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This week’s issue features all things marriage and bridal. Marriage is such a special bond between two people. I am lucky to be married to Jonathan for 17 years and counting. It has made my life so much better that I get to have my partner and best friend by my side. I hope everyone can be as lucky as me to find their true soul mate.

For our centerpiece of the issue, Voice-Tribune Chief Photographer Chris Humphreys and Style Editor Lori Kommor journeyed to Walnut Way Farm in Shelbyville to capture images of beautiful brides. The photos showcase the beauty of the farm as well as the undeniable charm of the rustic and country setting. The glamour and style of each of the models only amplifies the breathtaking scenery and makes for a truly gorgeous spread.

We also rounded up some of our city’s most beautiful wedding stories and spoke with brides to learn more about their special day. Each of them created weddings you’d usually only see in fairy tales. We then caught up with three lucky individuals who recently were proposed to as they share their engagement tales. I know it will warm your heart to read their stories just as it did mine.

And we can’t forget the wedding essentials! Lori searched Louisville to find the perfect engagement rings and wedding bands. Check out her discoveries in this week’s Mixing It Up. And what wedding would be complete without a cake? Well, as we learned, a lot! Several local bakeries give us their take on alternative desserts for weddings and tell us what sweet treats the couples can swap in instead of a traditional cake. Finally, we sat down with seamstress Cecelia Hardin, a lovely woman who has a passion and talent for repairing and updating vintage wedding dresses.

Although there’s a lot of bridal material to cover, we had to stay on top of current Louisville events as well! We ventured out to the Best of Louisville at Play Dance Bar to get a sampling of some of our city’s finest offerings.

Elsewhere, it was all smiles at the half-century celebration at the beautiful home of my dear friends Angela McCormick Bisig and Arnold Rivera. It is always wonderful spending time with such an amazing group of people.

And our own John Harralson made it out to the Louisville Boat Club’s swim team banquet, where the country club’s young champions celebrated their accomplishments. Congrats on a great season, typhoons!

In sports, American Pharoah made a welcome and winning return to racing at the Haskell Invitational, and John Asher gives us the latest on the return of everyone’s favorite horse. We also talked to UofL basketball legend Milt Wagner for this week’s Taylor’s 10 and then we discuss what to expect from Bobby Petrino’s upcoming season in our Card Chronicle. In addition, we have some Catnip this week as we look ahead at UK’s promising season.

This issue is full of love and I hope you enjoy reading each heartwarming story. There is nothing better than seeing two people in love, no matter what gender they are.

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Talia is wearing The Dessy Group’s Alfred Sung midnight dupioni fabric bridesmaid dress with v-neck and self-tie bow at waist with pockets and box pleat skirt. She’s also wearing Mariell pearl and crystal bracelet and earrings from Sher’s Bridal.

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Society James Graham Brown Cancer Center Grand Opening ������72 WKU Football Kickoff Party ����������������������������������73 Angela and Arnold’s Half-Century Celebration ���������74 Best of Louisville ��������������������������������������������������75 Beer and Brats on the Beargrass ������������������������76 David Roth: A Celebration of Life ������������������������77 Connecting in the City �����������������������������������������78 Doe-Anderson 100th Year Celebration ���������������80 Nica Rustica Release Party ����������������������������������82 Louisville Boat Club Swim Banquet ��������������������84 Partyline ���������������������������������������������������������������86

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PHOTOGRAPHER Chris Humphreys, The Voice-Tribune STYLE EDITOR Lori Kommor, The Voice-Tribune LOCATION Walnut Way Farm, 2800 Shelbyville Road, Shelbyville, KY MODELS Charlotte Isaacs, McKenzie Neville and Wesley Ware courtesy of Heyman Talent and Talia Blue HAIR AND MAKEUP Ana Perez, Anastasia Skye Gerdes and Bethany Tiesman DRESSES & ACCESSORIES The Bridal Suite of Louisville, 9948 Linn Station Road Sher’s Bridal and Formal Wear, 309 Evergreen Road FLOWERS Amy Streeter, Susan’s Florist, 2731 Preston Hwy. A U G U S T 6 , 2 0 1 5 • W W W . V O I C E -T R I B U N E . C O M

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party. Brides are quick to take advantage of the chance to be ridden into the ceremony on a carriage, as Steve Buttleman, the bugler at Churchill Downs, sounds the arrival of the bride. Guests can be escorted through the stables and see the award-winning horses as they make their way to the ceremony.

Couples can even partake in one particular tradition – burying bourbon. According to an old southern wives’ tale, if you bury a full bottle of bourbon 30 days prior to your wedding upside down, on the site that you are saying your vows at the time, you will have a good wedding. So outside the old tobacco barn, couples can bury a bottle of bourbon in the hope that the rain will stay away from their special day.

Either way, Walnut Way Farm is one of the most incredible settings for a Kentucky wedding and the setting for The Voice-Tribune’s fall bridal issue.

here is an undeniable magic to Walnut Way Farm – a 200-acre plot in Shelbyville, Ky., that’s home to one of the most esteemed horse farms in the world. But it’s not Thoroughbreds that are stabled here – racehorses that ply their trade at Churchill Downs or Keeneland. Instead, the residents are Saddlebreds, including stunning Friesians, all trained by the world-renowned Marilyn Macfarlane, who has been owner of the farm since 1973.

Today, the farm also plays host to some of the most spectacular weddings in the country, around 14 a year, with ceremonies that take firm advantage of the dazzling surroundings of rolling fields, a lake and even an old tobacco barn, which has been filled with antique church pews to stage ceremonies for up to 200 guests.

But the focus is very much on the horses and the moving backdrop they are able to provide for the married

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Wesley is wearing a Tulle ball gown with horsehair edging, a Justin Alexander gown with beaded belt, Erica Koesler cathedral two-tier ribbon edged veil, Giselle headpiece and Mariell earrings from The Bridal Suite.

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Talia is wearing a JB Bridesmaids long satin dupioni fabric dress with v-neck and pockets, a pearl and crystal bracelet, and Mariell earrings from The Bridal Suite.

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Talia and McKenzie are wearing Bill Levkoff blush pink chiffon dresses, accented with floral detail. Both bridesmaids wear Richard Designs hairpieces of blush pink silk flowers and crystal from The Bridal Suite.

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Charlotte is wearing an Ellis Bridals blush pink tulle ball gown with a strapless sweetheart neckline and an ivory lace jacket, a Kitty Chen Couture lace and crystal belt and a Richard Designs handmade rhinestone and embroidered headpiece and veil from The Bridal Suite.

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Wesley is wearing a Moonlight fitted with lace strap and lace applique gown, Giselle cathedral mocha veil with beaded detail on edge with Mariell earrings and a Giselle headpiece from Sher’s Bridal.

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Wesley is wearing a Dessy Group chiffon strapless After Six dress with Our Family Jewels bronze earrings and necklace from Sher’s Bridal.

McKenzie is wearing an Alfred Sung bridesmaid dress, made of dupioni fabric with a high neck and keyhole back and inverted pleat skirt, with Mariell earrings from Sher’s Bridal.

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Charlotte is wearing an Occasions for Jim Hjelm turquoise crinkle chiffon dress with sweetheart neckline from The Bridal Suite.

McKenzie is wearing a Justin Alexander light gold organza, multi-tiered ball gown with a pearl and crystal beaded sweetheart bodice. The veil is by Jennifer Leigh; the rose silk floral headpieces are by Richard Designs from The Bridal Suite.

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Romeo and Juliet: The Sequel

What were some of the biggest et’s indulge in a fantasy challenges in becoming a married that Shakespeare’s final couple? act of the now infamous ZAKK: Well we live together, and we tale of star-crossed Italian lovwork together. I guess one of the hardest ers was accidentally lost. What things for me is that I miss missing her. if it had really ended with a It’s bad to say, but it’s nice to be happy Bachelor nighttime scene of them, liltto see your wife when you get home Behavior after being away from her all day. ing off into the countryside on horseback in secret, giggling ALAINA: For a while all we were R. CHASE doing was venting to each other about gleefully at their cunning ruse? work when we got home from work. It They would have stealthily got to be so ridiculous we created a rule that once we slipped off into the Italian countryside to got physically away from work we just stop talking live a life of true love and happiness for- about it. ever after.

But what would have happened 30 years later?

Would we see an overweight, drunk, balding Romeo, pounding on the bathroom door waiting for Juliet to take four hours getting ready for the ball? Would we see 25 years of anger and resentment beading into tiny droplets of sweat as he looks desperately around the room for something to bludgeon her to death with, if only she could finalize the caking of her makeup over withered skin, sagging eyebrows and nagging voice reminding him to pay the servants?

Perhaps it would look less like “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolfe” and more like “On Golden Pond” as they celebrate three decades of American Gothic stoic love, draped in weathered gaiety, an unbroken circle of joy emanating between them like a Tesla coil even though the petals had long-since withered on that honeymoon bouquet.

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Nobody, while lightly traipsing down that floral aisle, knows what the future holds. Weddings are full of promise and joy, but reality will always find a way to slip into the cracks and fester in the corners of fading optimism. The real work of the marriage begins when the honeymoon is over.

Last year, I attended a friend’s wedding in Sonoma and wrote an article about it, adorned with white lilies and hopes for the future. On their one-year anniversary, I caught up with them to ask them some questions and figure out how the reality of marriage stacked up to the fantasy of the wedding.

How has being married changed your relationships with personal friends, mutual or otherwise?

ALAINA: I think that I talk to my friends less, or at least I talk to certain friends more and certain friends less. And those friends always seem to get annoyed when I don’t.

Are those the single friends?

ALAINA: Yes, they are!

ZAKK: Actually, a friend of mine was looking around the Town Square the other day and remarked that we are the odd ones out now that we don’t have kids.

Is there anything that changed immediately after the wedding? Did you feel any different?

ZAKK: Well, as you know we were both seriously social and independent people before we were together. We were like the rock stars of the community in that sense. But as soon as we were married things were different.

It was more defined.

ALAINA: I felt a lot more security almost immediately.

Zakk is a musician and I

I found them in their backyard in Sonoma, cooking dinner. The smoke was wafting off the grill as one of the dogs quietly peed next to the vegetable garden.

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always had a hard time letting him go play at bars and places, especially with the girls everywhere. But after being married I felt more comfortable letting him go out and play.

ALAINA: Now if I have to work early the next day and Zakk has a late show he sleeps in the guest room so he doesn’t wake me up and try to tell me a play by play of the entire night.

ZAKK: I know and it’s as if now that I’m wearing this ring and we’re a couple…

ZAKK: I usually try to tell her anyway though.

ALAINA: You’d better wear that ring.

ZAKK: Everyone in the community knows that we’re a couple and if anything did happen everyone would know about it instantly.

What are some of your coping mechanisms to keep things in sync?

ALAINA: We like to cook together a lot. Doing something like that in unison gets us into a good synchronicity and we can work together on a common goal.

ZAKK: I wasn’t much into cooking, unless you were really into Top Ramen, but Alaina really taught me a lot about preparing food and now I really enjoying doing it with her.

What do you think it’s going to look like in 30 years?

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ZAKK: I think we’ll still be together, older, enjoying some wine together somewhere here in Wine Country in a house we own. Petaluma maybe?

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As soon as the Supreme Court deciefore the Supreme Court sion was made, the task force was back at ruled on marriage equaliit, trying to determine what exactly the ty on June 26, 2015, ChrisCVB could do for LGBT guests to the ta Ritchie and her team at the city. Ritchie recalls the breakthrough, Louisville Convention & Visitors “We said ‘Let’s do a campaign that welcomes LGBT weddings to Louisville.

Bureau (CVB) were already planStaff Let’s do a wedding!’” Say “I Do” in Lou ning ways to reach out to LGBT Writer is an online video travelers. In November of 2014, contest sponsored the CVB formed the Louisville REMY by the CVB along with several local Convention and Vistors Bureau SISK businesses. To LGBT Hospitality Task Force to enter, couples create a short find ways to bring more LGBT tourists and video describing their love travelers to Louisville. Then, just before story – how they met, details the SCOTUS ruling, the committee had of the proposal or why they convened and, as Ritchie remembers, “We want to get married in Louiscollectively said ‘let’s do something if this ville – and post it on the Visit Louisville Facebook page. passes.’” As the world knows, the Supreme From August 12 to 16, voters can select their Court did indeed rule in favor of marriage favorite video to help pick the winners, who will equality; consequently, the CVB’s Say “I win the ultimate wedding package. The couple Do” in Lou campaign was born. will receive an all-ex-

pense-paid Louisville wedding – valued at $20,000 – that includes nuptials on the deck of 8UP Elevated Drinkery & Kitchen and a reception at the inaugural Louisville Pride Festival on September 19, being touted as the “World’s Largest Wedding Reception.” Other winnings include items and services from The Henry Clay, A Thorough Fare Events, Fleur De Lis Events, VOICES of Kentuckiana, Cake Flour, Jaco Limousine & Transportation, Pizzazzle Events, the Evan Williams Bourbon Experience and more.

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Although the contest is certainly geared toward celebrating and welcoming LGBT weddings, anyone can enter. “This is open to everyone!” Ritchie exclaims. “All couples!” The contest also

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extends to those outside of Louisville, as this is a national campaign. Immediate targets in addition to Louisville include Indianapolis and Nashville, though the CVB is working with a national PR firm to try to get the word out around the country.

Despite the rapidity with which the contest developed – the SCOTUS ruling was June 26 and the contest launched July 13 – Ritchie is optimistic the CVB will find the perfect couple to win the package. She and the CVB are expecting national coverage of the campaign and look forward to showcasing the inclusiveness and diversity of Louisville on a national scale. “I just hope that whatever perception people have of Louisville, a campaign like this will show that we are welcoming, that we are inclusive and that there’s so much fun stuff to do no matter who you are,” Ritchie asserts of the contest.

With eye-catching artwork that was created remarkably fast by Louisville advertising agency Red7e, the contest is already making a splash in Louisville and beyond. For Ritchie, no matter who wins, the contest in and of itself will hopefully make an impression on people across the country.

“I hope that it shows that Louisville is welcoming and inclusive and everybody can come to Louisville and feel welcomed and find fun things to do,” she describes. “There are so many options: bourbon, the arts, our one of kind attractions! But [the contest] also shows that Louisville is progressive. And that’s a brand platform we at the CVB want people to see: that it’s a welcoming, progressive and fun place.”

Beyond attracting contestants, the campaign and its hashtag are wildly catching fire around the city. For example, the Louisville Marriott recently designed an LGBT-themed ad that included the hashtag #SayIDoInLou. It has no direct connection to the contest but rather brings the hashtag into a more common usage to illustrate Louisville as a warm and inclusive city that’s a great place for a wedding no matter who you are. And, possibly, that’s the future of Say “I Do” in Lou; Ritchie is uncertain if the contest will be recurring, but she hopes it will make an impact and highlight just how welcoming this city is. She says with a smile, “We want to encourage anyone – everyone – to say ‘I Do’ in Lou!” VT Couples of any orientation may submit short videos – 60 seconds or less – of their story to enter Say “I Do” in Lou. More details as well as posting guidelines can be found at facebook.com/LouisvilleKentucky.

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All three band members have played in male-dominated bands in the past. Then, one propitious night, they had a ladies-only jam session and posted a recording of their cover of “I’ll Fly Away” on YouTube.

“Next thing we knew, people were asking us to play gigs, so we ended up forming our all female band. That song currently has over 16,000 listens on SoundCloud,” Blanton says. Visit southernsirensmusic.com for more information.

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And here’s a quick round up of other bands that do weddings among other things. We can’t promise that there’s a band here for every wedding from Wiccan to Star Trek, but these bands will appeal to many who don’t want to go the traditional route: looks like), there’s Tony and the Tan Lines who cover Hall & Oates, Steely Dan, Gloria Estefan and Huey Lewis whilst wearing the pinks and hot floral colors of the 1980s television series “Miami Vice.”

“Just to look at it is kind of a piece of art in itself,” the band’s co-founder Justin Shaw.

The yacht rock band, specializing in a throwback Miami look and sound, caters to couples that want the unconventional.

“We’re not really a wedding band.

