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Listen in this week as Rusty Satellite is on the road meeting two more of the most interesting people in the ‘Ville — first stop is Ed Hart’s office in the Highlands, where we learn all about the new and improved Kentucky Kingdom that opens for business in the spring. Hart talks about the...
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If you haven’t listened, here are links to the last two Rusty Satellite Shows. David Jones Jr. and Smith Haynie Mark Carter and Emily Gimmel
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David Jones Jr. began his talk at the Breakfast of Champions event by harkening back to his first job -- as a schoolteacher in China. From there he proceeded to inform an audience of about 60 at the University Club about the crisis that is our education system and the urgent need for change.
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On the north side of Main, at the Frazier History Museum, it was the preview reception for “Hugh Haynie: The Art of Opinion”. Across Main, at the Slugger Museum, it was the preview exhibition for the 10th annual Auction, where Cal Ripken Jr. was receiving a Lifetime Legend award.
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I was a little worried about taking a portrait of John Nation, who has only done a few thousand really professional shots of all sorts of famous people during three-plus decades as a professional photographer. Thankfully, he suggested the pose here outside the Louisville.am studios with his most recent project, 100 Fascinating Louisville Women....
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The date of Halloween is Oct. 31. On that date, children dress up in costumes, knock on the doors of their neighbors, yell 'Trick or Treat" and merrily collect bags of candy. Now when I was dressing up as a pirate in the South End, our biggest fear was that some sicko would insert...
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Our friends over at LouisvilleBeer.com – Louisville’s craft beer destination for news, reviews, calendar of beer-related events and now podcasts, just posted their latest podcast: This week, another Scott-free episode results in bring in two local beer geeks, Matt Fravert and Mason Wiseman.  These fellas discuss the art of beer trading, how to convince...
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If you haven't driven around downtown lately, I recommend you call up Tyler Allen and let him whip you through the bridge construction debris and listen in as he tells you about all the mistakes made along the way, how Jerry Abramson insulted him and how he really believed the city would adopt the...
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This week’s Rusty Satellite Show gave me a chance to visit the Derby Museum for a mid-afernoon bourbon tasting. Fred Minnick definitely knows his whiskey, and it got him a cool new job over there as “bourbon Authority.” The Derby Museum, attempting to capitalize on the popularity of bourbon, has created a special room...
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I was tailgating in the parking lot. Perfect weather, good friends, tasty food, a challenging yet thoroughly beatable opponent warming up a half-mile north. These Cards, this group of players and coaches, seemed to be the ones that were going to get us all giddy, to get the University of Louisville, of all schools,...
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