Archive | August, 2008
Olmsted Parks Conservancy Park Explorations for Fall 2008
These sound awesome. You get a guided tour, interesting information and some exercise. What could be better? I’m thinking the Creek Crawl and the Cherokee Park Walk in the Woods are on my agenda. Olmsted Parks Conservancy invites you to come to the park and enjoy a beautiful and educational FREE walk in one of [...]
Continue reading...Shelly Zegart Retrospective at KMAC Opening September 4, 2008
29. August 2008
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This is an exciting announcement. Shelly Zegart has been something of a mentor to me. She actually gave me my very first college job and has been very supportive of Consuming Louisville and some of my other endeavors. So it gives me great pleasure to announce the Shelly Zegart: Passionate About Quilts – Challenging Assumptions, [...]
Continue reading...Bourbon in Early Kentucky Lecture
29. August 2008
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This sounds like an interesting program. I think I’d particularly enjoy it because I’ve been wanting to write the next part in my intro to bourbon series (tentatively titled Bourbon 103: Who in the world was Elijah Craig?) The program will be given by Chris Morris, a master-distiller for Brown-Forman’s Woodford Reserve Bourbon Whiskey. He [...]
Continue reading...A Consuming Louisville Update
28. August 2008
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As you may have noticed Consuming Louisville hasn’t been running along its normal schedule this week. I have a serious family situation going on right now that is very much the focus of my time and energy. I do not know when this situation will be resolved so the publishing schedule may be sporadic for [...]
Continue reading...Wine & Wisdom Series to Feature Yarmuth and Northrup
28. August 2008
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This series sounds like a fantastic opportunity to interact with our sitting congressman and his opponent in a comfortable, open environment. An informal chat and questions at a restaurant present a unique chance for seeing different sides of the candidates and getting more of a feel for their personalities. That’s a very cool concept for [...]
Continue reading...Basquiat Screening at KMAC September 2, 2008
27. August 2008
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Louisville Film Society and Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft are presenting Basquiat next Tuesday. Wikipedia has this to say about the film: “Basquiat is a 1996 film directed by Julian Schnabel which is based on the life of American postmodernist/neo expressionist artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. Basquiat, born in Brooklyn, used his graffiti roots as a [...]
Continue reading...When We Were Kings (with Director appearance!)
26. August 2008
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I am sorry I’m not going to be able to attend the screening of When We Were Kings put on by Louisville Film Society and IdeaFest at the Brown-Forman Amphitheater at Waterfront Park this Friday night. Not only is it a powerful, interesting film but director Leon Gast will be introducing the film. Here is [...]
Continue reading...Women’s Equality Street Fair at UofL
26. August 2008
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If parking near campus wasn’t such a nightmare (or I had a UofL parking pass) I’d totally be going to this. The Women’s Center and the Student Activities Board at U of L will be hosting a university-wide Women’s Equality Day Street Fair to recognize the struggle and hard work of courageous women who won [...]
Continue reading...A Few Highlands Happenings
26. August 2008
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1. Ray’s Monkey House is now serving beer and wine. At first I thought it was odd that a coffee shop designed to be so kid friendly would want to be serving alcohol. The more I thought about it though the more I realized it made perfect sense. 2. The Makery is moving in September [...]
Continue reading...Irish Hill Improv Festival Inaugural Ball September 5, 2008
25. August 2008
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Our old friends at Backseat Sandbar and our new friends at Louisville Improvisors are throwing a ball (which is so much more impressive than throwing a party don’t you think?) to kick off The Irish Hill Improv Festival. “The Irish Hill Improv Festival Inaugural Ball celebrates the return of Los Angeles-based comedic institution THE GROUNDLINGS [...]
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I enjoy receiving news and tips that help make Consuming Louisville even more useful to its audience. If you or one of your clients has something cool going on in Louisville I would love to hear about it.
Consuming Louisville primarily focuses on independent Louisville businesses, artists and events. This doesn't mean that I never write about chain restaurants or corporate events but I do so very infrequently. If you or your client is a national chain and you have a Louisville specific event going on (say a special for Derby) then by all means let me know about it. But if you have an event or special that is happening in every city your chain has a location in then I probably won't post about it.
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Editorial Choices
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Emails that sound like press releases, press release attachments without actual email messages and other communication that could have just as easily been sent to and from a robot do not hold my attention. Since I'm a real person and you're a real person I'd encourage you to make our interaction person-to-person conversation instead of an email blast to a marketing list. I like people, I don't like email marketing blasts.
29. August 2008
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