Louisville Magazine

JUL 2013

Louisville Magazine is Louisville's city magazine, covering Louisville people, lifestyles, politics, sports, restaurants, entertainment and homes. Includes a monthly calendar of events.

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Readers' choice Most Comfortable Bar Jack's Lounge 122 Sears Ave. Competitors would have to go pretty far to out-comfy this 13-year-old St. Matthews retreat, whose conversation pockets include a half-dozen or more dark-leather couches and an armada of matching armchairs so patrons can not only "sit on" but also "sink in." Laid out in a repeating-arches motif by local interior designer Meg Vogt, with side and coffee tables within reach, Jack's merged with next-door Equus in 2010, creating a restaurant-bar concept that utilizes a superb menu while offering a stylish, convivial atmosphere. You like private nooks? The lounge's north hideaway room will suit you fine. — Jack Welch Editor's choice Best Free Tennis Courts Back in the 1970s, the surface of every public court in Louisville was clay (with a crushed-brick topping, like around baseball bases). Then came the citywide switch to lower-maintenance painted asphalt — everywhere, that is, except Joe Creason Park's Louisville Tennis Center, which once hosted national clay-court tournaments and was (and still is) pay-to-play, and Chickasaw Park, where the longstanding West Louisville Tennis Club successfully lobbied to keep six of the park's 12 free courts clay, a surface much kinder on knee joints and feet than hard courts. In 1995 Chickasaw's 48 LOUISVILLE MAGAZINE 7.13 Chickasaw Park courts were refurbished with taped lines and a new crushed-limestone base topped with 40 tons of crushed-basalt, replenished as needed at the start of each succeeding season. Chickasaw volunteers take loving care of the courts, watering and brushing them each morning so they're as well groomed as a guy walking out of a barber shop. A bonus on hot summer days: Cooling breezes blow in off the Ohio River, just 50 yards away, and there's a nifty park spray pad even closer by. — JW

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