November 5, 2009 – 6:36 pm
Ahh, November sweeps: That salacious, pre-Christmas season when major networks unleash their most sensational “news” stories to grab the attention of ‘Merica’s lowest common denominators so bigger advertising dividends will be paid. In the case of WLKY, we’ve got internet porn searches.
Specifically, Louisville is the de facto capital of naughty internet searches, meaning that we spend more [...]
November 4, 2009 – 4:37 pm
Yup yup: The 21c museum and boutique hotel — recently named the best hotel in these United States — will soon have a sister operation in downtown Cincinnati. From Business First:
The husband and wife team of Laura Lee Brown and Steve Wilson will open the second 21c hotel in the former Metropole Hotel… [and] will feature [...]
November 3, 2009 – 10:06 am
More news coming out of Louisville Metro Animal Services’ Manslick Road shelter: Those non-existent heaters we told you about last week were finally replaced after volunteers complained about the situation, which is a good thing.
Most troubling, however, is the following command performance given by MAS spokesperson Jackie Gulbe, whom appears to be either lying or completely unaware of [...]
October 29, 2009 – 3:06 pm
Louisville Metro Animal Services’ main shelter is tucked away from its entrance on multi-lane Manslick Road; an unassuming collection of structures hidden behind a curvy, almost-bucolic avenue that does little to prepare the prospective animal adopter for the deplorable conditions found within. Last week, a friend and I ventured here posing as such prospective adopters to witness, firsthand, the [...]
October 19, 2009 – 5:56 pm
Perhaps the biggest local news over the weekend was the Belle of Louisville’s apparent torpedoing at the hands of German U-Boats… What’s that you say, paper of record? Everyone was drunk? And we were not invited?
October 16, 2009 – 2:20 pm
How does a post-industrial community remake itself? Well, it doesn’t hurt to get a bunch of smart people together and force them to compete for the honor. Courtesy of BrokenSidewalk.com:
The Irish Hill Neighborhood Association announced the winners of a design competition intended to generate ideas for an abandoned brownfield sitein the heart of the neighborhood. After a close review of [...]
October 16, 2009 – 12:47 pm
Yesterday at noon, some 30-40 activists, organizers and average citizens gathered to shout truth at the monolithic Humana building in downtown, Louisville with electric bullhorns. Their chief purpose was to call out Mitch McConnell’s allegiance to private health insurers, which is pretty self-evident.
October 14, 2009 – 11:59 pm
Given that a band of guerilla hemp farmers (including the president of hippie-ish soap magnate Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps) was arrested planting cannabis on the lawn of DEA headquarters, the context of yesterday’s announcement by Congressman John Yarmuth, D-3, of federal funding for a community-based approach to the War on Drugs is made all the more [...]
October 8, 2009 – 5:24 pm
Attention idiots: Turn on your computer monitor if you cannot read this question asked by Meghan McCain’s website:
Which metropolis has the most intelligent residents? The Daily Beast crunched the data on the brainpower of America’s 55 largest cities, from first-to-worst. How did your hometown rank?
Collective brainpower. More than sports prowess or political leanings or wealth [...]
October 7, 2009 – 4:00 pm
Chandler Keys, a spokesperson for JBS USA/Swift, has contacted LEO to deflate rumors that his company has plans to augment slaughtering facilities in the Butchertown neighborhood.
“We have no plans for expanding our Louisville plant,” he said in a phone interview, adding that the planned Marshalltown, IA, distribution center isn’t reflective of a broader effort to [...]
