Meet the Immigrant Who Runs Old Forester
The beer was a pilsner called Pilsner. This was in Juan Merizalde’s home country of Ecuador, where the legal drinking age is 18. The point is, no bourbon.
View ArticleMeet the Woman Who Runs Beecher Terrace’s Community Center
The late-summer air is no longer air. Just a broth set at simmer. Maybe that’s what’s keeping the kids away on this Tuesday. “There’s not one single kid,” René Douglas says, a bit bewildered.
View ArticleMeet the U of L Marching Band's Acclaimed Twirler
Before she steps onto the football field at halftime — before she goes leaping off hither and yon, tossing silver batons high into the sky as the U of L marching band plays James Brown’s “I Feel Go
View ArticleThis Teacher Is Bringing Kendrick to the Classroom
Today, the students are learning about rapper Kendrick Lamar.
View ArticleWoman Celebrates 30 Years of Working at McDonald’s
If you’ve been to the Brownsboro Road McDonald’s across from the Holiday Manor Shopping Center at all since 1989, you’ve probably met Tammy Clasby. And she probably remembers you.
View ArticleMeet the Teenager Who Started an After-School Mentorship Program for Girls
When Nico Thom was a 15-year-old student at Highlands High School, in Fort Thomas in northern Kentucky — a place where, she says, “the mindset, whether people want to admit it or not, is like, ‘Mar
View ArticleThe King of Central High School Basketball
“I’ve always been a shooter. That’s a fact,” Ron King says.
View ArticleHouse of Hope, A Home for Women Recovering from Addiction
When talking about House of Hope, a halfway home for single homeless women recovering from addiction, Tangy Hunter-Hughes uses the word “we.” Example: “
View ArticleClimber Dru Mack Always Gets Back Up
Dru Mack can’t quite catch the next hold. It’s a small one, about the size and shape of a Little Debbie snack cake, on a climbing route at Climb NuLu.
View ArticleOn the Court with the President of the West Louisville Tennis Club
By Charles Wolford and Dylon Jones
View ArticleKids Take on the Climate Catastrophe
When Fernanda Scharfenberger, a 17-year-old senior at Presentation Academy, first got involved with environmental activism, she often heard, “Oh,
View ArticleJournalism For Teens, By Teens
Weekly staff meetings for On the Record, the student-run magazine housed in the journalism and communications department at duPont Manual High Sch
View ArticleShe Uses Yoga as a Tool for Recovering From Addiction
The Portrait: Telling the story of Louisville, one person at a time.
View ArticleWe Will Never Be as Cool as This 100-Year-Old Nun
The Portrait: Telling the story of Louisville, one person at a time.
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