Cover photo credit: Microsoft Flight Simulator, depicting a JAT Yugoslav Airlines YU-AHT.
As the word “Taj” pertains to “Mahal” (in Agra, India), it bears the meaning of “crown.” The Taj Mahal is a architecturally brilliant mausoleum complex renowned globally for its beauty.
Meanwhile in Louisville, the Taj Banal is an impenetrable legal kerfuffle involving adjacent, competing bars in NuLu. To the best of my knowledge, this situation is not intended as the pilot episode of a reality TV show, and consequently, having artfully sidestepped journalism classes and thoughtfully avoided law school, it’s best to let local media handle the nuts and bolts. I’m opting out lest my cynicism gets the better of me.
Bar owners wage name battle over popular NuLu bar ‘Taj’, by Alexandra Goldberg at WHAS-11: “Taj, a popular NuLu bar, is now being claimed by two competing business owners with new storefronts reopening right next to each other with the same name.”
Taj Louisville reopening amid dispute over bar name, by Michael L. Jones at Louisville Business First: “(Taj’s) return is an unusual situation, that includes a dispute over the Taj name between bar owner Todd Moore and his former landlord, Shelmark LLC (owner of the 807 E. Market St. property) and Kenny Blackthorn, Moore’s former business partner.”
Before we return to our regularly scheduled 24/7 monitoring of weather radar, it should be noted that (Judge) Judy Sheindlin is alive and kicking at 82 years of age, and might be coaxed out of retirement to provide arbitration.
Some ritzy bourbon for her, maybe? I might need some myself.
