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Olivia Munn and James Marsden: "Is this like Birkin Is the New Black?
5+ hour, 33+ min ago (994+ words) There are people who enter a room and change the temperature. Then there are people like Owen Ash, James Marsden's season-two arrival on Your Friends & Neighbors, who seems to enter a room and immediately start asking why everyone's so clenched,…...
Louisville proposes banning "hyperscale" data centers, seeks feedback
10+ hour, 17+ min ago (362+ words) Louisville's Office of Planning would ban "hyperscale" data centers and limit others to industrial areas, with some exceptions possible for certain smaller facilities, according to a draft set of regulations released Tuesday. The proposal comes a week after a Metro…...
Author, activist Stacey Abrams explains using about storytelling to make people feel smarter
9+ hour, 44+ min ago (293+ words) Stacey Abrams is best known as a politician and voting rights activist. She's also a bestselling author of books across several genres. In the first interview of the latest season of the award-winning LPM podcast "Race Unwrapped," hosted and produced…...
Sit in the dark or be hungry" Kentucky Power customers struggle with electric bills
13+ hour, 30+ min ago (1768+ words) Rachel Knott said the last bill she got from Kentucky Power was $1, 700 for two months " and a disconnect notice to go with it. Her high utility bills create a cycle of debt that's hard to break out of, Knott said,…...
Clarksville announces interim after cutting ties with town manager
1+ day, 9+ hour ago (328+ words) Clarksville now has an interim town manager as the search to fill the role permanently continues. The town's announcement comes less than a week after the council narrowly voted to terminate its contract with longtime manager Kevin Baity. He was…...
LISTEN: A discussion about Kentucky as the site of the last public execution
1+ day, 17+ hour ago (205+ words) Rainy Bethea was a Black man hanged in the summer of 1936 near Owensboro in what is the last documented public execution in the country. Author Sonya Lea discussed Bethea and the other topics covered in her book, "American Bloodlines: Reckoning…...
New Music Friday: The best albums out June 5
4+ day, 15+ hour ago (390+ words) Welcome to New Music Friday, NPR Music's podcast dedicated to sharing the best albums out each week. We listen to dozens of new releases in advance, identify the ones we think you need to hear, and highlight our favorite five…...
Art installation commemorates enslaved children at Louisville's Farmington Home and beyond
4+ day, 12+ hour ago (795+ words) In Hannah Drake's backyard in South Louisville, wood cutouts painted black stand tall in the grass. Each one is the silhouette of a child, frozen in a state of play. They're running, tossing a toy on the ground, playing patty-cake…...
Kentucky lawmakers discuss PFAS in interim session
4+ day, 15+ hour ago (491+ words) Kentucky lawmakers are discussing a proposal that would set reporting requirements for PFAS. A broad family of chemicals used in products like nonstick pans, PFAS have been linked to a range of diseases and found in drinking water across the…...
Louisville native discusses work on "Spider-Noir, starring Nicolas Cage
5+ day, 21+ hour ago (265+ words) Actor Nicolas Cage is starring in a TV show for the first time, and a cinema veteran from Louisville is one of the writers behind it. Bruce Marshall Romans is a Spalding University professor, Louisville native and one of the…...