"Mug Shots" today in LEO: "Thanks for craft on draft."

Just saying ... and with a nod to the Rud.

Mug Shots: Thanks for craft on draft

With the hectic holiday season about to break loose, every amateur economics geek is sifting through retail sales figures in an effort to fathom the direction of a recession-scarred economy. Beer business analysts are surveying the same cratered terrain, and their findings to date are mixed. Not unexpectedly, some parts of the beer biz are doing well, and others are not. But the specifics might surprise you.

Premium-priced brands and many imports are flat-lining at best, and often plummeting, while “popularly priced” budget choices and America’s craft beer segment are headed up, up, up.

NABC on board with "Last Call Film Festival" at the Rud, starting June 26.

NABC is helping to sponsor the Last Call Film Festival, which starts on Friday, June 26 at The Rudyard Kipling (422 W. Oak, Louisville). Festival organizer Andy Schanie may be doing related activities at the Bank Street Brewhouse in the future.

There'll be beer, and here's the scoop, as gleaned from Facebook.

Voted Best Louisville Film Festival for 3 years, the Last Call Film Festival is all about bringing independent films and good beer together for the masses. Last Call is sponsored by the fine folks at Wild and Woolly Video, The Great Escape, and New Albanian Brewing Company.

This year's lineup includes:

- A documentary on Scott Walker
- A documentary on Cathal Coughlin (of Microdisney and The Fatima Mansions fame)
- A performance by The Octopus Project, an Austin-based band.

For $5 each day, you can see these and many other fantastic films. For the complete schedule, go here.

For more information on all the films, go here.