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Philanthropy

WFPL’s Louisville Public Media announces $7 million capital campaign
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Louisville Public Media’s headquarters.

Money raised by the Raise Your Voice campaign will go toward renovating the non-profit’s headquarters and studios at 619 S. Fourth St. in Louisville; technology upgrades, and programming improvements. The building was last remodeled 20 years ago. The campaign has already raised $5.3 million. Here’s the press release.

The campaign committee’s co-chairs are District 8 councilman-elect Brandon Coan and his wife, Summer Auerbach, who manages the Rainbow Blossom natural foods company started by her parents, Rob and Pumpkin Auerbach. The other co-chairs are philanthropist and former Brown-Forman executive Bill Juckett and his wife Barbara Juckett. Other committee members are Tyler Allen, Charlie Barnsley, Todd Lowe, Ron Murphy, Ben Ruiz, Lee Smith and Peter Wayne. Naming rights range from $250 for a coffee station to $500,000 for an entire studio.

Founded in 1950, Louisville Public Media also is the parent of Classical 90.5 WUOL and alternative music station 91.9 WFPK Radio Louisville.

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OMG, it’s already 344 days, 9 hours and 22 minutes away

Big smiles, big personalities and big business networking — yes, it’s everyone’s favorite feature in the society shiny sheets: party photos! Boulevard picks through the pics, choosing our favorite coverage. Today’s entry is from the just-published Voice-Tribune.

Champagne smaller[Insert exhausted sigh here.] Nearly three weeks later, we may have finally reached the apotheosis of this year’s horsey soirée news here: “More than 167,000 eager spectators enjoyed beautiful weather at Churchill Downs on May 7 for the 142nd running of the Kentucky Derby,” the Voice-Tribune says. “The mint juleps flowed as excitement built toward the call to post, and the most exciting two minutes in sports saw Nyquist triumph over his 19 competitors.”

Related: Introducing Boulevard’s exclusive 2017 Derby Countdown Clock™. Plus, more Voice-Tribune party photos.

Photo, below: Derby mainstays and identical twins Priscilla Barnstable (left) and Patricia Barnstable Brown. (Or is it the other way around?)

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The Jennifer Lawrence Diary™
Jennifer Lawrence apartment
Lawrence has looked at a Tribeca apartment just like this; photo shows the model unit.

Jennifer LawrenceBoulevard 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:

Five starsLet’s just go for the jugular: Lawrence, all of 25, is kicking the tires at a paparazzi-proof four-bedroom, four and one-half bath condo in New York City that’s on the market for:

$14,400,000

And that’s just the asking price, because buyers often bid way above in white-hot markets like New York, San Francisco, and the city where Lawrence already has at least one home: Beverly Hills.

The building is in the Tribeca neighborhood, downtown on the west side and snuggled up to the Hudson River. Specifically: 443 Greenwich St. It’s apartment 3A — meaning, incredibly at that price: No. River. View. And hello, street noise.

Do dish more, Curbed New York:

“The swankified 1880s book bindery-turned-condo has been an easy sell among the monied elite. ‘We’re creating an environment that is genuine TriBeCa yet also paparazzi-proof,’ MetroLoft principle Nathan Berman said in a statement. Those private amenities include drive-in, drive-out underground parking and a second lobby for residents wanting to take private elevators. The building also features a central courtyard only for building residents.”

In other words, Lawrence needn’t worry about an East Coast version of the 10 paparazzi camped outside the West Coast home she bought in October 2014 from comedian Ellen DeGeneres for a mere $8.2 million. Plus, the paps would have plenty of other prey in the neighborhood: Celebrities who’ve lived there include mega Grammy-winner Beyoncé, Coldplay’s Chris Martin, and his ex-wife, Gwyneth Paltrow. Besides, Lawrence can always fall back on her Donald Trump-hunting bodyguards.

Compared to other prices in the building, apartment 3A is a steal. The penthouse is on the market for $55 million; that would be a record for downtown, Curbed says. For more perspective on 3A’s $14.4 million ask, consider the priciest home up for grabs here in Louisville is $16 million (and a recent price cut from $20 million suggests the seller is motivated).

The bottom line: For this condo’s sheer gorgeousness, Boulevard awards Curbed a rare, and coveted five-star review!

Here, by the way, is the curb appeal of Greenwich Street in front of the building; yup, that’s a loading dock on the left-hand side:

Greenwich Street

Related: how Tribeca became New York’s most desirable neighborhood.

The Jennifer Lawrence Diary™

Jennifer LawrenceBoulevard 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:

One starWarning! Boulevard wrote this review before eating breakfast. We strongly recommend that you don’t do so.

Continuing her publicity tour for the new “X-Men: Apocalypse,” Lawrence hit the Tonight Show last night, where she, fellow-guest John Oliver and host Jimmy Fallon played True Confessions. In that game, they took turns confessing two things — one true, one false — then competed to separate truth from fiction. Take it away, CDA News:

As Lawrence was playing, she kept swiping at her nose. A few swipes later, Fallon pointed out something was on her nose. Again, Lawrence swiped. “Was it a booger?” she asked. “Yes,” Fallon said. Then she proceeded to admit she’d felt the booger creeping up, but thought no way, “we’re on TV, there’s no way a booger can exist.”

“You totally boogered out!” Fallon said, laughing hysterically.

Boulevard isn’t laughing hysterically. We’d give CDA zero stars if that were possible. So, they get one.

The Jennifer Lawrence Diary™

Jennifer LawrenceBoulevard 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:

Three starsLawrence was trashing her Beverly Hills house — figuratively, at any rate — not long after she snapped it up for $8.2 million in October 2014. The 5,500-square-foot bachelorette pad’s provenance was apparently problematical. “It’s Ellen [DeGeneres]’s old house,” Lawrence said, according to Pop Sugar. “It was Jessica Simpson‘s old house. It’s like the neighborhood whore. I was outside and some girl was like, ‘I grew up in this house.’ Beat it, kid. Everybody’s lived in this house.”

Now, pushing two years later, that kid would have plenty of company on the street outside, according to this just-published MSN story:

“There are 10 [paparazzi] sleeping outside my house, and I see them every morning and it’s not lovely,” 25-year-old Lawrence says. “I’ve talked about it a lot with other actors who have the same problems, but we don’t really like to complain about it because if we do people go, ‘Shut up, millionaires,’ and say, ‘you’re so lucky.’ And yes, we are lucky, but I deserve the right to have control over my image. I would prefer that the only time somebody sees me is when I am in a film or in character or if I am promoting a movie.”

Curbed Los Angeles says Lawrence’s house in the guarded Hidden Valley enclave sold for $6.4 million only a year before she bought it from DeGeneres for nearly $2 million more. For those 10 men who’d love to come inside to snap pictures, Curbed offers this inside tour — including the entrance, with the garage gate open:

Jennifer Lawrence house

For not being all judge-y about Lawrence’s poor-me travails, Boulevard gives MSN three stars!

The Jennifer Lawrence Diary™

cover-03-eg00vfx“I love the fans and I love the character. But then you realize how important your year is, like how important three months out of your year is — I don’t know. I shouldn’t be that honest.”

— Jennifer Lawrence, speaking to Entertainment Weekly about whether the Louisville native will appear in another “X-Men” film. The next installment in the franchise, “X-Men: Apocalypse,” opens domestically on Thursday. Lawrence appears on the magazine’s cover, above. Watch the trailer.