Thursday, April 18, 2013

Clip art mania: Compare and contrast posters.

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Above: 2013. Below: 2012.

From house to garden

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Top photo via GR; bottom one by the senior editor. The badly decayed house came down in the summer of 2012, and the East Spring Street...
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Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Boz Scaggs finds "Love on a Two-Way Street." But can New Albany?

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Written by Sylvia Robinson, performed by Boz Scaggs on his new album, Memphis .

Tricentennially speaking, the Culbertson Mansion is "the jewel of New Albany."

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I'm delighted to confirm NABC's official partnership with the Culbertson Mansion for its Garden Party on June 1, at which we'll ...

I'll see your bicentennial, and raise you a Tricentennial. Whatcha got?

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In 2013, New Albany celebrates its 200th birthday, and obviously, a bicentennial is a once-in-a-lifetime event. Consequently, it would...
Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Do it for the Bicentennial, Bob.

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John Gonder forcefully advocates two-way streets and traffic calming.

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I considered planting this link in the preceding story , but CM Gonder's firm advocacy of two-way streets, traffic calming and a pro...

Two-way streets, and whether at long last we might finally get them back.

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These administration responses to Daniel Suddeath's questions admittedly push most of the right buttons, and that's promising. ...

Curtis Morrison and the curious case of adult supervision at Insider Louisville.

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Dear Terry, Seriously? Might a wee bit of this "adult supervision" be advisable for some of your other Insider Louisville ...
Monday, April 15, 2013

Lots to consider in the Merchant Mixer/Downtown Business Owners minutes; next meeting is on April 24.

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Thanks to Larry Ricke for taking notes. If you're doing business downtown, please come to the breakfast meeting at Bank Street Brewhouse...

Food and drink, restaurants and bars: Meeting on Monday, May 6.

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A few independent downtown food and drink purveyors got together last week to discuss steps toward a more formal arrangement -- perhaps an ...

"Jubilee Street," by Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds.

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Another fine album ( Push the Sky Away ) from the man whose poetic grasp of life's underbelly is disturbing and yet highly moving. I...
Sunday, April 14, 2013

Live at Five to be reinvented and moved to Bicentennial Park for 2013.

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The Green Mouse has learned that the city's Friday evening concert series will undergo a few changes for 2013. The shows will remain o...

Rosen visits River City Winery and is quite pleased.

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The C-J's free-lancing food writer Marty Rosen likes River City Winery. The Confidential household does, too. The crab cakes aren’t ...

From The March to Fear Itself.

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E. L. Doctorow’s 2006 novel The March is historical fiction, a genre I tend to avoid, having always preferred my history straight, not imag...
Saturday, April 13, 2013

Because someone needs to do it, Terry Boyd explores "U of L, the public school with no sense of civic responsibility."

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By now, you may have guessed that I have a bit of a love-hate relationship with Insider Louisville . Some of the pieces are entirely appropr...

Your Israel "La Rosita" Landin update for April.

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I unexpectedly ran into Israel Landin earlier in the week. Israel told me he's navigating the bankruptcy waters and trying to get debts ...
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"It Starts and Ends with You."

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An early contender for my official "sweeping hooks" song of Spring, 2013, and a big thanks to Bluegill for directing my atten...
Friday, April 12, 2013

"Indiana-centric" merchandise coming to downtown, courtesy of Regalo.

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Hmm, perhaps that's why Hoosier Daddy didn't sell so well in Louisville? Construction has resumed at the corner of Pearl and Marke...

Kotkin versus Florida.

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Good reading in this point-counterpoint from the Daily Beast . Richard Florida Concedes the Limits of the Creative Class , by Joel Kotkin ...
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