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FlickrLouisville: A City That Never Met a Stranger
Think of It as LinkedIn, Facebook, and Your High School Prom, All Rolled Into One
In the City of Possibility there’s no such thing as a stranger. Just a “pre-friend” whose name you don’t know yet.
Given how cold it is out right now, we thought we’d share a few ways to help break the ice:
Louisville? It’s Neither-the-North-nor-the-South Poll
If you know someone who’s a New-to-Lou during the holidays, what better way to help them out than by telling them about some of the things we enjoy here?
To these parochially friendly ends, we give you the Hol-Lou-Day Poll. Tell us (and them) what you’d love to do the most. When you’re done voting, leave us a comment to be eligible for two free tickets to this year’s “A Christmas Carol” presented by Actors Theater of Louisville.
Hol-Lou-Day Poll
Loading ...For a bit more info on these holiday-happenin’s, here’s the skinny:
The Nutcracker
Lights Under Louisville
Light Up You-Name-It
Louisville Orchestra Holiday Spectacular
UK / UofL Basketball
Who the Dickens Names Their Kid “Ebenezer”?
“A Christmas Carol” Presented by Actors Theater of Louisville | December 8 to 27
Now packed with extra-Christmas for incoming friends, outgoing family members, and everyone else in between. Still going strong after 34 years, this Actors Theater production is the second-longest running production in the nation. Do your part to make it the “must-see” holiday event for 34-billion-more years.
(Oh, and here’s a Scrooge-approved give-away. Attend one of the first 12 public performances of “A Christmas Carol” and you could win $100. Click here for details.)
Let Me Introduce You to My Friend Lou
“New to Lou”: The Get-to-Know Louisville Social Event | December 9, 5:30 PM at Proof on Main
Whether you’ve been here five minutes or five generations, “New to Lou” is a monthly meet-up where new friends are found and plans are made to descend en masse — kind of like a 17-year cicada infestation. (Newbies, ask the locals to warn you about cicadas sometime before 2024.)
Click here for the New to Lou Facebook page.
We Have to Start Meeting Like This
Lou 101: The Ins-and-Outs of Louisville
An interactive half-day program, Louisville 101 is a comprehensive introduction to the community and culture that long-time Louisvillians already know and love. Meet a wide variety of corporate personalities, civic leaders (including Mayor Jerry Abramson), and network your heart out.
Details, you say? Click here.
My parents are too cheap to take me out, so could you please send me those two tickets? Thanks in advance.
I’ve already seen “A Christmas Carol” so can my 2 free tickets be to the Nutcracker? I just know I’m going to win.
I can’t wait to see the new costumes!
As long as the weather allows, I do as many holiday things as possible!
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Gotta cheer on my CARDS!
I’d love some free tickets…
I would love to take my family to see “A Christmas Carol.” It is such a wonderful holiday story! We love going to Actors Theater because the theater is small so that no matter where you sit you can see and hear everything that is happening. It makes you feel like you are a part of the play as well! A great place to go to see a play in Louisville!
LSVL Xmas Memories: My car always needing more $$ broke down just before the holidays at the LFPL and I called the police to just give up and have it towed away. But that was Jeff Co program, not the city. “We don’t DEW That! We don’t DEW That!We’ll cite yew fer abandonin’ yer core.” And I stripped it of everything with my name on it, license plate, etc. and spent my money on Christmas and hurt my back carrying a big tree from way downtown to Third and Gaulbert. A different car had the battery run down from the lights left on in a blizzard outside a restaurant where we had been celebrating Xmas and the two most redneck cracker characters you could imagine had been waiting for us, with jumper cables, for some time, knowing we would need some help! LSVL, city of contrasts! Around 1985-86, I played Scrooge at Lindsey Wilson College wearing a costume worn by Actor’s Theatre Scrooges and strange thespian powers coursed through my veins, though I was not allowed to do Scrooge with my Boris Karloff voice.
I do as many holiday things as I can …. so far this year we have been to see The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, The Nutcracker, The Festival of Trees and Lights, the holiday show at the Planetarium, and to see the Southern Lights at the Kentucky Horse Park. Louisville is a great city at Christmas time ….. and always!
Its a recession and I need to do some screaming at the UL/UK game-YEAHHHH!!!!!!
I’m so sad that I will not be in Louisville this year for a lot of the festivities, since I will be away at school, but I am definitely coming back for the UofL/ UK game. GO CARDS!
I would love a chance to win tickets and take my wonderful wife to see A Christmas Carol. Merry Christmas and Go Cards!!!!!
I am a want-to-be ballarina with bad knees (getting surgery on both at the same time in January!) I’d love to see the Nutcracker so I can dream for a little while while I watch the beautiful dancers (who are on their way to knee surgery one day!) turn the holdays into a magical wonderland! Thanks!
