Daniel Johnsen will moderate the next #OpenCoffeeLou on Monday. As always, newcomers are welcome. If you’re interested in or involved in the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Louisville, we’d love for you to join us. Just in time to wind down the work week, Johnsen sent along the following information about the next #OpenCoffeeLou… Please share this; [...]
New2Lou is wrapping up their Bourbon education series with Bourbon 103 on May 24 at Moonshine University at the Distilled Spirits Epicenter – 801 S. Eighth Street. Even if you’ve missed Bourbon 101 and 102, you’re invited to attend this interactive class. Hawthorn Beverage Group, spirits consultants and marketers, have co-sponsored the entire series. The final event [...]
(Author’s note: I contributed to this Kickstarter and appeared briefly in the Kickstarter video for Louisville.AM. Tom Cottingham, Insider Louisville’s CEO, and I appeared on an episode of Vonderheide’s podcast, “Startup.”) The news came on Oaks Day. In the wake of SummitMedia acquiring four Cox Media Louisville radio stations, Dan Vonderheide, Digital Sales Manager at [...]
The announcement that Bobby Ferreri was stepping down from his position as the executive director of GLI’s Enterprise Corp was made internally and to GLI’s Board of Directors and stakeholders last week. As we told you this morning, the first truly “public” announcement of the news came at this morning’s Launchpad Lecture Series. In a [...]
Bourbon has a woman problem. Or at least bourbon marketing does. It may be getting better, but outside the Commonwealth, bourbon is (stereotypically) considered a “man’s drink.” If you’re a woman and you order a Woodford on the rocks in Connecticut or Florida, you have better than a 50% chance of the bartender making some [...]
(Author’s note: this post was updated at 5:29 p.m. to correct the name of Bobby Ferreri’s new law firm. It is Ferreri Partners.) It’s new enough news that Tendai Charasika still hasn’t updated his Linked In profile. This morning at the Launchpad Lecture series featuring Alex Frommeyer of Beam Technologies, it was announced that Bobby [...]
The Facebook page for “We’re Cool” was launched on May 10 and already has 316 likes. Its description is charmingly modest: We’re Cool was created in 2013 by Richard Hudgins of Louisville, Kentucky. No one special. Just a guy who was fed up with people that treated others poorly. No one special? We’d beg to [...]
After more than eight months of construction, 10 new digital movie auditoriums are opening tomorrow at the Cinemark Mall St. Matthews just in time for the premier of the new “Star Trek” movie. Bryan Jeffries, marketing director at Cinemark Holdings, Inc., said that originally the theatre planned to open Friday, but when the opening for [...]
Governor’s School for the Arts announces class of 2013
For the past twenty-five years, The Governor’s School for the Arts (GSA) has provided rigorous summer instruction in the arts to more than 200 Kentucky students a year. GSA was established in 1987 as a program of The Kentucky Center for the Arts and Kentucky Department of the Arts. This year, 285 students were accepted to the program [...]