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Beginning June 28, Louisville’s fashionistas will have the opportunity of a lifetime courtesy of online retailer Gilt, who will open a temporary pop-up boutique in St. Matthews.

It’s always darkest before the dawn. The month that was in review, now with 46 percent extra Tupac.

After months of speculation, it is now official: Swedish fast-fashion retailer H&M will open a store at Oxmoor Center in the fall of 2013.

Before the batteries died and the card was filled to capacity, Louisville.com captured as many scenes from this year’s Pegasus Parade as possible. Sixty-three images await your eyes in this special slideshow.

Ten years ago, Apple introduced the iTunes Store, turning the entertainment world on its head. A look back upon the icon on its 10th anniversary.

My first piece for Insider Louisville, this is the first of two parts of my interview with Project Runway alum Gunnar Deatherage. In this first segment, Deatherage talks about his plans for the Kentucky Derby, his personal view on this season’s styling trends, and his work with local rockers A Lion Named Roar. The second part of the interview will be published Monday.

One year ago, I began the Outside the Box series to shine the spotlight upon the personal styles of those who lived and worked outside of the fashion industry. I began with a profile of a voice actress from Vancouver, and today, I come full circle with a voice actor from Vancouver, Sam Vincent.

Known for roles such as Edd of “Ed, Edd ‘n’ Eddy” and Russell Ferguson on “Littlest Pet Shop,” Vincent has been working in the industry for 25 years. Step inside to learn more about his career, his personal style, and his recommendations should you, dear reader, visit his native Vancouver.

For the first time since 2012’s Best Dressed, 33 avenue Miquelon will be covering a fashion show solely for itself at the 2013 Runway for the Roses. In this preview with organizers Kelley LaBarbera and Gunnar Deatherage (of “Project Runway” fame), discover what attendees will experience upon arrival at the Kentucky Center for African-American Heritage next Thursday, the event benefiting Horses and Hope this year.

Today is a beautiful day for Louisville’s fashionistas: Nordstrom Rack will open at Shelbyville Road Plaza inside the former home of Circuit City (and Halloween costumes) this October. From the announcement by its parent company to what you’ll find inside the new store, Louisville.com blows off cagey fast fashion retailers for upscale clothes at fast fashion prices.

Next Thursday at the Louisville Central Community Centers’ Old Walnut Street development, Louisville Magazine will hold a “relaunch” party for their March 2013 “Top Lawyers” issue, whose cover story is about the oft-ignored and misunderstood West End. What follows is a brief summary behind the relaunch event.

Three years ago, my blog departed from Tumblr to begin a new, interesting life via WordPress. I have to thank my violet-eyed cult for some of the milestones achieved this year (100k pageviews on Christmas, 7,700 views/month et al), even if some of you still want Alexandria’s Genesis to be real (start studying hard sciences — genetics, bio-engineering, nanotechnolgy et al —  if you want it to be as such).

Anyway, click the title to read on as “the address for fashion, music and culture” celebrates its third anniversary.

nevver:

1. The proliferation of Chinese eugenics. – Geoffrey Miller, evolutionary psychologist.
2. Black swan events, and the fact that we continue to rely on models that have been proven fraudulent. – Nassem Nicholas Taleb
3. That we will be unable to defeat viruses by learning to push them beyond the error catastrophe threshold. – William McEwan, molecular biology researcher
4. That pseudoscience will gain ground. – Helena Cronin, author, philospher
5. That the age of accelerating technology will overwhelm us with opportunities to be worried. – Dan Sperber, social and cognitive scientist
6. Genuine apocalyptic events. The growing number of low-probability events that could lead to the total devastation of human society. – Martin Rees, former president of the Royal Society
7. The decline in science coverage in newspapers. – Barbara Strauch, New York Times science editor
8. Exploding stars, the eventual collapse of the Sun, and the problems with the human id that prevent us from dealing with them. — John Tooby, founder of the field of evolutionary psychology
9. That the internet is ruining writing. – David Gelernter, Yale computer scientist
10. That smart people—like those who contribute to Edge—won’t do politics. –Brian Eno, musician
11. That there will be another supernova-like financial disaster. –Seth Lloyd, professor of Quantum Mechanical Engineering at MIT
12. That search engines will become arbiters of truth. —W. Daniel Hillis, physicist

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“Fear is the mind killer.”

What American accent do you have?

My Result: The Midland(95%)

“You have a Midland accent” is just another way of saying “you don’t have an accent.” You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of those big southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas. You have a good voice for TV and radio.

Additional Results:

The Midland (95%)

The South (73%)

The West (69%)

The Inland North (48%)

Philadelphia (40%)

Boston (38%)

The Northeast (33%)

North Central (32%)

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FOX:

A 2nd grader has been suspended from school in Loveland for a make believe game he was playing.

The 7-year-old says he was trying to save the world. But school administrators say he broke a key rule during his pretend play.

“I was trying to save people and I just can’t believe I got…

What the actual fuck.

Suspend a kid for throwing a pretend “grenade” at a pretend “box of bad guys”? A correct response.

Allowing real missiles to be launched from drones at a cave full of Taliban (maybe)? Also a correct response.

You really want it both ways, don’t you, America?