Podcast appearances and mentions of Michael L Jones

UPCOMING EVENT: Access Louisville Live presented by Baird. Be on hand for a live recording of the Access Louisville podcast April 22. Details and registration here.A new pizza joint, a French Bistro and the latest on the brewing scene.All of the above are topics on this week's Access Louisville podcast. LBF Restaurant reporter Michael L. Jones is on the show to tell us about a new St. Matthews Pizza joint, Pizza Jones (no relation.) Pizza Jones will be located at 126 Breckenridge Lane, next to the China 1 restaurant, and is scheduled to open in early May. Gene Stein, co-owner of Pizza Jones, is the former co-owner of the defunct Pizza Guy brand, which closed nearly two decades ago.Jones also tells us about French bistro M. Peppers, which opened at 1306 Bardstown Road, inside the Bellwether Hotel, opened Tuesday, April 15. It comes from the team behind bar Vetti inside NuLu's AC Hotel. The ownership group includes chef Andrew McCabe and restaurateur Ryan Rogers, co-owner of Feast BBQ and Royals Hot Chicken.We also chat about Mashup Food Hall landing its first restaurant, the closure of the Oddbird Cafe in the Highlands and the latest trends in craft beer brewing. Brewing is still a growing business (despite troubles experienced lately by Louisville brewers) though it's not growing as fast as it was pre-pandemic, as our data showed.After the restaurant talk, we chat about music festivals — including the news that Danny Wimmer Presents, the promotor behind Bourbon & Beyond and Louder than Life, has committed to Louisville for the next 10 years. Bourbon & Beyond and Louder Than Life generated more than $33 million in local economic impact in 2024 and drew more than 300,000 attendees, booking over 60,000 hotel room nights, as Jones reported. We also chat about the recently announced lineup of The Big Stomp festival, which you can find here. Access Louisville, sponsored by Baird, is a weekly podcast from Louisville Business First. It's available on popular podcast services including Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

Access Louisville is a weekly podcast from Louisville Business First. Follow us on popular podcast services to never miss an episode.Apple Podcasts | SpotifyThis week we'll start things off by looking back on the week that was at Valhalla Golf Club for the 106th PGA Championship. We had a team of reporters and photographers out there (including yours truly) on the course for every day of the tournament. Piper Hansen will talk about what she encountered at the course on Friday after news broke about the fatality of a security guard and the subsequent arrest of Scottie Scheffler, the No. 1 ranked golfer in the world. We'll also talk about the latest from the footage that was recently released involving Scheffler and one of the detectives from the Louisville Metro Police Department. I will also share a story about what I encountered at Valhalla on Tuesday when — like on Friday — stormy weather jumbled up the planned schedule. We will also talk about Valhalla's chances of playing host to another PGA Championship or another major championship golf tournament.Michael L. Jones will conclude the podcast with a round of interesting stories that he has come across on the restaurant beat, beginning with the “cookie caper” involving Please & Thank You and the 150th Kentucky Derby.Michael will also talk about closing of a popular bar in the Highlands and the opening of a bakery in Germantown. Access Louisville is a weekly podcast from Louisville Business First. You can find it on popular podcast services, such as Apple Podcasts and Spotify, which are linked above. You can also listen in the player above.

Plenty of people know Michael L. Jones as Louisville Business First's economic development and restaurants reporter. But he's also a music guru, local history buff and author of three books. On the Access Louisville podcast this week, we talk with Jones (a regular on the show) about his latest book  "Soulful Sounds of Derby Town," which just launched.  Jones and his collaborators on the book look back at some of the history of Black music in Louisville.On the show, he tells us about how the book is a culmination of eight years of work. "You can imagine six music nerds sitting and talking about who's important enough to go in the book — should they go in gospel? Should they go into jazz?," Jones said on the show.The pages are filled with stories about musicians who began in Louisville and went on to make a mark in the industry at large. As Jones explains,  singer Helen Humes and jazz trumpeter Jonah Jones were among a slew of people who got their start playing in a community band here in Louisville.The book is going from the "page to the stage" on March 2 with a book launch event and performances by some of the living musicians featured in it. That takes place at Kentucky Performing Arts and tickets are available here.Also on this week's show, we chat about the lineup that was just announced for Louder than Life — a metal focused music festival that is happening again this September.And late in the show, we talk about a leadership change at Endeavor Louisville and some of the things that are happening with the local startup scene. Access Louisville is a weekly podcast from Louisville Business First. You can find it on popular podcast services. Access Louisville Live is coming up. Be apart of it as we record a live episode of the show on March 26. Tickets are available here. 

