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Hopping mad over scarce parking along the Highlands fun zone

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.)

Travel

Gralehaus is more than a cool Highlands breakfast spot

CortadoAt 1001 Baxter Ave., near where it meets Bardstown Road, Gralehaus is also a bed and breakfast, with three well-appointed rooms upstairs starting around $150 a night. (Yes, it could be noisy as early as 7 a.m., when they’re cooking downstairs. But that’s all part of the charm. Hopefully.)

Don’t miss getting a cortado, an espresso drink I first discovered in Spain. Gralehaus’ is the most authentic version I’ve found in the U.S. $3. Their full menu.

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