I am not a physician. Nor have I played one on television. But, what would you say if for a $20 copay, I could provide you with a short term antidote for these troubled times. When governance is at a standstill. When contention consumes us daily. When digital Xs & 0s represent a real threat […]
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By Logan Weaver On Saturday, Sept. 26, the Asia Institute-Crane House hosted its fourth annual Asian Night Market at Fourth Street Live! in downtown Louisville, Kentucky. Serving as Louisville’s largest celebration of Asian culture, the event highlight…
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I am not a health professional. I have not played one on television. Nor did I dispense with medical advice during my years of shticking my way through public radio malarkey. But I am today ready for my close up. Willing to share the way I’ve discovered to gain some serenity in this cockamamie world. […]
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They seemed cute enough, a quick sweet smile in the middle of the day. Then the videos got me thinking. The first, maybe you’ve seen it, shows a row of four golden retrievers, who play dead when their owner shoots them with a water gun. They’d be stars on Letterman, I thought when I first […]
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Like a hellhound they are on my trail. The G.L.G.V.F. Greater Louisville Grammar Vigilante Force. Came home from a dinner with friends the other evening and there at my doorstep was a card which read, “READ THIS BOOK.” It was affixed to a copy of Strunk and White’s “The Elements of Style.” All those nightmares […]
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I am going through serious withdrawal. JazzFest is just weeks away. Absent some confluence of miracles, I won’t be there for the second year in a row. After a thirty five year run. The realities of being firmly into my octogenarianism are manifest. As much as it pains, prudence must prevail. But it’s ever on […]
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The story’s been told before. But it’s my favorite about Ray Charles and me. The time I didn’t hear him when I intended to. At JazzFest. As I’ve written many times over, one of the cool daily rituals during Fest has been the krewe gathering in the evening for some sumptuous meal, pulling out our […]
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When I mentioned recently to a fellow rock & roll addict that I’d spent my early morning during breakfast revisiting the great 1987 documentary, “Chuck Berry: Hail! Hail! Rock & Roll,” he wondered how that came about? A long and winding road for certain. Serpentine. As my thought processes tend to be these days. Briefly. […]
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I shall end up with a reveal of my favorite cameo in a rock & roll song, promise. But it shall take some meandering to get there. For context, and certainly appropriate for today’s date, let me start here, with what for me is an indelible if just imagined image. The morning after the plane […]
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By Beth Przybylski With study, research, internship and service-learning opportunities around the world, the University of Louisville’s Office of Education Abroad may be the right spot for students looking to enhance their college experience and stan…
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By Sara Montoya-Obando As Hispanic Heritage Month comes to a close, the University of Louisville wraps up its celebration with the 32nd annual Latin American Film Festival. Dr. Medina, the director of the Latin American Studies Program and founder of t…
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The lede shall not be buried. The sequel to “This is Spinal Tap” is not as good as the original. It happens. There’s only one “Godfather 2.” Only one “Astral Weeks.” Only one “Guernica.” That settled, next question: Should there have been a sequel? After all, the original is a masterwork. It essentially invented the […]
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Impulsive compulsive consumerizer that I am, it doesn’t take much. So, I was toast when the face stared out at me from the ‘zine rack by checkout at Jeff Bezos’ grocery store — purposely there to snare a dude with my predilection. From the way back machine. Someone I haven’t thought about for decades frankly. […]
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Screen door slams/ Mary’s dress sways/ Like a vision she dances across the porch as the radio plays It is the opening line of the opening tune of Bruce Springsteen’s 1975 masterwork of an album, “Born To Run.” A collection of eight short stories no less relevant and seminal than Salinger’s “Nine Stories,” or Joyce’s […]
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My my my generation is one that grew up learning how to dial a rotary phone, which plugged into the wall with wires that ran to a telephone pole outside. Some of us experienced the oddness of family lines, where several households had the same number and could listen in on the others’ calls. True. […]
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