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to know what you’re getting into when you hire us. We don’t usually play the traditional wedding songs,” says Shaw.

Shaw’s band recently performed at the wedding of a friend, which took place outdoors at Mockingbird Valley. The band played a few notes and “everybody got off their feet [to dance] and did not sit back down for about two hours,” Shaw explains. “We don’t want anyone to ever leave the dance floor.” Visit tonyandthetanlines. com for more information. VT

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Conch Republic Not sure where you’re going to find a beach to get married at near Louisville, but if you have your heart set on a beach wedding, Conch Republic, the specialists in beach music, are your band. According to their gigmaster.com blurb, Conch Republic will travel 500 miles from their Lexington base, which will not get you either to the Atlantic or the Pacific but will let you bring the ambiance of the beach to your Louisville reception hall. Celebrate your love to the tunes of Jimmy Buffet, The Beach Boys and Bob Marley. Conch Republic is the go-to band if your reception features a limbo contest.

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“The dresses [I work with] are from the 1920s, 1930s, from the Edwardian and Victorian times,” explains Hardin. “It’s really fun because I get my hands on some of the most exquisite things. The other thing I can say, and I probably say this all the time, I’m working with people at a happy time in their life, so it’s a happy job. And each project is different. And each woman is different. That’s the fun of it.”

Unlike most jobs, Hardin’s occupation involves working with people planning one of the happiest days of their lives, and that’s something that has kept her coming back to it every day.

“You have a different relationship with your brides because of that, ” adds Hardin. “Because often in this room, the grandmother and mother are sitting here. There may be a sister who’s worn the dress. And I’m seeing pictures of these gals, you know, from years ago in the dress.

And now we’re sitting here talking to this new bride, and she has this romantic idea of continuing the legacy, but maybe she doesn’t want it to look just like granny’s dress. Sometimes, the question becomes not if a girl’s going to wear the gown, but rather will mother or grandmother let go of it enough that we can change it without too many tears or too many memories being cut off.”

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And for Hardin, nothing is more delightful than the actual process of sitting down and getting to know intimately each family she is working with.

“Sometimes I make a sketch of where we think we’re going with the dress, but sometimes, you know, the dress has other ideas or the bride changes as she gets a little further along into it.

But it’s one of those type of jobs where I do get to work closely with the family and the bride.

And I get to know them really well, and I love to offer things like sewing a little pocket into the dress and they can have a charm or a family member’s ring or a little note from the groom or something sweet that can be stitched into the skirt of the dress somewhere, which is fun.”

Right now Hardin is busying herself by finishing dresses for the coming season as well as catching up on the mountain of alterations she has for other clients and bridal stores, work for which she’s exceedingly grateful. Although it’s a heavy workload, Hardin wouldn’t have it any other way. She’s able to practice something she’s great at, and, better yet, she’s upholding a family tradition.

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that I had an affection for. I’m a person who’s been able to love her job all these years,” concludes Hardin. “And my brides are so sweet and they’re so supportive and they send me pictures and they send me little notes that say ‘and this would be my advice to the other girls.’”

When she has time, Hardin unwinds at the back of her garden in a shed that’s dedicated to her passion of oil painting and sketching dresses that she has dreamt up. She hopes to one day turn her intricate sketches into a coffee table book.

“I’m hoping I really will be able to go forward with a lot more of the sketches, you know, the oil paintings, and really put a collection together….”

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When we finished the book, Matthew unwrapped what was in the blanket – it was a scrapbook. He made me a scrapbook and called it “Our Journey.” It was filled with memories of our first date, how we met, our interests and milestones in our relationship. Then, he had me stop at the penultimate page so he could play a song he wrote for me and about me entitled “My Heart Is Yours.” I cried, of course. It was the most beautiful song I’d ever heard. (I walked down the aisle to it.) After that, he had me turn to the last page of the scrapbook, and there was a page with space for a picture and ring stickers all over it. He reached into his guitar case and pulled out a ring and asked me to marry him! I said “yes,” of course. And then I just kept saying, “Really? Really?” After that, my sister showed up to take pictures, which made me cry more because my sister and I are very close and I was happy to be able to share that moment with her almost instantly. After pictures and more celebration, Matthew informed me we were going to dinner. He took me to the place where we went on our first date, and as we were pulling up, I saw two of my best friends walking in and got very excited. It turned out he invited local friends and family to celebrate with us. He knew I would want to celebrate with friends. I can definitely say it was perfect.

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We shrugged and I started to head back to the restaurant when she stopped me and said, “Wait, let me take a picture.” So I stopped and posed and waited for her to take the picture, and she said, “No, turn around like you’re looking out at the view.” So I did that and waited and waited for her to say she got it. When I didn’t get any affirmation from her, I turned around and she was on one knee holding a ring. I was thoroughly confused, and my first thought was, “Cool, nice ring.” She could tell I was confused and said, “Will you marry me?” It all clicked. Holy crap, she was proposing to me. This scenario had never even entered the realm of possibility in my head, so I was completely unprepared. I maybe hesitated for a second and then blurted, “Yes, yes, yes!” I grabbed her up and kissed her and gave her the biggest hug, and we made our way back to the restaurant. Waiting for us was a bottle of champagne and a very confused waiter. Lenae had told him her plan, but he had an even harder time piecing it together than I did. Evidently, I was manic for the rest of the meal, filled with emotions and disbelief. We had an amazing Parisian evening and lived it up in the City of Love. That night pretty much sums up our incredible relationship. We’re not traditional, a bit odd, always up for anything and just plain fantastic. I made such an amazing decision that night and one I have never regretted for a day since. Thank you, Lenae, for truly making me “The Luckiest.”

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Holly’s Proposal Story: What do you get when you combine two artistic loners and send them off to IU Bloomington where they reconnect? Lovebirds, of course! But where did it all start? Mount Tabor Elementary. Dex and I grew up in the same town and went to the same schools but did not connect until college. After years of casual run-ins on campus, Dex finally called me up and asked if I would sing in his band on a few songs. I said “yes,” and the rest is history. It was a romance that wouldn’t quit. It was no mystery that Dex and I were planning on getting engaged. We’d been having the conversation for several months and knew it was what we both wanted. What was a mystery was when he would pop the question. Flash forward to what was arguably the most beautiful day of last year: May 23, 2014. We met for lunch and took a walk downtown where I made the statement that the weather was simply perfect.

Dex chimed in and said, “Yeah, I’d agree. I’d say it’s the best day of the year.” It would indeed turn out to be the best day of our whole year. I got home from work later prepared to head to my parents’ house in New Albany for a cookout, and Dex was already ready, showered and dressed to the nines (and smelling like pine and mint, of course). I inquired about the necessity of his wearing a stunning blue blazer to my parents’ house for a casual Friday night cook out, and he responded, “Well, sweetie, it’s your parents’ house, and I want to look nice for your parents.” As I’m in the shower, it hits me – he’s doing it tonight. He’s going to PROPOSE TO ME TONIGHT! I frantically start piecing together my outfit. (It’s my proposal outfit for goodness sake!) Meanwhile, Dex continues to act like someone who has a big, juicy piece of gossip he should be keeping a secret. We make our exit out of the house and head straight to Barret Liquors where I’m thinking he’s trying to throw me off a little, but no. What we’re actually doing is picking out our proposal champagne! But he doesn’t know that I know. Our next stop on the proposal journey was Wild and Woolly video – which now adds a nice element of vintage to my tale. Dex has his quirks, as we all do, and his is his DVDs must be returned on time, no matter what.

Oh well! At least we didn’t get slapped with a late fee! We make our journey across the bridge, which may be the longest ride of my life considering what was about to happen. I was blasting the AC and still breaking a sweat. While sitting. In a car. For 30 million years.

OK, not that long, but you get the picture. He drives me down memory lane past all our old stomping grounds and places involving our childhood.

It was after a while that we ended up at Mt. Tabor Elementary. We get out of the car, and we start to walk toward the school grounds.

We visit so many parts of the school where we both had been but never together at the time. The playground, the hallways, our favorite tree. “You know, this is a place we’ve always jokingly reverted back to as the birthplace of our relationship,” he says. “And we’ve both got so many wonderful memories of here as individuals. That’s why I’ve chosen today to create a new memory of this place we can share together.” He gets down on one knee, pulls out the most beautiful ring, and says, “Will you marrys...uhh scratch that...will you marry me, sweetheart?” Of course, I said “yes,” and he swooped me into his arms and swung me around. We made our way to my parents’ house; they had NO IDEA what had happened. We ate, drank, shared hugs and kisses and took lots of pictures. What started out as a casual Friday night turned into one of the sweetest, most cherished moments I have to share with my fiancée. I cannot wait to become his wife in September!

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“We’re a bakery, so it’s endless “Nothing’s in or out anymore,” declares Donna Bowling, wedding coordinator at Plehn’s Bakery. “The dessert can be whatever is personal to the bride and groom,” which means a couple’s options are nearly limitless. Out of Plehn’s, Bowling has taken wedding orders comprised solely of cobblers, of pies and tarts and even of doughnuts.

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“It doesn’t have to stop at cake.

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Make it fun.” Such fun can be had by mixing and matching three or four mini-desserts to create a conversation-starting dessert bar where guests can enjoy a variety of sweets.

“I always try to tell them, ‘This is your all’s day. You all should pick out what you all want,’” she explains.

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“You can really tailor make desserts for people,” Haskell argues.

“Like if they want to work in different colors, like with French macarons, we can do that.”

Haskell is also glad to get creative with the bride and groom because it allows her and her company, which is usually known for its cake, to exhibit its other strengths. “I like this trend because it gives us a chance to show off what we do that isn’t cake!” she exclaims.

something or make something new,” she describes. “I don’t have a set menu for desserts.

Cakes are pretty set, but with mini-desserts, I like to experiment and try new

things.” Shuff ’s Louisvillicious offers mini salted caramel apple pies, s’mores cake pops and creamsicle shooters in addition to their dazzling wedding cakes.

“If somebody really likes dessert or if they’re more of a foodie, they’ll go more the dessert bar route in addition to a cake,” Shuff explains of client preferences. Whereas older couples tend to prefer a cake, younger bride-and-grooms, as Shuff has found, are usually more open to a dessert bar. Nonetheless, tradition – or the bride’s mother – often wins out. “Sometimes people will get the dessert bar and then also a smaller two-tiered cake so they still have the cake cutting tradition,” Shuff maintains.

Regardless of whether you want something as wacky as a bounty of doughnuts as a substitution for a wedding cake or as safe as a cupcake display topped with a two-tiered cake, these four bakeries have something to offer couples willing to think a little outside the box. Maybe instead of posing for the photographer with a wedding cake, you want to take a selfie with a mini pie. Well, even then, you have options. VT

Melissa Shuff, owner of Louisvillicious, which takes orders from its commissary kitchen but does not have a storefront bakery, similarly relishes the opportunity to be creative when taking a wedding order. “I think it’s fun because you can come to me with what flavors you like and I can combine

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ven though they had been dating for close to 10 years, Emily Blankenbaker was still surprised by her now husband Mark’s proposal. It was in the same place they went to each year for their date anniversary – Huber’s Winery.

“We always go to Huber’s Farm on our dating anniversary which is October 24,” explains Emily Blankenbaker. “And we go out to pick pumpkins.

So we go out and pick pumpkins for Halloween and drink wine, and it’s a date for us. He proposed to me in the pumpkin patch, and he had our friends come with us to throw me off.

It was very sweet.”

The wedding itself was also a memorable affair, taking place on September 26 with the backdrop of a stunning treeline before a roaring reception took place in an old tobacco barn in the heart of Bardstown, Ky. The couple wanted to keep it an intimate affair, with around 150 guests attending, ensuring that the occasion was kept romantic involving only close P H OTO S C O U R T E S Y O F TA B I T H A B R E N N E N S T U H L

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family and friends.

While Mark provided the surprise of the proposal, it was Emily who wowed Mark at the wedding with her own surprise.

“Anyone who knows Mark knows that he is a huge UofL Cardinals fan,” explains Emily. “So I surprised him with the Cardinal bird coming to the wedding. My husband was in the middle of the dance floor and we were pretending that we were dedicating the song to him. But the bird came in behind him and that really sticks out and it was a great surprise.”

The couple enjoyed a memorable honeymoon in Mexico and have since settled in Louisville.

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hen Brittany Nicole Gatz and Neal Thomas Donhoff got married in the Gardens of Ray’s Eden on June 20, it was a beautiful and lovely wedding and – almost – entirely traditional.

The bride is a teacher in the Jefferson County Public Schools. She graduated from North Oldham High School and the University of Kentucky. The groom graduated from St. Xavier High School as well as the University of Kentucky, and he works in the field of finance.

Due to the outdoor venue, the bride and groom were panicked when the skies opened and dropped two inches of rain on their wedding day. But suddenly, just in time for the ceremony, it cleared up. The bride happily recalls, “Just as I walked down the aisle at 4:30, the sun peaked through the clouds!”

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and family. Brittany’s sisters, Christie Rospierski and Terri Mansker, stood up with her as maid of honor and bridesmaid respectively.

The junior bridesmaid, Olivia Donhoff, and ring bearer, Jagger Aldridge, were relatives on the groom’s side, and Gracie Rospierirski, the flower girl, was the bride’s niece.

Other wedding participants included Judy Gatz (mother of the bride), Katie Diffenderfer, Ashley Oerder, Lauren Gray, Christopher Donhoff, Tyler Shockey, Derek Straney, Brad Barmgartner, Ethan Bennett, Matthew Donhoff, Jeff Rospierski and Brennan Storm.

The glorious cake was created by New Albany bakery Sweet Surrender and featured layers of marble, strawberry and creamsicle. The color of the cake was complemented by the gorgeous floral arrangements by A Touch of Elegance.

But there was one departure from tradition.

Bride and groom were pronounced man and wife by Betty H. Smith, the groom’s grandmother and a Catholic deacon in Christ Sophia Inclusive Catholic Church. Smith notes that

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“there are only male deacons in the traditional church.”

Smith could not obtain the archbishop’s blessing to officiate at her grandson’s wedding, so she got permission to perform the wedding from the government.

She admits to being “way outside the Catholic Church,” so she was “awed” when the families of both bride and groom unanimously said that she should officiate the wedding.

Women officiating at Catholic weddings may be a growing trend, if Smith’s experience is any indication.

Additionally, Smith herself, at 81, certainly hopes to do more weddings. She’s extended an invitation to the gay and lesbian community whose weddings she would be happy to perform.

She notes, however, that she still has a couple of grandchildren to marry. They have already asked her if she will be available, to which she answered, “Yes, if you hurry up.”

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135 friends and family members attended the wedding. The wedding party included best man Conor Murphy; cross bearer John Lawlor, groomsmen Hans Schneider, Eddie Boylan, John Good and Graham Curran; maid of honor JacQuelyn Bainbridge; and bridesmaids Lisa Wachs, Camille Moseley, Emmy Kupper and Shannon Francis. Adeline Bainbridge was the flower girl and Austin Bainbridge was the ring bearer. Parents of the bride are Alton John III and Valerie Schneider; Margaret Curran is the groom’s mother.

“Pachelbel’s Canon in D Major” was played for the processional, and there were readings from the Old and New Testaments.

The wedding was followed by an intimate sit down dinner in the Waterford Room on the 25th floor of the Galt House Hotel.

The band “This, That & the Other” played classic rock. “It seemed like everyone was on stage singing at one point in the evening,” says Katie Curran. The bride herself rocked the dance floor in full wedding gear.

The groom’s family flew in from Ireland for the special occasion.

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“I chose the Brown because it just fit with the vision I had for the wedding!” says Harris-Stengel. “The crystal ballroom is absolutely beautiful, and, after looking at a couple other venues, I couldn't see my wedding being anywhere but there.”

Harris-Stengel had not one but two hairdressers as well to make sure her hair was absolutely perfect; Cory Grant of Fusion Salon and Becky Doane of Hot Locks Salon collaborated on the masterpiece.

Freelance makeup artists Laurel Schiesser and Deanna Figg were enlisted to make sure that the bride’s countenance was just as perfect as her hair.

