72°F11:40 PM Occupy Louisville Begins With Sunshine and Community [The Arena]
Occupy Louisville is the local extension of the Occupy Wall Street movement, which kicked off yesterday afternoon at 4th and Jefferson streets. Members of this movement are positive that their representation of the 99% of Americans who work the hardest for the tiniest slice of the financial pie is bound to have a positive effect on our culture. This peaceful and respectful optimism is gaining support from everyone the Occupiers have interacted with so far.
Get Stormy get the victory in the Woodford Reserve Turf Classic [Kentucky Derby]
Tom Bush-trained Get Stormy and Ramon Dominguez ran wire to wire to capture the 25th Woodford Reserve Turf Classic (GI) by three-quarters of a length over Smart Bid on the Kentucky Derby Day undercard at Churchill Downs.
Bush was elated with his colt's performance.
"If we were going to carve out a dream scenario, that was it," he said. " …I think he’s probably a better horse than he was when he was a 4-year-old. Hopefully there’s more ahead but these are two big races he’s won this spring."
The circus is coming [Family and parenting]
The 3rd Annual Good Folk Fest
Louisville's Good Folk Fest 2008 rocks out this weekend featuring over 80 local, regional, and internationally known outsider, visionary and folk artists and topped off with performances from a hand full of primitive musicians makes Good Folk Fest the only one of it's kind in the region.
Louisville Native to Premiere at Derby City Film Festival
*If You Could Say It In Words*, a film
written and directed by Louisville native Nicholas Gray, will have its world
premiere on October 8 at 9:00 p.m. on the opening night of the Derby City
Film Festival at the Louisville Memorial Auditorium, on 970 South Fourth
Street in Louisville, KY 40203.
*If You Could Say It In Words *is a nuanced, unflinching look at a romance
in which a painter with undiagnosed Asperger's Syndrome challenges a young
woman's conventional ideas and his own understanding of love.
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