In part 1, Michael Jones discussed his website experience and what everyone needs to know about website rules and compliance. He continues this discussion in part 2. Tune in to hear Mike's thoughts on: Site builders such as Wix and Shopify vs. CMS What is a quality site and the google quality score and why […] The post The Wild West Is Over, There Are Rules For Websites, With Michael L. Jones – Part 2 first appeared on Business Creators Radio Show with Adam Hommey.

Having worked in the IT field since 1994, Mike Jones has been through the boom, the bang, and the bust of Internet history. In this first, of a 2-part episode, Mike is here to share his website experience and what everyone needs to know about website rules and compliance. If you follow the rules, you […] The post The Wild West Is Over, There Are Rules For Websites, With Michael L. Jones – Part 1 first appeared on Business Creators Radio Show with Adam Hommey.

Louisville's got new places to go and new places for a bite to eat.We talk about both on this week's Access Louisville podcast as Louisville Business First reporters Michael L. Jones and Ellie Tolbert join the show.Jones tells us about a plan to rebuilt the Clarksville Rooster's, which was destroyed in a fire earlier this year. We also chat about a restaurant in East Louisville, Barcelona Bistro Bar, that recently (and quietly) changed hands. We also go over Jack in the Box's plans for the area and why it makes sense of the burger chain to expand here.Tolbert tells us about a Louisville store, Vintage Vibe, that's moving from The Highlands to NuLu. The twist is it's moving across the street from its other location (well, sorta.)Finally we wrap up with a little development talk, including the Painter's Row residential and office building coming to the Portland Neighborhood. And we talk about a new app that's allowing property owners to lease out their vacant lots for parking. Not everyone is happy about that.Access Louisville is a weekly podcast from Louisville Business First. It's available on popular podcast services. 

The Lawyer Stories Podcast Episode 137 features Michael Jones, personal injury, civil right, and employment lawyer at Marko Law in Detroit Michigan. We discuss Mike's journey as he went from Grateful Dead listening - California grade school teacher - to having the best Opening Argument in McGeorge's Mock Trial Competition in 2016.  Mike then went on to join Marko Law in Detroit, Michigan to fight against injustices, trial work, and negotiating large settlements for his clients.

Access Louisville is a weekly podcast from Louisville Business First. Follow us on popular podcast services to never miss an episode.   Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | StitcherThough the Silicon Valley Bank failure happened on the other coast, the ripple effects were felt by Louisville startups, attorneys and bank leaders.A startup founder told KYInno that he was rushing to pull funds from the bank, faced with the fear of the question: How will their employees be paid. Haley Cawthon spoke to the founder, who asked to be anonymous given the fluidity of the situation, and shares what she learned with us.Beyond startups, an attorney at large Louisville law firm Frost Brown Todd spent his weekend helping clients both locally and across the country who had funds in SVB. Ellie Tolbert spoke with him and some leaders in Louisville's banking scene to get their reaction.The SVB bank collapse was big news everywhere, but in true Access Louisville fashion, we sneak in some talk of restaurants and tourism.The Bard's Town, which recently announced a move, put plans on hold after its owner passed away. In his memory, former employees are opening the new location anyway with the help of some of his plans, Michael L. Jones reports.We also discuss renovations to the Louisville Slugger Museum and lineups for two Danny Wimmer presents music festivals: Bourbon and Beyond and Louder than Life.Access Louisville is a weekly podcast from Louisville Business First. It was hosted this week by Laurel Deppen. Our guests are Tolbert, Cawthon and Jones.It's available on popular podcast services, including Apple Podcasts and Spotify, which are linked above. You also can listen to the show in the player above.

