Monday, May 19, 2014

SoIn previews the Boomtown Ball.

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A consortium of downtown restaurant and bar operators have spent quite a lot of time preparing for next Sunday's Boomtown show, both ...
Sunday, May 18, 2014

LIBA's Buy Local Fair is at Water Tower Park today, and NABC beers will be there.

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Coming on the heels of NABC's dominating 11-keg performance at RiverRoots on Friday and Saturday, we're equally delighted to be a pa...

Cuts for a Cure: Roger's hair will disappear on Friday, May 23 at Strandz & Threadz.

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On Friday, May 23, the ponytail is coming off, and I'm getting a utilitarian haircut with considerable metaphorical properties. The ac...
Saturday, May 17, 2014

Why do you think politicians like roads and bridges so much?

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This article gives whole new meaning to considerations of the usual suspects. The impact of public officials’ corruption on the size and ...

As symposiarch, I intend to guide the conversation. We'll need an agora, or Lloyd's Landing.

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You may recall that I attended a symposium earlier in the year , and now, after a nudge from the Bookseller, I've come to the conclus...

Footsteps in cement, from Sarajevo to Bank Street.

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When I saw the footsteps (since ineptly "repaired" by Vectren's hired street assassins) ...  ... in front of Muscle Monke...
Friday, May 16, 2014

The best fate ever for Bob Caesar's crown jewel.

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As it has been explained to me by a city official, the verdant green mounds scattered through Bicentennial Park are what happens when a n...

Historic home for sale in Georgetown. DNA probably approves this message.

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From this ... ... to this. Among other things , the past few weeks have been spent transitioning my mom into her new assisted livi...

Keith Olbermann on Tommy John surgeries ... and all about Steve Dalkowski.

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To put it mildly, this story goes all over the place. Let's start with a commentary yesterday by Keith Olbermann on ESPN :  Video: All...
Thursday, May 15, 2014

ON THE AVENUES: Changes in latitude, changes in attitude.

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ON THE AVENUES: Changes in latitude, changes in attitude. A weekly web column by Roger A. Baylor. I’ve never thought of myself as a ga...

Brčko.

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Perhaps the Balkans have held such enduring fascination to me precisely because of the excerpted sentence from the article below: "Bosn...
Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Municipal hypocrisy shifts into unmistakable gear with 20 mph speed limit on Rosenbarger Allee, sidewalk repair rationalization.

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Where the rest of us live. Wes Christmas thought it through, and now the traffic displaced from Main will "whiz" even faster ...

Just like ours, "The World Cup slogans are a mess."

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World Cup slogans? I had no idea, although NABC has a World Cup Trilogy coming in June . Just imagine how some of these might slogans be...

"The bleak future facing many parts of rural America is enough to make you weep – or get to work."

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I confess to thinking little about the rural side of the story, primarily because I harbor no desire to be rural. But one can't help thi...
Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Updated: Steve Coomes on Bank Street Brewhouse's reinvention.

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I spoke with Steve Coomes at length, because he gets things right. It might be easier for me to post first, and comment later. At the moment...

Changes coming at NABC’s Bank Street Brewhouse.

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Just the facts for now. Here is the press release making the rounds, explaining that Bank Street Brewhouse henceforth will be a taproom a...

One surreal afternoon at a rental property on Spring Street.

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There was a weird occurrence about a week ago. At 3:00 a.m., an ambulance and three fire trucks loudly converged on the rental property d...
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Monday, May 12, 2014

On Mac Spainhour and the independents.

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On the same day as a meaningless, hegemonic two-party partisan primary financed by the 87% skipping it, Mac Spainhour declared for Clark Co...
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Speeding as it is facilitated by the city's street design.

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New Albany's one-way streets are built to encourage lawlessness, to which the city responds by utterly flaccid enforcement, issuing as m...
Sunday, May 11, 2014

Here is how the ABA's Kentucky Colonels lead to the NBA and Donald Sterling, and it isn't pretty.

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Bear with me. I'll begin with an article that isn't about sports, but opens with a look back at the scene almost 40 years ago when t...