Nov. 20-21
Holy Spirit Church
3345 Lexington Road
893-3982
hspirit.org
Features 35 booths this year with a variety of vendors selling jewelry, artwork, pottery, children’s clothing and accesories that are fun and ‘edgy,’ so to speak, home decor items, stationary and also ’off the wall’ items.
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Holiday Art Show and Boutique @ Holy Spirit
November 20, 2009 – 9:30 am
Gallopalooza Live Auction @ Seelbach Hotel
November 20, 2009 – 9:30 am
Friday, Nov. 20
Seelbach Hilton Hotel
500 S. Fourth St.
www.gallopalooza.com
$50-$100; 7:30 p.m.
Gallopalooza, Inc., the civic pride project that is currently displaying more than 130 life-size horses designed by professional and amateur artists throughout the Louisville area, plans to auction approximately 100 of the horse statues to the highest bidders in Live and Online Auctions next month to [...]
Festival of Trees & Lights @ Slugger Field
November 20, 2009 – 9:30 am
Nov. 20-22
Slugger Field
$5 ($3 for children); 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
HelpKosairChildrensHospital.com
This year’s 20th anniversary Festival of Trees & Lights will herald the start of the holiday season while benefiting the Kosair Children’s Hospital neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Presented by Republic Bank, the event will be held at Louisville Slugger Field Nov. 20 to 22, and will [...]
Feed the Hungry Fundraiser @ PYRO Gallery
November 17, 2009 – 9:23 am
Tuesday, Nov. 17
PYRO Gallery
624 W. Main St.
Free; 6-9 p.m.
A benefit for The Food Closet at Calvary Episcopal Church to feed those in need. Featuring art auction and more. A group of Louisville artists is responding to the need by offering their work in support of the Calvary Food Closet. Some 40 artists are focusing their diverse talents on [...]
Weekender: Nov. 14-15
November 13, 2009 – 2:36 pm
•Viva La Diva: A Celebration of Louisville’s Women Musicians
Sunday, Nov. 15
Jim Porter’s
2345 Lexington Road
452-9531
www.merfbenefit.org
$7; 5 p.m.-midnight
From the Americana of Brigid Kaelin, the blues of Tanita Gaines, the country sounds of Karen Kraft to the rock of The Blue Umbrellas and Kimmet Cantwell, the performers for Viva La Diva! run the gamut of Louisville music. Because this [...]
FIRE & ICE Brain Ball @ Henry Clay Building
November 13, 2009 – 10:45 am
Friday, Nov. 13
Henry Clay Building
Third & Chestnut
www.biak.us
$175; 6:30 p.m.
The Brain Injury Alliance of Kentucky will host the Fire & Ice Brian Ball. Guests of the Brain Ball will be enchanted with a sparkling ice castle, silent auction, dinner and presentation of the Mary Varga award and a posthumous award in honor of WHAS11 reporter, Chuck Olmstead. Chairing [...]
Healthy Foods, Local Farms Harvest Party
November 6, 2009 – 11:03 am
Friday, Nov. 6
The Seelbach Hotel
www.healthyfoodslocalfarmsconference.org
$35; 6-9 p.m.
Benefits Slow Food Bluegrass and the Sierra Club. Bluegrass music by The Jawbones and Maiden Kentucky. Restaurants participating in this annual celebration of local food and farms include:
The Oakroom at the Seelbach Hotel, Proof on Main at 21c Hotel, 610 Magnolia, Restaurant Varanese, The English Grill at the Brown Hotel, 732 Social, Wiltshire on Market, Gelato Gilberto, JCTC Culinary Arts Program, Sullivan University Culinary Arts Program and more.
The GRRAND Affair @ Mellwood Arts & Entertainment Center
November 6, 2009 – 10:47 am
Friday, Nov. 6
Mellwood Arts & Entertainment Center
1860 Mellwood Ave.
www.grrand.org
$50; 6:30 p.m.
Golden Retrievers that were abandoned, abused, neglected or otherwise left homeless have gotten a “new leash on life” and found new homes thanks to the help of the Golden Retriever Rescue and Adoption of Needy Dogs (GRRAND).
GRRAND’s eighth annual fundraiser, The GRRAND [...]
Weekender: Oct. 31-Nov. 1
October 30, 2009 – 2:25 pm
•Paper Zoo
Saturday, Oct. 31
Horseshoe Casino and Hotel
11999 Casino Center Drive, Elizabeth, Ind.
www.horseshoe-indiana.com
$45-$75; 9 p.m.
Combining vocals that fall somewhere between Freddie Mercury and Iggy Pop with an experimental spacey rock reminiscent of earlier Flaming Lips, Paper Zoo manage to create a singular sound that is at once heavy and atmospheric, equal parts Pink Floyd and Lounge [...]
Weekender: Oct. 24-25
October 23, 2009 – 2:42 pm
•Doggy Hop
Saturday, Oct. 24
Barret Avenue, between Winter & Highland
DoggyHop.com
Free; 3-7 p.m.