Actors Theatre! It’s great any time of year, but especially at Christmas. I saw a Christmas Carol last year, and A Christmas Story this year. Of course I want to see the new Nutcracker too, but that will have to wait until next year. There is no lack of culture in Louisville, and that is highlighted especially well during the holidays! Don’t forget to drive or walk around to see plenty of lights all over the city.
I’d love to see the Cards beat UK for the holidays!
As much tuition as I’m paying, you bet your sweet bippy I wanna cheer those Cards on!
I love the neigborhood festivities like Bardstown Road Aglow eventhough it is always on what seems to be the coldest night of the year. That said, UK/UL is the most high-energy and most important event in the holiday season. Even during the 8 years I lived on the West Coast, this game was a highlight for us Kentucky transplants. We would always find each other and that game made the 3,000 miles to home feel much, much smaller.
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Merry Christmas To All of Lou and May God Bless Us Everyone!
Merry Christmas, Louisville! Don’t be a Scrooge. Be sure to cheer for our Cards over the Cats in January… I’ll lead a warm-up cheer…. Ohhhh! C-A-R-D-S! CARDS!
I just moved to Louisville in June. But I enjoyed the Bardstown Road’s Aglow because I get to see local talent and visit local shops while soaking in the Christmas experience.
Louisville- the place for holiday possibilities!
too many things to list.
hohoho
Just joined the New to LOU facebook page and hoping to go the Proof on Main event. I voted for the orchestra because I’ve never been before and it “sounds” like a wonderful event!
you forgot…The New Light from Heaven Christmas Concerts at Christ Church United Methodist.
I would love to see “A Christmas Carol”.
Merry Christmas to all Louisvillians (and Kentuckians) and to all a good night!
i love louisville all year. but the holidays in louisville are truly AWESOME. a tad cold, mind you, but sledding in the highlands is where it’s at!
<3 louisville.
I’m so excited to be back home for the holidays! Louisville is such a unique city and feels so homey (and it’s warmer than Boston too!)
I looovvveee this town! Moved here in 1997 and to the Highlands in 2000. If I never leave Sherwood Avenue, I would still die happy.
I would love two tickets to see the orchestra because it is one of my favorite art forms.
There is nothing better than live performances during Christmas to put you in the Christmas mood!
Love the new website! I’d definitely have to pick the UK/UL game. A Christmas Story at Actors was great – I’d sure love to win tickets to see A Christmas Carol.
If “A Christmas Carol” were on the poll, it would have been my top choice. My boyfriend and I saw it for the first time last year and decided to make it our Christmas tradition. Can’t wait to go again this year!
Growing up in Louisville all I wanted to do was move away from here. Having living on the west coast and the east coast, I finally came back to stay in 1988. What a change! I am very proud of our city, it’s home and has everything at a reasonable price. Would not care to live anywhere else. But wouldn’t mind winning the lottery in order to live closer to the river.
There is nothing more I want to do this season that to take my partner to see The Christmas Carol. Please pick me!
Christmas in Louisville is the best time in the world. Not only is the greatest game played (UK/UL) but there are so many wonderful things to do with family and friends. I can’t wait to see the Mega Cavern lights this year!
So I have yet to hear my favorite holiday song, “Grandma got run over by a reindeer” this year. Meaning, I need something to get me in the mood for the holidays, since I have no time available to take off from working for Mr. Scrooge. So pleeeeeze, hit me with those tickets!!!
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Already have our UofL tree up and lit (with red lights of course). Awww…C-A-R-D-S! Nothing better than having our friends over to cheer on the CARDS!
Christmas Season doesn’t really start for me until I out shopping during Bardstown Road Aglow. You never really know how many great little shops there are out there until you make it a point to stop in at everyone of them. The same thing holds true for the Trollyhops.
Stuck for what to get everyone for Christmas? You won’t after taking a couple of these mini-tours.
If you are new to Louisville, there is something you need to know: You are required to pick a college sports team. It’s a requirement for permanent residency I think. And there are only two teams that are acceptable to choose from if you live in Louisville: the University of Louisville and… umm… what’s that other school? The one in Lame-ington, I mean Lexington? Oh, yeah, the University of Kentucky.
And when these two schools meet, for whatever reason, you should understand that it takes precedence over anything else that may be happening.
Choose wisely, newbie, for a wrong choice may result in frenimies come game day.
OK – after seeing it umpteen times, let’s see what’s new and different.
I’ve got tickets to see the new Nutcracker on Saturday night. And last week, I arranged a caravan of all my favorite people to go see Lights Under Louisville together. We loved it!
Merry Christmas! We really enjoy the theater— love the Nutcracker!!! We used to live in Russia and really enjoyed attending each year multiple times! Loved taking my daughter to it. Just can’t afford going this year – any theater performance would be great! A Christmas Carol is my husband’s favorite! Have a wonderful Christmas!
I am glad someone chose to finally clear things up on this. I have puzzled over it many times before.