The Brown was the perfect setting for the floral arrangements by Wayne Esterle of In Bloom Again. “With my vision and what Wayne with In Bloom created, it was a dream!”

“I hired the two makeup artists because, one, they are both fantastic and I have known them for a very long time, and, two, they know how to apply makeup that is going to be photographed. It is just one less thing you have to worry about on your wedding day! Also I used to do hair and makeup, so it is so nice to have someone else do

Melissa Schroeder of Melissa G. Photography shot the breathtaking event along with another photographer. Harris-Stengel also hired videographers Andrew Kung and Allie Filley to film the wdding.

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The bride’s dress came from the Eddy K. Couture Collection of Bridal Suites of Louisville. Her shoes were Christian Louboutin, specially strassed out in California.

“They are seriously amazing! They were like my dream to have those in my wedding, and it was a crazy ride trying to find the perfect shoes and person to put the crystals on! They are very unique,” says Harris-Stengel The cake was designed by Virginia Rankin of Merts Cakes, and the wedding music was provided by Jack Griffin of Louisville Wedding Music and pianist David George.

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Conservative millennial author Ben orty-seven years ago, the Domenech sees these trends as a "trimusical "Hair" opened umph of soft conservatism over time," on Broadway. Elderbut also as "another aspect of modern ly mavens -- the core therisk aversion." That latter trend is also ater audience then, unlike the apparent in the decline in unsupervised play for children and removal throngs of tourists flocking to Washington of jungle gyms and slides from playcheap movie adaptations today grounds.

Examiner -- were instructed that America A tendency to risk aversion also was entering an "Age of AquarMICHAEL helps explain the movement against ius." The old moral rules were the supposed plague of sexual assaults BARONE extinct: we were entering a in colleges and universities, with new era of freedom, experimentation and administrators running kangaroo courts in which self-expression. the accused (almost always men) are assumed In some ways, the prediction came true. Rates of divorce, cohabitation before marriage and illegitimate births rose sharply in the years after 1968.

The percentages of children living with two parents fell sharply. The "Hair" version of history -hundreds of years of oppression followed by a sudden trend toward evermore liberation -- seemed plausible, even persuasive.

But history is not unidirectional. Trends get reversed or arrested sooner or later. Behaviors that at first seem modern and refreshing come to seem antique and old-fashioned. People adjust to new experiences just as they adjusted to old.

Today, several widely unanticipated trends -certainly unanticipated by me -- suggest that America is in some significant respects entering a new Victorian Era. Some may regard that as regrettable, others as welcome, still others as a mixture of good news and bad news. But it's certainly news, especially to the aging baby boomers who expected the Age of Aquarius to continue indefinitely.

One such trend is the sharp decline in teen sexual activity. A Centers for Disease Control survey showed that less than half of teenagers over 14 in 2013 have engaged in sexual intercourse, a sharp decline from 1988 -- and the decline is sharper among males than females.

Commentators are puzzled as to why this has been happening. Sexual appetites have surely not diminished and popular culture has hardly encouraged abstinence. The trend started well before teens got hold of smartphones or received HPV vaccines.

An accompanying trend is a sharp decline in births to teenage mothers. Increased use of contraceptives, including morning-after pills, may explain some of this. But abortion doesn't: the number of abortions has been declining since the 1980s.

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guilty and denied due-process rights. This has been carried, as my Washington Examiner colleague Ashe Schow has documented, to ridiculous extremes.

But one can also see it as an updated version of the college rules against male-female sexual contact that were being dismantled as "Hair" was premiering on Broadway.

Students, headed to Aquarius then, are subjected to quasi-Victorian restrictions now.

California and New York legislators have chimed in with "yes means yes" statutes applicable to students (but not other adults). The American Law Institute is considering a similar approach, which Judith Shulevitz in The New York Times called "the criminalization of what we think of as ordinary sex."

The 1960s saw a sharp decline in birth rates -- the end of the baby boom -- especially among the highly educated and affluent. But as Charles Murray documented in his 2012 book "Coming Apart," the highly educated abandoned Aquarian rates of divorce and extramarital sex in the 1980s, while these rates have remained high among the less educated.

Now there's been a trend since the 1990s toward higher birth rates at relatively late ages, and lower childlessness among highly educated women. And more women with higher educations are deciding the stay at home with children and pause their careers. Queen Victoria, a teen bride and mother of nine (the last at age 37), might approve.

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same-sex marriage advocates Andrew Sullivan and Jonathan Rauch argued that marriage would domesticate homosexuals. There's logic to that -marriage inevitably includes elements of restriction and restraint -- and we will see how it works out.

The most recent Washington Post-ABC News poll shows that 63 percent of Americans are uncomfortable with the nation's direction on social issues, even though 52 percent supported the Supreme Court's 5-4 ruling overturning bans on same-sex marriage. Perhaps that apparent ambivalence is an understandable response as America moves in some significant ways from the Age of Aquarius to a new Victorian Era. Michael Barone, senior political analyst at the Washington Examiner (www.washingtonexaminer.com), where this article first appeared, is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a Fox News Channel contributor and a co-author of The Almanac of American Politics. To find out more about Michael Barone and read features by other Creators writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com.

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and people and the world and travel. That took me to the University of Miami in Florida. It is the most diverse school in the country, so I have friends in China, the Cayman Islands, Europe and Africa.”

When Dr. Nemr Eid joined the staff at the University of Louisville School of Medicine in 1988, he could not have guessed that his children would ultimately attend medical school there – all at the same time. As of July 26, when Eid’s youngest child, Sabine, receives her white coat and formally becomes a medical student, all three children of Eid and his wife, Nada, will be students in the UofL School of Medicine.

During his first 10 years at UofL, Eid, was the only pediatric pulmonologist in Louisville. Although other physicians in his specialty now have joined him, a critical need for these physicians remains throughout the nation and in Kentucky, where there is only one pediatric pulmonologist for every 170,000 children. Under Eid’s direction, UofL began a pediatric pulmonology fellowship two years ago, but he hopes more physicians will pursue the specialty since those positions are not always filled.

Eid never assumed his children would follow in his footsteps. He encouraged them to pursue their own paths.

“We would sit at the dinner table and talk about what you want to be. I did not discourage them. I did not say ‘You should not be a doctor.’ But I never encouraged them either,” Eid said. “I would tell them to ‘follow your dream; do whatever makes you happy.’ I never thought all three of them would go into medicine!”

Eid’s three children, Mark, Ryan and Sabine, each decided on a career in medicine via different routes. Only the middle child, Ryan, always knew he wanted to be a physician.

“I knew I would go into medicine since the third grade. Science was one of my passions,” Ryan said. “I also have always been interested in cultures

By contrast, Ryan’s sibling Mark enrolled as an undergraduate at UofL with a law degree in mind.

Sabine started college with an interest in communications but received her bachelor’s degree from UofL this spring with a major in biology and will formally join her brothers in medical school as a member of the Class of 2019.

The Eid children say their father inspired them to enter medicine through his attitude toward his work. “He gets up every single morning and goes to work happy,” Sabine said. “He comes home every single evening happy.

He loves what he does. He has never said anything negative. Hopefully, in the chapter I choose, I will wake up every morning and feel excited to go to work.”

HOMEARAMA 2015 GRAND AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED After another successful year, the Building Industry Association of Greater Louisville announced the Grand Award winners for Homearama Spring Farm Lake as voted on by the public. The Homearama winners were selected by attendees who voted on site with the Jefferson County Clerk’s Office. The winners are: Favorite Builder: First place: House #4 Richard Miles – Landmark Custom Homes by Dogwood; second place: House #10 David Lutes – Stonecroft Homes; third place: House #9 W. Damon Garrett – Sunshine Builders LLC Favorite Designer: Fist place: House #4 Marsha Riggle, Kevin Coleman,

Lisa Bizzell and Wendy Saladino – Tassels; second place: House #10 David Lutes – Stonecroft Homes; third place: House #9 Sherry Poppe, Lesa Buckler, Christa Rose, Richard Buckler and Julia Lewis – Details Furniture Gallery and Design.

PETRINO FAMILY FOUNDATION ESTABLISHES CARDINAL COVENANT SCHOLARSHIP A gift from the Petrino Family Foundation has established the Cardinal Covenant Petrino Family Foundation Scholarship, which will be awarded this year to a student from the West End School Program. Ra’vonte Harbin, who attended the West End School from 2008 to 2011, will be the initial recipient of a four-year full scholarship to UofL on behalf of the foundation, which looks to develop a relationship with a student in an effort to help them achieve their academic goals.

“The city of Louisville has programs that are working tirelessly to have a much needed and positive effect on our youth,” Petrino said. “One program in particular is the West End Program. They are making a substantial difference in the lives of many.”

A Louisville native, Harbin attended Louisville Collegiate School for three years before transferring to St. Francis High, where he graduated from this spring. Harbin was a member of the basketball team, where he served as team captain. “I consider myself a very fortunate young man to have attended and graduated from the West End School,” Harbin said.

“That opportunity enabled me to receive a full scholarship to a local Louisville private high school, which I graduated from this past spring. I now consider myself blessed for being the recipient of this scholarship. I am so fortunate to be the first West End graduate to attend the University of Louisville.”

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obituaries Samuel Everett Allen Samuel Everett Allen, 79, of West Point, entered eternal life August 1, 2015, at his residence.

He was a member of Mt. Eden Baptist Church and owner of Allen’s Tree Service.

He is preceded in death by his wife, Helen Allen; son, Jeffery Allen; grandson, Matthew Allen; and parents, Chester and Margaret Allen.

Mr. Allen leaves to cherish his memory: his daughter, Deborah Jones; sons, Samuel R. and Timothy Allen; sister, Brenda Johnson; brothers, Michael McStoot and Eugene Allen; grandchildren, Angela, Erica, Tiffany, Brian, Crystal and Zachary; great-grandchildren, Tristian, Landon, Josiah, Jordan, Joslyn, Madison, Alyssa, Reese and Gabriel.

Funeral service was 11 a.m.

Wednesday, July 29 at Hardy-Close Funeral Home with burial in Mt. Eden Cemetery. Visitation was 1-8 p.m. Tuesday, July 28 and after 9 a.m.

Wednesday until time of service.

V.V. Cooke Jr. V.V. Cooke Jr. joined his Lord on We d n e s d a y July 8, 2015. V.V. Cooke Jr. was the President of V.V. Cooke Chevrolet Co. – the high performance sports car leader. He attended Baylor University, served in the U.S. Air Force and is a member of Christ Church United Methodist.

He is preceded in death by his daughter, Tracy (Brent Reason).

He is survived by his beloved wife Sondra; his children, V.V. Cooke III (Shelley) and Trudi (Tad Carroll); grandchildren, Taylor and Cameron Carroll and Lillian and Charlotte Cooke; stepsons, Harris Gilbert and William Tolbert (Cindy) Whittenberg; sisters, Jane C. Cross and June C. Hook (now deceased).

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Funeral service was held Saturday, July 11, 2015, at Christ Church United Methodist, 6710 Brownsboro Road with private burial in Cave Hill Cemetery.

often led hikes on his favorite trails at Mount St. Francis. He spent a great deal of time with his friends in their “Wine Club,” “Bridge Club” and “Poker Club.”

Memorial gifts should be made to the charity of your choice.

Ed loved reading and playing games with his granddaughters and shared his hobbies of the stock market and stamp and coin collecting with his grandson. He loved attending their sporting events. Although he was often out and about, he probably most loved sitting on his back deck watching the birds.

Edward Sherer Green Friends and family were saddened by the loss of a great presence when Edward Sherer Green, 69, passed away unexpectedly in his home on July 29, 2015.

Ed loved his life, his family and his many, many friends. He was a very social member of society and greeted everyone with a smile. His regular response to “How are you?” was “I think I’m wonderful!” … and he was. Ed attended night school at the University of Louisville and graduated with a degree in accounting.

After working in the accounting field briefly at American Air Filter, his father asked him to join Green Printing Company, which started his long career as a salesman in the printing business. After his father passed away, he took over the business and ran it until it merged with Commonwealth Printing Company. Later, he became a print broker forming ESG Marketing & Development, which he ran until his passing.

In his youth, Ed was a Boy Scout, and he played baseball. He was a lifelong member of St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, serving as an acolyte and later as a member of the Vestry.

He spent four years in the Air Force during the Vietnam War working on aircraft and “playing lots of poker.”

He was a member of the JCC’s, the Filson Club, the former Jefferson Club, the Bonnycastle Club and the Louisville Lodge 400 of the Free Masons.

He was long time member of the downtown YMCA where for 39 years he played racquetball with his good friend every Wednesday. Ed also was a member of various hiking clubs and

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The last few years, he was semi-retired and focused on his favorite activity of Texas Hold’em Poker. He ran regular games at his home and attended any tournaments that he could … and he was pretty darn good at it!

Ed was preceded in death by his parents, Joseph and Hilda Mae Green and his sister, Janet.

Ed is survived by his daughters, Andrea (Michael) Gilbert of Louisville, Kristina (Scott) Drabenstadt of Louisville and Dana (Wayne) Hilterbrand of Park City, Utah; his son, Joseph Green of Louisville; three grandchildren, Lee Roy and Hilda Mae Drabenstadt and Evelyn Hilterbrand.

“Oh, if you’re a bird, be an early bird/And catch the worm for your breakfast plate./If you’re a bird, be an early, early bird –/But if you’re a worm, sleep late.” – Shel Silverstein Funeral service will be 10 a.m., Friday August 7, 2015, at Pearson’s, 149 Breckenridge Lane with cremation to follow. Visitation will be 4-8 p.m. on Thursday, August 6.

Memorial contributions, in lieu of flowers, may be made to Mt. St. Francis, 101 St. Anthony Drive, Mt. St. Francis, IN, 47146, Attn: Retreat Center.

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Frances L. McBarron Gunter, 88,

passed away peacefully at her home Saturday August 1, 2015.

She was a retired secretary from the V.A. Hospital and a member of St. Peter the Apostle Catholic Church and their Senior Friendship Club that she loved so dearly.

Frances was preceded in death by her husband, Julius “Babe” Gunter and her siblings, Andrew McBarron, Mary McBarron and Nate McBarron.

She is survived by her daughters, Bonnie Gunter and Deborah Whelan (Jerry Holloman); her son, Steve E. Gunter (Sharon); her granddaughters, Andrea Whelan (Bill Whobrey) and Ashli Shain (Craig); great-grandson, Dayton Shain; and her sister-inlaw, Donna McBarron.

She had a love of the ’20s and ’30s music and dance and time spent with family and friends at Rough River Lake.

A Celebration of Christian Burial was 11 a.m. Wednesday, August 5 at her church, 5431 Johnsontown Road with burial in Evergreen Cemetery. Visitation was 2-8 p.m. Tuesday, August 4 at Ratterman Grand Chapels 4832 Cane Run Road.

Memorial contributions are suggested to Pleasure Ridge Fire Dept.

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Lina Mae Haines Lina Mae Haines, 95, transitioned peacefully from this earthly tabernacle to the arms of her Master on Saturday, August 1, 2015.

She was one of the first African American women to work at G.E. Appliance Park and retired after 25 years service. She was a member of Stoner Memorial AME Zion Church.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Robert; daughter, Barbara Adams; and granddaughter, Michelle Browder.

She is survived by five children, Rev. Harriett McElvaney, Linda Calloway (Robert), Cathy H. Adams,

She leaves to cherish her memory her husband R.I. “Roscoe” Kerr Jr.; her daughters, Tina Kerr Kahl of Louisville and Marylu Kerr Stewart of Lexington; and her sons-in-law, John Kahl and David Stewart.

We give special thanks to her compassionate caregivers, Norma White, Diane Sellars and LaKendra Hightower as well as the nurses and attendants of Hosparus.

At Gloria’s request, no services will be conducted.

Visitation was 6-9 p.m. Wednesday, August 5 at her church, 1127 W. Oak Street. Home going Celebration will be at 11 a.m. Thursday, August 6 at the church. All will take place at Stoner Memorial AME Zion Church.

Arrangements entrusted to A. D. Porter & Sons, 1300 W. Chestnut St.

