Nov 15, 2011

“Drinking should be done in the privacy of one’s own home — where it’s necessary.” -Phil (Abe Vigoda) Fish, on “Barney Miller” Last week I shuffled down to the drug store to buy a tube of toothpaste, and while waiting at the corner to cross the street, a Wal-mart semi-trailer truck came barreling toward the intersection. There...

Nov 14, 2011

Nothing breaks up the holiday grind better than a great beer (or lots of ‘em) and there’s no better place to imbibe on December 3rd than at the Highlands Beer Festival at Mid City Mall. This is the third year for ValuMarket’s overwhelmingly popular indoor beer festival and this year’s event is shaping up to be the best yet. The Highlands Beer Festival...

Nov 12, 2011

Cropped Out is a locally and independently developed music festival set to take place in Louisville, KY on the second weekend of November 2011. The fest is designed to highlight the creative efforts of Louisville natives, friends, family, and fellow thinkers from Nashville to Chicago to Brooklyn and beyond. Since the earliest baby breaths of punk from within...

Nov 3, 2011

Pint/Counter Pint was created out of necessity when Adam Watson (Against the Grain Brewery) wrote a loving response to the first Baylor on Beer article, Know your Enemy, written by Roger Baylor (New Albanian Brewing Company). At first we laughed whole-heartedly and admired the conviction and stance of both parties, and then we thought, “Hey, wait a minute…...

Nov 1, 2011

We went for a stroll last Sunday and passed one of those fly-by-night evangelistic churches, this one occupying an old shotgun house. A man I’d never seen before waved as we passed, and he called out, “One of these Sundays, why don’t you come to church with us?” I thought about it, and answered: “Sure, as long as you’ll come to my church with me.”...