Yessssssss. We still love every part of this. [NPR] Did y’all see WAVE3 zoom into meemaw’s house last night as she was in her housecoat and curlers? They were covering HELLPOCOLYPSE 2011 and just cold zoomed into everybody’s house. It was hilarious. [That Should Win Awards] The only thing more hilarious was a transformer exploding [...]

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Three Louisvillians are getting some good recognition at Yale University these days. One helped organize this year’s Environmental Film Festival and two are premiering their documentary at the festival. Randy Strobo, a University of Kentucky alumnus and University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law graduate, is the programmer and director of legal affairs for the [...]

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If you’re just trolling around the internets and happen upon Apple’s film trailer page, you’ll see this: That orange thingy in the top left is Clara Bingham’s film about mountaintop removal, The Last Mountain (visit the film’s website by clicking here): Here’s a trailer: I’d say that placement is high praise, as we’re right on [...]

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The second annual Derby City Film Festival is around the corner – February 19th through February 21st at the Clifton Center in Louisville. The group has just announced the selection of 45 films to be screened. Judging them based on promotional posters and descriptions (because judging a book by it’s cover always makes sense, right?), [...]

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Got plans? Nope? Here’s what you’re going to do: Attend the premier party for the IMAX film Van Gogh: Brush with Genius at the Louisville Science Center. Tonight. 8:00 P.M. to 11:00 P.M. Tickets are $10 for Science Center and Visual Art Association members. $15 for non-members. And it’ll be totally worth it because, uh, [...]

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We’re sorry for the 119 folks losing their jobs in Metro Government, but still think that layoffs should have been an option taken a while ago… Flagged: There’s been so much national buzz about the Kindred Hospital in Texas, in which an employee was asked to remove an American flag from her workspace, that the [...]

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Wondering how to celebrate? Check out the special event at the Louisville Science Center, starting Monday night at 6:30.  For $5, you’ll see a special screening of the Gill Holland documentary, “FLOW” and spend some time with experts on H20. This is an important environmental issue, and you should be aware of the world water [...]

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There is news outside of basketball, like this… “Gloomy Jerry Abramson”: In his story about the soaring jobless rate, the C-J’s Joe Gerth used an adjective rarely used in connection with our upbeat chief. The news is gloomy — about 1 in 10 people can’t find a job. Don’t forget that Francene’s doing her radio [...]

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Louisville’s Diane Sawyer is making the media rounds promoting her special on eastern Kentucky, appearing this week with the gals on “The View” and a live interview on WHAS-TV. The special, called “A Hidden America: Children of the Mountains” exposes the extreme poverty that has led to something called “Mountain Dew mouth,” a chronic dental [...]

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FLOW, the award-winning documentary about the most important political and environmental issue of the 21st Century, is out on DVD. Can anyone really own water? It’s produced by Kentuckian Gill Holland. Check out the trailer:

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