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Unbroken: A Tortoise's Tale of Survival
Photos by Mickie Winters He runs a little water in the tub before he picks up Spike by the sides of his shell. One hundred and thirty-five pounds is a lot of tortoise, but William Duncan’s big arms,...
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I'm Your Surprise: Louisville's Personalized Telegrammer
Photos by Aaron Kingsbury Today Denise Mattingly is someone easy to be, or at least easy to look like, so she gets up only a few hours early, at 4:30 a.m. She draws her shiny brown hair into pigtails...
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The Day Louisville OD'd
Photo by Mickie Winters August 30: The first of them came in around 3 p.m. Three, maybe four men. After everything that happened that day, it’s hard to remember which patients arrived together. In a...
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Louisville's Canvas of Champions
Photos by Chris Witzke It’d be easy to say that Richard Sullivan looks like a living Greek statue, only taller, stronger in the jaw and blond. But that would lack vision, something Sullivan has in...
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For Rent, Again: The Struggle To Keep A Roof Overhead On Low Income
Cover Image: Stacie Oates has been evicted multiple times; photo by Terrence Humphrey A little bluff of spilled sugar dusts one corner of the kitchen table, grains of sweetness just along the edges of...
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5 Local Artists on Painting the Ponies
JAIME CORUMWebsite | Facebook I’ve talked to trainers, jockeys, gamblers, equine vets. But I don’t think I’ve met anyone who understands the anatomy of horses as well as Jaime Corum. The 43-year-old...
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Bit to Do: Freak Out on a Rollercoaster
Photos by Mickie Winters Web editor Dylon Jones loves rollercoasters. They terrify senior writer Anne Marshall. Who better to be the first people (other than Kentucky Kingdom employees) to ride the new...
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Bringing Baseball Back
Photos by Adam Mescan “Play ball!” coach yells. They try. They are 10 or 9, all mixed up, size-wize — some hitting growth spurts, some too short for their small bats, some a bit mom-says-I’m-husky,...
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Forever Young: A Morning with Julius Friedman
On Sunday, well-known Louisville artist Julius Friedman died. He had leukemia. Last year, Friedman showed us his 50-year retrospective at the Frazier History Museum. His youthful air inspired us to...
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The Beat Goes On
Music therapist Brian Schreck turns heartbeats into songs. Photos by Terrence Humphrey Angie Woodward brings a different friend with her each time she goes to chemo at the Norton Cancer Center downtown...
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The Ghosts of Rose Island
The path leading down below the Devil’s Backbone begins like a simple question, innocuously, with a comfortable downward slope, only a slight implication of the descent to come. Thistle thorns up...
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Will It Bourbon? Ben & Jerry's Urban Bourbon Ice Cream
Will It Bourbon? I ate the whole pint in one sitting. Doesn't that speak for itself? Nobody needs me to tell them that ice cream is good, or that Ben & Jerry’s generally gets it right. And since it...
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Are your dog's chakras out of whack? Call this vet.
It’s about 20 minutes until Dr. Sabra Saint Germain’s next appointment in her veterinary office in the back of the Barkstown Road pet supply store on Frankfort Avenue, and she’s sitting at a desk,...
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Matt Bevin joked about weed and casinos. Which gave us an idea...
On Terry Meiners’ WHAS radio show this fall, Gov. Matt Bevin was asked about the state’s pension crisis and whether he would ever consider legalizing marijuana as a way to generate revenue for the...
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Veteran Volunteers as "Foster Grandpa"
Illustration by Kendall Regan “Who can tell me what a veteran is?” says the teacher, Denisa Johnson. She perches on a stool in the middle of the classroom, looking down with wide wise-owl eyes at the...
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Tattoos On a Bus
A couple years ago at a tattoo convention, Ramon Taylor had an idea. Artists were buzzing ink into skin all over the place, no tattoo shop necessary. “OK,” he thought. “That’s dope.” If they could work...
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The State of the Fourth Estate
Cover Photo: Fleischaker (left) and Barton. // by Mickie Winters If you’re one of the roughly 600 people Gov. Matt Bevin has blocked on Facebook and Twitter, you might not keep up with how he uses the...
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Dave Caudill Wants to Leave a Fingerprint on the City — Literally
Photo by Mickie Winters In rural Achocalla, on the outskirts of La Paz in Bolivia, a god is imprinting a fingerprint into the earth. It’s about 102 feet wide and 134 feet long, the swirling print made...
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On the Road with Louisville’s Dead Animal Removal Team
Illustration by Kendall Regan They see the dog from maybe half a mile away. Lee Crenshaw pulls the big white truck over to the side of the Greenbelt Highway in southwestern Jefferson County, a hotspot...
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Can OneWest bring development to west Louisville?
Photos by Mickie Winters Evon Smith didn’t usually respond to that kind of email, several of which she got a year. The 52-year-old had worked in banking. She’d tackled community- and...
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The La’Nita Rocknettes School of Dance is En Pointe
Photos by Jessica Ebelhar Everyone standing in the circle is waiting for Harlina Churn. It’s about 6 p.m., and the students and several teachers from both the River City Drum Corps and the La’Nita...
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Kentucky Goes Orchestral at the Festival of American Music
Photos by Adam Mescan Remember those beef commercials from the ’90s, where a family sat down to an artery-packing meal and a narrator said in a deep voice, “Beef: It’s what’s for dinner”? If I’m not...
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3 New Downtown Bars for Derby Weekend
Photos by Jessica Ebelhar THE LIMBO411 W. Chestnut St. When Olivia Griffin decided to open a tiki bar around the corner from the hat shop she owns on South Fourth Street, she wanted something...
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Staff Derby Picks
I’ve been to the backside every day this week — watching workouts through binoculars, wandering from barn to barn in search of a betting edge — and I still have no clue which horses I’m putting in my...
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This Artist Can Make Anything a Disco Ball
He’s working on this old green F-150, the same kind of truck his dad drove when he met him the first time, the same kind of truck he learned to drive in. There’s a hole by the hood where the antennae...
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My Brightest Diamond and Tune-Yards Make Headliners Holy
You don’t see her at first, but once you do, you won’t be able to take your eyes off her. You are distracted just now; the drummer’s onstage, smacking one drum at a time, like he’s doing a sound check,...
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Studyin’ and Stylin’ at Tri-City Barber College
Steve Kennedy is a big man. When he talks, people listen. “Who’s open?” he says, raising his voice over the low hum of conversation. He has owned the Tri-City Barber College since 1989, and tells me...
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The Stage Awaits
Photos by Mickie Winters Maybe the bird flew in last winter. It must have been here at least that long, up in the old balcony, stage left. All of it gone now but the delicate architecture of its bones,...
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Digging History in Portland (Literally)
The past is coming up slowly, and with great effort, a few feet at a time. Each morning for the last couple of months or so, Danny Seim has been digging up dirt and grass along North 26th and...
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Louisville’s Next Big Band Has a Song Called ‘Vaccines Made Me Gay’
Your ears are the first to go. The amps blow them clean off your head and onto the wall behind you, where they hang suspended in the force. Next are your eyes. In the center of the crowd your heat...
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