Branden Klayko
Why is gas in Louisville between three and four dollars a gallon while gas in Europe is nearly double? Do either of these numbers represent the true cost of gas? The Center for Investigative Reporting set out to track...
I have wanted to see Pennsylvania-based artist Brent Green's film Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then since a friend of mine saw it during a Brooklyn rooftop film festival last summer. The film is based on the life of Leonard...
Jasper Ward, the architect behind a proposal to turn a grain silo into a major housing development in the 1960s along with many other buildings including Portland Elementary, was interested in planning housing just about anywhere you could imagine. Among...
Officials from Metro Louisville, the Metro Housing Authority (LMHA), and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) gathered in May to announce funding for Louisville's third HOPE VI development on the site of the current Sheppard Square...
One of Louisville's least-remembered large tear-down's occupied a prominent site across the street from the old courthouse, now Metro Hall, on what was then known as Center Street (indicated above). There's really very little I could find out about...
The weatherman is calling for sun and temperatures in the 80s tomorrow, so, in celebration of Dump the Pump Day, take the opportunity to ditch your car and try commuting a little differently. Catch some early morning fresh air...
The UPS Worldport is one of those remarkable things about Louisville. Because of the Worldport, Louisville's airport can claim to be "the 3rd busiest cargo in North America and the 9th busiest in the world" (according to Airport Council...
The New York Times ran an interesting story on Friday that mirrors a perennial struggle in Louisville: industry in evolving neighborhoods. Many of New York's most fashionable neighborhoods—Soho, Tribeca, Dumbo, and the Meatpacking District—were full of industrial uses, not...
Jasper Ward, one of Louisville's visionary architects, was involved with a plan to convert the now demolished Ballard Mills on East Broadway into high-rise apartments. The $2 million scheme proposed in the late 1960s would have created 132 circular...