• Film critique: Look! Up in the Sky!

    Today is one of those days when EVERY AIRPLANE ARRIVING IN LOUISVILLE is flying over my house. I’m directly in the flight path of all the UPS flights arriving from the north and only 3.5 miles from Muhammad Ali Airport, so jets are coming in really low and really loud. So, it’s the perfect time…


  • Street smart? Does anyone see the problem here?

    From the Courier Journal: A concerted effort to convert Louisville’s one-way streets into two-ways has seen progress with new construction in the spring of 2025, and work is expected to continue over the next few years with a number of other projects to come. Contractors have so far striped yellow lines down the center of multiple roads…


  • Travel tip: Get to SDF early

    Back in November, the local politicos did a typical pretend shovel event to tout a $45 million Muhammad Ali Airport security expansion. Here’s how the local paper put it: The biggest change in more than 35 years to the terminal at Louisville’s main airport kicked off this week, set to increase security screening capacity by…


  • Parts is parts, or does anybody know how to drive here?

    In taking long, extensive walks around the city, the things that jump out at me aren’t the classy Victorian mansions throughout Old Louisville, the scores of blooming trees throughout the city or the new construction around the University of Louisville campus. No, what I see is a lot of this: That’s at the corner of…