December 11, 2012 - 3:09pm
Financial planner, Matt Dicken, talks retirement with his new book at Barnes & N
That’s a helluva hoppin’ title, isn’t it? Regardless of how well you’ve got life by the reins, maybe a little extra planning is still up your alley. Financial planner, Matt Dicken, has got some thoughts here. Join him at the Summit location of Barnes & Noble this Saturday, December 15th, at 2pm as he presents his new book.
It’s ok.No – really, listen up here because this is a moment that we’re about to have over the internet.  We’re going to have a moment in the way these moments are meant to be had: faceless, nameless and devoid of feedback or acknowledgement.  We’re going to...
December 6, 2012 - 1:27pm
Come to Carmichael’s during Olde Tyme Christmas for a book signing with Kentucky
Presenting his new memoir, ‘Kentucky Cured: Fifty Years in Kentucky Journalism’, the Bluegrass broadcast guru, Al Smith, will be on hand at Carmichael’s Bookstore this Saturday, December 8th, at 1pm. Join him for a special signing as part of Frankfort Avenue’s Olde Tyme Christmas celebration.
I’m going to get existential today, and there is nothing you can do about it – ponder that line for a moment – so, for those who would like to skip the Erin Day in the Erin Day Article, the following is for you:  Al Smith, a local broadcast journalist of Kentucky fame for...
December 5, 2012 - 12:09pm
Storyteller Mary Hamilton spins some spooky Kentucky folktales this weekend at B
Touting her book, ‘Kentucky Folktales: Revealing Stories, Truths, and Outright Lies’, author and storyteller Mary Hamilton will be on hand this Saturday, December 8th, at The Summit Barnes & Noble. Join her at noon for a signing and a spooky reading – just to further the Holiday spirit, of course.
So, downtown was on fire this morning.  That’s good.Disembarking from my TARC bus – my glorious morning steed – brought a haze of heather gray at the corner of 5th and Market, spilling out from the building where Vincenzo’s happens to live.  This was new.  I...
November 12, 2012 - 4:35pm
Steve Wiser presents 'Distinctive Houses of Louisville' at Carmichael's
The pyramids. The Great Wall. The Taj Mahal. Louisville homes. It's all in the same breath, folks. Join Steve Wiser tomorrow, Saturday, November 10th, at Carmichael's Bookstore as he presents his book 'Distinctive Houses of Louisville' at 4pm.
I live in a Distinctive House.  I know because I have legitmate wainscotting.  I know because my ceilings could comfortably house a bull elephant.  I know because there is a plaque bolted into the stone that says so (more or less).  And everybody else seems to know it, too - and...
November 2, 2012 - 1:12pm
Nora Rose Moosnick presents the personal stories of local Arab and Jewish women
You know all those strangers you pass on the streets? They all have life stories. Did that just blow your mind? Join author Nora Rose Moosnick as she shares the lives of Arab and Jewish immigrants in Kentucky at Carmichael’s Bookstore this Sunday, November 4th, at 4pm.
We are such incredibly selfish creatures.  I know because I am also one of them.  When I was very small I remember distinctly having the thought that I was only human being that had those – thoughts.  As in, all the other fleshy shapes of people were little more than husk dolls...