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Samara Angel

Samara Angel
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Samara Angel is a freelance writer for xpLouisville. A rising junior at Yale University, she has had fiction published in campus publications and recently was a recipient of the Wallace Prize for fiction. Originally from Boulder, Colorado, Samara is spending the summer in Louisville, and is passionate about the arts and outdoors.
Bars

Rabbit Hole Distillery

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Leaving a job to start a distillery out of a passion for tasting bourbon is not a common career move, but it’s exactly what Rabbit Hole distillery founder Kaveh Zamanian did. After meeting his wife Heather and moving to Louisville, Zamanian discovered a passion for bourbon and dove right...
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City

Louisville Slugger Museum

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If I didn’t know any better, standing outside Louisville Slugger Factory I would have thought there was a Giant living in Louisville who likes to play baseball. The outside of the Factory hosts a six story high baseball bat that leans against the building as though casually left there.  The...
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Cafes

Steel City Pops

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Steel City Pops, a gourmet popsicle shop located at 1021 Bardstown Road, is exactly what I’d imagine a gourmet popsicle shop to look like. Cute and trendy, with white brick walls lining the back counter and dark stained wood with a metal logo advertising their name. Clear bulbs with...
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Arts

Waterfront Wednesday: The War and Treaty

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Pools, ice cream cones, and sunburns all have in common that they are Classic (with a capital C) summertime activities. But Waterfront Wednesdays, held at Louisville’s waterfront park at the Big Four Lawn and hosted by WFPK radio, epitomizes the summer vibe on a whole different level. Food trucks,...
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Bars

The Evan Williams Bourbon Experience

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Not every day can you say you’ve had 1780s distiller Evan Williams talk directly to you. But after attending the Evan Williams Bourbon experience, that’s just one of the many unique experiences you’ll be able to boast. Although behind an unassuming front located at 528 West Main Street, inside...
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Eat & Drink

Royals Hot Chicken

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He slowly pulls the blue rubber gloves onto his hands. First the right, then the left. Tugging his fingers all the way into the gloves, he makes sure they’re tightly secure. He pauses and takes a deep breath. Then he picks up the piece of hot chicken. With long...
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City

The Parklands

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“Forty-five million, twenty one thousand, two hundred and eleven,” says Dan Jones, a tall man wearing hiking boots and looking like he belongs on a trail instead of the yellow school bus we’re driving in. The number is a riddle he says, as though it’s obvious. That’s all the...
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Eat & Drink

The Eagle

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Wood-paneled ceilings adorned with exposed HVAC rest above a central bar, as thenascent hum of televised sports, talking waiters, and the satisfying crunch of fried chickenpermeates the air. The Eagle restaurant, located on Bardstown Road, is exactly what you’d want from a self-proclaimed “food and...
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