Designed by Joseph Clagg the Kentucky Cutout shirt is just 27 kinds of awesome. I've got to get one and I encourage you to do the same. You can swing into the store to pick one up or you can order online.
The Makery is located at 1617 Bardstown Road.
Image courtesy of The Makery
Bardstown Bound celebrates Summer! Bardstown Road and certain side streets open their doors for some more fun with an evening of sidewalk shopping and singing, sampling, and saving on our City's favorite strip, Bardstown Road. Bars, boutiques and shops host the FIRST event of the year, presenting tastings of local favorite restaurants in boutiques to sidewalk music, many other attractions, LG&E's Louie the Lighting Bug will be on hand to entertain the kids on safety. Walk the corridor on Friday, May 16 2008 from 5:00p-whenever and find Happiness in the Highlands!A few participants: Luna Boutique, Swanson Reed Gallery, Clay & Cotton, Dot Fox, Presents Gallery, ear X-tacy Records, Asiatique, WHY Louisville, We the People, Cherry Bomb, Hal-Lai, Longest Time, Alcott & Bentley, Impellizzeri's, Eden Side Gallery, Days Coffee, Comedy Caravan, Event Design Library & Emporium, Swabek's Highland Fitness, Tree of Life, White Linen Tea Company, Avalon, ArtClub of the Highlands, Bearno's Highlands, Amazing Grace, Le Gallo Rosso Bistro, Bristol Bar & Grille
Friday, May 16, 2008 marks the 10th BB and the 1st of the Year! This 1-night event will offer 15% discounts and showcase the areas most beloved businesses. Discounts on clothing, art, home furnishings, and appetizers provided by Avalon, Bristol Bar & Grille, Bearno's Highlands, Amazing Grace and Le Gallo Rosso Bistro will be featured at the participating boutiques. So shop, taste, drink and enjoy Bardstown Road. The hours of happiness will be from 5:00p -? Bearno's Highlands, Impellizzeri's, Avalon, Bristol Bar & Grille and Asiatique will raise a glass and toast another BBC Bardstown Bound Bubbly Hours to celebrate this evening and offer drink and food specials, including cold BBC Beers and Live Local entertainment.
Participants of this Bardstown Bound event will donate proceeds to benefit the newly opened Gilda's Club of Louisville located in the Highlands. At Gilda's Club you will find support, information, fellowship, laughter, hope and inspiration. Gilda's Club Louisville is a free community where men, women and children who are living with cancer, along with their families and friends, can join with others to build social and emotional support as an essential supplement to their medical care.
The Mayan Cafe will be premiering their special Derby menu. "The Mayan Cafe will be offering our Special Derby Menu on May 2! Start your meal with such delights as a chilled Squash Bisque or a Derby Salad with arugula, strawberries, jicama & Oaxaca cheese in a mint vinaigrette. For our entrees, we will be offering a Beef Tenderloin in our mole sauce and a Pan-seared Salmon filet encrusted with pistachios in a pomegranate cream sauce, as well as several other dishes. Be sure to save room for dessert to try our Sweet Crepe with fresh mangos & mascarpone cheese in a rhubarb sauce or our Blood Orange Flan."
"St. John United Church of Christ opens its doors at 7:00 pm. Everyone is welcome to tour our sanctuary. Outside, Terry Birkhead and his drumming group will perform."
Carr-Waite Studio , 221 S. Hancock Recent work by Caroline Waite and Geoff Carr. Opening Friday, May 2, 6-9 pm.
Saturday April 19, 2008Rainbow Blossom Natural Food Markets has taken the run of the mill health fair and given it a 'healthy' twist. Now in its third year, Blossom Into Health is an annual event created to educate the community about the many ways to maintain and improve health outside of, or along with, conventional Western medicine. Some of the areas top alternative health care practitioners will be gathered at Rainbow Blossom's St. Matthews Market-3738 Lexington Road-on Saturday, April 19th from 12 - 4 PM, providing visitors the opportunity to learn about new ways to stay healthy and to visit with providers on a one to one basis. Fair goers will also be able to sample various products, enter to win gift baskets and take home a Red Maple sapling in celebration of Earth Day.
Health fairs, ranging from corporations looking to keep their workforce fit to those geared towards free-health care screening for those in need, are commonplace in America. Blossom Into Health takes a different approach. "Now more than ever customers are looking for new ways to take control of their own health," says Summer Auerbach, Vice President of Rainbow Blossom. "We're always looking ways to educate our customers about good health and found that the health fair is a great way to do this. Not only do those that attend get to learn about the different treatment options that are available, they also get to meet the practitioners face to face-this gives them a real feel for both the therapy and the practitioner."
