Friday, May 17 Green Building 732 E. Market St. kftc.org Free; 4 p.m. The fifth annual Louisville Loves Mountains Festival, hosted by the now 30-year-old Kentuckians for the Commonwealth, takes place at the Green Building this year (due to rain). It provides Louisvillians with many of their favorite things all in one place: beer, food, [...]
Friday, April 12 Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft 715 W. Main St. • 589-0102 kmacmuseum.org $100; 7 p.m. The Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft is changing its Derby tradition. They used to host an Oaks Brunch as a fundraiser but this year have decided to start anew with “KMAC Couture: Art Walks the [...]
April 12-14 Kentucky Center 501 W. Main St. • 584-7777 kidsactingagainstcancer.com $16; 8 p.m. (Fri.-Sat.), 2 p.m. (Sun.) Kids Acting Against Cancer is a homegrown nonprofit group dedicated to funding pediatric cancer research through performing arts. They’ve chosen “God of Carnage” for their spring production, and it’s tough to think of a better way to [...]
•Paws for the Planet March 23-24 Whole Foods Market 4944 Shelbyville Road $10 (photo contest); 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Whole Foods Market is more than just a fancy grocery specializing in natural and organic fare — they care about dogs, too! This weekend, the store will hold a pet adoption fair and family-friendly festival that includes [...]
Friday, March 22 U of L’s Student Activities Center louisville.edu/lgbt $10 ($5 students); 8 p.m. No, Pink isn’t returning to town for an encore performance, but her infectious attitude and spirit surely inspired some of the performers in this event. Now in its 16th year, PINK is U of L’s student-produced amateur drag and variety [...]
March 20, 2013 – 11:00 am
Art Auction tickets are now on sale. The Louisville Visual Art Association’s 2013 BY-BUY-BYE Art Sale and Auction is on Saturday, April 13 at PUBLIC, 131 W. Main St. All proceeds raised from both events benefit LVAA’s Children’s Fine Art Classes (CFAC) program and the University of Louisville Hite Art Institute’s Mary Spencer Nay Scholarship BY-BUY-BYE Art Sale, [...]
PosSOUPbility, a local meal-based micro-grant producing initiative, is seeking funding applicants for its fifth community event. They are looking for the next three ideas that will be presented on Sunday, April 7, one of which will walk away with the funds raised by the attendees. Local innovators who would like to present project proposals at the next event must [...]
February 8, 2013 – 3:06 pm
Saturday, Feb. 9 School of Sharks Theater 770 Eastern Parkway • 636-1974 squallispuppeteers.com $10 (minimum donation); 6-11 p.m. Man, the Squallis Puppeteers have always freaked me out. It’s almost an uncanny valley reaction (look it up) on my part, and yet that can’t really be, can it? But one thing I can’t knock the Squallis [...]
January 24, 2013 – 10:06 am
Thursday, Jan. 24 Decca — The Cellar 812 E. Market St. • 749-8128 $50; 6:30 & 9:30 p.m. “Hollywood is a place where the stars twinkle until they wrinkle,” the actor Victor Mature has said. If this is true, the Shelby Park resident must have kept himself in pretty decent shape, landing his first role [...]
January 10, 2013 – 3:51 pm
Jan. 10-12 MeX Theater, Kentucky Center 501 W. Main St. • 584-7777 $18 ($12 students/seniors); 8 p.m. (plus 2 p.m. Sunday) An anonymous invitation, a mysterious island, a sudden death that shatters the bucolic idyll — these are the first clues in Agatha Christie’s classic whodunit “And Then There Were None.” Ten strangers find themselves [...]
December 20, 2012 – 11:14 am
Thursday, Dec. 20 Clifton Center 2117 Payne St. • cliftoncenter.org $10; 6 p.m. The Clifton Center presents an amazing and eclectic lineup of musicians, ranging from the bluegrass of Hog Operation to the jazz of Mike Tracy, plus nine others, at its second annual event to assist the Coalition for the Homeless. Center executive director [...]
December 5, 2012 – 10:09 am
Wednesday, Dec. 5 Zanzabar 2100 S. Preston St. • 584-2471 ext. 1236 $5; 7 p.m. I wonder if we can nickname this event “50 Shades of Alex Trebek.” It’s an event that’s mating trivia with sexy knowledge, and it’s all for a good cause — proceeds go to Planned Parenthood. There’s still time to get [...]
November 28, 2012 – 12:00 pm
In support for the dancers of the Louisville Ballet, a percentage of the sales at Just Creations, 2722 Frankfort Ave., 897-7319, on Wednesday, Nov. 28 from 6-8 p.m. will go to the PARTNERS for Artists’ Care.
