For two minutes on the first Saturday in May, the world's attention centers on Louisville. Even as the NBC and ESPN trucks depart, the Kentucky Derby is the top story on sports pages nationwide.

But recently Louisville has been getting some pretty good press even on days that are not the first Saturday in May.

According to GQ, the Manhattan at 610 Magnolia is one of America's 20 best cocktails ("The Manhattan belongs to the Bluegrass state."). Conde Nast Traveler called 21c Museum Hotel the best hotel in the country. Bon Appétit named us one of the country's Foodiest Cities. Publishers Weekly called Carmichael's the best independent bookstore in America; Spin, Paste and Esquire have all hailed ear X-tacy as one of the top record stores.

Louisville is one of the top three cities in the country to be a cyclist, according to Bicycling magazine. And Men's Journal says it's the "Best Place to Sip Whiskey and Watch the World Go By."Read more.

Pro-Liquitech was ranked No. 84 on the list, and Consumers Choice was ranked No. 93.

The awards were presented recently by the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City and Bloomberg BusinessWeek in Boston.

The Initiative for a Competitive Inner City is a nonprofit organization founded in 1994 by Harvard Business School Professor Michael E. Porter. Its mission is to promote private-sector job creation in the inner city. Read more.