Visitors will have the chance to talk to a wide assortment of practitioners. These include Chiropractor TJ White, Food Addiction specialist Cherly Ades, Occupational Kinetic's Dr. Eric DeYoung, Rolfer Chance Mobley and more. For those with pets, Holistic Veterinarian Betty Boswell will be in attendance to talk about alternative therapies for the furry and feathered friends that share their lives.
Noon-4PM
Rainbow Blossom
3738 Lexington Rd.
Louisville, KY 40207
(502) 896-0189
In any case I'm kind of excited about the Burt's Bees seminar at Rainbow Blossom this Saturday April 12, 2008. Any event that gives me free samples from companies I already gets a check mark by "winner" in my book.
Burt's Bees Seminar
Saturday April 12, 2008
12:30PM
Rainbow Blossom
3738 Lexington Rd.
Louisville, KY 40207
(502) 896-0189
What do get when you mix honey, an old one-room school house and a dream? Burt's Bees, of course. From its humble beginning back in 1984, Burt's Bees has experience phenomenal growth and is now one of the largest and most well-known natural personal care manufacturers in America. Rainbow Blossom's St. Matthews Market, 3738 Lexington Rd. is pleased to host Burt's Bees for a consumer seminar on Saturday, April 12th at 12:30 PM.
Those attending the seminar will learn about new products, have a chance to sniff and try out samples, talk to a knowledgeable Burt's Bees representative about their favorite products along with taking home a goodie bag full of free samples.
"The Kentucky Kids Consignment Louisville 2008 Spring Sale will be in the American Legion Highland Hall at 2919 Bardstown Rd. We'll be open for shopping on Saturday, March 15 from 9 AM to 6 PM and Sunday, March 16 from 10 AM to 1 PM with many items half-price. Clear out the clutter and bring home the bargains with Kentucky Kids Consignment Sales!Kids are expensive, so I'm told, so this might be a good opportunity to pick up some good stuff on the cheap and to unload some of the stuff your kids don't play with/have outgrown.
We'll have thousands of items including spring and summer clothing (sizes from preemie to boys 20 and girls juniors), shoes, accessories, books, toys, games, strollers, furniture, scrapbooking supplies, and much, much more! We're still accepting sellers & volunteer workers. Sellers earn at least 70% on their items and workers get to SHOP FIRST!"
Kentucky Kids Consignment Sale
Saturday March 15, 2008 9AM-6PM, Sunday March 16, 2008 10AM-1PM
American Legion Highland Hall
2919 Bardstown Road
Louisville, KY
Steve over at Louisville History and Issues is very enthusiastic about this event so I'm going to quote him: "I'm telling you folks, Kentucky Crafted is quickly becoming the hottest public event of the year in Louisville! This is THE place to sample and purchase all sorts of Kentuckyfood products, meet and greet Kentucky authors, and peruse all sorts of crafts made by people right here in Kentucky. This is the ultimate "Buy Local" event! I've already gone for two years straight, and I give this show the highest recommendation.
Now, Business First is reporting that the Southeast Tourism Society has named Crafted: The Market" as one of the top 20 events in the Southeast this winter! "Every quarter, the Atlanta-based organization selects 20 of the top events for each season and publishes them in more than 300 newspapers, magazines, radio and TV stations and in 125 AAA publications, according to a news release."
Kentucky Crafted: The Market 2008
Saturday, March 8, 2008
9:00 am to 6:00 pm
Sunday, March 9, 2008
10:00 am to 5:00 pm (EST)
South Wing B
Kentucky Exposition Center
Louisville, Kentucky
$1 off admission coupon (PDF)
From the press release
The sale will feature all categories of books from mysteries to children's books, history, cookbooks, reference books & movies. 12,000+ books will be offered for sale. Books are priced at $2.00 for hardcover, $1.00 for trade paperbacks, and .50 for regular paperbacks, with a few special or antiquarian books priced higher. At the end of the sale on Sunday from 2:00-4:30 p.m. books will be sold by the bag for $10.00.Locust Grove
Book appraiser Charles Bartman will do free book appraisals on Saturday at 2 p.m. Please limit to two books per person. NEW this year will be a Silent Auction, on Saturday from 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. featuring unusual, valuable and antiquarian books.
561 Blankenbaker Lane
Louisville, KY 40207
An auction is a great way to support good organizations because they get your money and you get some kind of actual good or service. You know, you get more than that warm fuzzy feeling. Items up for bid include all kinds of great stuff like lunch for two at Limestone, a Sonoma-Cutrer Wine Basket, private knitting lessons, Spanish lessons, logo design (from Doe Anderson!), tennis lessons, front row behind home plate seats for a Louisville Bats game and a metric ton of other gifts.
Online bidding will begin this morning February 25, 2008 at 9:00 AM, Eastern Standard Time and will end March 14, 2008.
