Louisville’s leadership development organization has announced its 2013 graduates. Leadership Louisville graduated 57 people in its Class of 2013 on Tuesday. The class of 2013 includes representatives from most of Louisville’s largest companies, health care systems, law firms, arts organizations, universities and educational institutions, as well as from city government. They are the 34th class [...]
With at least five major art galleries including the Zephyr Gallery cooperative, NuLu has aspired to be the center of Louisville’s art scene. Now, with the relocation of the Speed Art Museum offices, NuLu is the center of Louisville’s art scene … at least for the next couple of years. Thirty-seven staff members from the [...]
As always, the WSJ has some pithy prose today about one of Louisville’s important companies. Today, it’s a blog post in the Speakeasy section. (No, we’d never seen it either). But the post by John Kell gets into how a new Sinatra Select version of Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Whiskey benefits from the legendary singer’s tacit [...]
It’s the shift that no one would have believed 20 years ago … the suburbs are rapidly growing poorer. “Confronting Urban Poverty in America,” a new book by Alan Berube and Elizabeth Kneebone, is published by the Brookings Institution, the independent Washington, D.C.-based think tank. Berube and Kneebone have stunning numbers about what used to [...]
The Louisville Digital Association has serious connections … serious enough to bring together major policy makers for a big event Wednesday night, May 22. Louisville social-media pioneer and LDA co-founder Jason Falls will return to the LDA podium to gavel a meeting designed to answer the question, “What does Louisville need more of in tech [...]
Welcome to the May 20 edition of the top-secret, always confidential Monday Business Briefing. This is your private business intelligence briefing, with Insider Louisville staff and contributors vetting tips collected during the past few days and hours. A few of which are NOT double-verified as with our daily reporting. This is the news about business [...]
We’ve been saving this for after the spring tornado season in Kentucky and Southern Indiana. Past the mid-May point, we think we’re home clear. (Knock on wood.) Because this infographic from AccuWeather.com., while fascinating, is pretty scary. It brings back memories of March, 2012, when several small towns in the region were destroyed by a [...]
Who knew Louisville is the buckle in Tibetan Buddhist Belt? If you’re thinking that you might just go last-minute to see the Dalai Lama, you’re in for wait. We follow musician Ben Sollee on Twitter. Ben just posted a photo on Instagram of the line outside KFC Yum! Center waiting to see His Holiness, and [...]
Wax Fang’s official ‘Blonde Leading the Blonde’ video debuts on Conan O’Brien’s Team CoCo website
We spend way too much time on Youtube watching Lana Del Rey videos, trying to figure out if we love her, or are simply mesmerized by her, ah, unconventional style and not readily apparent talent. Closer to home, Wax Fang kind of has that same affect on us. Our Michael Tierney loves, loves, loves Wax Fang and follows their [...]