On Sept. 25, a crowd will gather at Waterfront Park to watch a barge
dump thousands of yellow, sunglasses-wearing rubber ducks into the Ohio
River for the seventh-annual Ken-Ducky Derby.
Rudyard Kipling will be the home base for this month’s Motherlodge, a week of appearances by musicians and other performing artists that Rizzo organizes biannually in Louisville.
Locavores who have tried the diet that only lets you consume what is grown within a 100-mile radius of your city know that coffee and tea are out of the question.
One year, though, it rained badly on Oaks night, and we were using squeegees and vacuums on the red carpet the following morning because we didn’t want these celebrities to hear their shoes make squishing noises
Louisville tattoos. Bet you were imagining the ubiquitous fleur-de-lis stamped on a foot or tucked behind an ear, right? Talk to any tattoo artist in town and he'll tell you he does them all the time.
If most of the city is snowed in, Tracy Hodges is out -- salting and plowing the roads. A up close look at one of the most important winter jobs in Louisville, snow plowing, and one of the women responsible for it: Tracy Hodges.
The Louisville Film Society’s new theater (810 E. Market St.) is named Dreamland, after an early-20th-century Louisville theater. As society co-founder Tracy Heightchew gives a tour and optimistically describes her hopes for the space, the name seems fitting. “We want this place to kind of be a rabbit hole where everybody’s visions can be expanded,” she says.
Have you ever heard somebody say, "Oh, (Insert American city)? That's just like Louisville." Well Austin, Texas often fills that role. Whether it is by population or character, these two cities seem to share a common ground of weirdness.
Brian Goodwin, 24, and Todd Smith, 45, never hung out at the legendary Butchertown Pub, but the friends are resurrecting the name - and space - of the former bar as the Butchertown Pub Studios.
Pole dancing is so 2009. If you saw pop star Pink's performances at the 2010 Grammys or MTV's VMAs, you caught a glimpse of the newest celebrity fitness fad: aerial dance.
Sophie Maier is the immigrant-services librarian at the Iroquois public library. Maier heads up the English Conversation Club; part of the Iroquois branch's efforts to reach out to Louisville's growing international community.
Fischer still paints every day, and a few months ago he began a series of abstract pieces that became the basis for his exhibit titled “Full Circle,” running Jan. 9-Feb. 13 at Galerie Hertz.
Before he was known around town as 'the soup bicycle guy,' 37-year-old Ian Ritchie, a Cincinnati native, spent 20 years cooking in restaurant kitchens, from a fast-food pizza chain to a high-end Colorado resort.
The North American Vexillological Association — which, you know, studies
flags — ranked the old one as one of the country’s top 10 city flags.
The current banner? Not so much