A new gourmet grocery will soon open downtown, thanks in part to a loan from Louisville Metro Government.
The Gourmet Market at Theatre Square will offer a full-service meat counter, groceries and perishable items when it opens this spring inside the historic Kentucky Theatre. Owners George Stinson, Ed D. Lewis and Eric J. Haner received a $50,000 forgivable loan from the Louisville Metro Business Development Corp.
The owners are renovating the theatre, on Fourth Street near the Brown Hotel, into a retail center that includes a florist, an upscale wine/liquor shop and a Nancy's Bagels store.
This has got to be exciting news for downtown residents and even people who work downtown. I do hope though that they cater to downtown residents (meaning being open more than 9-5, including weekends). The convenience of having a grocery, florist, small liquor store and a bagel shop on Fourth Street will be significant I would think for downtown residents.
Not exactly my scene though the way I need clothes and accessories it should be. Maybe I can hire someone to be my guide to this world.
Thursday, February 28, 2008
6-10PM
$10 in advance
$15 at the door
Order advanced tickets through Underwired's website
Mellwood Arts & Entertainment Center
Ballroom #1,
1860 Mellwood Ave
Louisville, KY
Huge Deals, Fabulous Finds, Upscale and Exclusive
Bring your best gals and shop till you drop with music, giveaways, food and samplings of Italian wines. And remember, CASH IS KING (some vendors will be accepting credit cards).
Every month we pick an artist that we admire or think deserves to have their work seen around the city. That artist then creates a piece of artwork that is printed on postcards and posters and distributed around the city for all of us to enjoy. The artist gets some money and the city gets a work of art in the voice of that artist. There are no restrictions on the art that is produced, only that it reflects the vision of that particular artist.
We may choose for that piece of art to be distributed in other ways, like tshirts or beer cubbies. We'll sell those in hopes that we can keep this project alive indefinitely.
Four Roses Flower Hour
Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2008 6-8 p.m.
Nanz & Kraft Florist
141 Breckenridge Lane
St. Matthews
Teddy just left a comment letting us know that is in fact the case:
Threads is in the process of being bought and by the weekend will officially be saved with hopes of a reopener on Feb 9th with a few fresh changes many of the old store staying the same that we all have grown to love with continuing the Family TraditionExcellent. I for one am very happy to hear this news. Bardstown Road just wouldn't be the same without Grateful Threads.
The highlight of the theme is the Mardi Gras Ball at the Mellwood Art Center featuring food, drinks and lots of entertainment.
Other events include Tarot Card Reading at Crescent Hill Gallery, Mardi Gras Music at Margarets Consignment and Collectibles, Live jazz from the Jeff Sherman Band at Varanese and music and wine tasting at The Wine Rack.
Small Bites: The Snack Institute $10 Art Show
Friday January 25, 2008
8:00PM
2900 Frankfort Avenue
Louisville, KY
That shirt is a fine example of the superior quality materials our friends from Lebowski Fest have sent out into the world. You should buy one. You might also considering buying a sticker or other Abide materials.
All this reminds us that the 7th Annual Lebowski Fest is happening July 11 and 12, 2008 here in Louisville. Being the 7th annual event here in Louisville is cool enough but when you consider this year is the 10th anniversary of the film's release, well then you know that excellence will abound.
At the Louisville is for Lovers website you can pre-order the CD as well as listen to tracks from it.
Grateful Threads Lives! Click here for information on the grand reopening.It's with great sadness I pass on the news that Grateful Threads is closing. I know the owner was trying to sell the business but that must not have panned out since everything, including displays and fixtures, is for sale at 30-50%.
Head down there and grab a piece of Highlands history. Seriously, that stretch of Bardstown Road won't be the same without Grateful Threads.
There will be representatives from other local businesses of interest to women but most interestingly there will be bra fittings, shoe fittings, fitness and wellness topics, injury advice and more. Proper bra fitting is one of the great mysteries in life particularly getting good sports bras. So all active women and women looking to become more active should definitely swing by.
The first 40 women to RSVP will receive a gift bag and there will be wine, cheese and chocolate.
Fleet Feet Louisville
1500 Bardstown Road
Louisville, KY
479-8786
Also, events that give me free samples of local organic food? Always high on my to do list.
"Want to “go green” but just don’t know where to begin? Then stop by Rainbow Blossom’s Greening Your Home! Whether you want to start small - simple choices to create an energy efficient home, using chemical-free cleaners, making ‘greener’ food choices - or if you want to make bigger changes, we’ ll have experts from around Kentuckiana on hand to assist you. While getting practical tips to ‘green up’ your living space sample organic, local foods and other products. We’ ll also be raffling off an electric, zero emission scooter. From learning how to compost your kitchen waste to building a house made of straw, this event is a one stop resource for “greening” your home and your life!"
