Bloody well right: Four photos "Of Place," rescued from BSB and now placed in my house.

During the winter of 2013-14, there was a top-notch exhibit at the Carnegie Center for Art and History, which is located across the street from Bank Street Brewhouse.

Of Place at the Carnegie: An "antidote" to the tyranny of our white bread Bicentennial.

Reminder: "Of Place" at the Carnegie, through January 11, 2014.

Subsequently, I purchased four of the black and white photos being shown in the exhibit by David Modica, a photographer I first got to know 35 years ago playing pickup-basketball.

In August of 2014, I got around to mounting these classy silver gelatin photographs at BSB, where they looked just fine in the spaces between the garage doors. Alas, with the remodeling and conversion into a new FOH schemata, they were judged superfluous.

So I said you know what and brought them home.

We hung them earlier tonight in the stairway.

The three portrait-sized ones were grouped together, and the landscape was placed on the left. at the landing.

Little Chef at Night, For Edward Hopper ... 2009

Hugh Bir, Jr., Market Street ... 2013

Say Cheese! David Thrasher ... 2013

Primal Scream, Bank Street Brewhouse ... 2013

Of course, neither the wall nor my beard exists any longer.

A weird scene at the ATG table, Indiana Microbrewers Fest, 2012.

Something to do with Tangerine Porter and a tramp stamp?

At LouisvilleBeer.com: Pint/CounterPint 5:1 ... Collaborations.

Pint/CounterPint 5:1 has been posted: "Are collaborations between breweries valuable apart from their usefulness in marketing to RateBeer.com?"


I say yes, Adam says no ... well, sort of.

Pint/CounterPint V – Are collaborations between breweries valuable?

Pint/CounterPint was created when Adam Watson (Against the Grain Brewery) wrote a loving response to the first Baylor on Beer article, Know your Enemy, written by Roger Baylor (New Albanian Brewing Company). At first we laughed whole-heartedly and admired the conviction and stance of both parties, and then we thought, “Hey, wait a minute… remember that old 60 Minutes segment called Point/Counterpoint?”

Ryan and Roger and Ian on the radio. Read below to find out when.

(June 23 update: Ian Hall (The Exchange) will be joining Ryan and the Publican on Chefboyardean ... read Steve Coomes's column here)


Those damned Louisville-area television stations forgot all about me after the Sherman Minton Bridge reopened earlier this year, so it’s time for me to take my talents to Clear Channel radio, at least for one Thursday night next week.

I’ll be joining Ryan Rogers, whose Feast BBQ is days away from opening in New Albany, on Chefboyardean next Thursday (June 28) from 7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m., at 1080 AM Talk Radio, WKJK.

Chefboyardean is hosted by the legendary Louisville chef Dean Corbett, but Dean’s out of town next week, so stepping in as the radio program’s guest host is my former beer student, the freelance food writer and all-around great guy Steve Coomes. Just like Steve, I have the perfect face for radio, although Ryan’s fairly photogenic.

We’ll be talking about Feast, NABC and downtown New Albany’s dining and drinking scene. Tune in.

Photo from the Ogle Center's Bier Prost.

Thanks to Diana Holman for the photo.

My bar-side manner is questioned, and I am entertained.

Regular readers know that I'm a big fan of Robin Garr's longtime Louisville Restaurants Forum. It's a great meeting place, although like at most similar Internet agoras, ideas and threads can morph, mutate and travel in unexpected directions. As a case in point, I offer this: Roger Baylor/ABusch.

The thread began somewhat innocuously on August 11, and finally concluded on August 27. The original link was about the corporate scratching of backs in the run-up to the Super Bowl in Indianapolis, and because we were readying to depart for the Great Taste, I was completely unaware of the thread's existence for several days.

I took some hits, had some defenders, and grinned broadly throughout. Of particular interest to me is viewing the recent emergence of a backlash of sorts against the tenets of localism.

Be forewarned: It's a full pint read, so pour a bracing craft brew, and enjoy the ride.

The Publican in Edible Louisville.

Local brewers join the movement to build better beers, by Steve Coomes.

The story appeared in Edible Louisville Magazine - Local Food Magazine of Louisville. It's "A community-based publication that promotes the local food, farms and cuisine of Louisville Kentucky."

1989: Who are those two handsome guys?