Gloria Lue “Lululu” Cranfill Kerr

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Gloria Lue “Lululu” Cranfill Kerr, 90 of Louisville and Lexington passed away Saturday, August

She was born October 8, 1924, in Grayson, Ky., the daughter of O.D. “Jack” and Annis Hall Cranfill. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her brother, William E. Cranfill.

She was a graduate of Girls’ High School and attended University of Louisville.

Prior to being a homemaker, Gloria worked at Carter Dry Goods for several years. She was a member of Walnut Street Baptist Church and Audubon Baptist Church and attended Rosemont Baptist Church in Lexington. She was a member of Lakeside Swim Club and was one of the first members of Hurstbourne Country Club.

Gloria volunteered at Kosair Charities on Eastern Parkway and taught children with cerebral palsy to swim at the YWCA. She enjoyed sitting in the sun, shopping, swimming at the Executive Inn, ice skating at Gardiner Lane Skating Rink and being a very independent woman.

Expressions of sympathy may be sent to Rosemont Baptist Church, 556 Rosemont Garden, Lexington, KY 40503.

Arch L. Heady & Son at Westport Village has been entrusted with arrangements. Please visit archlheadywestport.com to leave a condolence for the family.

Helen Louise Heslin Malick Helen Louise Heslin Malick, 88, of Louisville, passed away August 1, 2015. She was born on March 30, 1927, in Louisville to the late Owen Heslin and Maude Smith Heslin. She and her husband owned Magnolia Bar and Grill for many years.

In addition to her parents, she is preceded in death by her husband Michel Malick; a daughter, Kathleen Smith; a brother, Frank Heslin; and her beloved dog, Sandy.

She is survived by her children, Joanna Gnau (David), Annette Norris (Steve) and Michele Seaton (Michael); brother, Patrick Heslin (Ellyn); nine grandchildren, Mary, Michel, Benjamin, David, Emily, Lindsey, Zach, Allie and Erin; two great-grandchildren, Cepeda and Hank; and her former son-in-law, Mark Smith.

A funeral service celebrating her life was held Wednesday, August 5, 2015, at 10 a.m. at Arch L. Heady at Resthaven, 4400 Bardstown Road with entombment in Evergreen Cemetery. Visitation was 3-8 p.m. on Tuesday, August 4 and from 10 a.m. on Wednesday.

Expressions of sympathy may be made to the Shamrock Foundation in memory of Helen’s love for animals.

Shirley Ellis Pettyjohn Shirley Ellis Pettyjohn, 79, passed

away unexpectedly while in Punta Gorda, Florida on June 6, 2015.

Shirley was born on August 16, 1935, in Liberty, Casey County, Ky. She was preceded in death by her parents, Wesley Barker and Ada Bryant Ellis; her sister, Virginia Ellis Charles Cook; and her infant daughter, Sherry Denise.

Left to cherish her memory are the love of her life, her husband of 59 years, Flem D. Pettyjohn; daughters, Deena R. Pettyjohn and Ellisa Denise Drexler (Henry); grandchildren, Wesley Ariel Pettyjohn and Michael Drexler (Elisha); great-granddaughter, Abbegail Drexler; and niece, Patricia Charles Hawkinson. She will be missed by her granddog, Doolittle.

Shirley was a woman ahead of her time. After graduating from UofL with her Bachelor of Science in 1974 and from UofL School of Law in 1977, she became one of only 2 percent of female attorneys in the U.S. While attending UofL, she was a charter member of the Professional Business Sorority, Phi Chi Theta, the first Business Fraternity for Women at UofL. She was the first female ever accepted into Sigma Delta Kappa International Law Fraternity – the oldest law fraternity at the UofL School of Law – and later became the first female national officer and first female life member.

She was involved in numerous business, social and civic organizations, serving as president of the following: Women’s Chamber of Commerce of Ky., Women Lawyers Assoc. of Jefferson County, Council of Women Presidents and The Arts Club of Louisville. She was a member of the National Assoc. of Administrative Law Judges and a Kentucky Colonel. Her honors and accomplishments are far too numerous to list.

Shirley was the first woman appointed to the Louisville and Jefferson County Planning Commission and first woman to ever be elected to serve as vice-chairman on that Commission. She was proud to be paving the way for women who would follow in her footsteps.

Shirley held her real estate broker’s license in Kentucky and Indi-

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ana, was the president and owner of Pettyjohn, Inc. Real Estate and operated a private law practice in both Kentucky and Indiana. She was a hearing officer for the Kentucky Board of Claims, Natural Resources & Environmental Protection Cabinet and Kentucky Occupational Safety & Health Commission.

She was loved by all who knew her and is remembered as a strong, hard-working lady, a loving wife and mother and a loyal friend. She enjoyed writing, music, art, piano, spending time with her family and traveling. Shirley was an intelligent woman with a beautiful spirit that motivated and inspired others. She will remain in our hearts forever!

A private gathering of her family was held in Punta Gorda, Florida. Per her wishes, cremation was chosen.

There will be a Celebration of Shirley’s Life on Friday, August 7, 2015, 5-9 p.m. at Woodhaven Country Club, 7200 Woodhaven Road, Louisville, KY 40291.

Please join us as we share memories of her extraordinary life.

Benjamin Walker Smith Benjamin Walker Smith, 22, of Shepherdsville, passed away July 30, 2015. He was born October 5, 1992 in Indiana. Ben was outgoing by nature, had a comical personality, enjoyed sports and hanging out and was a UofL fan.

He is survived by his mother, Linda French Smith; grandmother, Majorie French; fiancée, Jonna Cranmer; aunts and uncles; and many cousins, friends and loved ones.

He is preceded in death by his father, Mark Allen Smith; grandfather, James R. French Jr.; paternal grandparents, Mary Powell and Oliver E. Smith.

A celebration of Ben’s life was conducted Tuesday, August 4, 2015, at 2 p.m. in Arch L. Heady at Resthaven Chapel, 4400 Bardstown Road with a private interment in Resthaven Memorial Park. Visitation was noon-2 p.m. on Tuesday at the funeral home.

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Michael E. (Wendy) and Robert A. (Rochelle) Haines; 17 grandchildren; 22 great-grandchildren; sister-in-law, Elizabeth Sellars; nieces and nephews; and a multitude of other relatives and friends.

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Duvall Smashes Debut Louisville native and former University of Louisville standout Adam Duvall hit a home-run on his debut for the Louisville Bats on Sunday evening having been picked up by the Cincinnati Reds as part of a trade from the San Francisco Giants.

Duvall, who attended Louisville’s Butler High School, led the minor leagues at the time of his trade with 26 home runs, and he has now extended his lead by one more run. A 26-year-old first baseman, Duvall played two seasons with the University of Louisville Cardinals between 2008 and 2010 where he hit .328/.411/.559 with 48 doubles, three triples, 23 home runs and 98 runs batted in.

In minor leagues, Duvall has kept up his slugging ways with at least 17 home runs in every season since 2011 with a career best 30 homers in 2012. Last season was Duvall’s best year, however, with 27 homers and 90 RBIs in 91 games for Fresno in the Pacific Coast League.

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It’s like my grandmother used eculiar month, August. to say: “You can never have too It’s the only month many quarterbacks!” without a holiday, not No quarterback yet for the 2018 even something minor like class – are the coaches sitting on Arbor Day. (Although I just their hands?? – but there is already a saw that Senior Citizens Day five-star wide receiver from Florida.

Catnip is scheduled for August 21.

Now Big Blue Nation will have to I suppose I should be more STEVE hold its collective breath while all observant. You make chili, I’ll these high school kids remain comKAUFMAN bring the Mirolax.) It’s the mitted to UK, ignoring recruiters gateway month between the Fourth of who whisper in their ears about the benefits of autumn Saturday afternoons on the halJuly and Labor Day. And it’s hot!

For college football players, August means grueling workouts in the unrelenting summer heat. But for the fans, that searing August sun you see in the sky is actually the light at the end of the tunnel.

It marks the beginning of the college football season, which rolls into the college basketball season – eight months of, hopefully, UK-phoria after a mostly boring sports summer of almost nothing but Tom Brady’s suspension.

If your tastes run to the inflation pressure of footballs and the NFL’s ability to control almost nothing about its game, July probably appealed to you. Otherwise, here comes the real football season.

lowed gridirons of Tuscaloosa or Ann Arbor before adoring crowds, network TV cameras and NFL scouts.

So when Mark Stoops and some of his guys spent part of July at the SEC media event putting a smiley face on Kentucky football hopes, they were talking as much to high school players around the nation as they were to conference sportswriters and UK fans.

This season, Stoops will finally be coaching mostly athletes that he recruited. And his recruiting classes have been nationally ranked. So Stoops can blame only himself – and perhaps his recruiting guru, Vince Marrow – for both the optimism and any impatience.

Kash Daniel, as much as anyone, became the poster boy for the new expectations.

This highly sought-after 235-pound senior at Paintsville, Ky., is the No. 2-rated inside linebacker in the country for the 2016 class.

For long-suffering UK football fans, the summer has already been hot. Every other day, it seems, the Cats have announced a new multi-star recruit for the 2016 season – Daniel is a four-star linebacker and self-deKash Daniel, Tate Leavitt, Davonte Robinson, Jedrick Wills, Kobe A sneak peek inside the newly renovated Commonwealth Stadium.

Smith. Each one came wrapped with a tag that said, “New era for Kentucky’s football future.” (The tag also said: “Don’t open for a year.”)

scribed “mean dude ... not even human on the football field.”

I like his attitude. The best linebackers are heat-seeking missiles. That’s how you have to regard yourself – as “not even human.”

They’re also athletes. This guy played quarterback on offense at Paintsville, gaining 1,000 yards rushing in his junior season and also throwing for 1,000 yards.

I’m sure there have been other linebackers with similar high school versatility, but one I remember fondly was a University of Illinois classmate of mine, a Chicago high school fullback who also played linebacker.

He switched to center on offense when he got to college but remained a linebacker on defense. Now they honor the nation’s best college linebacker in his name. They call it the Butkus Award.

Mentioning Kash Daniel and Dick Butkus in the same paragraph is only part of the hype these recruits are getting. All of which seems cruel, tempting BBN with 2016 prospects when there’s a whole intervening season yet to play.

Maybe the new recruiting classes will indeed rewrite UK football history. But we won’t know for a couple of years. It seems like forever.

Of course, one way to lock in high school athletes’ commitments is with a string of bowl appearances. So, the immediate goal for Stoops and his troops: To guarantee that the future really is now, let’s get six! VT

But it didn’t stop with 2016.

There was also a quartet of new, star-studded commits for the 2017 team that included a quarterback from Florida and a running back, wide receiver and defensive end – all from Ohio.

Not only will QB Gunnar Hoak (four stars, Dublin, Ohio) arrive in Lexington a year from now – while Patrick Towles (four stars, Ft. Thomas, Ky.) and Drew Barker (four stars, Hebron, Ky.) may still be on campus – but the following fall will bring QB Mac Jones (four stars, Jacksonville, Florida.).

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terback position, where five playhe numbers speak for ers – all with significant positive themselves – and do and negative attributes – will batso effectually. In year tle to be Petrino’s signal caller in two under Bobby Petrino, his week one. There’s also an offenteams have averaged a spike sive line which lost three starters, two of whom were good enough to of 19.2 points per game, 70.5 be selected in the NFL Draft’s third yards per game and 2.5 wins round. Then there’s a secondary, per season. Given the head which lost three of its four starters to MIKE coach’s inimitable intensity the draft, including Gerod Holliman and off-the-charts football IQ, RUTHERFORD and NCAA single-season record 14 @cardchronicle interceptions. it’s understandable how experiencing a first season ripe with adjustHaving players unsure of what to expect or ments could result in a large boost in per- what’s expected of them heading into a fall camp would be a hindrance that a team with this many formance the second time around.

Petrino isn’t the easiest coach in the world to play for and not just because of his fiery personality. His playbook is thick and convoluted; his practices move at a pace that American Pharoah would envy, and he appears to demand something that is at least distantly related to perfection.

“It was up-tempo out there,” visibly exhausted senior offensive lineman Jake Smith said after the team’s first practice. “That was quick and intense. Guys are still learning and we have to pick this up quicker. We are used to intense practices ... but this was just a little different.”

The second fall camp of the second Petrino era at Louisville begins this week, and the Cardinals have 40 practices to figure out the answers to the many questions they’re faced with less than five weeks before taking on No. 7 Auburn in Atlanta. There is some hype, sure, but there are also the understandable concerns that come after watching a program-record 10 players be selected in the NFL Draft last spring.

At the top of that list of questions is the quar-

questions might not be able to overcome in order to have a shot at taking down Auburn. This is why having a year of Petrino ball under their belts might be this group of Cardinals’ biggest August asset.

“I think just knowing what’s expected of them and how we operate is the biggest thing,” Petrino says of the difference between year one and year two. “Last year, there might have been some guys who were thinking too much, and now hopefully, those guys know what they’re supposed to be doing and can go out there and just compete.”

The other major thing Louisville has going for it that most programs across the country do not is continuity among its coaching staff. Offensive coordinator Garrick McGee turned down an offer to take the same position at his alma mater, Oklahoma, and defensive coordinator Todd Grantham did the same to the Oakland Raiders. In the end, UofL will head into fall camp with essentially the exact same coaching staff it had a year ago.

Still, the faces will be about all that’s the same when the whistles start blowing on the fields behind the Trager Center this week. Speed and

intensity should be up, and confusion and early August jitters should be down. That last part goes as high as the man at the head of the program, who admitted last year that wanting to please the Louisville fans who welcomed him back to the Derby City had him experiencing an unfamiliar emotion.

“I was probably more nervous for this game than any game I’ve ever coached,” Petrino said after his team defeated Miami 31-13 in its 2014 season-opener. “I haven’t slept a lot lately. But it was so exciting once we got to the stadium. And then to watch our players out there and play the way they did – it was all just very exciting.”

The excitement is back, and this year it will be coming with significantly fewer nerves. VT

Cards to Play in Puerto Rico Tuesday, Aug. 11– UofL vs. PR Junior team and UofL vs. PR National team Wednesday, Aug. 12 – UofL vs. PR Junior team and UofL vs. PR National team Thursday, Aug. 13 – UofL vs. PR Junior team Friday, Aug. 14 – UofL vs. PR National team Saturday, Aug. 15 – UofL vs. PR Junior team and UofL vs. PR National team Sunday, Aug. 16 – UofL vs. PR National team All nine basketball games will be broadcast live on WHAS Radio in Louisville. Barring any local complications, all nine games will be streamed live with a simple production through the UofL Athletics web site at GoCards.com/ puertorico. A one-time, $9.95 fee will provide access to all nine games and may be purchased in advance.

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Milt Wagner Looks Back – And Ahead

Milt Wagner is the sixth all-time leading scorer in University of Louisville basketball history. He scored 1,834 for the Cards from 1982 to 1986. Wagner hit the two free throws to seal the 72-69 win over Duke in the 1986 National Championship game. The first of what would be four UofL players from Camden High School in Camden, New Jersey, he started the Camden Connection. Wagner played on three Final Four teams at UofL (1982, 1983, 1986). Affectionately known as the “Ice Man,” he also won a high school national championship at Camden and an NBA Championship with the Los Angeles Lakers in 1988. Wagner played 11 seasons of professional basketball. He then moved on to coaching, joining John Calipari’s staff at Memphis. He was an assistant on current UK assistant Tony Barbee’s staff at UTEP and Auburn. Wagner, whose interview follows, now lives in Louisville. He joined former Cards coach Denny Crum and spoke to kids at the Robbie Valentine Camp at the KFC Yum! Center in late July.

You seem to be comfortable talking to kids. Is that something you have always enjoyed?

How frustrated were you in 1985 when you broke your foot in the second game?

