasting this weekend: The first annual Germantown/Schnitzelberg BBQ Competition [Germantown-Schnitzelburg]
At sundown Friday, about 1.2 percent of Louisvillians began fasting in observance of Yom Kippur. If you’re not a part of the hungry few, this weekend can be very delicious, and philanthropic. The Germantown-Schnitzelberg neighborhoods are hosting two special cookout events that give proceeds to charities and nonprofit organizations.
Sweet success: It’s STILL hot enough to bake cookies on your dashboard [Highlands]
Look out Elizabeth Kizito—there's a new cookie lady in town.
Hot enough to bake cookies on your dashboard? You bet [Highlands]
You’ve no doubt heard that it’s “hot enough to fry eggs on the sidewalk.” But who’d want to eat an egg peeled from the dirty pavement—fried or not—when you can bake cookies in the relative sterility of your car?
Summer camp goes to the dogs in Lyndon! [Lyndon]
In March, the Kentucky Humane Society opened the doors of their newest location at 1000 Lyndon Lane, and it has been one of the best things to happen to our furry friends on the east end of Louisville.
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