January 12, 2008 Noon-4PM
Rainbow Blossom
3738 Lexington Rd.
Louisville, KY 40207
(502) 896-0189
2. Just in case you don't already know the Eddie Bauer store in Oxmoor Mall is closing. All remaining merchandise (and there is still some pretty decent stuff left at this point) 25-40% off the lowest marked price. I got two pairs of jeans and a sweatshirt for under $50 today.
Gift ideas include golf passes, Metro Art Classes gift certificates, campground season passes, swimming pool memberships, park and museum stores gift certificates and more. There are some really good suggestions so check it out.
Photographer Bill Carner will sign copies of last December's most sought after book, Louisville Then and Now.Carmichael's Bookstore
Randy West, editor and photographer for the Corydon Democrat, will sign copies of his book of photographs of the people and places of Harrison County, Indiana.
And last, but clearly not least, we'll have Culture Maven C.D. Kaplan, who will sign copies of his fabulously annotated and imminently practical calendar 2008 History Warp Day Planner.
2720 Frankfort Avenue
Louisville, KY 40206
502-896-6950
Regalo on Market
636 E. Market
Louisville, KY
In addition to being able to buy affordable art you'll also be able to enjoy live holiday music from Leigh Ann Yost, Kathleen Hoye and others
Saturday December 15, 2007
6PM-10PM
The Pigment Gallery at The Mellwood Art Center
Mellwood Art Center
1860 Mellwood Avenue
Louisville, KY
List of participating artists after the jump
Churchill Downs has released "Kentucky Derby 133," a 96-page coffee-table book that chronicles this year's race. The book is a collection of text written by by John Asher, vice president of racing communications for Churchill Downs and photographs.
Asher and Calvin Borel, the winning jockey of the 2007 Kentucky
Derby will be on the book signing circuit this weekend, hitting a different retail store each day to sign copies of the book.
Friday December 14, at 7PM Barnes & Noble at The Summit shopping center
Saturday, Dec. 15, at 2PM Borders on
Shelbyville Road
Sunday December 16 1PM A Taste of
Kentucky in Mall St. Matthews
via Business First
Old Town Wine and Spirits
1529 Bardstown Road
Louisville, KY 40205
Phone : 502-451-8591
The Highlands VIP Card isn't the "Louisville independent business gift card" that the lady in the post office imagined but maybe it's a step in that direction.
The card costs $20 and is available for purchase online.The Highlands VIP membership card gives you exclusive member savings, discounts and special privileges at more than 100 of Highlands businesses.
First there's the aforementioned opening party at Gallery NuLu for Gibbs Rounsavall.
Glassworks is making holiday shopping easy with "The sale of the year that you don't want to miss! Glassworks artists sell their "not quite perfect" pieces for great bargains!
Market on Market presents Ceramics by Charles Hansen & Photography by Ross Gordon
Sadly Ray of Light is going out of business at the end of the year but for First Friday shoppers that means really good deals. Starting tomorrow, December 7, 2007 40% will be taken off everything in the store
Steelskin Gallery is having their second annual "Art as Gift" sale
Paul Paletti Gallery will have a collection of photographs from Cirque de Soleil
Derby City Espresso is having an opening for Tim Faulkner's paintings, a painter from New Orleans who moved here after Katrina. DCE is also having a free beer tasting hosted by the BBC Tap Room and the Pouchak doing providing live jazz music.
Speaking of Tim Faulkner his new gallery, Tim Faulkner Gallery will be open from 6-9PM. Located on the second floor of 815 E. Market Street the gallery's first show features paintings by Faulkner and Indianapolis artist Quincy Owens.
Olmsted Parks Conversancy will be on hand to provide gift wrapping for a nominal donation. They will also be offering gift memberships at a special reduced rate - available only through Rainbow Blossom - at the Fair and throughout the holiday season.
Rainbow Blossom
3738 Lexington Rd.
Louisville, KY 40207
(502) 896-0189
Thanks Steve for the reminder.
On Saturday December 15 , 2007 from 11AM-3PM at the St. Matthews location of Rainbow Blossom Tibetan Monks from the Drepung Gomang Institute will be blessing gifts, both wrapped and unwrapped. Volunteers will be on hand to wrap any unwrapped gifts.
Blessing and gift wrapping is free though I suspect donations will be appreciated.
Rainbow Blossom
3738 Lexington Rd.
Louisville, KY 40207
(502) 896-0189
In addition to being able to buy affordable art you'll also be able to enjoy live holiday music from Leigh Ann Yost, Kathleen Hoye and others
Saturday December 15, 2007
6PM-10PM
The Pigment Gallery at The Mellwood Art Center
Mellwood Art Center
1860 Mellwood Avenue
Louisville, KY
List of participating artists after the jump