Access Louisville is a weekly podcast from Louisville Business First. Follow us on popular podcast services to never miss an episode.   Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher A multi-use development by a prominent developer made headlines multiple times this week, but what is it missing?Nulu Marketplace, which is owned by developer Mo Deljoo, is home to a brewery, restaurants, retail establishments and even office space. Recently one of its retailers, Buff City Soap, closed its location, leaving the opportunity for something new.We speculate on what the complex could use on the Access Louisville Podcast: perhaps another restaurant, new retail or a bodega.West Sixth Nulu, the complex's anchor tenant, recently announced it was adding food to its menu offerings. It will start by focusing on shareable items, including wings and tacos.Cherry Pickin', a cold press juice bar, will open in Nulu Marketplace at the end of April. The concept's owners said juice bars were something missing in the area, and they hope to fill that void.Beyond the Nulu area, we also discuss Lil Toasty's, a second location for Toasty's Tavern opening in the food truck at Gravely Brewing Co. The food truck was previously home to Mayan Street Food from the owners of Mayan Café.Louisville also ranked in the top five metros for economic development, according to a site selection magazine. It ranked above the likes of Nashville, Tennessee; Charlotte, North Carolina; Indianapolis; and Columbus, Ohio.We discuss all this and more on the Access Louisville Podcast.Access Louisville is a weekly podcast from Louisville Business First. It was hosted this week by Laurel Deppen. Our guests are Eleanor Tolbert, Haley Cawthon and Michael L. Jones.It's available on popular podcast services, including Apple Podcasts and Spotify, which are linked above. You also can listen to the show in the player above.

Access Louisville is a weekly podcast from Louisville Business First. Follow us on popular podcast services to never miss an episode.   Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher The Business First crew has once again set out to predict what 2023 will hold for the Louisville community. We tackle a large range of topics in our predictions, from the new mayor's priorities to major hotels on the Sunny Side (Southern Indiana).You will have to listen in the player above or your favorite podcast streaming app to hear all of them, but as a treat, here are just a few:Louisville's favorite son, rapper Jack Harlow, will get involved in UofL's Name, Image and Likeness (NIL) business.The Louisville Bats, minor league baseball team, will finish with a winning record this season — for the first time since 2011.Louisville's airport will land a major nonstop flight — possibly to Seattle or Toronto.Fourth Street Live! will land a major renovation project — and possibly be sold to another development company.The predictions show is a favorite Access Louisville tradition.In fact, last time on Access Louisville, we traveled back in time to our 2022 predictions to see how they aged in hindsight. Surprisingly, we got a few right, including the announcement of two new Publix locations in Louisville and that the University of Louisville would part ways with its then-head coach Chris Mack.So we have a pretty good track record, right? Let's see what the year has in store.Access Louisville is a weekly podcast from Louisville Business First.  It's co-hosted by David A. Mann and Laurel Deppen. Our guests this week are Stephen P. Schmidt, Ellie Tolbert, Michael L. Jones, Shea Van Hoy and Haley Cawthon.It's available on popular podcast services, including Apple Podcasts and Spotify, which are linked above. You also can listen to the show in the player above.Cheers to 2023.

Access Louisville is a weekly podcast from Louisville Business First. Follow us on popular podcast services to never miss an episode.   Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | StitcherWe're reporters, not mediums. Yet last year, we set out to predict what would happen in 2022. Now as the year comes to a close, we went back to review those 16 predictions. Some were pretty bold, (and didn't age well in hindsight,) while others unexpectedly were spot on.You can travel back in time and hear the rest of the predictions from last year's show at this link.Here are a few things we predicted: Two more Publix retail locations will be announced; the NCAA will wrap its investigation and the University of Louisville men's basketball team a gets three-season postseason ban; Downtown properties start converting to apartments; and River Ridge Commerce Center will land a Fortune 500 corporate headquarters.Reporter Ellie Tolbert was spot on with the Publix prediction. In 2022, two Publix locations were announced, one as recently as this month. The grocery giant announced it will open stores at the northwest corner of Flat Rock Road and Shelbyville Road and one in Lexington. The UofL prediction was half right. The NCAA investigation did wrap up, but the punishment was far less harsh than a three-season postseason ban. An independent committee issued UofL a $5,000 fine, ending a years-long period of limbo for the program.As for the other two predictions listed above…Well, they didn't shape up. You'll have to listen to find out what other predictions came true.Access Louisville is a weekly podcast from Louisville Business First. It's co-hosted by David A. Mann and Laurel Deppen. Our guests this week are Tolbert, Haley Cawthon, Shea Van Hoy and Michael L. Jones.It's available on popular podcast services, including Apple Podcasts and Spotify, which are linked above. You also can listen to the show in the player above.In the New Year, we'll get out our crystal balls to predict what 2023 may hold. So stay tuned, and happy holidays!