When it first happened, it was definitely a low point. Going into that year I was a top 10, on everybody’s All-American team and Taylor’s 10 future lottery pick, and then I break my foot. It was kind of a KENT setback, so I thought about it TAYLOR because I was going to put myself WAVE3 Sports in the draft, regardless. Once I Do you remember when started thinking and I saw how you first walked into Crawford Gym? the season was going is when I decided to Yes, Crawford Gym is so legendary. The come back. I saw who we had coming in the games we used to have in Crawford Gym next season, so I said, “Hey, I went to two were unbelievable. There was no air condi- Final Fours. I want to come back one more tioning, shirts and skins, but you had some time and try to win a National Championof the best pickup games in the country. I ship.” looked forward to playing in Crawford Gym every year. We never went home. Normally Was it that whole group of freshkids will go home during the offseason; we men or Pervis, Kenny Payne, Tony stayed there all summer and just played at Kimbro, anybody in particular?

Crawford Gym. It was the whole group. Kevin Walls was Who was the guy that you did not in that group. Plus the guys we already had coming back, I thought we had a great want to be matched up with? chance to win the National Championship.

Probably Griff [Darrell Griffith] whenever he came home. Then again, I wanted that UofL fans never saw the real Kevin challenge though. I knew he was one of the Walls, did they? best players to ever play in a UofL uniform.

He’s a legend to me. He’s one of the reasons I came to the University of Louisville. To play against a guy who I considered a legend, it was just a privilege just to be there.

It feels good; this is what I’ve been doing all my life – try to relate to the kids. Just try to tell them what it takes to get to that next level and also prove the importance of an education.

No, you never saw him because the knee injuries stopped him from really showing what he was really capable of doing. This kid was unbelievable. He could come at you full speed, stop on a dime and just shoot the pull up. He had the best pull up jumper I’ve ever seen. Handled the ball well. He never really played to his potential here.

What are doing now?

I’m working for a non-profit called Community Dental, and I’m the community outreach manager for them. I go around to schools and preschools and community centers and just try to educate them about dental health. Also, we offer free dental screenings to the schools.

How is your son, Dajuan, doing?

He’s trying to make a comeback. He doesn’t want to be 40 and say, “I should have” or “would have.” He wants to make a comeback and probably go overseas. Also, I have a grandson who is 10. I’m telling you right now, you better be looking for him.

He’s the next one.

What’s his name?

D.J. (Dajuan Junior). VT

You went to three Final Fours, won a National Championship, what is your greatest memory as a Card?

I would have to say, for me, hitting the last free throws of the National Championship game. If people know about my career, that was part of my reputation, as far as making free throws at the end of the game or hitting the last shot. To end my career with the game on the line, there was no three-point line; we were up one with two seconds left. To be able to put the game away made everything great.

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American Pharoah was named “best horse in the world” by Britain’s Timeform ratings.

American Pharoah Is the World’s Horse

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he winner of the Kentucky Derby and America’s first Triple Crown winner in 37 years became the nation’s darling a while back.

But now you can add “Horse of the World” to his growing resume.

There is, of course, a reason we run our races. There are no pre-ordained results, and there are no guarantees or certainties when the starting gate opens.

The late Hall of Fame training legend H.A. “Allen” Jerkens providHorse Sense ed an unforgettable reminder that there are no “sure things” when he JOHN defeated the mighty Secretariat twice ASHER in the months following Big Red’s After Sunday’s gallop in the Hasmythic Triple Crown tour de force kell Invitational at Monmouth Park – a Grade in 1973. Jerkens beat the legend with former I triumph in which he disposed of good horses claiming horse Onion in Saratoga’s Whitney with breathtaking ease – owner/breeder Ahmed and again with Prove Out in the Woodward at Zayat’s superstar has been declared the best Belmont Park. horse in the world by Britain’s Timeform ratWhile American Pharoah has proven to be ings. light years beyond all others in his age group, Timeform ranked the American star at 136, let me suggest it would be a mistake to think pushing him closer to the highly-regarded Euro- he is toying with weak competition. I continue pean star Golden Horn, winner of this year’s to believe this is a strong and talented crop of Epsom Derby, and closer, also, to American 3-year-old Thoroughbreds and the horses at the Hall of Famer Cigar, whose rating of 138 was top end of his age group will win major races the highest for a North American horse since this year and in the near-future. the company launched its global Thoroughbred But their best chances will come when Amerirankings. He is the highest-rated North American Pharoah is running somewhere else. can horse since 2004 Breeders’ Cup Classic win“The others can’t keep up with the high ner Ghostzapper, whose top rating was 137.

American Pharoah is clearly that good and, speed he has,” said jockey Victor Espinoza after with as many as three races remaining in his the Haskell, his eighth victory without a defeat aboard American Pharoah. “Turning for home, career, still has room to grow. the others were struggling. He was having fun.

Trainer Bob Baffert remarked after the Ken- Me too. We both were having fun.” tucky Derby winner’s final pre-Haskell work The three horses that finished behind Amerthat his star was “getting faster.” That was neiican Pharoah – Keen Ice, Upstart and Comther a glib quip nor idle thought but rather a fact petitive Edge – are all good, talented and still borne out in Sunday’s romp on the Jersey Shore. very promising runners. But they don’t want American Pharoah is, without question, get- any more of American Pharoah, although they ting faster and better despite the rigors of the could face him again.

Triple Crown – a feat that many now-silent critNormally, it would be a chore to find other ics has complained was too difficult a hurdle for horses to run against a foe as dominant as Bafhorses bred in the 21st century. He is so good now that, with even modest improvement, it is fert’s Triple Crown winner. But the money that difficult to imagine anything other than mis- American Pharoah and his opponents will be erable luck beating him in the remainder of a running for during the next three months should career that is scheduled to continue through the ensure the competition will be solid.

Monmouth Park officials announced upon $5 million Breeders’ Cup Classic at Keeneland American Pharoah’s arrival at their track that on October 31.

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the Haskell’s purse was being raised by $750,000 from its scheduled value of $1 million. While the winner earned $1.1 million and the owner and trainer also benefited from incentives for choosing the Haskell, the presence of American Pharoah also boosted the bankrolls of those who finished behind him.

Donegal Racing’s Keen Ice, who has steadily improved through the year after running a sneaky-good race in the Kentucky Derby, closed well for trainer Dale Romans to be the Haskell runner-up. His second place check, thanks to the purse hike, was worth $330,000. Saratoga has already announced that the purse for its $1 million Travers will rise to $1.6 million if American Pharoah shows up in that race later this month.

The Pennsylvania Derby, another possible pre-Breeders’ Cup stop, is also working on incentives to lure Zayat’s horse to Philadelphia’s Parx Racing next month, so there should be plenty of money to attract some solid competitors to that race, as well.

The late Daily Racing Form legend Joe Hirsch would often remind us that “Good racing is good business.” American Pharoah validated Hirsch’s adage on Sunday as his presence helped attract a record crowd of nearly 61,000 to Monmouth Park, and the track’s wagering records tumbled. Officials at Saratoga and Parx are hoping for similar success if and when the Big Show stops in their towns.

Wherever Zayat and Baffert decide to run American Pharoah, my only advice would be that we all savor the fleeting moments of his spectacular career. Even if we’re not lucky enough to be on the grounds whenever and wherever American Pharoah is running, let’s be sure to carve out some time to enjoy this remarkable horse as he does what he does best.

“This horse, he just keeps bringing it,” Baffert told NBC Sports after the Haskell. “He’s just a great horse.

“As long as he’s still at the top level, I’ll lead him up there. As long as he’s at the top of his game, that’s my main concern. We have something really special. We owe it to him.” VT W W W . V O I C E -T R I B U N E . C O M • A U G U S T 6 , 2 0 1 5

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ANCHORAGE

BRECKENRIDGE LANE

Anchorage Café 11505 Park Rd.

Baptist East/ MileStone Fitness 750 Cypress Station Drive

The Village Anchor 11507 Park Rd. Northwest Mutual 10200 Forrest Green Blvd BARDSTOWN RD. & THE HIGHLANDS Andrew Gentile Antiques 1287 Bardstown Rd. Atomic House Of Hair 2201 Grinstead Bearno’s Pizza 1318 Bardstown Road Breadworks 2204 Dundee Rd. Carmichael’s Bookstore 1295 Bardstown Rd.

Baptist Hospital East Waiting Rooms Books-a-Million 994 Breckinridge Lane Client Women’s Diagnostic Center 4004 Dupont Circle John Kenyon Eye Center 4040 Dutchman’s Lane Joseph’s Salon 3988 Dutchmans Lane Wild Eggs 3985 Dutchmans Lane BEECHMONT Beechmont Bombshells 309 W Woodlawn Ave.

Sam’s Hotdog Stand 1991 Brownsboro Rd Vines & Canines 1760 Frankfort Ave. DOWNTOWN 21C Museum Hotel 700 W Main St. 4th & Main Northeast Corner 5th & Main In front of Humana 5th & Market Southeast Corner 6th & Market Northwest Corner Actors Theatre 316 West Main St. Against the Grain Brewery 401 East Main St. Art Eatables 631 South 4th St.

Comfy Cow 1449 Bardstown Rd.

Sunergos Coffee 306 W Woodlawn Ave.

Day’s Espresso 1420 Bardstown Rd.

BROWNSBORO RD.

BBC Theatre Square 660 S 4th St.

Heine Brothers 4901 Brownsboro Rd.

Bearnos 131 West Main St.

Kroger 2219 Holiday Manor Center

Bistro 301 301 West Market St.

Rite Aid 3805 Brownsboro Rd.

Brown Theater 315 West Broadway

BUECHEL

The Café 712 Brent St.

Heine Brothers 3060 Bardstown Rd. Francis Lee Jasper Oriental Rugs 1330 Bardstown Road Homemade Ice Cream & Pie Kitchen 1041 and 2525 Bardstown Rd. Hillbilly Tea 960 Baxter Ave. Kroger 2440 Bardstown Rd. Louisville Free Public Library 1250 Bardstown Rd. McDonald’s 1245 Bardstown Rd. Molly Malone’s 933 Baxter Ave North End Cafe 2116 Bardstown Rd. O’Sheas 956 Baxter Ave. Preston Arts 3048 Bardstown Road Safai Coffee 1707 Bardstown Road Uncle Maddio’s Pizza Joint 2011 Grinstead Drive Uptown Cafe 1624 Bardstown Rd. Urban Attic 1608 Bardstown Rd. Valu Market 1250 Bardstown Rd. Wick’s Pizza 975 Baxter Ave. BON AIR Bearno’s Pizza 2900 Taylorsville Rd. Louisville Free Public Library 2816 Del Rio Place

Bill Collins Ford 4220 Bardstown Rd. Clear Channel Radio 4000 Radio Drive Derby City Antique Mall 3819 Bardstown Road Kroger 3616 Buechel Bypass Steilberg Strings 4029 Bardstown Rd. CLIFTON Carmichael’s Bookstore 2720 Frankfort Ave. Clique Boutique 2846 Frankfort Ave. The Comfy Cow 2221 Frankfort Ave. Heine Brothers 2714 Frankfort Ave. Homemade Ice Cream & Pie Kitchen 2232 Frankfort Ave.

City Café 505 West Broadway City Café – UofL Medical Plaza 500 South Preston St. Down One Bourbon Bar 321 West Main St. Galt House West West Garage Entrance Heine Brothers 462 South 4th St. Louisville Free Public Library 301 York St. Luigi’s Pizzeria 712 West Main St. Manny & Merle 122 West Main St. Marketplace Restaurant 651 South Fourth St. Mrs. Potter’s Coffee 718 West Main St.

The Irish Rover 2319 Frankfort Ave.

Pendennis Club 218 West Muhammad Ali Blvd.

Louisville Free Public Library 2762 Frankfort Ave.

PNC Bank 5th & Liberty PNC Bank Lobby Shop 500 West Jefferson St.

Lyndia R Willis Salon 2850 Frankfort Ave. Vint 2309 Frankfort Ave. Volare 2300 Frankfort Ave.

Patrick O’Sheas 123 West Main St.

FERN CREEK Homemade Ice Cream & Pie Kitchen 5606 Bardstown Rd. Louisville Free Public Library 6768 Bardstown Rd. GERMANTOWN Heine Brothers 822 Eastern Pkwy.

Sunergos Coffee 2122 South Preston St. IRISH HILL Come Back Inn 909 Swan Street Red Hot Roasters 1401 Lexington Rd. Spring Street Bar & Grille 300 South Spring St.

Homemade Ice Cream & Pie Kitchen 12531 Shelbyville Rd. Kroger 12501 Shelbyville Rd. Louisville Free Public Library 200 North Juneau Drive Mellow Mushroom 805 Blakenbaker Paul’s Fruit Market 12119 Shelbyville Rd. Sunny Daize 11809 Shelbyville Rd.

Verbena Cafe 10619 Meeting St. NuLu

Please and Thank You 800 East Market St.

Louisville Free Public Library 601 West Woodlawn Ave.

Toast on Market 620 East Market

Sister Bean 5225 New Cut Road

The Voice-Tribune 735 East Main St.

Barnes & Noble 801 South Hurstbourne Pkwy.

Kroger 9812 Linn Station Rd. 12611 Taylorsville Rd. Louisville Athletic Club 9565 Taylorsville Rd. Louisville Free Public Library 10635 Watterson Trail

Wild Eggs 121 South Floyd PEWEE VALLEY Forest Springs Dental 12466 LaGrange Rd. Kroger 12450 Lagrange Rd. POPLAR LEVEL Kroger 4009 Poplar Level Rd. PORTLAND Louisville Free Public Library 3305 Northwestern Pkwy.

PROSPECT

Manpower Services 1221 South Hurstbourne

Blackstone Grille 9521 West Highway 42

Music Go Round 3640 South Hurstbourne Pkwy.

Burning Bush Grille 13206 West Highway 42

Paul’s Fruit Market 3704 Taylorsville Rd. Sam Swope Autoworld Sam Swope Center Drive Snap Fitness 3831 Ruckriegel Pkwy.

Tou-che Boutique 1249 S Hurstbourne Pkwy.

Valu Market 315 Whittington Pkwy.

Red7E 637 West Main

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CRESCENT HILL

Regalo 562 South 4th St.

Dairy Queen 11806 Shelbyville Rd.

Mellwood Antique Mall 1860 Mellwood Ave.

Saint Stephens Church 1018 South 15th St.

The Fresh Market 10480 Shelbyville Rd.

North End Cafe 1722 Frankfort Ave.

Wild Eggs 121 South Floyd St.

Heine Brothers Coffee 801 Blankenbaker Pkwy.

Big O Tries 3623 Lexington Rd. Blairwood 9300 Blairwood Road Bluegrass Burgers 3334 Frankfort Ave.

Celebrations 3632 Brownsboro Road

Harvest 624 East Market St.

JEFFERSONTOWN

BBC East 3929 Shelbyville Rd.

NORTON COMMONS

IROQUOIS

Valu Market 5301 Mitscher Ave

ST. MATTHEWS

Bruegger’s Bagels 119 Breckinridge Lane

Ghylsain 721 East Market St.

Sunergos 306 West Woodlawn

Liquor Barn 4301 Towne Center Drive

Wild Eggs 153 South English Station Rd.

Ward 426 420 Baxter Ave.

Iroquois Ampitheater 1080 Amphitheater Rd.

Kroger 9440 Brownsboro Rd.

Captain’s Quarters 5700 Captains Quarters Rd. Homemade Ice Cream & Pie Kitchen 9561-B US Highway 42 KingFish 3021 River Rd. Kroger 9151 US Highway 42 US Post Office 9523 US Highway 42 SPRINGHURST Barnes & Noble 4100 Summit Plaza Drive Homemade Ice Cream & Pie Kitchen 3608 Springhurst Blvd.

Cox’s Smokers Outlet 294 North Hubbards Lane CVS 3721 Lexington Rd. The Fishery 3624 Lexington Rd. Heine Brothers 119 Chenoweth Lane 4305 Shelbville Rd. Homemade Ice Cream & Pie Kitchen 3737 Lexington Rd.

Tafel Mercedes 4156 Shelbyville Rd. Thorntons #97 4500 Shelbyville Rd. Tin Roof 3921 Shelbyville Rd. Tom + Chee 111 Saint Matthew Ave. UofL Churhill Downs 700 Central Ave. The Comfy Cow 337 West Cardinal Blvd.

Quills Coffee 337 West Cardinal Blvd.

Tom + Chee 319 W Cardinal Blvd.

