Roundtable Commentary The View from Lou: American Spirit We asked the group about the attitudes that make up the “American spirit”. Care to guess which got the highest score on the “yeah, everyone would agree with that” scale? America 250 questions & responses by the Louisville roundtables from previous weeks got us wondering about what […]
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Hidden Gems LouMag x WHAS 11: Bonnie & Clyde’s Pizza Louisville Magazine and WHAS 11 join forces to highlight Louisville’s hidden gems shared by our voting academy Some months back, we asked the Best of Louisville Voting Academy to tell us what we’ve been missing in our “Best Of” issues. We knew they’d be hesitant
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Hidden Gems LouMag x WHAS 11: Blak Koffee “We needed a place like this: A place where I can let my guard down and simply be me.” We’ve been exploring how, where & when people find belonging because its just harder to find these days. So, we asked folks, “Where, besides your own home or
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Observations Good Question × Could you share a word you grew up with that regular English doesn’t quite capture? It’s a question I’ve begun asking people whenever I can. For me, good questions are like a skip intro button. As a middling small talker, I feel it’s a gift of relief to both myself and
Research How to Un-Lonely a Neighborhood × Belonging can be measured as the distance between a door and the feeling you’re allowed to walk through it. That’s according to scientific research. Ours, in fact. But to learn that, we first had to be wrong. We recently finished up a study in the field of research
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Commentary A New Louisville Export? × The disease is loneliness. Does Louisville have ingredients for the cure? The Best of Louisville Voting Academy sheds light I fish for trout and, unless I’m with close friends, I do it alone. I plan elaborately to avoid the popular spots. I’ll stagger upstream over mossy rocks, grope bushes
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Neighborhoods: Russell Russell Revisited A year and a half ago, I did a group interview with dozens of Russell residents, then hosted a Zoom call with several of them. (One of the questions I asked: If Russell were a car, what would it be? And, yes, the most popular answer by far was: a Cadillac.
From the Roundtables We guessed wrong. Here’s what Louisvillians really think.
From the Roundtables Book Recs from Your Neighbors Find these books at Carmichael’s A Short Guide to a Happy Life Notes on Grief Breath Black on White The Good Journey The Name of the Wind Aftermath Jayber Crow
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