If you don’t like dogs, then: a) you should avoid the Barret Avenue business corridor Saturday, and b) you have issues.
For the rest of you dog-lovers, leash up your canines and head to the second annual Doggy Hop on Barret. This “dog-centric street fair” will [...]
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Karaoke for a Cure @ O’Shea’s
October 22, 2009 – 10:00 am
Thursday, Oct. 22
O’Shea’s Irish Pub
956 Baxter Ave.
589-7373
6-10 p.m.
First Annual Beta Theta Pi “Karaoke for a Cure.” 100% of the proceeds go to The James Graham Brown Cancer Center at the University of Louisville Breast Cancer Research.
Jason Noble Benefit I @ Glassworks
October 22, 2009 – 9:30 am
Thursday, Oct. 22
Glassworks
815 W. Market St.
www.louisvilleglassworks.com
$8; 8 p.m.
’Tis the season to give back, and that means to the people who made Louisville independent music what it is today. What better rallying point than Jason Noble, a founding member of Rodan, Rachel’s and Shipping News, three acts composing the spinal cord of what outsiders tend to [...]
Spirits and Spirits Tour @ New Albany
October 21, 2009 – 10:13 am
Wednesday, Oct. 21
Starts at: Destinations Booksellers
604 E. Spring St., New Albany
www.developna.org
$10; 7 p.m.
Spirits and Spirits, A Ghost Walk and Eerie Tales Tour, held Oct. 21, will benefit Develop New Albany. Thrill seekers, ghost enthusiasts, history geeks and the like will all be interested in this unique event. Walkers on the guided tour will be treated to stories of [...]
Weekender: Oct. 24-25
October 16, 2009 – 3:49 pm
•Spider
Saturday, Oct. 17
Swan Dive
921 Swan St.
632-1299
www.facebook.com/theswandive
$5; 9 p.m.
Whoever Clementine Jones was, Jane Herships, who plays under pseudonym Spider, has her personality nailed down. The song appears on Jane’s album, The Way to Bitter Lake, a feast of airy vocals that recall a breathier Joni Mitchell and sweet acoustic strums that float along amicably below Herships’s lilting [...]
V Foundation Celebrity Bocce Tournament @ Jim Patterson Stadium
October 12, 2009 – 9:21 am
Monday, Oct. 12
Jim Patterson Stadium
3015 S. Third St.
www.jimmyv.org
Free; noon
2009 marks the sixth year of the event, with all proceeds going to The V Foundation for Cancer Research to fund its efforts to fight cancer in the Louisville and surrounding areas. Since its inception in 2004, the Celebrity Bocce Tournament in Louisville has raised over $200,000 for The V [...]
‘The Laramie Project’ @ Actors Theatre
October 12, 2009 – 9:19 am
Monday, Oct. 12
Actors Theatre of Louisville
316 W. Main St.
584-1205
Free (tix required); 8 p.m.
Actors Theatre of Louisville joins over 100 theaters in all 50 states and across the world premiering a stage reading of the Tectonic Theatre Project’s ”The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later,” an epilogue to the original theatre piece. The evening will commence with a [...]
Monday Fund Day @ O’Shea’s
October 12, 2009 – 9:15 am
Monday, Oct. 12
O’Shea’s Irish Pub
956 Baxter Ave.
589-7373
11 a.m.-midnight
NECCO of Louisville in partnership with O’Shea’s restaurants will host a Monday Fund Day fundraiser to benefit kids in foster care in the Louisville area. To participate, visit O’Shea’s, Flanagan’s or Brendan’s restaurant anytime between on Monday, and 100% of the proceeds will go directly to NECCO’s Kid Fund, which [...]
Weekender: Oct. 10-11
October 9, 2009 – 2:30 pm
•Sept. 11th Memorial Exhibit
Through Oct. 11
Barr Gallery, IUS
4201 Grant Line Road, New Albany
(812) 941-2188
www.ius.edu
The question of a generation: Where were you on 9/11?
Artists, expressing their emotions through creativity, flooded the world with their visions in all types of media. Carol Pulin, director of the American Print Alliance and former curator of Fine Prints at the Library [...]
Weekender: Oct. 3-4
October 2, 2009 – 3:33 pm
•Titanic exhibit
Oct. 3-Feb. 15
Louisville Science Center
727 W. Main St.
560-7159
www.LouisvilleScience.org
$14-$18 ($5 more for the IMAX film)
It was the ship of dreams, so says the old lady in “Titanic,” until the unsinkable ship, well, sank in 1912 in the Atlantic Ocean. Now history buffs and Leo/Kate fanatics alike get a chance to get up close and personal [...]
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Silent Auction/Wine Tasting @ Episcopal Church of the Advent
October 1, 2009 – 9:52 am
Thursday, Oct. 1
Episcopal Church of the Advent
901 Baxter Ave.
www.originalhighlands.com
$20; 7-10 p.m.
The Original Highlands event benefits the Louisville AIDS Walk, St. Brigid’s Catholic Church, and the OHNA.