Escaping Critics: He ain’t riding a bike to work yet, but the Mayor is giving up his gas hog Lincoln for a Ford Escape, a small SUV, for his driver to take him back and forth to work. Is Clay Foreman paying attention?
And down at Fancy Farm: We weren’t compelled to make the four-hour haul […]

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J.K. McKnight is the man behind the Forecastle Festival, the music-art-activism event just concluded downtown on Sunday with a rousing speech from Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
I called McKnight to get his take on a story going around about the reaction to Velocity writer Peter Berkowitz’s bashing of the bands article in the pre-Forecastle issue. McKnight […]

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It has hot and sticky, so the 300 or so fans who had come to listen to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speak at the Forecastle Festival were trying to stay cool, but they weren’t missing a minute of the impassioned environmentalist’s speech.
Maybe I was in the minority, but I didn’t know a lot about RFK, […]

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The idea of making moves is pretty glamorous. The work involved in producing a short film in 48 hours, I can only imagine, is not.
Last night we saw a dozen of the 45 short films produced for the 48 Hour Film Project, and the entertainment level far surpassed anything showing at your nearest multiplex. The […]

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So the Forecastle Festival is finally here. As far as local festival events go, there’s none bigger, thanks to what I hear is the sheer will of organizer J.K. McKnight. The festivities start Friday, and as most of Louisville knows by now, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will make a speech on Sunday.
It’s not our intent […]

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An order you won’t hear at the July 25-27 Forecastle Festival: “Two corn dogs, cheesy fries and a funnel cake, please.”
That’s because the three-day event featuring music, art and activism has worked out a deal to serve locally raised produce and meats, thanks to a partnership with Slow Foods Bluegrass. Sandy Nixon of fb3, […]

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