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Black People Should Arm Themselves NOW!
[This article is part of a package covering Louisville’s reaction to Charlottesville. Check out the other pieces, including Chanelle Helm’s “White People, Here Are 10 Requests From Black Lives Matter” and Erica Rucker’s “America… where are you going?”] Some time ago, I shared a stage with my good friend and law professor Dr. Jeremy Levitt…
A review of Gravely Brewing Co.’s first 7 beers
La Bamba A Mexican lager clocking in at 5 percent ABV with a low IBU of 15, the La Bamba is very light and summery — smooth and kind of like a domestic, but with a lot more soul. According to head brewer Cory Buenning, “It’s very similar to an American Pilsner. For me it’s…
10 things to do under $5 this week in Louisville (8/21)
MONDAY Run and Recover Great Flood Brewing Company Free | 6-9 p.m. Decompress after a long workday with a run, some yoga and maybe even a few brewskies from Great Flood Brewing Company. The Derby City Run Club is hosting an all levels run at 6:30 p.m. starting at Great Flood, followed by an all…
Photo Set: Seven Sense Festival
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5 Things To Do This Weekend in Louisville (8/18)
FRIDAY Seven Sense Festival (Aug. 18–19) Zanzabar and Swiss Park/Hall $15-$25 | 5 p.m. See over 50 local, regional and national acts at this music festival that benefits local nonprofits. The festival takes place over two days and on four-stages at Swiss Park/Hall and Zanzabar, with plenty of adult beverages and food provided by a…
America… where are you going?
[This article is part of a package covering Louisville’s reaction to Charlottesville. Check out the other pieces, including Ricky Jones’ column “Black People Should Arm Themselves Now!” and Chanelle Helm’s “White People, Here Are 10 Requests From Black Lives Matter.”] I’ve come to look for America… This country… this idea… this fledgling and hopeful experiment.…
White people, here are 10 requests from a Black Lives Matter leader
[This article is part of a package covering Louisville’s reaction to Charlottesville. Check out the other pieces, including Ricky Jones’ column “Black People Should Arm Themselves Now!” and Erica Rucker’s “America… where are you going?”] Some things I’m thinking about that should change (in that Southern, black grandmama voice): 1. White people, if you don’t have…
Hopkinsville’s other cosmic, close encounter
During the total solar eclipse this month, the sun will be blocked by the moon for one of the longest periods — approximately 2 minutes and 40 seconds — in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, a small town roughly 20 miles north of the Tennessee border, with a population just shy of 32,000 people. The community, which is…
The kids are alt-right: Your guide to the new crop of white nationalists
[Ed. note: The following ran in C-VILLE Weekly in Charlottesville as a primer on protests there, and it includes Matthew Heimbach, a local white-supremacist infamous for his attack at a Donald Trump rally here last year.] First the Loyal White Knights of the KKK on July 8 and now the Unite the Right rally Aug.12.…
Thorns & Roses: The Worst, Best and Most Absurd
Put that junk in your trunk | Thorn Carrying giant batons makes the Louisville police look fat — like fat heads. We know the police insist it was for the safety of the protesters who marched up Broadway over the weekend, but… seriously? Mayor Greg Fischer said the batons were to be used “in the…
8 bands you shouldn’t miss at Seven Sense Festival
Before the two-day, four-stage Seven Sense Festival takes over Swiss Park/Hall and Zanzabar this weekend, we chose four Louisville bands and four out-of-town bands that you shouldn’t miss. Quiet Hollers Swiss Park | Friday | 6 p.m. With ambitious and thoughtful indie-rock that has shot them past their alt-country roots to a currently indescribable territory…
Debauchees members form Wombo, set to release album
What is the definition of wombo? To quote Patrick Star, the sidekick on the trippy underwater cartoon SpongeBob SquarePants: “Come on, you know — I wombo. You wombo. He/she/me wombo. Wombo, womboing, wombology, the study of wombo. It’s first grade, SpongeBob.” In terms of the local band, the three-piece Wombo is a fresh force in…
The Refuge
Early morning flight. Bleary eyed and dizzy from lack of sleep. We had just landed in Milwaukee to be picked up and taken to Appleton, Wisconsin. I get in the van and instantly recognize Robert Ellis in the passenger seat. The guy riding in one of the middle seats extends a hand and says his…
Guestroom Records label releases first album by a Louisville band
Although more well-known locally for the store on Frankfort Avenue, Guestroom Records has also operated a record label for around a decade, sporadically releasing albums as passion projects, and last week saw the company’s first release from a Louisville band, The Second Hand by Cereal Glyphs. “It wasn’t ever meant to be a traditional label,…
KMAC’s art of the eclipse
While many of us may be just now thinking about how to watch the solar eclipse Aug. 21, KMAC Executive Director Aldy Milliken and Curator Joey Yates began planning the museum’s view of eclipses two years ago. The resulting “Victory Over the Sun: The Poetics and Politics of Eclipse” is a mediation through art on…
A Q&A with b-movie bestseller Bruce Campbell
“I never set out to become a B movie actor, but fake blood doesn’t wash off so easily.” So says Bruce Campbell, longstanding acting/producing legend of genre films and TV. He first came to attention as star of the original “Evil Dead,” which was a bargain-basement DIY project with childhood friend Sam Raimi. Campbell developed…
Comedian Dave Waite: ‘I’d rather be talking about boobs and sex’
Dave Waite may look nerdy, but his caustic wit and oddball charm lead you to believe that he’s the one guy who could get laid at a Dungeons & Dragons convention. Waite is from Ludlow, Kentucky, and started doing comedy in Cincinnati. He lives in Los Angeles, where he co-produces “The Secret Show” with former…
Dining at Harvest is like eating at a farmers market
Who doesn’t like to spend a summer Saturday morning browsing a farmers market, loading up on fresh veggies, enjoying a breakfast burrito or a barbecue sandwich, listening to music and running into friends? That’s what I love about Harvest Restaurant: It’s like a big farmers’ market that’s open all year, with air conditioning and table…
Hamachi kama: Fish neck like grandma made
While enjoying some sushi recently at BARcode 1758 in Clifton, I was perusing the menu just for fun and ran across something called hamachi kama. I’ve eaten at a lot of sushi joints in my day, and I couldn’t recall having heard of it. So I grabbed my phone, Googled it and found a Huffington…
Ask Minda Honey: Former coworkers’ drama
In a relationship or life jam? Lemme unstuck your life: AskMindaHoney@leoweekly.com. Hi Minda, Last year, I quit a job I had been at for three years. It was a bittersweet end. I was going to a fantastic new opportunity that just fell in my lap (I hadn’t even been looking). I tried to stay in…
Savage Love: Quickies
Q: I’ve been wondering: Since there are lesbians out there who occasionally crave cock, does the reverse also happen? Are there gay men who occasionally crave pussy? — This Possible? A: There are gay men who watch football — hell, I have it on good authority that some gay men play football, TP. So anything…
Speedos, nazis and hiding painted rocks at the State Fair…
Missed me, I expect. Remind me again, where did Mater and Pater and the butler take you? Italy, mate. Sardinia to be exact. Beautiful and pretty swank, but, in typical European form, the natives took the piss a little. You know, “Here’s what you paid for, and you get bugger-all-else.” At one point, we asked…
Stay strong against the storm
“Black Lives Splatter” was but one cruel, racist and chilling comment among a myriad of disgusting, celebratory utterances attached to a particular video of the Charlottesville terrorist attack during which an American-born citizen committed vehicular homicide in the name of fascism, bigotry and white supremacy. The footage was shot by one Faith Goldy, a far-right,…
