Thursday, May 17
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 [...]
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Louisville has been assembling a new identity recently. The city known primarily for a single horse race has begun to be recognized nationally for the quality of its restaurant cuisine. Chefs who have gathered here from around the world – in pursuit of a job, in pursuit of a love, or through some other happy [...]
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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 [...]
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Preservationists have a cool new friend on the Louisville Metro Council. District 21 Metro Councilman Dan Johnson showed up at a rally today at Main and Floyd streets, siding with about two dozen preservationists against amending Louisville’s Historic Landmarks and Preservation Districts designation process. (A 19th century building had stood on the site of the rally, [...]
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There has been an abundance of talk lately about retail development here, with some residents (the minority) turning sour on dirty flea markets and knick-knack shops. Others (the majority) are perfectly satisfied with their options, although they say they would like a “nice place to eat” on Dixie Highway.
You know, a place to cool the heels after a tough day sifting through yard sale items at an abandoned Kroger store.
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The Louisville Youth Choir, artist in residence at Sacred Heart School for the Arts, is offering two summer day camps for singers. The Bella Voce Camp, scheduled for July 23 through July 27, is for serious solo singers who will be entering grades 9 through 12 in the fall, according to a news release. Camp [...]
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(Editor’s note: Terry Boyd and Cheryl Boyd contributed to this post.) You know about Green buildings. Now, the East Market District – AKA NuLu – may become one of the nation’s leaders in the Green neighborhood movement, another way for Louisvlle to stand up and be noticed. Four LEED experts from the U.S. Environmental Protection [...]
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Student journalist Emily McConville: Top JCPS students find high school graduations in jeopardy after they exhaust math class choices!
Senior Ankush Gupta stared at the computer screen, eyes wide. He had just pulled up the JCPS graduation requirements and read the one fact that would pose a problem for the next several months: Jefferson County Public Schools requires not four credits of math, but four years. Gupta had many more than four credits [...]
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