KY Travel Guide
8/01/2008 at 10:18 AM
Tags: Mancations, Baseball Travel, Museums (all tags)
If heading out to see "Mamma Mia" on the big screen isn't your idea of a good time, then how about an adventure to Louisville, Kentucky? Your lady friend--or friends?--definitely won't want to go, so stay a few days and make it a mancation.
The point of the trip is the Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory. Since guys love baseball and jokes about hardwood, it's perfect.
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by kjb
3/19/2008 at 3:49 PM
Tags: Celeb Travel, George Clooney, Movie Travel (all tags)
Whenever celebrities converge on fancy-dress premieres, the rest of the world reads all about it the next day online or in next week's US Weekly. But the 9,000 lucky residents of Maysville, Kentucky won't have to wait to read the press coverage: They'll be able to see the stars for themselves when George Clooney descends upon the town bearing the reels of his new movie "Leatherheads." (Actually, he probably won't carry them to town himself.)
The film, which was shot in North and South Carolina, stars native Kentuckian Clooney--who also directed and co-wrote the film--as the manager of a new football league in the 1920s.
It co-stars John Krasinski as a promising player and Renee Zellweger as a saucy journalist. The film officially opens April 4--except for Maysville where it opens Monday night.
Related Stories:
· Movie Travel coverage [Jaunted]
· George Clooney coverage [Jaunted]
[Photo: meetinthelobby.com]
by egw
8/16/2007 at 9:21 AM
Tags: Flight Attendants, Delta (all tags)
Flight attendant Sarah Mills of Atlantic Southeast Airlines, and airline owned by SkyWest and operated by Delta, was recently accused of drinking on the job at Kentucky's Blue Grass Airport, and it turns out parts of the incident were caught on airport security cameras.
Mills, who allegedly reeked of alcohol, admits she was thinking about punching people, and drops an F bomb when an officer takes her flight attendant ID.
That is my wings...I'm a f'ing flight attendant.
Then she thanks everyone for getting her f'ing fired.
Court records say a breath test found her blood alcohol level was .032 _ lower than Kentucky's legal limit of .08 to operate a motor vehicle. Lightweight. Is .032 even one mile high mojito worth of alcohol?
She pleaded not guilty to the charges.
Delta officials were forced to cancel the Sunday flight to Atlanta that Mills was scheduled to work on.
Related Stories:
· Atlantic South East Airlines [Official Site]
by markj
7/16/2007 at 11:40 AM
Tags: R2D2-Mailbox-Map, Cult Travel (all tags)
Contribute your R2D2 mailbox locations by uploading your photo, with mailbox address to the Jaunted Flickr Photo Pool, or sending us the photo and street address via email.

Jaunted tipster Kathleen posed with a R2 mailbox just outside the Circuit District Courthouse on Main Street in Lexington Kentucky this past weekend.
This R2 mail unit was spotted outside the courthouse but there is no word on whether or not any charges were filed.
Go Straight To The R2D2 Mailbox Map
by markj
5/17/2007 at 10:06 AM
Tags: Music, Bands, Live Music, Festivals (all tags)

After
our expose on WiFi-friendly Blue Grass Airport, you're probably wondering why on Earth you'd ever fly there--despite the Interwebs access, of course. The Memorial Day weekend
Abbey Road on the River in Louisville would be our tip, now that the Kentucky Derby is run and done.
Set up along the Ohio River, the Abbey Road shindig is "the Greatest Beatle Tribute Festival In The World," which means while The Beatles (obviously) won't be playing, a bunch of bands that look and sound like them will. The three biggest days are Friday, Saturday and Sunday, when groups like "Lucy in the Sky," "Eight Days a Week" and "British Export" will be rehashing the golden days of Brit pop. To find out more about the bands--and we're not kidding about this--check out the festival's MySpace page.
[Photo: hddod]
Related Stories:
· Abbey Road on the River [Official Site]
by pbb
5/16/2007 at 10:30 AM
Tags: Airport WiFi, Airports, WiFi, Free WiFi (all tags)

The Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky, isn't normally the kind of airfield we'd cover. True, it does have non-stops to Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, New York and DC, but something about Lexington, KY, lacks that certain travel sex appeal.
Until of course we got on the horn with LEX's Executive Director Michael Gobb. Not only did he and his family meet the Queen of England when she passed through on her way to the Kentucky Derby, but had the queen wanted to check up on what we were saying about her and her doppelganger, it wouldn't have been a problem.
See, Blue Grass was the first airport in the country to offer high-speed, wireless access throughout the terminal. And it is today what it was then: free. Now that's the royal treatment.
[Photo: soumit]
Related Stories:
· Blue Grass Airport [Official Site]
· Airport WiFi coverage [Jaunted]
by pbb
5/09/2007 at 10:51 AM
Tags: Steakhouses, Kentucky Derby, OJ Simpson (all tags)
Jeff Ruby, owner of restaurants in Cincinnati, Louisville, and Belterra, Indiana, has become a bit of a cult hero in Kentucky. Not because he served a great steak, but instead because he refused to serve O.J. Simpson at his surf and turf joint on derby eve.
Ruby said he found Simpson in the Churchhill room of his "Jeff Ruby's Louisville" steakhouse and told Simpson, "I'm not serving you."
After telling Simpson to leave, he said the former NFL football star was "classy" about it, rounded up his party and left.
Then, Ruby said, he went into the Churchill Room to be sure they were gone and people at other tables started standing. "They all got up and gave me a standing ovation, started applauding."
Sounds like the Courier-Journal may want to re-think their Jeff Ruby's restaurant review:
They're not quite perfect for romantic dining tête-à-tête, but Jeff Ruby's Louisville, an outpost of an idiosyncratic mini-chain of steakhouses based in Cincinnati, doesn't pretend to offer an intimate experience.
So if you are are looking for a steakhouse in Louisville, that is sure to be O.J. free, look no further.
Related Stories:
· Jeff Ruby's [Official Site]
· Jeff Ruby Denies OJ Simpson Service [WCPO]
by markj
5/07/2007 at 9:27 AM
Tags: Celeb Travel, Kentucky Derby (all tags)

Street Sense may have walked away the winner of the 133rd Kentucky Derby, but you can't put a horse on the cover of
US Weekly. Throughout the weekend, celebrity guests lined up for mint juleps and donned giant hats to fit in with old-school VIPs like Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, starting with Friday night's Barnstable Brown gala.
Better known as the place to meet
the former Playboy model of your dreams, the gala played host to athletes like
Bode Miller and
Apolo Anton Ohno and stars like
Melissa Joan Hart.
Nick Lachey even had the
cojones to bring new girlfriend
Vanessa Minnillo after he and ex-wife
Jessica Simpson had done the derby. Post-race,
Kevin Federline used some of his remaining seconds of fame to get into the
Stuff magazine VIP Issue party, hosted by
Taryn Manning.
If they weren't in Loovull, they were in Las Vegas catching the
Oscar de la Hoya-
Floyd Mayweather boxing match.
Jim Carrey took girlfriend
Jenny McCarthy there to see the fight, and
Eva Longoria cheered for de la Hoya (and hit his after-party at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, even though he didn't win).
[Photo:
SAWF.org]
Related Stories:·
Kentucky Derby: Kid Rock & K-Fed's Rap Battle [People]
·
A night of biff and bling [Daily Telegraph]
by egw