Category Archives: Profiles

By the time Isaiah Brents was in the sixth grade, he was getting into trouble and hanging around with the wrong crowd. So much so, that when three people were murdered in front of his mother’s Shively home, she decided something had to be done. She didn’t want to see Brents end up like that. [...]

“Bitter, party of one …?” The Daily Beast has a long post – “How Kentucky Democrats Duped the MSM and Helped Elbow Out Ashley Judd”– by Lexington-based Democratic activist Jonathan Miller. Miller’s post essentially is a tell-all detailing machinations behind the aborted Ashley Judd challenge to Sen. Mitch McConnell. Those machinations boiled down to mainstream Kentucky [...]

I’m not sure when I first encountered the name Grady Clay. He might have been cited as a source somewhere in the reams of papers I was assigned in graduate school, studying community development. But the second I learned Louisville had an urban journalist – how fascinating – I footnoted the thought. I wanted to [...]

(Editor’s note: This post was updated a 11:45 a.m. on Fri., Feb. 22. The first version of this post listed the wrong high school for Catherine McCord.) Quick, Louisville, which native child has been on both the list of FHM’s “100 Sexiest Women in the World” and People’s “50 Most Influential Mommy Bloggers.” (Tom Cruise? [...]

My favorite color is orange. My favorite pocketbook was a ratty old Coach bag I bought at a thrift sale for $25; it was a mess, but it was the perfect size. I’ve been rocking a fleur de lis tattoo since long before fleurs de lis became cool, long before I moved to New Orleans, [...]

The New York Times’ Andrew Rosenthal has a pithy post, “Will McConnell Hold On?” about the political machinations surrounding our suddenly vulnerable senior senator. Rosenthal, who blogs at “Taking Notes,” the editorial page editor’s blog, predicts Sen. Mitch McConnnell’s 2014 run might create an entree for a Democratic challenger via a duplicitous Tea Party challenge. Rosenthal sees possible [...]

In the world of blogging, there are far too many pundits, rabblerousers and self-appointed arbiters of taste and trends. What we lack collectively are true subject-matter experts – people with writing talent, authentic erudition and unimpeachable credibility. Meet Amy Zegart, who definitely falls into the knowledge/talent/credibility category. Conversation with Zegart can veer all over the [...]

During this year’s Summer Olympics in London, an attention-getting series of online commercials appeared for Soul Electronics headphones. The campaign, called “Soul of Greatness,” featured Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt, Spanish soccer player Cesc Fábregas and the NFL’s Tim Tebow, with voiceovers by singer Ludacris. One very cool sequence shows a skinny pre-teen football player, carrying [...]

Louisville native Jeff Newton is an associate producer at “60 Minutes” who last year won a prestigious Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Award for excellence in broadcast and digital news. Newton won the DuPont Award as producer of “A Relentless Enemy,” the September 2010 segment about a U.S. military outpost on the remote border between Afghanistan and [...]