The rich live longer everywhere, a report out today says. The poor? Not so much. In Louisville, average life expectancy is 77.9 years — below the U.S. average, according to The New York Times; check out the cool city-by-city map.
Philanthropy
News about Louisville’s major employers; updated frequently.
GE: Qingdao Haier Co., is — get this — adding jobs at Appliance Park, which the China-based company agreed to buy from GE in a $5.4 billion deal in January. New owners often do the opposite: cutting upper management jobs. But Qingdao says it needs the 85 new jobs to create a standalone company. (Courier-Journal).
TEXAS ROADHOUSE operators have a direct line to the 483-location Louisville-based restaurant chain’s risk management chief. Patrick Sterling’s so serious about his job, he keeps photos of his risk management team alongside those of his three daughters. (Business Insurance.)
In other news, the Russell neighborhood hopes to grow 100 new businesses with a kitchen incubator backed by the Community Foundation of Louisville, the James Graham Brown Foundation and other philanthropic groups. Already, Chef Space is home to 20 small businesses, from Caldwell’s Quirky Cookery to Younique Soul (Broken Sidewalk).
An occasional look at premium homes in Louisville.
As the newspaper’s Saturday feature goes, today’s “House of the Week” in The Courier-Journal might well be “House of the Year.” The paper’s snapshot: a well-known six-bed, four-bath Crescent Hill home known as the Hendon House dates back to the 1840s. It’s at 201 Crescent Court, and it’s gorgeous.
Photo: American Institute of Architects Kentucky chapter.
News about Louisville’s major employers; updated frequently.
The parking space squeeze along Baxter and Bardstown roads has reached a tipping point as megasized microbrewer HopCat joins a surge of new restaurants and bars over the past decade; there are now 66 of them vs. 51 in 2005. (C-J.) Four more companies want to bring super high-speed Internet to the city. (WFPL.) In Whitesburg, Ky., a boutique moonshiner is battling the powerful University of Kentucky over commercial rights to a familiar name: Kentucky. (NYT)
In other news, William Hamilton, a cartoonist known for skewering the rich and powerful in his New Yorker cartoons, died Friday in a car crash near his horse farm in Lexington; he was 76. (NYT.)
Boulevard reviews the latest media coverage of the Oscar-winning Louisville native in our exclusive Jennifer Lawrence Diary™. Today’s news, rated on a scale of 1-5 stars:
Now we know why one of the world’s most eligible women is still single. Harper’s Bazaar put Lawrence on the cover of its latest issue, where the 25-year-old actress says she doesn’t have a stomach for late nights out drinking.
“Ask Emma Stone,” Lawrence tells the monthly glossy. “It was the night we saw Adele in L.A. She just started rubbing my back. She was really sweet. I was like, ‘Get out of here. It’s so gross.'” Add to that party compadre Woody Harrelson. “Woody cut his foot. He stayed over in one of my guest bedrooms, but that’s where I started puking. I broke a candle because I can’t just puke like a normal person — I flay my arms everywhere. And I didn’t clean it up because I’m an asshole. The next day he cut his foot open. I was like, ‘Fuck, am I going to get sued?’ And he’s like, ‘Are you going to ask if I’m okay?'”
This being a special beauty issue, the magazine says Lawrence has been a veritable Dior show on the red carpet — “her most successful looks being, like Lawrence herself, bold and no-frills. Like the red cutout gown she wore to the Golden Globes in January.
“That was my plan-B dress,” Lawrence says. “Plan A was a dress that I couldn’t wear because awards season is synced with my menstrual cycle, and it has been for years.” The red won because “it was loose at the front. And I didn’t have to worry about sucking anything in. The other dress was really tight, and I’m not going to suck in my uterus.”
For sheer candor, we gave this story a rare five out of five stars!
Related: Kentucky jury in 2013 dismisses a marijuana possession charge against Harrelson for planting hemp seeds in a crusade to legalize the plant.
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