Access Louisville is a weekly podcast from Louisville Business First. Follow us on popular podcast services to never miss an episode.Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher  A Louisville private school made plans to demolish a neighboring apartment complex which it owns, but it received community pushback.Louisville Collegiate School, one of the area's largest private schools, submitted an application to demolish the complex, Yorktown Apartments, at 2354 Grinstead Drive. But no decisions have been made yet. The Cherokee Triangle Architectural Review committee tabled the discussion this week. The complex includes three buildings, each with 16 units. Collegiate bought the property in 2015 and intends to use it for a 56-vehicle parking lot. The situation plays into a larger discussion of a lack of affordable housing throughout Louisville, especially in the Highlands neighborhood.We discuss this trend on the Access Louisville podcast.Also this week, the University of Louisville named its next president. Kim Schatzel, who currently holds the president title at Towson University in Maryland, will step into the role in February.Some were critical of UofL's decision to hire a white person for the role, but others in the community noted their excitement to get to know her. We discuss this reaction, along with what could be a new chapter of stability for UofL. And in true Access Louisville fashion, we discuss bourbon: from master tasters to a Louisville location for Bardstown Bourbon Co.  Access Louisville is a weekly podcast from Louisville Business First. It's co-hosted by David A. Mann and Laurel Deppen. Our guests this week are Michael L. Jones and Stephen P. Schmidt.It's available on popular podcast services including Apple Podcasts and Spotify, which are linked above. You can also listen to the player above.

Access Louisville is a weekly podcast from Louisville Business First. Follow us on popular podcast services to never miss an episode.Apple Podcasts | Spotify | StitcherThis week, several entities with Louisville ties were sold, including one of the city's biggest hotels.AC Louisville, which houses Italian eatery Bar Vetti, is located in the heart of NuLu and sold for $51 million. Nothing will change on the consumer end, but the local group divested its ownership. We also talk about recent bank mergers and acquisition activity, including the acquisition of Limestone Bancorp and Republic Bank's purchase of a Cincinnati-based bank.But in true Access Louisville fashion, we catch up on the news of the city's food scene, including an official opening date for Jerry Green and Friends, a new club, and a fun bar/plant shop concept.We also discuss a recent podcast poll regarding which side of the Big 4 Bridge is better. Who won? Turns out, it's “popping” in Jeffersonville.Access Louisville is a weekly podcast from Louisville Business First. It's hosted by David A. Mann and Laurel Deppen. Our guests this week are Cawthon and restaurant reporter Michael L. Jones.

Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport has finally added a flight to Boston. The new flight starts in June from American Airlines. Reporter Michael L. Jones joins this episode of the Access Louisville podcast to talk about the announcement. It caps off what has been a big year for the airport in terms of adding flights.We also talk about the reopening of a staple Louisville music venue, Joe's Palm Room and efforts by local food trucks to feed the hungry following last week's devastating tornadoes in Western Kentucky. Reporter Laurel Deppen is also on the show to follow up on recent personnel changes at the University of Louisville. She was at the university earlier this week as it named an interim president and interim athletic director. Access Louisville is a weekly podcast from Louisville Business First. It's available on popular podcast services. 

We've got another classic Access Louisville restaurant roundup this week. Reporters Michael L. Jones and Eleanor Tolbert join us to talk about several food stories (many of them related to pizza.)• Tony Impellizari is retiring after 42 years • Square Cut Pizza opens in Shelby Park • LaRosa's is coming to town.• A new generation takes over at Anne's CaféAfter the restaurant, discussion we talk about Louisville's priorities in the wake of President Joe Biden's signature infrastructure bill. We recently talked to Mayor Greg Fischer about this topic for an interview.  And lastly we talk about the news that U.S. Bank is moving its local headquarters. It's the latest company we've seen take its offices out of Downtown Louisville.Access Louisville is a weekly podcast from Louisville Business First. It's available on popular podcast services. 

