Thursday, May 17
Jeez, when did we all get so fat? A new study suggests that if we all keep eating and lounging the way we are, by 2030, almost half of all Americans will be obese. Not overweight. Fat as hogs. So ballon-like the study projects obesity-related illnesses will reduce fatty-fat life expectancy by seven years! This [...]
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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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Until Trayvon Martin was killed, the American Legislative Exchange Council was just another corporately funded covert partisan group, quietly and covertly trying to reshape America state by state from within through the legislative process. Though ALEC, based in Washington, DC, is conservative, there are liberal counterparts. All try to fly below the radar as they [...]
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These guys really know how to throw together some esoteric creative combinations. Newly announced events for the Forecastle Festival will include Louisville’s My Morning Jacket playing with the New Orleans Preservation Hall Jazz Band on the Belle of Louisville, as well as an official opening party with Dean & Britta and Purity Ring. Starting at the [...]
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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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You’re going to notice a tab in the center of our landing page for a new Insider Louisville-associated site, Juice. Why “Juice”? It just came to us, the colloquialism for excited and engaged. Our readers are juiced about changes in this once stodgy city. A significant and growing segment of people are juiced about farm-to-table. [...]
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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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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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