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A Year Without Events: What We’ve Missed The Most
We’re quickly sneaking up on a year since that week last March when the world changed. Most of us were bracing ourselves for it, but we didn’t exactly know what to expect back then from the emerging coronavirus. And here we are, stuck in winter of 2021, still locked in a battle with the pandemic.…
How To Support Racial Justice, Diversity and Activism This Week In Louisville (2/22)
TUESDAY, Feb. 23 York, Isaac Murphy & Medgar Evers: Historical Poetry As Teacher Zoom Free | 6-7 p.m. Frank X Walker proposes an alternative way to learn about history: through poetry. At this lecture, he’ll use his four poetry collections to discuss how memory, research and imagination are core aspects to the process. Plus, he’ll…
5 Things To Do This Weekend In Louisville (2/19)
FRIDAY, Feb. 19 Virtual After Hours At The Speed Online Free | 6-7 p.m. Visit the Speed Art Museum virtually with their monthly After Hours event. There will be five segments to the evening, streamed via YouTube or Facebook: An tour of the upcoming exhibition “Isabelle de Borchgrave: Fashioning Art from Paper”; improvised storytelling by…
The Fine Art of Financing: Grants, Residencies and Other Funding for Artists
This is our monthly list of arts-funding opportunities. Look back at our past lists on leoweekly.com for opportunities that still have open deadlines. Residencies Blackacre State Nature Preserve & Historic Homestead holds a writers’ residency situated within nearly 300-acres of trees and fields of prairie grass located in eastern Jefferson County. Each year, six writers…
Make Sal’s Your Go-To For Lenten Fried Fish
I realized the other day that Ash Wednesday and Lent are coming up, so this is the season when Louisville food writers are supposed to talk about fried fish … and all the Friday fish fries at Catholic (and a few Episcopal) churches around town. Wednesday was also National Pizza Day! This was a challenge.…
What Events Currently Look Like
Restaurants, bars and event venues have been some of the hardest hit industries during the pandemic. They have had to navigate and adapt to a fluid situation, weighing how to continue to bring in business while protecting staff and customers from an invisible enemy. But, as we close in on a year since the pandemic…
Savage Love: Pandemic Pressures
Q: I’m a gay guy living in New York in his late twenties. My boyfriend has really been emotionally impacted by the pandemic having been a frontline worker. I think he is suffering from some mild depression or at the very least some intense anxiety so I just want to preface this by saying I…
Spinsters Union Refocuses Amidst Extended Pandemic
When your job is a party, what happens when a pandemic hits and the party is put on hold? For Louisville DJ collective, The Spinsters Union, the pandemic knocked the wind out of their spinning gigs at parties and bars. In the span of a week, the Spinsters went from booked at residencies and performances…
Jazz Musicians Develop Online Educational Curriculum
In 1964, when a saxophonist named Jerry Coker published a slender self-instruction book called “Improvising Jazz,” the reaction in some quarters was hostile. Rudi Blesh, one of the most influential jazz critics and historians of the time, wrote, “The usefulness, or the advisability even, of this book may be seriously questioned. The project of…
Former Speed Museum Exec In a Racist Pickle at Newfields in Indianapolis
[Update: Venable resigned from Newfields on Wednesday afternoon. The Board of Trustees and Board of Governors for the museum thanked him for his service and said that the resignation was necessary. CFO Jerry Wise will be the interim president.] When the Speed Art Museum decided to undertake a major renovation and expansion, Charles Venable was at…
Police Reform Bills: Some Receive Bipartisan Support, Others Flounder
A bill that would make it easier to decertify corrupt police officers passed the Kentucky Senate unanimously last week, and is now heading to the House. Another bill that would make it illegal for officers to engage in sexual activities with people in custody is awaiting a full Senate vote. Some police reform bills are seeing…
Thorns & Roses: The Worst, Best And Most Absurd (2/17)
Rose: COVID “positive” news Monday marked the lowest single day of COVID-positive cases since mid-October. The state positivity rate continued to decline, as well. And, Kentucky’s child care workers were bumped up into the 1B group of vaccine priority, joining teachers and other school workers. (Not sure what took so long there, but it’s never too…
Kentucky’s Parade of Prejudice
The Kentucky General Assembly is at it again, with their biggest parade of prejudice in over a decade. In the middle of a global pandemic, with hundreds of thousands who have been sick with COVID-19, thousands who have lost their lives, and more than 100,000 unemployed Kentuckians, some members of the legislature have once again…
Downtown Louisville Is Just Missing The Whites Only Signs
Last year, I had the opportunity to join Until Freedom in New York City during the height of the Breonna Taylor protests to speak at a rally. It was one of the first times that I had traveled on an airplane since the coronavirus’ onset, and truthfully, I was terrified. At the time, New York…
State Republicans Race To The Rescue For Special Interests
It wasn’t surprising to see Kentucky Republican lawmakers spring into action when the state’s horse racing industry needed something… ASAP. It’s a good thing they acted — with the support of Democrats and Gov. Andy Beshear — to quickly pass Senate Bill 120. However, the unusual display of legislative efficiency reveals a lot about the Republican…