On this Thanksgiving Week edition of Sustainability Now!, your host, Justin Mog, brings you highlights from the annual Anne Braden Institute Research Meets Activism Breakfast, hosted at the Louisville Urban League on November 21, 2019. The event featured a panel discussion about the intersections of journalism and racial justice featuring: - Amber Duke, Communications Manager for the ACLU of Kentucky. Learn more at https://www.aclu-ky.org/en/staff/amber-duke - Michael L. Jones, a freelance journalist and author who has reported for Insider Louisville, LEO Weekly, Louisville Magazine, and others. Learn more at https://insiderlouisville.com/author/michael-l-jones/ - Dr. Kaila Story, UofL Professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, with a joint appointment in the Department of Pan-African Studies. She holds the Audre Lorde Chair in Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and co-hosts the podcast with Jaison Gardner called Strange Fruit: Musings on Politics, Pop Culture, and Black Gay Life. Learn more at https://louisville.edu/wgs/faculty/story - Dr. Jelani Cobb, a staff writer at the New Yorker, historian, and the Ira A. Lipton Professor of Journalism at Columbia Journalism School. His work focuses on race, politics, and culture while connecting the historical context of racism to current affairs. Dr. Cobb is the author of several titles including The Substance of Hope: Barack Obama and the Paradox of Progress, The Devil and Dave Chappell & Other Essays, and To the Break of Dawn: A Freestyle on the Hip Hop Aesthetic. His recent work includes participating in Ava DuVernay’s landmark documentary “The 13th.” Learn more at http://louisville.edu/braden/programs/memorial-lecture/the-half-life-of-freedom-race-and-justice-in-america-today Learn more about UofL's Anne Braden Institute for Social Justice Research at http://louisville.edu/braden As always, our feature is followed by your community action calendar for the week, so get your calendars out and get ready to take action for sustainability NOW! Sustainability Now! airs on FORward Radio, 106.5fm, WFMP-LP Louisville, every Monday at 6pm and repeats Tuesdays at 12am and 10am. Find us at http://forwardradio.org The music in this podcast is used by permission from the fantastic Louisville band, Appalatin. Explore their inspiring music at http://www.appalatin.com

It's a busy weekend in Louisville! The Louisville AIDS Walk takes place this Sunday on the Belvedere, and one of this year's special guests is fashion designer Mondo Guerra. Mondo came out as HIV positive when he was on season 8 of Project Runway (he came in second, but would later win the first Project Runway All-Star season). He's now part of Project I Design—a national campaign geared toward improving communication between HIV patients and their doctors. We speak with Mondo this week, who says that despite increased awareness, there's still stigma surrounding HIV. When he came out on TV, he hadn't told his family yet, waiting until just before the episode aired to have that conversation. "I was very self shaming, and I was very embarrassed, and I didn't feel like I could talk to my parents about this," he says. "Stigma has always played a role in this experience, this journey that I've had with HIV. But at the point that I'm at right now, living with HIV for 13 years and what I've been through, I really try to not use the word 'stigma' in my own personal vocabulary, because I feel like there's so much negativity attached to it." Find out more about the Louisville AIDS Walk here: http://www.kyaids.org/walk And more about Project I Design here: http://www.projectidesign.com/ Elsewhere in town this weekend, the National Jug Band Jubilee is celebrating its 10th anniversary on Saturday at Waterfront Park. Author Michael L. Jones is on the event's board, and hopes to broaden the appeal of jug bands to the descendants of those who pioneered it: African Americans. "When you think of the African slaves, when they came here, they didn't have instruments. They had to make their own instruments," he explains. "And so they turned household objects into musical instruments." Jones stopped by our studio this week to introduce us to some jug band greats, like Earl McDonald and Sara Martin, who made music history right here in Louisville. "This is something that originated in African origins, that African Americans are totally divorced from, because they think plantations, and banjos and stuff," Jones says. "[With] jug music, you see the first combination of European tunes and African rhythms," he says. "I tell people it's the secret history of rock and roll." Find out more about the National Jug Band Jubilee here: http://www.jugbandjubilee.com/ And about Michael's Book, "Louisville Jug Music: From Earl McDonald to the National Jubliee," here: http://www.carmichaelsbookstore.com/book/9781626194960