Category Archives: Community

Metro Mayor Greg Fischer released his proposed fiscal year 2013/2014 budget today. We haven’t done a deep dive on the numbers, but we will. At least at first blush, Republicans on the Louisville-Jefferson County Metro Council aren’t emulating their counterparts in the U.S. Congress. Fischer proposed general fund spending of $528 million, an increase of [...]

If you like summer, picnics and music, chances are you’ve packed into the Sunday night Willow Park concerts. For 2013, you’ll have a dance floor and other improvements to the tune of about $240,000, part of a public/private renovation effort, said Tony Lindauer, founder of the Cherokee Triangle Summer Concert Series. (You may also know Lindauer in [...]

Once again, it was exciting to see many new faces at this morning’s #OpenCoffeeLou. The final tally for the morning was approximately 29 attendees. Our five new faces included Anthony Smith, Mayor Fischer’s fairly newly-appointed Director of Safe Neighborhoods. Lately, we’ve had more organized conversations at our Monday morning meetings, and today was no exception. [...]

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 [...]

We like to read what national media are saying about our city because, really, we’re reading about ourselves, right? Truthfully, we don’t read National Journal as much as we should because the sister magazine of The Atlantic is more focused on issues  inside the Beltway such as national security. But this is cool. National Journal [...]

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 [...]

Former Brown-Forman exec Dave Dafoe, who founded Flavorman all those years ago, has yet another hit on his hands. The New York Times has a post on Defoe’s relatively new Distilled Spirits Epicenter and its Moonshine University. IL writes about DSE about every other day. But to the reporter’s credit, the Times post drives home [...]

(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 [...]

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 [...]