Episodes

  • Krampus comes to Louisville with folklore, artistry, and a growing community

    Krampus comes to Louisville with folklore, artistry, and a growing community
    Dec 24 2025
    Louisville Krampus Celebration founder Steve Vessell shares the folklore behind Krampus, how the tradition took hold in Louisville, and what continues to draw people to the community surrounding this dark holiday icon.
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    13 mins
  • New Louisville Free Public Library director talks library vision and cozy winter reads

    New Louisville Free Public Library director talks library vision and cozy winter reads
    Dec 22 2025
    Louisville Free Public Library’s new executive director, Heather Lowe, shares her journey into this new role, her hopes for the library, and a few cozy reading recommendations for the winter season.
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    17 mins
  • A new animal care campus hopes to relieve Kentucky’s overcrowded shelters and vet shortages

    A new animal care campus hopes to relieve Kentucky’s overcrowded shelters and vet shortages
    Dec 17 2025
    As Kentucky faces rising need for pet care and support, the leader of the Kentucky Humane Society discusses how a new service center could reshape care for pets and families.
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    26 mins
  • Founder of Berea’s bell hooks center M. Shadee Malaklou on love, justice, and radical inclusion

    Founder of Berea’s bell hooks center M. Shadee Malaklou on love, justice, and radical inclusion
    Dec 15 2025
    As the Festival of Faiths highlights its theme of “Sacred Belonging,” Berea College professor and bell hooks center founder M. Shadee Malaklou reflects on hooks’ legacy and the practice of radical inclusion.
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    34 mins
  • Americana seeks financial strength as it serves Louisville's immigrant community

    Americana seeks financial strength as it serves Louisville's immigrant community
    Dec 5 2025
    Americana Community Center has served Louisville’s refugee and immigrant communities for over 30 years. Last month, the nonprofit hired Ricky Santiago to be its new executive director. Santiago talks with LPM about the financial challenges Americana has weathered, his hopes for future sustainability, and the resurgence he believes the organization is making.
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    17 mins
  • Kentuckians face rising costs while wages stay stagnant

    Kentuckians face rising costs while wages stay stagnant
    Dec 3 2025
    Across Kentucky, families are feeling the squeeze as the cost of living keeps rising, while wages have barely moved. We spoke with Jason Bailey, the founder and executive director of the Kentucky Center for Economic Policy, a progressive think tank, about what’s driving essential costs up across Kentucky, and what we should be watching as we head into the holiday season.
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    15 mins
  • How multigenerational learning can help close Kentucky's literacy gap

    How multigenerational learning can help close Kentucky's literacy gap
    Nov 26 2025
    November is Family Literacy Month — a chance to focus on how families, schools and communities support reading. Here in Louisville, Felicia C. Smith, president and CEO of the National Center for Families Learning, leads two-generation literacy work that connects adults and children. We spoke with Smith about the state of literacy in Kentucky, what family literacy looks like in practice, and where families and educators can make the biggest difference.
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    25 mins
  • Louisville Jamaican eatery helps those impacted by Hurricane Melissa

    Louisville Jamaican eatery helps those impacted by Hurricane Melissa
    Nov 21 2025
    Janice Clarke opened a Jamaican restaurant Elliment in downtown Louisville earlier this year, and it’s already become a gathering spot and resource for Louisville’s Jamaican community. Last month, Clarke’s native country of Jamaica was devastated by Hurricane Melissa, the strongest recorded hurricane to ever hit the island country. We talked with her about how she came to start the restaurant, and how she is raising money and collecting non-perishable food and new and gently used clothes to send to Jamaica amidst the recovery.
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    20 mins