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Ask anyone in Louisville the best place to see Halloween decorations, and you’ll likely be sent to Hillcrest Avenue in Crescent Hill. It’s just one of those things everyone seems to know. But how did it get started? And what’s it like being a h
You see it performed everywhere. At sporting events, on television, maybe even at your workplace.It’s the high five.From the documentary ‘Doctors of Dunk’But while this gesture seems like it’s probably been around forever, its origin story
When Nathan Hernandez was an intern at the American Printing House for the Blind, one of his jobs was to give tours. He’d show people around the manufacturing area where Braille books are printed and assembled, and through glass-windowed record
You may have seen it while driving down Lexington road, away from downtown, just before Headliners Music Hall. A retaining wall in the side of the hill… with a door in the middle. What’s behind it? It’s a question we get a lot at Curious Louisv
For fourteen years, Robert Miles has seen cars in ditches, in neighbor’s yards and in his own fencing that borders the boundary of the horse farm his family owns. He lives off Todds Point Road in Shelby County. “It’s horrific, you’re taking you
The United States prides itself on a kind of rugged individualism. We like to think we do things our own way here.So while the rest of the world uses the metric system, here in America, we use a system based on inches, feet, yards and miles.E
Woody Woodpecker. Donald Duck. Iago from “Aladdin." Louie, the U of L cardinal. All these birds have something in common: at various points in their histories, they have been depicted with a full toothy grin.Which leads to our latest Curious L
Nadeem Saddiqui and his family recently moved to Valley Station, in the southeastern part of Louisville. "It's stereotypically not the most multi-cultural area of Louisville," he said. So it surprised him to see a street named Omar Khayyam Blvd
Support Curious Louisville:Curious Louisville is all about you. You send us your questions, and we take you along with us on a search for the answer. It's people-powered. In fact, our whole organization here is people-powered -- it's because o
Is it art? Is it crime? A little bit of both? Whatever it is, it's part of your morning commute."Every morning when I commute to work, no matter which way I go, I started to see more and more graffiti on the back of the signs," Joe Sullivan re
Every year at the beginning of Lent, (the period in the Christian calendar between Ash Wednesday and Easter) WFPL publishes a guide to all the fish fries in Louisville. It's always one of our most popular stories of the year.There are Facebook
Louisville is a city of neighborhoods. For a lot of people, where they live is a big part of their identity.And Curious Louisville listener Evan Patrick wondered about how one neighborhood developed an identity of its own.WFPL’s Ashlie Steven
In the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, a young Muhammad Ali -- then called Cassius Clay -- defeated three-time European boxing champion Zbigniew Pietrzykowski.He returned to Louisville with a gold medal, which he wore around his neck for days af
It was supposed to be Louisville’s answer to the St. Louis arch. But in the press, it was eventually called ugly. A turkey A good idea gone bad. It’s been gone since 1998, but not entirely forgotten.In fact, it’s been on Curious Louisville lis
If you're driving downtown near the river, you can't miss it: a brand new paint job in progress on the Clark Memorial Bridge.We've heard it compared to a school bus, a canary, and butter. Curious Louisville listener Allan Steinberg wanted to k
In a park off of River Road, nearly hidden by scrubby grass is a mystery: an about 50-foot wide stone circle marking long-ago infrastructure.This ring intrigued Curious Louisville listener Jim Turner, and he asked about it.“I heard [the circl
In the middle of the Ohio River, visible from I-65 and Louisville’s Portland neighborhood, is a tiny island called “Shippingport.”You can drive to the base of the island, but you’ll be met with an array of “no trespassing” signs and wire gates
If you’re driving down I-64, and happen to look out over the Ohio River, you may catch a glimpse of a house-like structure on top of the 14th Street Bridge.It’s small -- barely noticeable -- but a lot of people have questions about it. Includi
Over the last couple years, WFPL's Curious Louisville has received nearly a dozen questions about Louisville recycling. People want to know what happens after it leaves the curb, where it all goes, and how a 2017 Chinese policy impacts recyclin
Traffic signals: you barely notice them until they’re not working.But what actually causes them to malfunction?That's what a Curious Louisville listener wanted know; As WFPL's Amina Elahi found outthe culprit is often power, or -- more accur
What do Paul McCartney, Betty White and Muhammad Ali have in common?All three, along with about 100,000 other people, have been given the title “Kentucky Colonel.”But how does one gain the honor? That was listener Patrick Grantz’s question fo
If you listen to our sister station WFPK, or attended Forecastle in 2016, you’ve probably heard of Pokey LaFargeHe’s an artist whose music, as NPR’s Stephen Thompson once said, “evokes the old-timey spirit of a thousand crackling 78 RPM record
Earlier this month, Curious Louisville asked what questions you have about the JCPS audit and possible state takeover. You sent us more than 50 in the first 24 hours, and we realized we’d need to dedicate some extra time to answer them all.Her
Curious Louisville asked for your questions about the JCPS audit -- and you had lots of questions! In today’s edition, we take a look at the Jefferson County Teachers Association--also known as JCTA or the teachers union--to answer this questio
Last month, the Kentucky Department of Education released an audit recommending the state take over Louisville’s public school system. Curious Louisville asked for your questions about the audit.Shawn Carroll and Karen Rippy wanted to know if
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