UofL SAC 2100 South Floyd St. WESTPORT RD. Camelot Family Dental Center 7420 Westport Rd. The Comfy Cow 1301 Herr Lane #18 Ghyslain 1215 Herr Lane

Jewish Community Center 3600 Dutchmans Lane

Kroger 9501 Westport Rd.

Kroger 291 North Hubbards Lane

Louisville Athletic Club 9463 Westport Rd.

Lenihan/Sotherby’s 3803 Brownsboro Road Lotsa Pasta 3717 Lexington Rd.

Louisville Free Public Library 8100 Westport Rd.

Highland Fish Market 3941 Chenoweth Square

Norton Immediate Care Center 1321 Herr Lane

Louisville Executive Aviation 2700 Gast Blvd.

Thorntons #34 605 Lyndon Lane

Louisville Free Public Library 4030 Grandview Ave.

Wild Eggs 1311 Herr Lane

Lucky’s Market 200 N Hurstbourne Pkwy.

Mellow Mushroom 3920 Shelbyville Rd. Molly Malone’s 3900 Shelbyville Rd Nanz & Kraft 141 Breckenridge Lane Plehn’s Bakery 3940 Shelbyville Rd. Rainbow Blossom 3738 Lexington Rd. Sam Swope Fiat 4311 Shelbyville Rd. Sassy Fox 150 Chenoweth Lane Schmidling Silversmithing 104 Cannon’s Lane Speedy Mart 316 Wallace Ave.

INDIANA Bristol Bar & Grill 700 West Riverside Drive, Jeffersonville Comfy Cow 109 East Market St., New Albany Derby Dinner Playhouse 525 Marriott Drive, Clarksville Homemade Ice Cream & Pie Kitchen 3113 Blackiston Mill Rd., Clarksville John Kenyon Eye 519 State St., New Albany Kroger 305 Lewis & Clark Pkwy., Clarksville 2956 East 10th St., Jeffersonville Perkfection Cafe 359 Spring St., Jeffersonville

St.Matthews Jewelers 3634 Brownsboro Road

Quills Coffee 137 East Market St., New Albany

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their basketball endeavors. t was in 2009 when the founder of LouisTillman says the sense of family these girls have is what has made ville Team Shively, Gary the program so special in his years Wheeler, discovered he had as coach. Junior guard from Butler a group of girls from Butler Tasia Jefferies can attest to this. She High School who could realsays she loves the kinship between High School ly play the game of basketball. herself and the other girls, being so Sports Report close that they finish each other’s Upon realizing what was in sentences. front of him, he called AdriRANDY “We’ve been together since we an Tillman who would even- WHETSTONE JR. were 9 years old. Some of us went tually become the head coach to the same middle and high school, to give him the great news. and we decided to go to the same school Wheeler said to Tillman, “I really think because of AAU. Just seeing where we startthey are eager to learn and ready for ed and seeing where we are now and how the some instruction.” Six years later, Lou- progress came along is amazing. We started isville Team Shively has emerged as our own AAU team, got in the gym and got a top notch AAU program for girls in better and made opportunities for ourselves.”

The opportunities have certainly expanded grades 10 and 11.

three things the team lives by.

“When I met the girls, I was all in and sold on it,” says Tillman. “Then more girls would come and the word was spread a little bit.

Six years later, we now have girls who will be playing Division I basketball with more to come. It’s been a blessing to see these girls as sixth and eighth graders, and now to see them going into their junior year and the attention they are getting from colleges is real rewarding for me.”

Moving forward, Tillman says the program will look to add more teams as a way to build upon the success that has already been established.

Louisville Team Shively is made up of girls who attend Butler, Male, DuPont Manual, Ballard and Sacred Heart. Most of the girls have known each other since their elementary days and made the choice to walk together in

for this program. In the beginning stages, LTS would compete primarily at Mid America and local church leagues. After dominating the competition, Tillman decided to take the girls on the road to give them a greater challenge and enhance their presence around the region.

“Gary and I sat down, and in the last five years, we haven’t played in the city of Louisville. We decided to travel. From there, the girls have played against better players and good competition, and before you know it, you start to get better. And that’s exactly what happened.”

LTS consists of girls who have grit about them, love to win and leave it all on the hardwood when competing. Tillman says there are

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“Playing hard, playing together, and I told them eventually the third thing will start to come into fruition; the third thing is playing smart. So now, that’s our motto. These girls have fun. They are not sore losers, but they love winning.”

Jaylenn Penn, a junior from Butler has seen her game progress since playing for LTS and under Coach Tillman. This young lady who started playing the game at age 6 says her mental toughness has improved and she now knows the game better.

“We are tough, and in practice we know what to expect from each other and it’s been fun. We have a lot of success, and we have been playing with each other since fifth grade.”

In return, Penn has received interest from UofL, UK, Notre Dame, LSU, Xavier and UConn.

“Word has gotten around, and I believe we will have a couple of Ms. Basketball candidates in 2017 and 2018. Word of mouth is the easiest way for things to spread. I want to expand it, and I want to have up to five or six teams. People hear the ball bouncing and they show up. When kids want to be there, they buy in, and it makes me want to be there. So that’s what we have right now. We have a lot of kids who want to be a part of what we’re doing, so I believe the future is bright.” VT W W W . V O I C E -T R I B U N E . C O M • A U G U S T 6 , 2 0 1 5

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James Graham Brown Cancer Center Grand Opening Community leaders and board members celebrated the opening of the James Graham Brown Cancer Center on July 29. Guests got a tour of the clinic as well as cocktails and heavy hors d’oeuvres.

Lani VanderToll, Vice President of Oncology Mark Milburn and Debbie Scoppechio.

Hilary Deskins and Amanda Carricato.

President, Physician Enterprise Charlie Powell and Chief Physician Executive Dr. Pat Alagia.

Barbara Mackovic and Laura Beth Parsons.

Krista Milburn, Lani VanderToll, Tommy Huelsman, Kristen Faulkner, Matt Stull, Barbara Mackovic and David McArthur.

John McCarthy and Andrew Settle.

Doctors Iltaf Khan, Vivek Sharma, Monte Martin and Donald Miller.

Bernie Delaney, Nancy Bowles and Carrie Dunn.

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Members of the Jewish Hospital Foundation board Edward Weinberg and Betsy Bennett.

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Bruce Smith and Alex Whitenack.

Western Kentucky University Head Coach Jeff Brohm and the Hilltopper Football program hosted their second annual Louisville Kickoff Party at Buffalo Wild Wings on July 28. The event featured autographs, prizes and food specials.

WKU Head Football Coach Jeff Brohm, Sally Sadler Tisdale and Oscar Brohm.

Juwan Gardner and DeAndre Farris.

Roy and Kathy Potts and Charlie Johnson.

Kevin Liebert, John King and Brady Brohm.

Mary Elizabeth and Vicki Hoerter.

Andrew, Kenny and Maggie Hoerter.

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Angela and Arnold’s Half-Century Celebration Arnold Rivera hosted a birthday party for his wife, Circuit Court Judge Angela McCormick Bisig.

It was a sublime time at the Bisig/Rivera home on August 1. Guests dressed in summer chic, and a champagne station was available for creating champagne cocktails.

Steve VanHooser and Wayne Jenkins.

Arnold Rivera, Angela McCormick Bisig, Teresa Hemm and Barry Willett.

Mark Eliason and Jeffrey Howard.

Craig Stevenson, Mandy Vine and Cheri Collis White.

Sarah Banta, Nina and Khalid Kahloon and Robert Banta.

Debbie King and Becky Lamb.

Ron Wolz, Karen Hunt and Karen LaClare Casi.

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Best of Louisville Louisville Magazine joined with the National Multiple Sclerosis Society in hosting a party that celebrated the best of Louisville on July 30. The party featured food and booze tastings, raffles, a silent auction, music and dancing.

Emily Grace Markanich, Tyler Stiebling, Amy Hoagland and Jillian Waitkus.

Karen Goldner, Kevin Harned and Debbie Harper.

Allyson Cottrell and Kiersten Green.

Abigail Orrick, Elizabeth Grace and Katherine Davis.

Laura Stokes, Todd Stokes, Amy Stuber and Jason Stuber.

Scott Kraft, John Wilson, Soon Bahrami and Cathy Christian.

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Martha Frisch and Carol Payne enjoyed tasting cookies.

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It was a time of music and fellowship at The Brown Theater where friends and fans of the late Kentucky Opera Director David Roth gathered on July 30 to remember Roth and celebrate his life. A brief reception followed an hour-long tribute.

Ben Franklin, Barbara Sexton Smith and Sue Bauer.

Douglas Riddle and David Mahoney.

Ann and John Sweeney and Ellen Baker Finn.

Wil, Peggy and Dr. Louis Heuser.

Deborah Bishop, Harold Hudson, Brandi Turner and Dorinda Church.

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“Infinite Joy” by William Finn was sung by Emily Albrink, soprano.

Walker Hughes, Karen McCue and Tom Karageorge.

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Connecting in the City Friends of River Fields, an organization committed to the conservation and enhancement of the Ohio River corridor, hosted a party that blended activism with cocktails and a river view at the top of 21C Museum Hotel on August 2.

Board member Von Purdy, Jim Haynes and Carolyn and Edwin Lewis

Jim Wombwell and John Kinney.

Carly Bell and Missy Ormerod.

Kathy Sullivan, Paul Casi II and Karen Casi.

Sandy Gulick and Kathy Sullivan.

Nate McAtee, Amelia Runyon and Thomas Carrier.

Ben Miles, Melinda Taylor, Blair Hunter and Vice President Hunter G. Louis.

Board member Logan Ormerod, Morgan Johnson, Executive Director Meme Sweets Runyon and Roscoe Willett.

Emerson Starks, Roscoe Willett, Mo McKnight Howe and Scott Howe.

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Doe-Anderson 100th Year Celebration Doe-Anderson, a Louisville Consulting/Business Services company, celebrated 100 years in continuous business on July 30. The event remembered Elmer Doe who founded the company in 1915.

Member of the board of directors Kevin Borland, President and CEO Penelope Peavler and Susan McNeese Lynch.

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Louisville Boat Club Swim Banquet The Louisville Boat Club Swim team held an awards banquet on July 22 to celebrate its summer swim competition in the country club league.

Ashton Tidwell, Madeline Jamie, Avery Kuzmicky, Lauren Greenberg, Kara Adams, Caroline McAdams, Hadley Kuzmicky, Ava Tidwell and Marie Wilson.

Margie Quinterro, Hendy Wiebe and Stacey Harralson.

Swimmers watched video images of the swim season.

Ryan McAdams.

Webb Harralson.

Liz Cole, Bryan Arnett, Jamie Atlas and Jenn Arnett.

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Walker Wiebe posed with his trophies.

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Bryan Arnett and Tommy Atlas.

Alex Blom and Anna Hurst.

Max Jamie.

Joshua Lococo with riders.

Juan Quintero, George Solomon and Sam and Schuyler Heuser.

Annie and Michael Kuzmicky.

Caroline McAdams competed in diving and swimming.

Patrick Morgan and Adam Wiebe.

Ben and Stacey Harralson.

Hank Harralson with his awards.

Hadley and Avery Kuzmicky.

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Liz Cole, right, who was awarded Volunteer of the Year.

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his year marked the 25th Anniversary of the presentation of “The Entertainer of the Partyline Year” (EOY) contest by the SLS Pride CARLA SUE Foundation. The BROECKER driving force behind the foundation is the partnership of George Stinson and Ed Lewis who own The Connection entertainment complex at Floyd and Market streets.

Each year EOY seems to have grown larger. Conducted like many beauty pageants, it focuses on talent, poise and beauty. The only difference is that all of the contestants are female impersonators.

There are contests that are held during the week leading up to the grand finale. At these events, preliminary winners are chosen for congeniality, beauty and talent with some being voted on by the contestants themselves. This year, there were 38 contestants representing cities from all over the country with one coming all the way from Hawaii.

As master of ceremonies, George also announced that this year will be the last one for the preliminaries to be held at The Connection. Next year, they will be held at a new entertainment complex that is being built in conjunction with a hotel and spa on property on Floyd Street south of Broadway. Leading interior designer Lee Robinson, who was also a judge at this year’s finals, has been hired to oversee the design of the new facilities, which promise to be more than slightly wonderful.

On the final evening, the number of contestants are reduced to 10 as a result of the voting during the preliminary events. Over the years, the finals have been held at a variety of places including the Hyatt Regency, The Kentucky International Convention Center, The Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts, The Louisville Palace and The Brown Theatre. For the past several years, they have been held at Horseshoe Casino, and it looks like they have really found a home. Horseshoe’s Events Manager Lizette Verdi does a wonderful job to make the entire evening run smoothly.

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On the final night, the Entertainer of the Year is selected by a panel of 10 judges who vote independently with secret ballots on Talent and Evening Wear. The 2014 winner was Trinity Taylor from Tampa.

Trinity was present to crown this year’s winner, Sunny Dee Lite who was also from Tampa. The huge crowd celebrated the crowning with thunderous applause.

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Sunny Dee Lite being crowned as 2015 Entertainer of the year.

In a city that never seems to run out of new exciting restaurants, another one was recently announced. JQ Public House at RiverPark Place has been announced by Falls City Hospitality Group.

It is expected to open in late spring 2016 and will be a mid-century modern beer garden featuring wholesome comfort food rooted in Americana.

Executive Chef Jonathan Schwartz will offer an extensive number of dishes, including several variations of fried chicken, bakedto-order meatloaf and a variety of seafood options like a fish boil, raw oysters and steamed clams. Diners should have a wonderful view of the Ohio River provided by

Trinity Taylor 2014 Entertainer of the Year.

an entire wall of windows making up a portion of the restaurant located at the new RiverPark place apartments.

In addition to the new restaurant, the group announced that it will also restore the nearby historic Padgett House as a rental space for weddings or other private events.

This project is their third in Louisville. They own Doc Crow’s Southern Smokehouse and Raw Bar on Whiskey Row. A short distance from JQ Public House, work is underway to renovate the former Tumbleweed location into Doc’s Cantina, a restaurant serving Mexican food at the foot of the Big Four Bridge. It is scheduled to open by the end of 2015. VT

The ten finalists for 2015 Entertainer of the Year.

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EAR ABBY: I have been married to “Ken” for 10 ••• years. He is a successful DEAR ABBY: A bus station I was business owner. It has been a waiting in had two clearly marked men’s and women’s single restrooms. struggle to stay married to him What do you say or do when the because he has control issues Dear Abby women’s bathroom is occupied and and when he doesn’t get his there are two women waiting ahead way, he begins a verbal assault JEANNE of a man to use the men’s restroom? on his victim – usually me. He Who has priority for the men’s room PHILLIPS in this case? The two women ahead has no friends because he runs of me in line, or me, the male who came after them off, claiming they did him wrong them?

I’d like to point out that they were young (not true), and his employees don’t like women who were clearly not in an emergency. – him and talk badly about him behind his WAITING IN LINE IN CALIFORNIA back. They stay because he pays well. He DEAR WAITING: The person whose gender uses his money to control people. matches the sign on the door should take prece-

disservice.

I love Ken and life can be normal at times, but once he thinks I’m getting out from under his thumb, his destructive behavior begins. He treats me like his worst enemy. The pain is becoming unbearable. One minute he tells me he loves me, and the next he is punishing me for not coming home from the store on time.

My question is: How do I become more sensual and intimate? His complaints are vague. We see a marriage counselor every three weeks. I can ask the counselor. I can ask a close friend. I can buy books but thought I’d also give you a try. – NOT GOOD ENOUGH IN NEW HAMPSHIRE

I researched online and learned he has many of the traits of a narcissist. It scares me because he doesn’t know he has a problem. He thinks the rest of the world is messed up instead of him.

How can I approach him in a way that won’t send him over the edge? When I say anything to him he thinks is an attack, he comes back at me viciously. I don’t know whether to stay, hoping he’ll see the light one day, or get out before I’m emotionally damaged beyond repair. – BROKEN IN TEXAS DEAR BROKEN: Your husband may have a personality disorder, but YOU are a victim of emotional and financial abuse. Much as you might want to, you can’t “fix” him because he appears to be comfortably in denial about having a problem. It is important, however, that you get some help for yourself.

