Jenni Laidman's Articles | Louisville.com

WDRB's Bill Lamb takes out the competition [Feature]

In case you haven't noticed, WDRB's Bill Lamb likes making major statements, most of which he unloads on his "Point of View" news segments. But the biggest recent statement was snatching two top sports columnists Rick Bozich and Eric Crawford from the pages of the Courier-Journal.
Donley's Sculptures at Zephyr Gallery quietly demand attention [Visual art]

This musician/artist turns curb-side finds into wall-mounted sculptures. Patrick Donley's work is on exhibit in NuLu this month,
Because UofL Women's basketball is the best bargain in town (why basketball in Kentucky is just better) [Louisville Magazine]

At University of Louisville women’s basketball games, I sit where I can watch head coach Jeff Walz. All by himself, he is worth the price of admission. He gets excited. About everything. If basketball is a dance, he is the prima ballerina — arms in the air one moment, hands on hips the next. Lips twisted for a growl. Shouting, shouting, shouting! Yet when U of L made a video of him inviting students to use the school’s new online course-evaluation program, he read from a script. Way boring.
Fixing Broken Hearts [Louisville Magazine]

A University of Louisville medical-research team is in the thick of a worldwide race to come up with a cell-replacement cure for the nation's number-one killer: heart disease.
Coming Clean on Coal [Environment]

At the center of the debate is the question: How are we going to get to the middle of this century?
Never mind counter protests, greet the Westboro Baptist Church with a dance party [News]

Stage a celebration that accepts that good people can’t ignore the Westboro tribe, yet subversively aggressively ignores them. My suggestion: A dance party.
Downs forever: Will Churchill Downs become the Cup's permanent home? [Breeders' Cup]

Breeders’ Cup planners suffered Kentucky Derby envy. Or perhaps Kentucky Derby intimidation is a better diagnosis. That’s why it took five years to bring the Cup to Churchill Downs.
Horse medicine: Veterinary care for race horses [Breeders' Cup]

Because every state establishes its own rules for racing, including veterinary care, the Breeders’ Cup has to announce and enforce its strict veterinary standards wherever the meet is held, demanding a fully equipped trauma center as well as two state-of-the-art equine ambulances.
Flying horses: How foreign race horses get to Churchill Downs [Breeders' Cup]

You can fit 45 Thoroughbreds on a DC-8. But horses crossing an ocean to race in the Breeders’ Cup have more legroom than some of the fans who flew into Louisville this week.
Champions of the world: Breeders' Cup facts and figures [Breeders' Cup]

Here’s a strong field of facts and figures to help Derby-centric race fans better understand the international ins and outs of the Breeders’ Cup.
Pick me! Pick me! How a horse gets into the Breeders' Cup [Breeders' Cup]

Say you’re a horse. An ambitious horse. How would you, a fleet-footed quadruped, sign up to run in the Breeders’ Cup?
UofL microbiologist Colleen Jonsson, Center for Predictive Medicine battle future infectious threats [Fitness and health]

This is biology’s inner sanctum, soon to be home to Louisville’s most dangerous inhabitants, lined up in tiny tubes inside locked freezers. There will be bubonic plague, and hantavirus.

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