Have you ever had a question about the Derby City that you just can't answer? That's where Curious Louisville comes in. Listeners submit their questions, the public votes on which questions to investigate, and 89.3 WFPL finds the answers.
Latest episodes
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10 min
A Curious Louisville Can Opener Special
Interstate 65 has re-opened in Louisville, and it might be the end of an era for a certain notorious underpass in Louisville. The Can Opener's emergence as a cult hero was a bright…
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4 min
What's the story behind Louisville's "Lovers Lane"?
Unless you’ve traveled through the area, you might not know there’s something very special about Springdale Road in northeast Louisville: over a hundred brightly-colored, signs wit…
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10 min
How did U of L's David Isaacs become the 'Godfather' of college basketball stats?
Did you know that one team from the University of Louisville has been part of every NCAA men’s basketball Final Four since 1969? You won’t see them on the court, but look on the si…
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9 min
Does road salt end up in the Ohio River?
The city of Louisville has a fleet of around 50 salt trucks, and when it snows, each can carry 10 tons of snow at a time to scatter on our roads and expressways. When the snow melt…
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8 min
Were there Civil War barracks in Old Louisville?
Have you ever used the "places" feature in the Wikipedia app? It shows you interesting sites near your location. Michelle Kadikian, who lives in Old Louisville, used that feature w…
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7 min
Did a German spy really live in my house?
When Sarah and Lowe Sutherland bought their house back in 2007, a friend of a friend told her a titillating story: "I was a paper boy on your street back in that during the war, an…
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8 min
What's with the beeping box in NuLu?
It sits alongside a brick building in Louisville’s NuLu neighborhood. It’s a metal box, about the size of a dresser, or maybe a deep freezer, but a little taller. And it makes a be…
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7 min
Who are those faces on the old Manual High School?
At the corner of Brook and Oak Streets in Old Louisville sits a building that started out as the duPont Manual Training High School, back in 1892. When Dan Trabue moved to the neig…
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6 min
Who is the voice of the crosswalk?
"Whose voice is that on the the walk sign at Douglass Loop and Bardstown Road? I go through that area quite a bit, and at some point I noticed that there was a voice, and that the…
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4 min
What's That Door In A Hill On Lexington Road?
You may have seen it while driving down Lexington road, away from downtown, just before Headliners Music Hall. A retaining wall in the side of the hill... with a door in the middle…
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6 min
Curious Louisville: Do White Outer Lines Make Roads Safer?
For fourteen years, Robert Miles has seen cars in ditches, in neighbor’s yards and in his own fencing that borders the boundary of the horse farm his family owns. He lives off Todd…
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6 min
Why Is A Stretch Of Louisville Highway Measured In Kilometers?
The United States prides itself on a kind of rugged individualism. We like to think we do things our own way here. So while the rest of the world uses the metric system, here in Am…
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5 min
Why Does The U of L Cardinal Mascot Have Teeth?
Woody Woodpecker. Donald Duck. Iago from “Aladdin." Louie, the U of L cardinal. All these birds have something in common: at various points in their histories, they have been depic…
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7 min
Curious Louisville: Why Is There An Omar Khayyam Blvd In Valley Station?
Nadeem Saddiqui and his family recently moved to Valley Station, in the southeastern part of Louisville. "It's stereotypically not the most multi-cultural area of Louisville," he s…
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5 min
Curious Louisville: Who Were The Caldwell Sisters?
Support Curious Louisville: Curious Louisville is all about you. You send us your questions, and we take you along with us on a search for the answer. It's people-powered. In fact,…
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5 min
Curious Louisville: Who Cleans Up Graffiti On The Backs Of Freeway Signs?
Is it art? Is it crime? A little bit of both? Whatever it is, it's part of your morning commute. "Every morning when I commute to work, no matter which way I go, I started to see m…
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6 min
Curious Louisville: Why Are There So Many Fish Fries In Louisville?
Every year at the beginning of Lent, (the period in the Christian calendar between Ash Wednesday and Easter) WFPL publishes a guide to all the fish fries in Louisville. It's always…
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3 min
Curious Louisville: What Was Old Louisville Called Before It Was 'Old?'
Louisville is a city of neighborhoods. For a lot of people, where they live is a big part of their identity. And Curious Louisville listener Evan Patrick wondered about how one nei…
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6 min
Curious Louisville: What Happened To Muhammad Ali's Olympic Medal?
In the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, a young Muhammad Ali -- then called Cassius Clay -- defeated three-time European boxing champion Zbigniew Pietrzykowski. He returned to Louisvi…
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6 min
Curious Louisville: Whatever Happened To The Falls Fountain?
It was supposed to be Louisville’s answer to the St. Louis arch. But in the press, it was eventually called ugly. A turkey A good idea gone bad. It’s been gone since 1998, but not…