Contact the National Domestic Violence Hotline and talk to someone there about what has been going on (thehotline.org, 800.799.7233).

They can help you formulate a safe plan of escape, should you need one.

Next, consult a lawyer about what your rights are as a wife in the great state of Texas. If you can find out what the marital assets are, do that as well – but do it quietly, because if your husband realizes, he will likely try to move/hide them or retaliate to get you back under his control. I don’t have to tell you how unhealthy his behavior is, but it may take your leaving to make

dence – although a gentleman probably wouldn’t insist upon it if a lady seemed to be in distress.

••• DEAR ABBY: I am 21 and on my second marriage. My husband of two years is every girl’s dream man – the kindest, gentlest, most patient guy. He loves me for everything, including my flaws. I honestly believe he is the only one who could ever handle me.

So tell me, why am I cheating on him? I never thought I could find myself in this situation. I have a lot happening in my life, but there is no excuse for why I am straying from such an amazing husband. I love him, but when I get a text, I hope so badly that it’s from the other man. And when it’s from my husband, I feel disappointment.

We see the other man. He works for my parents. This situation is messy, and I don’t know what to do. I can’t tell my husband – it would ruin his life. I’d rather just leave him without giving any reason than tell him the truth. I want to leave him and live my own life, but I’m afraid to be on my own. I don’t know why I stay. I’m lost and confused. Can I have some advice, please? – RECKLESS IN FLORIDA DEAR RECKLESS: You’re playing at matrimony as if it were a game instead of a deep, enduring partnership. Staying married to someone because you’re afraid to be on your own is doing both of you a

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If you think leaving your husband “for no reason” would be less hurtful than telling him the truth, you are mistaken. You owe it to him to level with him about the affair so he won’t blame himself for your leaving. When you do, I strongly recommend that you get counseling from a licensed mental health professional to help you slow down and more carefully consider what you’re doing before you marry a third time.

••• DEAR ABBY: I have been married for three and a half years to my wonderful husband. We are both 51. It’s my first marriage and his second. He complains that I am not sensual enough for his needs, or intimate enough. I have been with only two men in my life but have dated a lot. I’m Catholic and had no complaints from my ex-fiancée.

DEAR NOT GOOD: Honest communication is essential in a strong marriage, so the person to ask is your husband because only he can answer this question.

I’m glad that the two of you are in marriage counseling, and I recommend you raise this subject during your next session. Because your husband seems capable of only vague answers when you have asked for clarification, your counselor may be able to encourage him to open up. If that’s not possible, then the two of you should consult a licensed sex therapist.

••• Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

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Br yan Puckhe Herb Alpert & The ett of Little Heart Tijuana Brass album Records, Dave “Whipped Cream & Rucinski of Gubbey Other Delights” has been a Records and Wesley mainstay, ironically or othAllen of Eastwood Records), followed erwise, for 50 years. Its Contributing by live music (local genre is the now forgotten artists Ricky Morse, Writer “mood music,” and it is the Shadowpact, Krosalbum just about everyone in joint, Fast Friends, ROCKO America must have owned The Whiskey Riders JEROME circa 1965, as evidenced by and New Bravado), and then an afterits presence everywhere hours party.

The celebrations old records are sold. But its nearly continue on Sunday, August 16 unmatched visual fame has pushed it at 1 p.m. with a panel featurto immortal status, and this weekend, ing Erickson herself and Louisrecord – or whipped cream – aficiona- ville film producer Weld Robdos can get a taste of that fame at the ert Connley, whose documentary “Haight Ashbury: The third annual VinylFest.

Dolores Erickson, the whipped cream-clad model on the cover of Alpert’s album, will be greeting fans and signing autographs all weekend at the Crowne Plaza Hotel. Erickson’s appearance, in celebration of the iconic album’s 50th anniversary, is just one of the many features that sets this event apart from others like it. Event CEO Melinda Angstrom sees this event as truly unique within vinyl culture.

“It’s an indie cultural experience focusing on vinyl,” she explains.

Much more than a mere swap meet, in addition to a full hall of vendors, VinylFest features entertainment starting Saturday, August 15 at 12:30 p.m. with a panel discussion (“On The Record,” featuring Ben Jones of Better Days Records, Sean Liter of Modern Cult Records,

Beat Of A Generation” will be premiering and running on a loop all weekend. Tickets for one day are $15 and for both days, $20. A $5 discount is available if you grab a ticket at the kickoff party Friday night at Modern Cult, 2001 Frankfort Ave. So have vinyl records returned? I checked with the panel experts. Don’t call it a comeback, says Ben Jones. He’s been here for years.

“From a store’s standpoint, there is no vinyl resurgence. We have never left the medium. It has just evolved from a two decade void where technology replaced physical product to being replaced again with an older technology ... The music lover is realizing that the warmth and ‘snaps, crackles and pops’ associated with vinyl has its own rhythm.

It adds an extra dynamic in the soundtrack of our lives.” Bryan Puckett would go so far as to add an extra sense beyond the

auditory: “God, it just smells good. A new CD smells so clinical – sterile, like a doctor’s office. Vinyl has this smell. At this point, one of my biggest hopes for VinylFest is that it’s going to smell like living in my record collection.” Dave Rucinski also knows what he wants. “I love vinyl because it is a physical format, which I think the public is still very hungry for. The artwork is large, and if the record is cut properly, it has superior sound quality.” Wes Allen feels similarly. “I love vinyl for its clean, natural sound and the fact that it has stood the test of time.”

Whether you were around before they were considered vintage or your record love is a new love, you’re sure to find something of interest at this unique show. You can find more info at vinylfest.net. VT Rocko Jerome is a writer whose first short work of fiction was just published in “The Lemon Herberts” by Pro-Se Press; it is a story about a band on tour promoting their new record set in 1967. A life-long music enthusiast, he will be on hand at VinylFest.

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ould it even be possible to do more with a basement than Marie and her husband Don Tilley have done?

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and boxes of candies on display as well as a free-standing popcorn dispenser. Ornate details recall the art deco era of the Louisville Palace and other elaborately decorated movie houses of the middle 20th century.

The ornamentation extends The Tilleys’ remodeled, to the theater where plastic tiles 3,000-square foot basement now LYNN molded to imitate highly decoracontains a theater, a second enterHAMILTON tive tin ceilings were mounted on tainment room, a full kitchen, acoustic tile. The theater doesn’t washer and dryer, huge exercise room, two just pay tribute to theaters like The Louisville bathrooms and a bedroom. You could spend the rest of your life in this basement. Really. Palace; it’s also quite a bit more comfortable Especially when they crank up “Lord of the than any of those theaters ever thought to be.

The tiered seats are heavily cushioned, are Rings” in the theater. able to recline and feature cup holders.

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film or raised – at which point a small stage appears. As of this writing, the stage is filled with Maria’s drum set and Don’s guitars.

They are learning to play and hope to jam with friends in the near future.

The art deco theme flows into the bathroom, which is a dramatic mix of black and gold. Even the grout in the tile floor is gold.

The effect is finished off with a crystal chandelier.

Stone walls and archways can be found throughout the downstairs space. Though they certainly look real, the stones are actually made of concrete, explains David Westfall, the HomeWork remodeler who undertook the Tilleys’ project.

The second bathroom, though also lavish, was designed to be wheelchair accessible,

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down to the shower stall, which features a linear drain to prevent water escaping into the rest of the bathroom.

The second entertainment room sports a V-shaped sectional couch and proximity to the full kitchen where a granite countertop and bar suggest the colors of Tuscany. Nearby, a screened in porch includes yet another area perfect for reclining and relaxing. The porch also provides access to and a perfect view of the swimming pool. Westfall notes that the screen is made of an extremely durable, high-security stainless steel that could stand up to the blow of a baseball bat without breaking.

Another intriguing feature of the Tilleys’ house is a number of hidden doorways. Behind one is a furnace and behind another is the house’s second washer and dryer combination. Yet another hidden door leads to the exercise room, and one leads to a storage area.

Maria quips that the doors are not really hidden because “we show everybody.”

“We’re never moving again,” says Maria. Well, she really wouldn’t have to. She has everything anyone might ever need right in her basement. VT The Tilley basement remodel is part of the upcoming Tour of Remodeled Homes. This year’s tour is August 8-9 and features 10 magnificently renovated homes throughout the Louisville area from noon to 6 p.m. each day. $10 adult ticket, children 6 and under free (cash or check only). Purchase a ticket when you reach your first house. Visit bialouisville. com/signature-events/tour-of-remodeledhomes for more information and to see the addresses of the homes. You can start at any house on the tour.

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19th-century house at Rock Creek, built in the late 1860s or early 1870s, started out as four rooms — two rooms downstairs and two upstairs. The house was a wedding present for the granddaughter of Meinrad Schoenbachler, a dairy farmer in the St. Matthews area.

Since its modest beginnings, the home has been expanded through multiple additions until, today, it is a spacious Colonial home with several beds and baths.

The home’s additions, like the original, were constructed of solid brick so that the feel is very unified – proving you can have more space without losing your history. The homeowners remodeled their kitchen in 1998 when the house was the Louisville Junior League/American Society of Interior Designers show house. Distressed cabinets and a pot hanger maintain the home’s 19th-century feel.

Redsmith Construction presided over the most recent remodel, which gave the current owners more space for a living area, a small wet bar and another bathroom. Redsmith Construction used salvaged brick to create a new exterior wall. The brick and roof line trim mirror the home’s original materials. VT

You wouldn’t know from looking at it, but this home features several additions from different time periods.

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fter Brian De Palma, John Woo, J.J. Abrams and Brad Bird, writer/director Christopher McQuarrie (“Jack Reacher”) takes the helm in the fifth entry in the “Mission: Impossible” franchise, which has become an action vehicle for Tom Cruise comparable to the “007” series. Despite light connections, such as the character Luther (Ving Rhames) appearing in every movie, they’re all practically standalones with a different atmosphere and plot each time and very little character building.

That’s fine. The Bond movies do the same thing, and we accept them for what they are. The “Mission: Impossible” movies take inspiration from the original television series with absurd technology, gadgets and improbable masks, which always seem to serve as a cheap “gotcha!” device.

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Ever since 1996, when the first entry in the re-imagined cinematic series began, we’ve been getting big budget action-packed cinematic treatments to these concepts and all of them – except for the second one – have been pretty damn cool.

Similarly, the addition of Swedish actress Rebecca Ferguson gives this series a female character who seems interesting for once (she also looks tastefully more mature than a lot of the 19-year-olds they recruit as love interests in movies like these).

So now that I’ve seen “Rogue Nation,” I’m happy to say that Cruise and his producing partners still know what they’re doing. Like “Mad Max: Fury Road,” this is a movie that reserves its CGI for where it is needed while amazingly real stunts (many of which Cruise does himself) are pulled off right in front of the camera.

In short, it’s a little longer than it needs to be and I’m uncertain as to how seriously it takes itself, but you can still expect a helluva show. VT

This movie, once again, finds a reason for Cruise’s Ethan Hunt and his team to be cutoff from the support of the American government as they search for the man behind an organization known as, “The Syndicate,” which seems to be causing disasters all over the world that look like accidents but seem to have specific results. I could deconstruct the plot on which I felt this movie wasted too much time, but I have to remember that McQuarrie was the man who wrote “The Usual Suspects” – so maybe I should skip a bit and say that the action set pieces still deliver. An assassination attempt during a performance of “Turandot” at the Vienna Opera House is probably this movie’s most inventive segment.

This movie isn’t as fun as the last entry in the series, “Ghost Protocol,” as its tone is a little less jovial and the score by Joe Kraemer isn’t as inspired as Michael Giacchino’s work in the last two. However, the return of Simon Pegg as Benji, the timid tech specialist still getting used to field work, is a welcome one.

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The Re-evolution Has Begun Skyscraper Stereo, one of the most popular hip-hop acts in Louisville music history, returns with their latest full-length, “Scrape or Die!,” this week with a release show on Friday at the New Vintage. The Voice-Tribune connected with crew member Daniel Guess, a.k.a. Goodbar, to learn what’s up.

How was your Forecastle?

his stage presence or catchy hooks (which he can come up with in his sleep), he’s just an undeniably lovable guy. Don’t confuse that for lack of lyrical prowess, though. Ya boy gets right … His progression is evident on this new album.

prosperous so far as well.

Forecastle was perfect. I didn’t How did each group memknow that the city of Louisville ber contribute to make this was ready to receive a collective of record what it is? What’s homegrown hip-hop artists in that everyone best at? capacity. I underestimated what we could accomplish as a unit. That Chuck MF Deuce (CMFD) is Arts & was a milestone for Louisville hipthe quarterback when it comes hop as a whole, not just for the acts Entertainment to Skyscraper Stereo … Dat Boi chosen to perform that particular Dunn (DBD) and I typically go PETER set. Dr. Dundiff ’s selfless act creSkyscraper recording sessions BERKOWITZ into ated a movement. The majority of with eager ears, open minds and us have collaborated and supportlots of blind faith. It’s not uncomed one another on some level or mon for the two of us to hear something another, but on that stage we became a family. Chuck is working on and think, “Where is he going with this?” or “How am I supWhich year has been better for you posed to rap to this?” The irony is that most so far, 1995 or 2015? of the tracks we’re apprehensive about end I feel like 1995 was an amazing year alto- up being our favorites when we hear the fingether for the entertainment industry and ished product … Chuck is constantly looking those who wanted to be entertained. It just to improve as a musician. For this album, he so happens that we have a song on “Scrape decided to stray away from sampling. Legalor Die!” entitled “Party Like ’95” where ly, that’s a great idea, but it will also help him we each confess our obsession for pop cul- to develop a signature sound. He also told us ture, music, clothing and the like from ’95. that he wants every song on this album to The hook may or may not reference the O.J. be a single. Maybe I’m a little biased, but he Simpson trial ... and, yes ... he was innocent. may have actually pulled that off!

CMFD provided the backdrop and his All jokes aside, with our fourth LP on the stories about high school crushes and sucka stove, that epic Forecastle experience a few emcees.

DBD and myself polished up our weeks ago and the thriving Louisville hipmetaphors about sex, drugs and Nike SBs. hop scene as a whole, this year has been very And the product was “Scrape or Die!”

As far as I’m concerned, I’m the lyricist.

I’m very humble, but a few people have told me I’m pretty decent at what I do. Who am I to argue? Nothing out of the ordinary from me on this album, as far as what I offer. Just the usual under-your-ground, over-yourhead raw.

The beauty of Skyscraper, in my personal opinion, is we have polar-opposite musical influences, but somehow we mesh. Everyone contributed their all to this project. I can’t forget about AK, our DJ. He has a cameo on the album and we’re thankful that he’s behind us, literally and figuratively.

The production on “Scrape or Die!” sounds more pop to me than previous albums. Are you guys trying to expand your audience this way, or is it a more natural progression (a re-evolution)?

I think it’s more of CMFD broadening his horizons as a producer. Rap music has never even really been his first choice of genre.

He plays a mean guitar (check the solo on “Ya Boy Gets Right”). We welcome a wider demographic, but at the same time, we don’t want to lose loyal fans by changing our formula. After all, that’s the definition of selling out. It’s safe to call it a re-evolution. VT

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araoke is a time-honored activity of giving anyone that moment of glory or humiliation, depending on how you look at it. Even the best voices tend to be given a pathetic presentation behind that cheap microphone. Why do we love it so? WHY DO I LOVE IT?

attractions, where people made their way from Germantown dives, such as Nachbar, to end their night with drunken carols at this little hole-inthe-wall. Unfortunately, Groucho’s recently shut down. “Groucho” – as the owner is called – used to run the Out & About place with his mother and started looking for other places to put on his BENNETT karaoke show. He’s found a comfortDUCKWORTH able regular spot in the show room at The Bard’s Town on Fridays and Saturdays from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. On some weekends, the place is said to pack up as reguMaybe because every time I sang along with lar devoted acolytes of tacky tunes fill the room some track playing on my truck’s CD player, I waiting to sing. felt as though I were rehearsing for something I asked him what it’s like to experience this. big. A little nostalgia for a song from my youth “It’s weird,” says Groucho. “It’s weird and it’s can drive me to share my love of it with everycool.

