The Flyover Film Festival is back, bringing America’s contemporary movie scene to Louisville next month. This year’s cinematic showcase includes 36 films premiering in Kentucky including silent films, indie films, documentaries and international works, according to a news release. And this is a chance for movie lovers to get up close and personal with movie [...]
These guys really know how to throw together some esoteric creative combinations. Newly announced events for the Forecastle Festival will include Louisville’s My Morning Jacket playing with the New Orleans Preservation Hall Jazz Band on the Belle of Louisville, as well as an official opening party with Dean & Britta and Purity Ring. Starting at the [...]
The annual Tour de Cure cycling event is scheduled for May 19 at Norton Commons in far eastern Jefferson County. The event is a fundraiser for the American Diabetes Association. Cyclists from the area will select one of four routes ranging from one mile to 60 miles, according to a Tour de Cure news release. [...]
You’re going to notice a tab in the center of our landing page for a new Insider Louisville-associated site, Juice. Why “Juice”? It just came to us, the colloquialism for excited and engaged. Our readers are juiced about changes in this once stodgy city. A significant and growing segment of people are juiced about farm-to-table. [...]
Tell us you didn’t see this coming a mile away. The Mayor’s Office just sent out a scintillating news release about saving tens of millions of taxpayers’ dollars by consolidating the Metropolitan Sewer District and the Louisville Water Co., as yucky as that sounds. The Louisville Utility and Public Works Advisory Group has been working for [...]
This isn’t exactly a Kentucky story … yet it is. Remember the opening scenes in “Secretariat” when Penny Chenery was trying to save the family thoroughbred farm? It worked. But later the family sold it to a not-for-profit, which apparently isn’t doing so hot. Among the piles of unsolicited content Insider Louisville gets each week, [...]
World Affairrs Council of Louisville and Southern Indiana is seeking nine host families for high school students from the Balkans and Central Asia. The local non-profit international affairs council was selected as the local coordinator for U.S. Department of State programs for high schoolers from Eastern Europe and Central Asia for the 2012 to 2013 academic year, [...]
MSNBC: Insurers including Humana experimenting with incentives to stem obesity epidemic
Jeez, when did we all get so fat? A new study suggests that if we all keep eating and lounging the way we are, by 2030, almost half of all Americans will be obese. Not overweight. Fat as hogs. So ballon-like the study projects obesity-related illnesses will reduce fatty-fat life expectancy by seven years! This [...]