Category Archives: Media

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 [...]

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 [...]

by Kyle Ware Ooorrrrrrrrbbb!: If you’re the Derby announcer, do you think it’s more fun to scream a horse’s name that has a little creativity or pizzazz as the horses race for the finish line—like say, a Mucho Macho Man or a Giacomo—or something monosyllabic that you can really spend some time with, like this [...]

This is the Derby Day bash for all the media people who make the big race fun for the rest of us. As always, Varanese will host Billy’s Burger Bash. This year, the 27th Billy’s Burger Bash is scheduled for 11 p.m. “to the wee hours of Sunday,” according to a news release. From the release: The party, [...]

And Down the Stretch They Come: So Derby, right? For a column curating national coverage on all things Louisville/Kentucky, this week is about as easy as this gig is ever going to get.  I don’t even know what we’ll talk about next week.  Likely Derby wrap-up reports. So who’s talking about Derby? As you might [...]

This could be the ultimate David v. Goliath political contest … assuming Ed Marksberry can even make it through the Democratic primary. But if he’s going to get anywhere against Sen. Mitch McConnell,  one of the most powerful men in Congress, the Owensboro Democrat needs to get some free, state-wide, social media buzz. Toward that end, Marksberry just [...]

Molly Jo Rosen, 27, has been clocking thoroughbreds for 10 years, but she’s been riding horseback since her diaper days. Girlfriend knows her equines. Here’s a chance to float down her stream of consciousness as Rosen discusses the Kentucky Derby horses she has observed, in most cases, for more than a year – but more [...]

The backside of a racetrack is the sanctum sanctorum of horse racing, and it was for ages a fraternity through and through – the equine equivalent of The Little Rascals’ infamous fellowship: The He-Man Woman Hater’s Club. The only fillies permitted to tread the hallowed ground owned four legs and weighed a thousand pounds. Women [...]

[On Friday's 'Styling the Kentucky Derby' post, fashion blogger Cameron Miquelon talked with former-'Project Runway' contestant, Louisvillian Gunnar Deatherage, about his Derby and pre-Derby work styling the 'Run for the Roses' fashion show, the band A Lion Named Roar for their upcoming Barnstable Brown party and Derby appearances, among others. Today Miquelon recounts her conversation with [...]