I think of myself as a relatively normal one in the room. I enjoy singing karaoke very person so it is kind of bizarre having followers.” much – even if I could imagine someone’s sober He tells me that group requests for “Boheperspective witnessing the sight of some guy unable to part with an old idea of life’s beauty mian Rhapsody” seem to come up often as the most popular of requested tunes. When I through the assistance of a video screen. arrived at his newest of guest destinations, The I’ve never sung “Get What You Give” by The Cure Lounge on South Shelby Street – where New Radicals on the karaoke stage, but somehe is now setting up on Thursdays – the night day we’ll know if I go through with it. It’s one was winding down, but a couple of his devoof the catchiest songs I’ve ever heard, and yet tees were singing their hearts out at the end of it still reminds me of a time when I was young, the night. shy and far from happiness – but full of hope.

One of these people is Greg Welsh. “I was Just thinking about karaoke has that song dancgoing to Groucho’s like … every day,” says ing in my head.

Welsh of the time when he became acquainted Oftentimes, when karaoke is mentioned in with the KJ. “I was working downtown and livconversation, Akiko’s is the first place to come ing in Germantown, walking by there every day. up since it serves as a stop for singing on Bard- But I would just stop by, do songs for strangers. stown Road’s bar-hopper strip. However, other It was my go-to place – and ever since it closed under-the-radar places offer karaoke as well. down, I’ve been going to The Bard’s Town and For a long time, Groucho’s on Goss Ave- here.” Greg’s favorite song is “PMS Blues” by nue served as an alternative to the mainstream Dolly Parton.

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A place not too far from The Cure Lounge has become a hot spot stop for karaoke. It is known as T Eddie’s, and it sits on Logan Street across from Smoketown USA (the famous BBQ place). T Eddie’s is a classic kind of dive with longtime bartenders, such as a lady known as Cherokee who, during my visit, treated the entire place to shots when she got the news that she’s now a grandma.

Folks from all over tend to find themselves at this place late at night for drink specials (some nights, it’s $3 wells and $5 top shelf), food off the grill and the silly joy of singing poorly.

Their singing time is Wednesday through Saturday, 9 p.m.-4 a.m.

The place was actually a little too busy for me to get a turn that night, but later that week, I made it over to The Bard’s Town where I arrived early and sang my typical favorite go-to song: “Wicked Game” by Chris Isaac. Just the other night, I did it one more time for my girlfriend as she giggled at my falsetto, which seems to get weaker the older I get. I suppose the rule of karaoke is that it’s not about how well you sing; it’s about how you feel and the lack of humility it takes to belt out those feelings.

“You’ve got the music in you.” VT

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THIS WEEK’S VOICE CHOICE 2015 CARIBBEAN WINE FESTIVAL

Orchids of Elegance presents the 2015 Caribbean Wine Festival. Come listen to a live Reggae band, shop with local vendors and purchase a bottle of wine to enjoy with family and friends. Tickets are $15 in advance or $20 at the gate and include four drink tickets for wine tasting and a souvenir wine glass. This is an event for those 21 and over and will take place from noon to 6 p.m. Tickets are on sale now.

MORE INFO gdjamanagement@gmail.com

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“DCI BIG, LOUD & LIVE 12” SCREENING On the heels of the exciting “Drum Corps at the Movies: 2015 DCI Tour Premiere” event this week, Fathom Events and Drum Corps International (DCI) are excited to bring this year’s DCI World Championship Quarterfinals to the big screen LIVE when “DCI Big, Loud, & Live 12” comes to select cinemas nationwide on Thursday, August 6 at 6:30 p.m. Broadcast LIVE from the Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, “DCI Big, Loud & Live 12” will get you up close and personal with 15 of Drum Corps International’s best corps as they compete against each other for the chance to be named the 2015 World Champion. “DCI Big, Loud & Live 12” will be shown at Cinemark Tinseltown, Cinemark Mall St. Matthews, Cinemark Preston Crossing and Regal New Albany.

MORE INFO cinemark.com

DINNER WITH CHEF NEWMAN MILLER Chef Newman Miller of Harrison Smith House will prepare a seasonal dinner at Maker’s Mark Distillery featuring local ingredients and paired Marker’s Mark cocktails. Chef Newman will discuss each course and offer some insights into pairing cocktails and how to source locally. This intimate dinner will take place, weather permitting, overlooking the Distillery on the terrace at 6 p.m. and costs $100.

MORE INFO makersmark.com/distillery/events

OPEN HOUSE KENTUCKY HOME REALTY There will be an open house hosted by Kentucky Home Realty at Historic Elmwood Mansion, 260 Leland Court from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Champagne & cheese will be served.

MORE INFO kyhomerealty.com

F R I DAY, AU G U S T 7 DAUGHTERS OF GREATNESS SPEAKER: BARBARA SEXTON SMITH The Muhammad Ali Center is proud to announce its upcoming Daughters of Greatness speaker: Barbara Sexton Smith. Ms. Smith will speak at the Center at 8:30 a.m. Throughout the year, the Daughters of Greatness breakfast series invites prominent women engaged in social philanthropy, activism and pursuits of justice to share their stories with the Louisville community. The Daughters of Greatness series provides a place for dialogue and discussion on current issues of justice, community engagement and social movements within the Louisville area and beyond.

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WALK WITH A DOC AT THE PARKLANDS KentuckyOne Health and the Mayor’s Healthy Hometown Movement have teamed up to get Louisville area residents to Walk With a Doc. At 10 a.m. join KentuckyOne Health at the Parklands of Floyds Fork in the Egg Lawn. Walk With a Doc is a nationwide program that works to empower patients to improve their health through physical activity while they exercise side-by-side with healthcare providers. Walkers have the opportunity to learn about important health topics, ask medical questions in an informal setting and receive free health screenings, refreshments and giveaways.

MORE INFO kentuckyonehealth.org/walkwithadoc.

S U N DAY, AU G U S T 9 HEMP FESTIVAL: EDUCATE & CULTIVATE Locust Grove planted hemp seeds for the first time in perhaps 200 years in June. Come by now to see how the crop has grown! The day will feature a Hemp Village with hemp products for sale, a Hemp Café where foods are made with hemp oil and seeds and a Q&A with Ag Commissioner James Comer and others on the future of hemp in Kentucky. Demonstrations will include rope making, paper making and hemp spinning. Two movies – “Hemp For Victory,” a World War II-era film and “Bringing It Home” – will be shown at dusk with a pop-up movie the-

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atre. The event lasts from noon to 10 p.m., and admission is $5.

MORE INFO locustgrove.org

M O N DAY, AU G U S T 1 0 THE COLOR OF MY WORLD EXHIBIT OPENING The Home of the Innocents, with which The Speed Art Museum has partnered, is a private, non-profit agency in Louisville that provides the skills and opportunities by which vulnerable children and their families may improve their lives. Through their facilities and resources, the Home is able to offer many services, including a crisis shelter, residential care and a therapeutic, loving foster care program. The Speed and the Home have come together to create The Color of My World, the next Wall Together exhibit at Local Speed. In this joint endeavor, Speed staff members helped guide a group of young women during a four-week exploration of collage. Participants were introduced to inspiring artists and a variety of techniques as they learned how to translate their individual perspectives into works of art through the intentional use of color and shape. Their thoughtful efforts resulted in final collages and poems that vibrantly express their unique journeys toward self-empowerment. The opening reception for this event will be 5:30-7:30 p.m. at Local Speed. This reception is free and open to the public.

MORE INFO speedmuseum.org/walltogether or homeoftheinnocents.org

T H U R S DAY, AU G U S T 1 3 RADIOTRONIC AT NORTON COMMONS Favorite local band Radiotronic will perform from 6 to 10 p.m. at the new Norton Commons Amphitheater, 9420 Norton Commons Blvd.

The free concert is a fundraiser and awareness event for the Coalition for the Homeless, the lead advocate for the homeless locally. A cash

and The Michael Houston Group (IN) will grace the stage that doubles as the venue’s beautiful fountain when not being used for performances.

Vendors are welcomed to set up for this event.

For vendor info call 502.643.1470 MORE INFO thesoulounge.com

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BIG WISH GALA The Louisville Big Wish Gala will provide guests the opportunity to experience the Make-A-Wish mission firsthand. The evening will include a fabulous sit down dinner, a live and silent auction and a few surprises. Guests will also have the opportunity to hear inspirational stories from children and families whose lives have been forever changed by a granted wish. The event is at the Downtown Louisville Marriott and will begin at 6:30 p.m. Individual tickets are $150.

MORE INFO oki.wish.org

BRISTOL BAR AND GRILLE ITALIAN WINE DINNER The Bristol Bar and Grille will host Louisville native Mollie Lewis of Indigenous Selections for an Italian wine dinner. Newly promoted Executive Chef Heather Brown will serve a five-course meal to complement Lewis’ wine selections. The dinner starts at 7 p.m., and each course is paired with hand-selected wine from Lewis. Cost is $65 per person and includes wine pairings. Tax and gratuity are not included.

For reservations please call 812.218.1995.

MORE INFO bristolbarandgrille.com

NORTON COMMONS MOVIE ON THE LAWN Bring the whole family out to enjoy a movie on the lawn in Norton Commons! “Cinderella” (2015 live action version) will be shown. The movie begins promptly at dusk. Don’t forget your chairs, blankets and snacks. No pets on the town center lawn, please. Adverse weather will result in a cancellation of this event. The Movie on the Lawn is free and open to the public and begins at 8 p.m.

MORE INFO nortoncommons.com

S AT U R DAY, AU G U S T 1 5 NAMI LOUISVILLE STEP FORWARD FOR MENTAL HEALTH WALK The NAMI Louisville Step Forward for Mental Health Walk is a fun, family-friendly event with music, refreshments, face painting, chair massages, team photos, t-shirts and door prizes.

Participants are encouraged to set aside their typical walking shoes and wear shoes that best represent them – business, casual, athletic or dress. All walks of life will be represented, just as mental illness affects all walks of life.

Come out for the only annual walk in Louisville focused on mental health, awareness support and recovery. NAMI Louisville is the local affiliate of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, offering information, guidance, free programs and support to people affected by mental illness. The walk begins at 10:30 a.m. on the Harbor Lawn of Waterfront Park, and registration is $25.

MORE INFO namilouisville.org/walk

S U N DAY, AU G U S T 1 6 SUMMER OF SOUL NIGHT ON THE KFC YUM! CENTER PLAZA This outdoor event is free and open to the public and will take place 5-9 p.m. The Soul Lounge Louisville will once again present four local and regional bands on one soulful night! Bashiri Asad (IN), Ryan Marsh (IN), Nightbreeze (KY)

T H U R S DAY, AU G U S T 2 0 VARANESE CELEBRATES EIGHT YEARS OF SUCCESS ON FRANKFORT AVENUE Varanese, located at 2106 Frankfort Ave. in the historic Clifton neighborhood, will celebrate its eighth anniversary on Thursday, August 20 by featuring $8 drink specials, $8 appetizers and complimentary anniversary cake made by Chef Varanese himself. Varanese is known for many things, including its nightly live jazz music and the popular bourbon barrel smoked pork chop.

To celebrate this eight-year milestone, some fun numbers have been compiled that reflect totals since the restaurant opened in 2007.

MORE INFO varanese.com

F R I DAY, AU G U S T 2 1 20TH ANNUAL EVENING OF JAZZ Join Lincoln Foundation for the 20th Annual Evening of Jazz featuring the Jamey Aebersold Jazz Quartet at 5:30 p.m. at The Kentucky Center. A pre-concert reception with hors d’oeuvres, a cash bar and musical entertainment by West Louisville Boys and Girls Choirs will begin in the lobby at 5:30 p.m. The prestigious Spirit of Excellence Award will be presented to Christina Lee Brown, philanthropist and co-founder of Festival of Faiths and Institute for Healthy Air, Water and Soil. Proceeds from the Evening of Jazz benefit the Whitney M. YOUNG Scholars Program, Lincoln Foundation’s signature educational enrichment program. Please join in to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Whitney M. YOUNG Scholars Program.

MORE INFO kentuckycenter.org THE PARKLANDS SUMMER MOVIE NIGHT SERIES: THE LEGO MOVIE Join in on the Egg Lawn in Beckley Creek Park for “The Lego Movie”! The Parklands Movie Night Series is presented by Papa John’s Pizza, whose mobile kitchen will sell refreshments at

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the event. The Comfy Cow will also be selling ice cream, including an exclusive Parklands flavor called The Bees Knees. The movie is free and open to the public with no registration required. Parklands Members will be treated to a free VIP seating area and will receive a voucher for a free slice of pizza when they show their Membership card. (One slice per individual membership, two slices per household membership, while supplies last.)

MORE INFO TheParklands.org/2015movies or 502.584.0350

S AT U R DAY, AU G U S T 2 2 KICKING BUTT 5K The Walk Away from Colon Cancer & 5K Run began nine years ago as a way to support survivors, honor loved ones, spread awareness of colon cancer and raise funds for the efforts to increase colon cancer screenings. For the 10th anniversary, the race is being renamed the Kicking Butt 5K. It is the largest annual fundraiser for the Colon Cancer Prevention Project, a Louisville non-profit whose mission is to end preventable colon cancer death and suffering.

The Project does this with education, advocacy, health systems improvement and survivor support. This year’s event will be at 8 a.m. at Iroquois Park.

MORE INFO coloncancerpreventionproject.org AMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND FILM FESTIVAL: “BLINDSIGHT” From 12:30 to 3 p.m., the American Printing House for the Blind is screening the 2006 film “Blindsight” for both blind and sighted audiences. The film, presented with audio description for the blind, will also be followed by a moderated discussion. The APH will also be providing popcorn and other traditional theater snacks.

Admission is completely free, but space is limited. Those who wish to attend should register as soon as possible (registration is required). To register, call 502.899.2213 or email kcarpenter@ aph.org by noon the day before the screening.

Best for older children and adults.

MORE INFO aph.org

T U E S DAY, S E P T E M B E R 1 “SEVEN GUITARS” PRESENTED BY ACTORS THEATRE LOUISVILLE After serving jail time on a trumped-up vagrancy charge, blues musician Floyd Barton sets out to win back his girl and reclaim his pawned guitar, hoping to make a new hit record. Set in 1948 in the backyard of a Pittsburgh apartment house, “Seven Guitars” follows Floyd’s circle of friends and neighbors – the play’s seven voices – as they spin a rich tale of the deck that’s stacked against them, what they’ve lost and all they dream. This lyrical play is part of August Wilson’s Century Cycle, which charts the African-American experience through each decade of the 20th century. The show runs through September 20, and tickets start at $25.

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bar and food will be available from Tea Station Chinese Bistro, Mike’s Kentucky Kitchen and Zoom Zoom Yum food truck, and a portion of the proceeds from food and bar sales will benefit the Coalition.

MORE INFO 502.636.9550 or louhomeless.org

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Doc is a 10-year-old Domestic Shorthair mix with beautiful grey tabby markings. Doc is all for curling up next to you on the sofa and relaxing.

He enjoys the company of people, but he would prefer to be your only pet. Doc is a mellow dude.

He wants his time to stretch out in the sun and take it easy. You want to read a good book? Doc is happy to sit next to you while you give him an occasional pet. Doc is neutered, micro-chipped and up-to-date on his vaccinations. Come meet him at the Kentucky Humane Society’s Main Campus, 241 Steedly Drive.

Papocho is a 2-year-old Boxer/Labrador who is ready to settle down with a loving family.

Originally abandoned on KHS property, Papocho thought he had found a forever home when a family chose him, but it turned out to not be a good fit. Papocho is looking for a family who understands the needs of an active, silly boy and who would be willing to give some positive reinforcement training. Papocho is a true lap dog at heart and loves belly rubs, tug, fetch and hanging out in the shade with his humans. He is neutered, micro-chipped and current on vaccinations.

Papocho can be found at our St. Matthews Feeders Supply adoption center, 4600 Shelbyville Road.

For more on any of our adoptable pets, please call 502.366.3355 or visit kyhumane.org.

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