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The 2016 LEO Playlist: Our favorite local songs of the year
While contributing to this list and editing it, I noticed a few things: 1) There are a lot of different bands playing a lot of different styles of music in this town that are really well-versed at mixing experimental and catchy elements — individualistic and strange sounds, mixed with melodies, hooks and riffs that stick.…
10 things to do under $5 this week in Louisville (12/26)
MONDAY Board Game X-Mas Kaiju Free | 7 p.m. This special edition of “bourbon, beer and board games” also comes with cookies, assorted festivities and, as always, board games, provided by Book & Music Exchange (Highlands). And don’t forget to add your own meta-drinking game on top of all the regular gaming. TUESDAY Laff Fest:…
5 Things To Do This Weekend in Louisville (12/30)
FRIDAY Tajy & Friends: “Westside Story” A New Year’s Eve Celebration Haymarket Whiskey Bar Free | 10 p.m. Get the New Year’s Eve partying started early with this party, which is all about positivity in 2017, and good music by the talented performers Khüdósoul, Kake, Mmuso, Dirty Flannel Dave and Tajy (who will play tracks…
UofL, we have a contender: A perfect storm of Cardinal defense and Wildcat inexperience led to last night’s upset
[photos by Jeff Reinking] Standing in the freezing cold at 2:30 a.m. outside my condo building just two blocks from the KFC Yum! Center, as the screeching sirens approached, drowning out the booming fire alarms, it was difficult to be upset — because UofL is king of the Bluegrass. It’s also hard to imagine that the…
Savage Love: Revolution Hall
Earlier this month, we recorded our Savage Lovecast Christmas Spectacular live at Revolution Hall in Portland, Oregon. The audience submitted questions on tiny cards before the show, which allowed questioners to remain anonymous and forced them to be succinct. More questions were submitted than my guests and I could get to, so I promised the…
5 things to do before Christmas day in Louisville (12/23)
FRIDAY Tribute to Leonard Cohen Headliners $10-$15 | 8 p.m. “Celebrate the life and music of the one and only Leonard Cohen” at this tribute show that includes acts by Joan Shelley, Daniel Martin Moore, Joe Manning, Jeremy Irvin, Sarah Teeple, IamIs, Alex Udis, Cat Casual, Nathan Salsburg and Will Oldham. All proceeds go to…
Five local musicians on their favorite albums to come out of Louisville in 2016
Ron — Is Real by Sean Garrison (I Have A Knife) Ron is among the strangest bands that I have encountered in well over 30 years of searching for demented music, and the civic pride they inspire within my skeevy black heart makes me love them all the more. They, along with several other brilliant…
With the return of slick, coiffured white supremacists, a time to act
An Indiana newspaper got a lot of attention recently for running a headline proclaiming “White nationalist group seeks to form separate community in Paoli.” This headline, and its accompanying story about a microscopically-small number of Hoosiers who believe the good guys lost World War II, has provoked some pearl-clutching by progressives. Perhaps rightly so. The…
Thorns & Roses: The Worst & Best
Have gun, will unravel | Thorn While the Metro Council beat up police Chief Steve Conrad, looking for a scapegoat for the record number of homicides, the police union offered him a no-confidence vote. What no one is talking about, however, is the ease in which you can get a gun here. We’ve said it…
Top 10 of 2016 — Part Two
5. Trashcan Sinatras — Wild Pendulum Trashcan Sinatras were never famous in the mainstream sense, but during their college radio heyday of the late ‘80s/early ‘90s, they were continuously producing some of the best pop-rock of the era. They’ve managed to stay under the radar for the past 25 years, but not because their music…
Are they photographs or sculptures… or?
The photographs are not what they seem in “Visio Obscuro,” subtitled “An exhibition of puzzling portraiture.” Matt Gatton is not just a photographer: He’s also a sculptor. At the same time. Now, he’s a photographer again. This labor-intensive technique, called photo-sculpture, or photo-craft, starts off with Gatton photographing his sitters from all angles. He then…
Kate Sedgwick, ‘It’s time to declare what you believe in’
If you’ve stumbled into a comedy show in this town at any point in time over the past several years, you’ve probably caught one of Kate Sedgwick’s sets. She has a direct sense of humor that ranges from blunt to flat-out antagonistic. As a child, Sedgwick’s family spent a lot of time moving, before settling…
BALL DROPPINGS: A smattering of New Year’s Eve events
Louisville has got a party for you, regardless of whether your budget is limitless or limited to free, or whether your wardrobe preference is costume, casual or black tie. And, truly, whatever your musical taste, there’s music to suit the tastes of all revelers. If balloon drops, confetti cannons and champagne toasts aren’t enough, there’s…
Loui Loui’s, oh no, me gotta go
Ahh, Loui Loui’s! Or “Louie Louie”! Delicious Detroit-style pizza or briefly-controversial rock classic of the ‘60s. I love them both, don’t you? “Louie Louie,” the song, enjoyed its moment of fame a half-century ago, exactly 50 years before Loui Loui’s, the pizzeria, opened in Jeffersontown. The Kingsmen covered Richard Berry’s catchy 1957 tune in 1963.…
‘Real food’ at Thorntons
Many years ago, I found myself broke one day to the point where I had maybe only $3 in my pocket and not much more in my checking account. I knew that I only needed to get through the day to the evening when my paycheck would direct-deposit into my account. You know, because, America.…
Bicycling for Louisville wants you to know: ‘biking is easy, safe and accessible’
Bicycling advocacy group Bicycling for Louisville is not just about bike lanes. It works to support smarter urban development, healthier lifestyles, environmental stewardship and a strong local economy. These things make our city more bike-able — and they also make Louisville a better place to live, said Executive Director Chris Glasser. “A bike-able city avoids…
Savage Love: The Intern
Q: I’m having an issue with my boyfriend, and I don’t know if I am the crazy, paranoid, controlling party here. We have been together for more than a year and a half. We had troubles early on because he has a low sex drive. It made me very insecure, and I think that’s why,…
As we turn a blind eye
“I rest my head on One Fifteen but miracles only happen on Thirty Fourth so I guess life is mean and death is the median and purgatory is the mode that we settle in” —Vast Aire Post-truth people living in a post-truth world runneth over with birthers, and truthers and young flat-Earthers, anti-vaxers and Yosemite…
Go to the mattresses
America is, as writer Sheldon Wolin calls it, an inverted totalitarian state. It suffers from the delusion of democracy, but that democracy works only for those at the top. What we knew as freedom has been bought and sold by the corporation, and we are enslaved in a medicated, techno-propaganda haze to believe we are…
Mayor must push back on VA
In response to the escalating chorus to rethink the location for a new Veterans Affairs medical center, Mayor Greg Fischer took the first step, making the debate real, by pointing out the obvious: Louisville has other potential sites — sites with fewer problems than the one at Brownsboro Road. Fischer is to be lauded for…
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on the last bridge is built, but are we happy now? Nope, not happy. The downtown bridge is not needed, and the tunnels are an incredible boondoggle. Should have skipped the downtown bridge and used a portion of those funds to 86 I-64 and replace it with a riverside boulevard. 1960s planning in the 21st century……
