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GRANDE MASTER
Bigger is better, developer Kevin Cogan believes. But Cherokee Triangle residents and the Landmarks Commission don’t agree.

HOME & DESIGN — URBAN RENEWAL
These empty-nesters found a new lease on living in their downtown high-rise condo.

PARADISE PURLOINED
A first hand look at southeast Kentucky’s increasingly deforested mountains, where wide-swath surface mining is changing the landscape.
by Melissa Duley

PET GUIDE
We asked our readers to send us pictures and stories about their beloved pets — and they delivered amusing and touching tales.

REMAPPING THE LIBRARY
A look at what the public library plans if voters approve more funding.

THE GREAT WALL OF KENTUCKY
The state’s most pronounced landform feature, Pine Mountain, turns far southeastern Kentucky into a world of its own.
by Jack Welch

THE GOOD STUFF
Treats worth sinking your teeth into!

END INSIGHT — ME GENERATING

About three months ago I got an e-mail from my friend Meredith, who lives in Iowa, goading me to join MySpace.

DINING UPDATES

Executive chef John Plymale has been at the helm of Porcini (2730 Frankfort Ave., 894-8686) since the restaurant opened in 1992.

DINING OUT — BISTRO NEW ALBANY
Weather permitting, the outdoor courtyard provides an intimate and cozy dining area outfitted with wrought-iron, umbrella-topped tables, a stone fountain and lush greenery and flowers.

DINING OUT — RIVUE

Off the Level.  The menu lands several floors below the view at the Galt House’s Rivue.

DESIGNER SPOTLIGHT — TRISHA WILLIAMS

Project: Hearth Room

HOME & DESIGN — THE CUTTING EDGE

Pillar to Post

DESIGN FINDS — FLOOR-AL ARRANGEMENTS
Rugs are much more than items to cushion your footsteps — they’re floor art.

SMILLIE'S PICKS
“Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,” as one of those poet fellahs said, and the phrase might aptly refer to the range and variety of events this month as the arts season moves into top gear.

SCUPLTURES BY HART
Practically overnight, Frederick Hart — who would one day create The Three Soldiers bronze sculpture in Washington, D.C., near the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall — emerged from apprentice to master.

FRONT PAGES
As Actors Theatre of Louisville’s artistic director, Marc Masterson is in charge of all creative activity at the theater — choosing the plays, the actors, the directors. This year he will be directing Shakespeare’s The Tempest and one production in the Humana Festival of New American Plays.

STILL LOUSY, BUT BETTER
Crisp mornings and leaves tinged with color herald the arrival of autumn in Louisville — and, for those allergic to ragweed (which blooms in mid-August) and molds (which multiply in damp fallen leaves layered on the ground), weeks of sneezing, stuffed-up sinuses and itchy eyes.

CROSSROADS — BARRET AVENUE
Straddling the boundary line separating the Highlands and Germantown neighborhoods, Barret Avenue has become its own microcosm of the eclectic areas it borders.

DON VOWELS — SPIRITUAL COUNSELOR
“I always knew that individual spiritual direction, counseling and hospital work were more my calling,” Vowels says.

EDITOR'S LETTER — ONE BRIDGE AT A TIME
Suddenly, news about interstate highways and bridges has taken on more urgency than that scintillating campaign to elect the next (or same old) guy to clean up the mess in Frankfort.