Category Archives: Arts and Entertainment

Six self-described sexual deviants have their own objectives thwarted when the sex-study they’ve agreed to takes a tantalizing turn. As the Institutes’ nefarious (or potentially altruistic?) plans become clear, they’ll have to use all their skills if they hope to return to the outside world unchanged. GASP? Yes. “Great American Sex Play” (GASP) at the [...]

It’s Monday, and that means it’s Jazz night at Decca in NuLu. And it’s a HOT Monday night, so what could be better than some cool Jazz in an even cooler bar? The local Jazz band The Buzzard is the resident band in Decca’s cellar bar. This seasoned quintet captures the “spirit of the Blue [...]

(Editor’s note: This post was updated at 11 a.m. on Mon., May 20. Due to a misunderstanding, the original version of  this post contained proprietary information. That information has been edited out.) Mike Swift, the CEO of Vocational Economics Incorporated and a partner have combined to form Narrow Gate Productions, Louisville’s newest promotion company. Swift asked the other [...]

St. Francis School in Goshen, about 20 miles east of downtown Louisville, is offering a huge variety of summer camps, many of which take advantage of the private school’s bucolic Oldham County setting. Here’s the full schedule by starting dates. Camp Wyvern Goshen Campus JK through 8th grade MONDAY, JUNE 10 • Outdoor Adventure Camp [...]

(Note: this post was updated May 20 to reflect lower acceptance rates and higher tuition as per the Kentucky Center for the Arts.) 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 [...]

(Editor’s note: This post is courtesy of Larry Cooper at the Louisville Jazz Society.) This is a big weekend for jazz considering  Dick Sisto, Kenny Werner and Harry Pickens play for the Dalai Lama Sunday when the leader of Tibetan Buddhism comes to Louisville. Sisto, Werner and Pickets are on the schedule at KFC Yum! Center [...]

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 [...]

Mr. Paul Goes to Washington: One of life’s great truths is that nobody likes a whiner. And I’ve been whining for weeks about what I would find in the national press post-Derby.  And then I remembered we have a couple guys in the Senate that tend to make a headline or two.  So. Anything going [...]

Let the summer music festival season begin! The Kentucky Reggae Festival, one of the region’s most enduring festivals, returns to the Louisville Water Tower, Zorn Avenue and River Road, on Memorial Day weekend,  Sat. May 25t through Mon., May 27. The three-day festival brings a funky Caribbean buzz (so to speak) to Louisville’s riverfront, incorporating [...]