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Shenzhen, China's rapid growth makes a mockery of Louisville's 'Possibility City' slogan

Chinese city's growth--not Fourth Street Live!--is a real accomplishment

Some facts about Shenzhen, China, one of the world's largest cities you've never heard of:

  • Population in 1979: 25,000
  • Population in 2007: 14 million
  • Tallest building in 1979: 5-story military barrack
  • Tallest building in 2009: 69-story Shun Hing Square
  • Compound annual economic growth between 1979 and 1989: 49.7 percent
  • Number of times I fell asleep during a one-hour massage at the Ritz-Carlton Shenzhen's spa: two

Top three 2009 Halloween costumes for Louisville

Pitino and Sypher, Hilton and Abramson, Southern Belles of Louisville sure to scare

Rick Pitino and Karen Sypher
The guy wears khakis and a University of Louisville polo with pasta stains. He issues strange rants, invoking 9/11, Ted Kennedy and the Khmer Rouge. The woman sports a low-cut dress and handcuffs, and sips a mojito telling everyone that she only leaves the house to go to church. Bonus: Get a second guy to dress up as Pitino's assistant, Vinnie Tatum: that costume involves just laying facedown on the floor.

Southern Belles: Louisville

Jerry Abramson plastering his mug throughout the airport and 5 other things I don't like about Louisville

Last week I covered "Six favorites from six months of living in Louisville." In the interest of being fair and/or balanced, here are six aspects of life in The Ville that I'm not so keen about.

Last week I covered "Six favorites from six months of living in Louisville." In the interest of being fair and/or balanced, here are six aspects of life in The Ville that I'm not so keen about.

Jerry Abramson's subsidizing his vanity with our tax dollars