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Learning experience

In the hallway, the laughter all sounds the same. But listen closely and there’s a swirl of different languages — Vietnamese, Arabic, Swahili, just to name a few.

Third Street jive

Crammed into the minority caucus room inside City Hall last Thursday, Metro Council Republicans vented frustrations about Mayor Jerry Abramson’s handling of plans to expand Fourth Street Live.

Crude - How Wall Street is screwing America

Inside the comfortable landscape of Rock Creek Golf Club in Fairhope, Ala., life is undoubtedly serene, a far cry from the bustling city of Houston across the Gulf where Doug Terreson, a former Mor

HOW THEY ROLL

Energias de Portugal (EDP) is the national energy producer for Portugal. For insight into how Morgan Stanley conducts its investments on the open market, the following are excerpts from a release by EDP announcing the sale of stock to Morgan Stanley subsidiaries. See if you can follow along:

Reader's Choice 2008 Winners

Readers’ Choice 2008 Winners

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Best Annual Festival

1) KY Derby Festival

2) St. James Art Fair

Readers’ Choice - LEO Weekly’s (Probably) Overly Optimistic Guide to Promising Changes in Louisville

Once a year, for reasons known mostly by our advertising department, we let you people say what’s good in our fair river burg — unequivocally and without embellishment. It is an inexact science, as you’ll see in the following pages, and (sometimes unfortunately) we make no executive decisions as to what should qualify or, more accurately, be disqualified. 

What’s old is new (again)

I was born and raised in Louisville, and have fond childhood memories of this fair city: posting up on the curb at Derby parades (never mind a few close-calls with crazed Shriners in tiny cars), daring to water ski on the Ohio (it’s called boosting your immune system) and pulling up to Frisbee Field on a Friday night in my friend’s cherry-red Volkswagen convertible (back when smoking was cool, you know, not hazardous).

IdeaFest 2008 Schedule

Sept. 23

Main Course @ IdeaFestival • 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM • Humana Building & Main Street (between 4th and 5th Streets) • (Separate Registration Required)

Oh, electric day - The IdeaFestival and the case for thinking in a crass society

If you’re old enough to have had any feel for the ’60s, to have harbored then a sense of what might have been now, maybe you have a particular disappointment. Mine is the commodification of ideas. More than the lack of a working environmental ethos, the present dearth of basic human rights and the persistence of tribalism in so many places (including, recently, the streets of St. Paul), the selling of creative thought and the authorizing of imagination strikes me as our gravest cultural shortcoming. Such abdication of implicit gifts is the surest path to joining the Borg, I’d reckon.